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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Squab pie is a traditional dish from South West England, with early records showing it was associated with Cornwall, Devon and Gloucestershire. Although the name suggests it contains squab (young domestic pigeon), in fact it contains mutton and apples. The pie was eaten around the world in the 1900s, though outside South West England it generally did contain pigeon. In his journal, Charles Dickens colourfully described the dish as being unsocial, and that it would result in hatred of the entire human race. It is no longer a popular dish, with less than 3% of British teenagers surveyed having eaten it. Squab pie has been the subject of poetry. John Taylor uses verse to tell of the captain of a ship in Plymouth who forgot to get meat for his trip. A boy on the ship goes into town to claim a large squab pie from the bakery for a penny, though it was not meant to be his. Set on a Sunday, the family who had commissioned the pie from the baker so that they would not have to cook, try to find it, but to no avail.

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