DCHP-2

flipper pie flipper-pie, seal flipper pie, seal-flipper pie DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Newfoundland, Food

  a meat pie made with the flippers of young harp seals (see Images 1 and 2).

  Type: 1. Origin — A traditional dish of Newfoundland, flipper pie combines the flipper meat of young harp seals, salt pork, potatoes and a pastry crust (Colombo 1976: 476). It is typically eaten in early to mid-spring, when the first seal hunts are conducted (see the 1956 quotation). The term appears most frequently in Canada (see Chart 1).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "flipper pie", which is marked "Cdn (Nfld)", ITP Nelson, s.v. "flipper pie", which is marked "Newfoundland", and DNE, s.v. "flipper".

  See also: flipper dinner  scoff