Who Ate All the Pies?
"Who Ate All the Pies?" is a chant sung by football fans in Britain, roughly to the tune of "Knees Up Mother Brown". It is aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters. It is claimed to have first been sung at the huge goalie William Henry Foulkes (known as Fatty Foulkes) who was 6 ft 2 inches (188 cm) tall and apparently weighed about 12 stones (170 lbs, or 80 kg) when he joined Sheffield United in 1894, but increased to around 24 stones (330 lbs, or 150 kg) by 1902, legendarily remaining "agile as cat" despite his weight. The pioneering film makers Mitchell and Kenyon recorded him in one of the first movies of a football match when they filmed the League Division 1 game at Sheffield United's home ground of Bramwell Lane, Sheffield, against Bury on Saturday 6 September 1902. Sheffield won 1 — nil, but on the Monday the Sheffield Daily Telegraph headlined their report "Cupholders Win A Poor Game". The game was featured in the BBC series "The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon". The chant has been associated with the striker Mick Quinn who played for six football clubs in the 1980s and 1990s and is commemorated in "The Mick Quinn award for the footballer most resembling a tub of lard" as well as his autobiography Who ate all the pies? The life and times of Mick Quinn (ISBN 0753508036). The lyrics of the chant are: - Who ate all the pies?
: Who ate all the pies?
: You fat bastard,
: You fat bastard,
: You ate all the pies!
One popular variation replaces the second line with "The burgers and the fries." The Vegetarian Society have used a variant of this, "Who ate all the peas?", as a slogan. They displayed it on promotional hoardings in football grounds as part of their "Men and Meat Campaign", intended to combat the idea that vegetarianism is "something for women".
External links "Hitting the Headlines" - an article from the Vegetarian Society's website, used as a reference"bfi Video-The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon" - start of episode 2 shows Fatty Foulkes at Sheffield United
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