There's nothing like tucking into a warm, tasty pie on a cold and wet day - it's comfort food at its best.

British pie week starts on Monday (March 7th ) but which is the UK's favourite pie?

Sandbach Nub News has teamed up with the research team at SlotsUp who have scanned Google data to see which pie we favour best.

And there's no surprise to find cottage pie is the tops followed by fish pie and chicken pie.

The biggest surprise probably is that shepherd's pie just sits outside the top 10.

But what is the difference between a cottage pie and a shepherd's pie? While a cottage pie contains beef mince, a shepherd's pie more traditionally contains lamb meat.

Taking 15 of the most popular savoury pies across the UK, here's how they ranked:

Ranking Pie Flavour Average search volume per month

1st Cottage pie 100K

2nd Fish pie 50K

3rd Chicken and mushroom pie 17K

4th Steak and ale pie 14K

5th Lancashire Hotpot 13K

6th Steak pie 12K

7th Cheese and onion pie 10K

8th Pork pie 7K

9th Meat and potato pie 6.5K

10th Steak and kidney pie 5.9K

11th Shepherds pie 4.9K

12th Cheese pie 2.9K

13th Butter pie 2.8K

14th Game pie 2.3K

15th Pigeon pie 800