The UK's favourite pies have been announced – but not everyone will agree with the winner.

Talking about food can often turn into a debate and this one about pies is no different.

Now a new list left pie lovers absolutely baffled with some arguing the winner is more of a dessert.

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The list, compiled by online travel guide Taste Atlas, put the banoffee pie at the top, just above the humble steak pie.

Since it has been shared on Twitter, it caused quite an uproar among pie fans.

Some even went as far to claim it was "criminal".

One said: "How can banoffee be number one on a list that is basically meat pies?

"Not even the same category, this is blasphemy."

Another added: "Not sure I've ever been more offended than seeing a banoffee pie at the top of a best pies list.

"Shepherd at three is pretty wrong too."

Meanwhile a fourth fumed: "Apple pie maybe but who on Earth has banoffee pie top? I think I've eaten it once."

People didn't realise that banoffee pie originated in Britain as they assumed it was an American creation.

But the dish was first made in East Sussex back in the 1970s.

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Chefs Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding, from The Hungry Monk restaurant, were the masterminds behind it.

The Taste Atlas website said: "It became extremely popular when the customers started to check regularly if the dessert was still on the menu.

"Today, banoffee pie is so popular throughout the world that it even has its own place in the dictionary, denoting 'a tart or pie made with cream, bananas, and toffee', while the recipe for the pie can often be found on tins of Nestlé's condensed milk."

So, what do you make of the results?

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