I am not a Tourtire expert so others may disagree . But the main difference I experienced is that Tourtire is ground meat usually beef while meat pie is chunks of beefpork mixed together . Edit Adding potatoes to your meat pie for my family will get you laughed at and we will be embarrassed that you did it this way . Of course I don ' t speak for all Acadians as my father ' s ex wife used to do just this and we always made fun . <| sep |> I don ' t eat meat but once a week and take Low energy public transportation have no hot water by choice and only run my electricity 5 hours a day . Not everyone is you . <| sep |> Yeah another person just told me that they ' ve received bud that smells the same way from multiple different vendors recently . Seems like quite a few people are having a problem with it lately for some reason .