Does flan have more finesse than jelly? I suppose it arguably does if you call it "quiche", but I'm sure there's an upmarket name for jelly too. Well actually I'm not, but y'know.
Flan. Well, it's a sort of half-cooked disc of crusty discharges, isn't it? Now a pie, on the other hand, full of the non-meat bits of dead animal... mmm...