"John Ward"
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Posted on:
Nov 10, 2007, 10:56 AM
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Hi Varmit,
Nah, mate - in Aus', in the better quality meat pies, its large chunks
of premium quality beef, along with gravy, and various spices, and other
stuff, all enclosed in a flat, round, tub shaped pastry ~ an inch high, with
a pastry lid on it all, too.
We put "dead horse", aka tomato sauce, aka Ketchup, on top,
sometimes......
In Adelaide, they have a variation they call the "Pie Floater" - still
the same pastry shell, but this time with a "warmed, crushed, green pea
topping", and usually with the same "dead horse" on top... its healthier,
kind of...  ))
The "Rat coffins", etc, etc, that Crash Lander was referring to are the
cheaper quality pies, which have cheaper "mince beef" fillings, rather than
prime quality beef chunks......
Everything else is the same, mate... ))
Pretty hard to beat a pie floater, after you take the trouble to pull
over in your Maseratti, just to get two of them, since the blokes selling
them usually have so much social nous, mate!!
I almost invariably end up with the cheaper ones, unless I'm out of
town, in somewhere like Kilmore, where they have some shops that have been
going for yonks, and which are famous for their quality - same goes for
various other locations, where its almost considered sacrilege if you don't
pull over for a few "dog's eyes" (i.e. pies)... ))
Regards,
John Ward
"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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>> Dallas wrote:
>>> What's a meat pie?
>
>> Crash Lander wrote:
>> You're not serious?
>
> Yes, in fact I am serious. If you ask Americans what a meat pie is, 95%
> of
> them would give you a blank stare.
>
> My guess would be either something like a chicken pot pie or something
> like
> the Latin cultures eat, which is deep fried spiced meat in a pocket of
> dough? aka an Empanada.
>
>
> --
> Dallas
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