Steve_

Pies aren't really purely an Australian thing as evidenced by the OP posting here. Australia is a Commonwealth country after all.

I used to have steak & kidney pie or chicken & mushroom pie for breakfast. And then lunch. And often dinner too.

Actually thinking about it savoury pies are more common in Canada as well. For example: Simple Simon Pies

Like I said earlier back in the thread, I think it's kind of a regional thing in the US, depends on where the immigrants came from.

Send me your address and I'll send you some Fray Bentos pies.

Pulaski

This is a thread about pies, it says so right there in the thread title, on a forum primarily for British people (which I note you are not ), so WTF does Australia and what Australians do with pies, in the context of this thread, have to do with anything? Let me answer that for you: "nothing".

RoadWarriorFromLP

Er, did you read the OP?

All that eye rolling doesn't do wonders for your reading skills.

Pulaski

Yes, it was from a British citizen asking about the availability of pies in the US. At most any mention by the OP of pies in Australia was confined to setting up the context of the question, and has no bearing on the, er, meat of the question, which was about the availability and consumption of pies in the US. Presumably the OP already knows what Australians do with their pies as he lives in Australia, and wouldn't have come and posted in the US forum asking about it.

RoadWarriorFromLP

It would behoove you to drop the shovel and stop digging.

Pulaski

A shovel is the most appropriate tool for dealing with most of your posts!

RoadWarriorFromLP

I suggested that you drop the shovel. Instead, you've opted to hit yourself in the head with it.

retzie

I wouldn't say they are considered a drunk snack in Oz, on par with say a kebab in the UK (we have kebabs for that!). Their main role is as a lunch staple, for everyone from school kids to tradesmen. They are meal of choice at a football match; as in, I remember eating them there when I was 4.

A pie is eaten out of a paper bag, accompanied by tomato sauce and a sausage roll

kimilseung

I have seen a pattern with Australians of appropriating culture. Pies seems to be one case, the word mate I mentioned earlier. I also remember a chat I had in Korea, it was a text written in British English slang. The Aussies were all excited that it was written in "Australian" pointing out this and that phrase and word, all of which were used in Britain, at one or two words, they glossed over "not sure what that is" they said over the common Brit words that apparently had not made it to Australia. They do remind me sometimes of the Indian father in Goodness Gracious Me, claiming everything and anything as Australian.

Sally Redux

A fight about pies?

GeoffM

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Steve_

As I said, pies are not a uniquely Australian thing, an "Australian" pie isn't really any different from any number of British pies. Unless they stick vegemite or kangaroo in it.

Steve_

What's the difference between Australia and yoghurt?

If you leave yoghurt alone for long enough it develops a culture.

scrubbedexpat098

Arf arf the old ones are the best. Pie mash and liquor tonight. Nice

Leslie

I've been threatened over peas on this very website.