While watching an Aussie Rules game over the weekend I noticed an advert for 'Gourmet Pies'.

Must be what put Collingwood off their game.

How can all you antipodeans criticize our great Marmite tradition when you think you can have a 'gourmet' pie?

(It's about the only thing to watch on ABC Asia Pacific)

While watching an Aussie Rules game over the weekend I noticed an advert for 'Gourmet Pies'.

Must be what put Collingwood off their game.

How can all you antipodeans criticize our great Marmite tradition when you think you can have a 'gourmet' pie?

Didn't Australia bring pies and cornish pasties from the UK ?

Yes the Cornish Pastie a delicassy from the mines in soapdodgerland. Who else would invent a food with a throwaway portion so you dont have to wash your claws.

But pies are intended to use up the leavings from the left-overs.

Cornish pasties are different - that's a whole meal in an edible casing - environmentally 'tickety-boo'.

What's the name of this one - Start at one end with tatties and greens (meat if you're lucky) and finish up the other end with apple. Was that another CP?

I remember UK Christmasses - roast turkey on Christmas Day, cold turkey on Boxing Day and the day following. Turkey sanwiches after that. Turkey pie to follow, winding up with turkey soup after New Year.

I used to get sick of turkey

http://www.crantockbakery.co.uk/

http://www.crantockbakery.co.uk/

What about some decent recipes for 'em ? ( and I always thought that the real Cornish pasty was meatless )

http://www.crantockbakery.co.uk/

What about some decent recipes for 'em ? ( and I always thought that the real Cornish pasty was meatless )

Read above - dpends whether you could afford meat. If you worked in the tin mines, you couldn't.

(So you nicked a sheep and got sent to Oz)