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Pie Floater
A pie floater is a meal served at pie carts in Adelaide and elsewhere in South Australia. It was once more widely available in other parts of Australia but its popularity waned. It consists of the traditional Australian meat pie covered with tomato sauce (similar to ketchup), sitting, usually inverted, in a plate of thick green pea soup.
Though the dish does not look particularly appetising, some proponents report that it is flavoursome and quite filling. Anthony Bourdain, Joe Cocker, Billy Connolly and Nigel Mansell are high profile fans of the pie floater.
In 2003, the pie floater was recognised as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia.
A well known version of the pie floater in Australia comes from Harry's Cafe de Wheels pie cart situated in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales. Harry's Cafe de Wheels is listed on the National Trust Register as an historic icon.
Across the rest of Australia, a similar taste experience can be found in a pea pie, a meat pie with a layer of mushy peas under the crust, often sold at local bakeries.
The Pie Floater also makes an appearance in the reality-mirroring (albeit a funhouse mirror) Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, where it is sold by Fair Go Dibbler, one of a number of similar characters who sell "regional delicacies" across the Disc.
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I NEVER HAVE and NEVER WILL eat one of these.
A pie floater is a meal served at pie carts in Adelaide and elsewhere in South Australia. It was once more widely available in other parts of Australia but its popularity waned. It consists of the traditional Australian meat pie covered with tomato sauce (similar to ketchup), sitting, usually inverted, in a plate of thick green pea soup.
Though the dish does not look particularly appetising, some proponents report that it is flavoursome and quite filling. Anthony Bourdain, Joe Cocker, Billy Connolly and Nigel Mansell are high profile fans of the pie floater.
In 2003, the pie floater was recognised as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia.
A well known version of the pie floater in Australia comes from Harry's Cafe de Wheels pie cart situated in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales. Harry's Cafe de Wheels is listed on the National Trust Register as an historic icon.
Across the rest of Australia, a similar taste experience can be found in a pea pie, a meat pie with a layer of mushy peas under the crust, often sold at local bakeries.
The Pie Floater also makes an appearance in the reality-mirroring (albeit a funhouse mirror) Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, where it is sold by Fair Go Dibbler, one of a number of similar characters who sell "regional delicacies" across the Disc.
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I NEVER HAVE and NEVER WILL eat one of these.