Australian Food Question

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 05:43pm

OK, so I read Terry Pratchett's book, the Last Continent- a tale clearly set in a joking version of Australia. One of the things he mentions in this book is an Ecksian (Ecksecksecks is his name for his fictional Australia analogue) delicacy, called a meat pie floater- a meat pie, upside-down in a bowl of pea soup, with tomatoe sauce poured over it. Now, I'm a big fan of exotic food and, upon reading about this Meat Pie Floater, I promptly wanted one.

Now, I live on the literal opposite side of the world from Oz, in faroff new Jersey, and I don't know much about the continent. Here's my question- Does the Meat Pie Floater exsist? And if so, how can I get one in the States?v

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-05-06 05:45pm

Thirdfain wrote:OK, so I read Terry Pratchett's book, the Last Continent- a tale clearly set in a joking version of Australia. One of the things he mentions in this book is an Ecksian (Ecksecksecks is his name for his fictional Australia analogue) delicacy, called a meat pie floater- a meat pie, upside-down in a bowl of pea soup, with tomatoe sauce poured over it. Now, I'm a big fan of exotic food and, upon reading about this Meat Pie Floater, I promptly wanted one.

Now, I live on the literal opposite side of the world from Oz, in faroff new Jersey, and I don't know much about the continent. Here's my question- Does the Meat Pie Floater exsist? And if so, how can I get one in the States?v

Just try and prepare it? Doesn't sound awfully complicated...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 05:46pm

I'm a college student, for chrissakes. They don't even make meat pies in Jersey, and I sure as hell don't know how to make one for myself.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-05-06 05:53pm

Thirdfain wrote:I'm a college student, for chrissakes. They don't even make meat pies in Jersey, and I sure as hell don't know how to make one for myself.

I'm a student, too

But I can cook <g> There must be trillion recipes about these meat pie thingies out there...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 05:55pm

Look, you know what?. I'm a godawful cook, beyond pasta and reheating chinese food, I'm bloody hopeless. I just want to purchase a genuine Australian meat pie floater, ok? I don't even know it it's a real food!

Gah.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-06 06:00pm

turns out a meat pie floater is indeed real. i'll do some more digging to see if they're available stateside.

yahoo wrote:Pie floater The apotheosis of the meat pie; a "pie floater" is an inverted meat pie swamped in mashed green peas and tomato sauce; found especially in South Australia. Floaters can be surprisingly good, or horrible enough to put you off both pies and peas for life.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-05-06 06:07pm

Sorry kids, but that's rating on the negative side of the appeal factor.

Beef pot pie? Yum.

Split pea soup? Yum.

Tomato sauce? Meh.

All together in a bowl? Bleccchhh!

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 06:39pm

Dont' ask me why this is appealing. It's probably my strong Eastern Europen heritage- I love boild pork and sauerkraut, for instance. Weird food is generally pretty attractive to me.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-05-06 06:55pm

Thirdfain wrote:Dont' ask me why this is appealing. It's probably my strong Eastern Europen heritage- I love boild pork and sauerkraut, for instance. Weird food is generally pretty attractive to me.

I'm having pork with sauerkraut tonight, wierd.

Bavarian style kraut, though, plain harsh stuff staight from the can is nasty.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-05-06 06:57pm

Sauerkraut is ... evil.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-05-06 07:01pm

Dahak wrote:Sauerkraut is ... evil.

Dahak, you have access to the best sauerkraut in the world, you break my heart when you say that!

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-05-06 07:07pm

Frank Hipper wrote:
Dahak wrote:Sauerkraut is ... evil.
Dahak, you have access to the best sauerkraut in the world, you break my heart when you say that!

And I don't like beer at all, to boot

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 07:21pm

I love my mom's Sauerkraut and pork. It smells godawful cold, but when you heat it up.... MMMM.... It's incredible. Here's to ridiculous foreign foods!

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-06 09:38pm

I can indeed attest to the fact floaters exist here. I've seen them served down the street.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 10:11pm

Well, have you had one? What are they like?

(this is somewhat of an obsession of mine)

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-06 10:13pm

Thirdfain wrote:Well, have you had one? What are they like?

(this is somewhat of an obsession of mine)

Never had one. I really don't like peas.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-06 10:18pm

It's a shame for me to admit it, but this is the first I've ever heard of a pie-floater. But it does sound... appealing.

Still if you want genuine Aussie delicacy you should try putting vegemite on your sandwich.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 10:21pm

... I'll pass on the vegemite, thanks a lot! It probably has vitamins in it or something....

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-05-06 10:25pm

Thirdfain wrote:Dont' ask me why this is appealing. It's probably my strong Eastern Europen heritage- I love boild pork and sauerkraut, for instance. Weird food is generally pretty attractive to me.

yum. Eastern Europeans of the Board, unite!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-05-06 10:43pm

Try one of my homemade pot pies one of these days *tummygrowl*

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-06 10:51pm

Thirdfain wrote:... I'll pass on the vegemite, thanks a lot! It probably has vitamins in it or something....

Australia's Black Gold? Oh, shame... you're missing out on lots of Vitamin B...

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2004-05-06 10:54pm

Stofsk wrote:It's a shame for me to admit it, but this is the first I've ever heard of a pie-floater. But it does sound... appealing.

Still if you want genuine Aussie delicacy you should try putting vegemite on your sandwich.

"..man from Brussels, 6 foot tall and full of mucles
..I said are you trying to tempt me?
he just smiled and gave me a vegeimite sandwich.
I come from the land down under..."

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-06 10:56pm

Stuart Mackey wrote:
Stofsk wrote:It's a shame for me to admit it, but this is the first I've ever heard of a pie-floater. But it does sound... appealing.

Still if you want genuine Aussie delicacy you should try putting vegemite on your sandwich.
"..man from Brussels, 6 foot tall and full of mucles
..I said are you trying to tempt me?
he just smiled and gave me a vegeimite sandwich.
I come from the land down under..."

Close enough.

"..man from Brussels, 6 foot tall and full of muscles
I said do you speaka my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.
I come from the land down under..."

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-05-06 11:07pm

Meat pies, if you can't be bothered to make your own, can be ordered from Aussie catalogs here in the states. Give me a sec to look one up, if you're really that interested. Honestly, though, they're not that hard to make from scratch. But, you are a college male, so...I'll look up that online catalog.

And remember, their tomato sauce = our ketchup.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-05-06 11:08pm

Ketchup, tomatoesauce, whatever. I MUST HAVE ONE!

Oh, and thanks!

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