What feldman said, more or less, although most pasties here have so little meat (and it's so unrecognisable as meat) that you could probably feed them to a unknowing vegetarian without them even realising that it contains meat. Not that I would do such a thing, of course. ;)
Meat pies here are single-serve, usually round or square, made with the same kind of pastry as pasties. The most common are simply full of scary mincemeat and gravy, although you can get them in chicken, beef chunks, and various other meat/vegetable combinations.
The common thread between regular meat pies and pasties is that they're generally served drowned in tomato sauce. ;) And they're the main lunch things sold at school canteens (along with sausage rolls), so many an Australian child has been more or less raised on a diet of their greasy goodness. So healthy! *eyeroll*
To be honest, I'm just disappointed that they didn't include the pie floater (http://thegreenman.net.au/mt/archives/000536.html) on the list. It's a local delicacy! Which only pissheads and foolish tourists lulled into a false sense of security will eat.
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Date: 2005-11-12 04:34 pm (UTC)Meat pies here are single-serve, usually round or square, made with the same kind of pastry as pasties. The most common are simply full of scary mincemeat and gravy, although you can get them in chicken, beef chunks, and various other meat/vegetable combinations.
The common thread between regular meat pies and pasties is that they're generally served drowned in tomato sauce. ;) And they're the main lunch things sold at school canteens (along with sausage rolls), so many an Australian child has been more or less raised on a diet of their greasy goodness. So healthy! *eyeroll*
To be honest, I'm just disappointed that they didn't include the pie floater (http://thegreenman.net.au/mt/archives/000536.html) on the list. It's a local delicacy!
Which only pissheads and foolish tourists lulled into a false sense of security will eat.