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luka

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Don't think I've ever met anyone who claims to like jellied eel. Everyone likes pie and mash though. Big in Australia too which is where my pie shop was.
 

luka

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A pie floater is an Australian dish that is most commonly consumed in Adelaide and Sydney. It consists of a traditional Australian meat pie that is usually submerged upside-down in green pea soup. It is believed that the origins of the dish lie in traditional English dishes of pea soup with eel and suet dumplings (dumplings in soups were known as floaters).


The usual accompaniments to a pie floater include tomato sauce or mint sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or malt vinegar. Pie floater has an impressive history that can be traced back to over 130 years. It was invented in Port Pirie, South Australia in the 1890s by a bakery operator named Ern "Shorty" Bradley.


The floaters became popular at many pie carts that were in function in Adelaide in the late 19th and early 20th century, with 13 carts operating in the city. Although the last pie cart was closed recently, in 2010, floaters are still present in numerous bakeries, available to everyone who wants a late evening meal.


The popularity of the dish is evident in the fact that it was recognized as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia in 2003.
 

version

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Don't think I've ever met anyone who claims to like jellied eel.
I remember hearing a story about Burroughs' time in London where someone said they'd never seen anyone look quite as ill as William Burroughs after trying jellied eels.
 

Leo

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but I think pie & mash stores have been disappearing, right? I think the place I went to closed. maybe @john eden can confirm the status of hackney pie & mash shops.
 

Leo

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maybe it's like hákarl, the fermented shark served in Iceland. no Icelanders actually eat it, they just have it in bars and restaurants so they can recommend it to tourists and watch their reaction.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
but I think pie & mash stores have been disappearing, right? I think the place I went to closed. maybe @john eden can confirm the status of hackney pie & mash shops.

There was one on Broadway Market but I’m not sure if it’s still there. A dying breed for sure.
 

version

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3. Punnet

The word is largely confined to Commonwealth countries (but not Canada) and is of uncertain origin, but is thought to be a diminutive of 'pun,' a British dialect word for pound, from the days in which such containers were used as a unit of measurement. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, parenthetically in its entry for geneticist R. C. Punnett (1875–1967), credits "a strawberry growing ancestor [who] devised the wooden basket known as a 'punnet.'"
 

version

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4. Toboggan

Canadian French tobogan, of Algonquian origin; akin to Micmac tobâgun drag made of skin
 

woops

is not like other people
i tried pie and mash at chapel market in islington it was horrible, like a slice of cardboard in the wrong sauce. couldn't finish it
 

luka

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"Godard's pie shop
been there for years
Have a pie
liquor sauce
that's how we do it
it's Greenwich"
 

sufi

lala
stick it on your bookshelf next to:
 
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