Australians love meat pies. When Americans go to baseball and football games, we enjoy nachos and hotdogs (or brats, for connoisseurs). Aussies eat meat pies with tomato sauce (ketchup). They are lurking in every convenience store (or milk bar, as they like to call them), stashed in every concession stand, and offered as hors d'oeuvres at various functions. Their close cousin is the shepherd's pie, which I was more inclined to try. The one I had was at Port Arthur in Tasmania.
I think the concept of a meat pie is akin to a corndog, except they actually use a pie crust for a meat pie, which is usually about four inches in diameter. The shepherd's pie has the additional vegetables and a potato topping that set it apart from the regular meat pie, which is just meat in a pie with both a bottom and top shell.
Mine was a nice meal, but nothing to write home about. Actually, I guess I am writing home....
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