Tomato sauce with pie

[Nova 8]

Local bakery near me adds 10c to each pie so sauce is "free"

My favorite bakery sold up shop due to health issues but ggave sauce for free cause anything else was "bloody unAustralian"

[Nova 8]

Ands it's a dogs eye with dead horse!

[The Yeti]

I only have one thing on my bucket list, and that's to go around Australia in a Pre 65 car stopping at small town bakerys for a pie. and write a travelers guide to the Aussie Pie

That's got nothing to do with the price of sauce debate, but I think it needed to be said

But to be on topic I recon the sauce is something that should be included with the cost of the pie

[redxm]

What bakery. Every other shop in town is 20-30c for sauce.

[marty351]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Beef and shiraz pie? Interesting.

Never heard of that before.

Beef and red wine. The shiraz costs 50c extra!
And Big Damo, I used to work around Macedon Ranges and found Lancefield F&C shop excellent value too. Kyneton was going all cafe'n'gourmet but the foodies in Macedon was my fave. Woodend had/have a few good value for money/quality places, but some could gouge your wallet before you even opened it.
As for sauce no more than 40c. 90c! WTF?! Her loss.

[csv8]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

I only have one thing on my bucket list, and that's to go around Australia in a Pre 65 car stopping at small town bakerys for a pie. and write a travelers guide to the Aussie Pie

That's got nothing to do with the price of sauce debate, but I think it needed to be said

But to be on topic I recon the sauce is something that should be included with the cost of the pie

Sorry been done...http://www.piebuyersguide.com.au/


"Australians love a good meat pie. Where to get a good one is a popular topic among those who crave a delicious pie.

The Pie Buyer’s Guide to Australia was just waiting to be written. Now at last we have the essential guide for grey nomads, travelling salespeople and anyone who makes a pie the lunch they long for from the moment they start work.

More than 400 pies were sampled by the authors on an exhaustive yet enjoyable trip around every state and territory. But this book is about more than reviews. It is about what constitutes a decent pie, our pie culture and history.

Apart from being the essential reference no home, caravan or library should be without, it will be the foundation for further discussion and enlightenment about pies. So buy the book and then put your points of view and queries on the blog. "

[poppa smurf]

actually $0.90c per packet of sauce isn't too bad.......we went to the casino once and they wanted $10 per chip.

[Stefan]

Speaking of pies.

My local bakery has just been bought out by some hipsters, and pies are now $5.50 each up from $3.00.

BUT I'll give everything a try and happy to pay for quality.

I must say they are the best damn pies I've had in years and have gone back 4 weekends in row now....... pies have 3 or 4 big chunks of slow cooked steak in a red wine gravy.

Sauce would be sacrilege.

[MITCHAY]

I always have tomato sauce on my meat pies. 90 cents, 20cents or free.

The real hard hitting issue is why do some people use a knife and fork to eat a meat pie! :

[karj]

Saucegate: A 2014 scandal involving an independent bakery in Tamworth, Australia that attempted to charge a member of Ford Forums 90cents for a small sachet of tomato sauce to accompany a meat pie. The injustice of the excessive charge generated a wave of outrage from other forum members and significant gnashing of teeth ensued.

[marty351]

The real hard hitting issue is why do some people use a knife and fork to eat a meat pie! :[/QUOTE]

They're Brits. Like my old man. And pizza too.
The only pies that should be eaten with a k&f are the ones you cant hold in your hands. (family pies, etc.)

[burnz]

Originally Posted by mash again

a pie without sauce is unaustralian!

so you'd fowl a pie with sauce? a beautiful steak pie.
and bury the taste with sauce????

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by csv8

Sorry been done...http://www.piebuyersguide.com.au/


"Australians love a good meat pie. Where to get a good one is a popular topic among those who crave a delicious pie.

The Pie Buyer’s Guide to Australia was just waiting to be written. Now at last we have the essential guide for grey nomads, travelling salespeople and anyone who makes a pie the lunch they long for from the moment they start work.

More than 400 pies were sampled by the authors on an exhaustive yet enjoyable trip around every state and territory. But this book is about more than reviews. It is about what constitutes a decent pie, our pie culture and history.

Apart from being the essential reference no home, caravan or library should be without, it will be the foundation for further discussion and enlightenment about pies. So buy the book and then put your points of view and queries on the blog. "

See now you've just made my life pointless, I might as well off my self

But there is hope, the research for this rag wasn't conducted in a pre 65 car.

Let's face it a pie is best served with your arm resting on the window ledge

[Nova 8]

All this talk of pies makes me want a pie floater. How I miss the pie cart in Adelaide, much better 2am meal on a night out than any of the fast "food" chains.

[paule11]

Not a pie purchase but fish and chips in Innisfail a scoop a piece of fish they give you two pieces of fish for $5.50 and a dagwood dog was about $12.50. I asked for a sachet of sauce they did not have any but gave me a cup about a quarter filled with tomato sauce for free . I could not eat all of it such a big scoop was going to have a pie but was told how good the fish and chips were its now a favourite in my GPS

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by Nova 8

All this talk of pies makes me want a pie floater. How I miss the pie cart in Adelaide, much better 2am meal on a night out than any of the fast "food" chains.

Harry's now have stores everywhere

http://www.harryscafedewheels.com.au/franchises

I don't know if it's a good thing or not but cool cars tend to frequent them all on saturday nights

[Nova 8]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Harry's now have stores everywhere

http://www.harryscafedewheels.com.au/franchises

I don't know if it's a good thing or not but cool cars tend to frequent them all on saturday nights

I'm in SA so it's little help and I'd rather the traditional pie cart than some stupid American franchise.

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by Nova 8

I'm in SA so it's little help and I'd rather the traditional pie cart than some stupid American franchise.

http://www.harryscafedewheels.com.au/history


The story of ‘Harry’s Café de Wheels’ goes back to the depression years of the late 1930’s.
With the world on the brink of a devastating war, an enterprising Sydneysider by the name of Harry Edwards opened a caravan café near the front gates of the Woolloomooloo naval dockyard.

Word spread quickly with Harry’s ‘pie n’ peas’ and crumbed sausages soon becoming a popular part of the city’s nightlife – keenly sought by sailors, soldiers, cabbies, starlets and coppers alike. Harry operated the caravan until 1938 when he enlisted in the AIF during WWII.

As the years have passed, Harry’s has become a ‘must’ for visiting celebrities. Harry’s has served up the likes of Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Marelene Dietrich, Kerry Packer and more recently, Sir Richard Branson, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Brook Shields, Pat Rafter, Olivia Newton-John, Jerry Lewis, Billy Crystal, Pamela Anderson, Sara O’Hare, Lachlan Murdoch, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Adrian Greiner, Anthony Bourdain and Peter Blakely.

So get it right, why would the yanks have a pie cart

Harry's is only a world famous Sydney eatery

But I'll accept that Harry's hasn't been a traditional pie cart for a very long time

[Maka]

Originally Posted by redxm

What bakery. Every other shop in town is 20-30c for sauce.

Maybe its the bakery directly across the road from the post office, right on the corner of Peel & Fitzroy?

cheers, Maka

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by xisled

Yes but the OP would be in the small minority who did this. All it would take is for 1 person a day to purchase the sauce and in 10 days the box of sauce is paid off (going buy box of sauce with 50 is $9.00). Once the box of sauce is paid, it will only take the bakery 18 days to make up the $16.00 that the op would have spent, from sauce sales and that is if a person a day purchase the sauce.

So you may think it is a huge loss, but buy charging a massive mark up on a basic essential need, they are making massive profit on the sauce and probably out weights the upset customer.

When I got my first retail job at aged 17 I remember one of the first things I was told.
If someone has a bad experience with a store they will tell about 10 people about it. But when they have a good experience with a store they may only tell a couple of people, if any. With the internet these days people are even more likely to complain to a much larger audience about bad service they received somewhere.

I now realize after gaining a few more year life experience that's so true. I had a bad experience a few years ago with a steakhouse around here. If the topic of restaurant and especially steak comes up, I will always tell whoever I am speaking to about my experience and how useless that place is. I have noticed a lot of people are happy to discuss the times when a company has done something wrong, ripped them off or something like that.
But I almost never tell people about the time I went somewhere and got decent service and decent food.

Also I am the type of person who regularly goes to the same places if I get decent service, prices, ect.
If shops start scaring off regulars, that could be thousands of dollars in a year they are missing out on.

[chrisandsharon]

Originally Posted by redxm

What bakery. Every other shop in town is 20-30c for sauce.

Originally Posted by Maka

Maybe its the bakery directly across the road from the post office, right on the corner of Peel & Fitzroy?

cheers, Maka

Post number 30 fellas

[mash again]

anyone had a pinacle pie from the pinacle pub near mackay, mate took me they are huge and awsome in a few flavours served with chips and gravy or sauce if you want it for $10 pie is all hand done with the big wrinkles round the edges and about twicw the size of a normal pie.

[The Yeti]

I don't know where it was (but it was some time after Lou Reed and before the Ramones on the iPod) but a group of mates and I were heading to Queensland to pick up a car that according to our partners one of the other guys owned after my stint at the wheel a mate and I shard a few cans of creamy soda in the back seat while the others continued so I really don't remember but it was before we got to Armadale for the night

I in my infinite wisdoms proclaimed that we MUST get a pie at the next place we drive by.

We stoped at this little servo with a truck stop type diner attached, the diner wasn't really open at that time so we went to the pie warmer and there were no pies left.

The cook out the back heard my deceleration of how ****** this is and came out and informed us that a fresh batch of pies he had baked for the following days food warmer was just out of the oven and if we were to wait a moment he would serve them up with chips for us

OMG this was the best pie I have ever eaten

[Cashie]

Originally Posted by xisled

Looking at sauce price from KFC McDonalds and such you are looking at around 50 cent each. Even a pizza shop charges you $1 or so for an extra ingredient. So a small shop selling sauce for 90 cents each is about right.

Funny thing is, most people will pay the 90 cent for the sauce as they will have no other choice for sauce. So the bakery is the smart as they know people will buy the sauce at 90 cents.

Isn't "ketchup" free at maccas and hjs? I've never paid for it.

[MercurySilver]

gimmie pie mash and liquor (parsley sauce doused in heaps of malt vinegar) from the east end of london
boy do i miss that

[Nova 8]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

http://www.harryscafedewheels.com.au/history


The story of ‘Harry’s Café de Wheels’ goes back to the depression years of the late 1930’s.
With the world on the brink of a devastating war, an enterprising Sydneysider by the name of Harry Edwards opened a caravan café near the front gates of the Woolloomooloo naval dockyard.

Word spread quickly with Harry’s ‘pie n’ peas’ and crumbed sausages soon becoming a popular part of the city’s nightlife – keenly sought by sailors, soldiers, cabbies, starlets and coppers alike. Harry operated the caravan until 1938 when he enlisted in the AIF during WWII.

As the years have passed, Harry’s has become a ‘must’ for visiting celebrities. Harry’s has served up the likes of Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Marelene Dietrich, Kerry Packer and more recently, Sir Richard Branson, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Brook Shields, Pat Rafter, Olivia Newton-John, Jerry Lewis, Billy Crystal, Pamela Anderson, Sara O’Hare, Lachlan Murdoch, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Adrian Greiner, Anthony Bourdain and Peter Blakely.

So get it right, why would the yanks have a pie cart

Harry's is only a world famous Sydney eatery

But I'll accept that Harry's hasn't been a traditional pie cart for a very long time

Just looked at the locations and with the look of the diner and made an assumption. Either way I should have read so more prior to making a comment. Always happy to be corrected.

[Franco Cozzo]

I'm keen on this beef and shiraz pie but I've never seen it at a bakery here in Victoria.

[CoupeKing]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

I'm keen on this beef and shiraz pie but I've never seen it at a bakery here in Victoria.

Shop in Creswick sells them. Its not a Bakery more like a sandwich bar, well used to 12 months ago or so. A friend got one and said it was nice. Beef cheese and baconz for me though.

[MercurySilver]

only place ive seen one damo is the bakery near me in vineyard territory
id say there would be a few others dotted around the country thou were wine is the main staple

[poppa smurf]

yeah! thanks you buggers.......all this talk about pies made me want one, so I gathered up my thoughts and went to a "french hot bread bakery" (run by vietnamese, figure that one out).

anyhow, they whacked it on a plate, I smothered it in dead horse and into it......bloody horrible, glutinous, unrecognisable substances, slimy, slithery taste.......in short utterly disgusting.

spat the dummy, packed up the boss and our lad and headed for a little bakery we know of just out of Wirrabara......best pies in the southern hemisphere, big lumps of easily recognisable steak and kidneys with onions spilling from every bight......big cup of coffee and a damn fine chinwag with a few travellers......glorious.

re-instated my faith in the humble meat pie.