Pie Floater - An Australian Delicacy - An example of the strange or weird food eaten by people around the world

Pie Floater - An Australian Delicacy -  An example of the strange or weird food eaten by people around the world Stock Photo
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Neil Setchfield / Alamy Stock Photo

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DT7GTC

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60.2 MB (1.3 MB Compressed download)

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3744 x 5616 px | 31.7 x 47.5 cm | 12.5 x 18.7 inches | 300dpi

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7 March 2010

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The pie floater is an Australian dish particularly common in Adelaide and, to a lesser degree, Sydney. It commonly consists of a traditional Australian-style meat pie, usually sitting, but sometimes submerged (sometimes upside down) in a bowl of thick green pea soup. It is usually garnished with tomato sauce, and the consumer may also add mint sauce, salt, pepper and/or malt vinegar to personal preference. The pie floater is usually purchased in the street from pie-carts as a late evening meal. Anthony Bourdain, Joe Cocker, Billy Connolly, Nigel Mansell, Shane Warne and Angus Young are high profile fans of the pie floater. In 2003, the pie floater was recognized as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia. The pie floater makes an appearance in the Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, where it is sold by Fair Go Dibbler, one of a number of similar characters who sell "regional delicacies" across the Disc