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That looks REALLY good

Currently in Oz but heading back tomorrow. Went on a bit of a roady to show my wife the 'outback'. Had a killer lamb and rosemary pie at a bakery in Nanango. God I'd missed a good pie but lordy sweet baby jeezus sooo expensive.

My goodness Oz is pricey.

Edit: Ps- $6 for a block of wax. WTF!

zenagain wrote:

Currently in Oz but heading back tomorrow. Went on a bit of a roady to show my wife the 'outback'. Had a killer lamb and rosemary pie at a bakery in Nanango. God I'd missed a good pie but lordy sweet baby jeezus sooo expensive.

My goodness Oz is pricey.

Edit: Ps- $6 for a block of wax. WTF!

Very pricey indeed, strange how when inflation was at 7% items seemed to go up 30% or more. Sideways surf shop has wax for $3 a block called sticky johnson , made in NZ , good stuff. Hope you enjoyed yourself zen and have a great surf trip later this year .

Watched this last night. An absolute eye opener. (you might need to put a bit of light hearted comedy on afterwards).
Love him or hate him, Spanian takes an audience into parts of society you wouldn't normally be exposed to, and also i value the way he shows that there's a way to listen to everyone's stories.
I found it hard to not feel alot of compassion for the people who he talked to. Definitely made me reassess my attitudes.
Where does this video's content sit in the Australian cultural context?

zenagain wrote:

Currently in Oz but heading back tomorrow. Went on a bit of a roady to show my wife the 'outback'. Had a killer lamb and rosemary pie at a bakery in Nanango. God I'd missed a good pie but lordy sweet baby jeezus sooo expensive.

My goodness Oz is pricey.

Edit: Ps- $6 for a block of wax. WTF!

Nanango?
Haha, from Japan to the heartland of Queensland conservatism!
Did you have a crack at a pumpkin scone in honour of Flo and Jo?

Think I paid 8 bucks the other day for my preferred Pagey Cream Wax,

Strict rations now when applying.

Island Bay wrote:

AndyM wrote:

Island Bay wrote:

Here's the aforementioned pork pie

You had me at crackling.

Is there anything better than pork crackling? Fat, skin, salt somehow ending up almost divine.
You can buy little paper baggies of it at Danish butchers, and it's the biggest treat when we go back there.

So good.
One of life's great joys is the industrial estate take-away which has a daily roast, usually pork.
A big thick pork and salad sandwich with gravy, topped with a big chunk of crackling, usually for under $10.
Drool.

freeride76 wrote:

Think I paid 8 bucks the other day for my preferred Pagey Cream Wax,

Strict rations now when applying.

Yeah $8 seems to be the norm around here.
Pagey's doing ok, he spent months in Hawaii earlier this year.
About to be a dad too :)
Fucking character, he floats into my workplace on a cloud and earbashes Christ out of me.
The Pagey show!

If you’re earning Yen and paying Aus prices, yep expensive.

I heard Japan put up the prices of my favourite conbini egg sangas, Zen. Those things should be listed as a national treasure.
Japan is still one of the most affordable places.
Aussies opening businesses in and around Hakuba are starting to piss the locals off with trying to sell at Aus prices. Everyone is getting a bit angsty.

AndyM wrote:

One of life's great joys is the industrial estate take-away which has a daily roast, usually pork.
A big thick pork and salad sandwich with gravy, topped with a big chunk of crackling, usually for under $10.
Drool.

when travelling in Oz cities, always good value to seek out refectories and cafes at tafe and uni campuses.. (like tafe Ultimo, 10+).. get there before students arrive, and they're empty and there's a full spread of anything and everything affordable, fresh sangas, juice, kebabs, soup, hot pastries, fried rice, roast & veg.. organised, clean, cheap and quality. The Apprentice in Melb Polytechnic, prahran, really good too.

Roadkill wrote:

If you’re earning Yen and paying Aus prices, yep expensive.

I heard Japan put up the prices of my favourite conbini egg sangas, Zen. Those things should be listed as a national treasure.
Japan is still one of the most affordable places.
Aussies opening businesses in and around Hakuba are starting to piss the locals off with trying to sell at Aus prices. Everyone is getting a bit angsty.

Careful Roady. You're heading dangerously into the sandwich's territory there, of which there's a separate thread, as opposed to the current pie theme. :-P They do sound pretty epic though!!
And on pies, can jag a bag of day old pies here for 10 bucks. Pie's that were the day before $9.50 slashed to $2 each. Roo, chicken, seafood, beef, you name it.
Staple study diet!

I paid $5 for a block of sex wax from my local the other day.

SR, do we need a separate maggot bag thread? That saying will throw Wax24 off the scent, tomato sauce or not.

ha, reckon an apple pie with cheese slices cooling on a window ledge would make a perfectly good maggot bag @seeds..

Yes indeed. Like a fly magnet. Very strange.

seeds wrote:

SR, do we need a separate maggot bag thread? That saying will throw Wax24 off the scent, tomato sauce or not.

Perhaps @seeds, or at least a separate thread for pies with sauce, without sauce. Eaten on the gutter or in the car, too hot, too cold? In fact, we could even have a thread for pies eaten accompanying a sandwich. That would be a hoot. hehe.
Just having a laugh. Back to study now. Sorry!

I have come to the realisation that the only difference between a pie and a pasty is the shape. Btw the iconic S.A. Balfour pies are square as were most of the early basic meat pies. Actually I would kill for a plain pasty with dead horse right now, as long as the carrot and potato are nice and soft. You can shove your trendy hipster gourmet pies, they're un Australian.

@SR Rat coffin(not my preferred slang) sandwich is a thing in New Zealand I believe.
Island Bay, confirmation?

That’s just simply wrong old dog.
I do agree though I love a square pie. Bakery in Cooroy does ‘em still.

[quote=freeride76]Think I paid 8 bucks the other day for my preferred Pagey Cream Wax, Strict rations now when applying.[/quote]

Bought a few sets of rear deck grip when ASS (Aquatic Social Scene) had a sale. $10 each

Easy enough to find front traction for the same price or less. Do it right and you can get the lot for the price of two cakes of wax.

I've been using front traction a lot lately; better when piling boards in cars.

I choose to put my grip on the deck of my board, unlike this serving suggestion from the website, but each to their own.

Oh my. That is funny Stu

AndyM wrote:

zenagain wrote:

Currently in Oz but heading back tomorrow. Went on a bit of a roady to show my wife the 'outback'. Had a killer lamb and rosemary pie at a bakery in Nanango. God I'd missed a good pie but lordy sweet baby jeezus sooo expensive.

My goodness Oz is pricey.

Edit: Ps- $6 for a block of wax. WTF!

Nanango?
Haha, from Japan to the heartland of Queensland conservatism!
Did you have a crack at a pumpkin scone in honour of Flo and Jo?

( outback tunes

old-dog wrote:

I have come to the realisation that the only difference between a pie and a pasty is the shape. Btw the iconic S.A. Balfour pies are square as were most of the early basic meat pies. Actually I would kill for a plain pasty with dead horse right now, as long as the carrot and potato are nice and soft. You can shove your trendy hipster gourmet pies, they're un Australian.

haha, well, you'd approve of the book I recommended to @wax, old-dog, ('the pie buyer's guide to australia' by tony clancey. the author is an adelaide feller.
all pies tested were their 'standard pie', even if it was a fancy bakery.. one of the judging criteria was 'how it sits in the hand', and point were deducted if EZY sauce was detected in the gravy...

So much hating on pasties. Along with pies they fall into that wonderful food group of "shit I didn't have to cook for myself". Like those egg sarnies in Japan. Awesome when done well, fullfilling a role if otherwise.

Just like the Bunning’s sausage sizzle(no matter what side the insurance companies want your onions on) Yerp fook yeah! that’ll get me through the day.

blackers wrote:

So much hating on pasties.

More confused myself.

Pasties also taste good cold whereas meat pies don’t. Great to take on a day hike.

Hoping not to encourage more talk about Cornish food in an Aussie thread, but one question:

Is it pa-stee, or paste-y?

The latter

pah-stee

cutt-and

If you made a pasty (parstee) shaped like a pie it would be a beef skirt steak, potato and turnip flaky short crust pastry pie. yum. The hipsters would fight over them.

Pah-stee

I had a fkn great one in Main Street Nowra a couple of months ago. Mid-arvo, hungry enough to eat the arse out of a low-flying duck. Very little left in the warmer apart from some unappealing ‘exotic’ pies, and a couple of pasties.

Pastry not too thick, golden brown but not dry. Filling was moist and meaty. Vegies (peas, carrots, spuds) not hard or squishy. Sauce was free. Washed down with a choccy milk.

It was hands-down the best pastie I’ve ever had. Changed my perception of pasties and Nowra.

I'm 4th. Generation Aussie stock and mum used to make it in a tray and then cut it up to take to the beach to eat cold. Home made pasty is the ultimate snack.

So you can't even settle on how pasty is pronounced?

Repeat after me, 'pie'.

Poi or piiii?

haha, however you say 'pasta' - is how you say 'pastie'

Nailed it

haha classic @stu.
Just on the downside of pies,(pronounced P-eye) yes there is a downside, i just inhaled two for lunch, and then went for a quick surf. Hectic heartburn. Having said that, they were my much revered day old pies, so maybe you get what you pay for.

Yep Base6 that covers it. Be careful where you ask though, you may end up some of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasties

- "No straps are used to hold pasties in place" ;)
(edible or not)

"...they can fall off as a result of sweating or movement."

Go sth straya!

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I was once told you should never ridicule someone pronouncing highbrow words the wrong way as it's the sign of an autodidact.

Not sure if it applies to pasties.

Jelly Flater wrote:

Go sth straya!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8onhsLP75s&pp=ygUHcGFzdGllcw%3D%3D

"The pasties here sell like hot cakes."

C'mon...

Best pastie I’ve ever had was from clarendon bakery SA , lovely country out that way , haven’t been there since the 70s .

Butter chicken pies from thredbo village bakery are amazing.
...my oldies used to make bacon and egg 'pie' - bacon, onion, egg n cheese in pastry - almost a glorified quiche, but too good to be classified as 'quiche' ;)

Love how what started as a whinge on price has turned into a fantastic rave about pies spanning at least four countries.

So, is a pasty equivalent to a Samosa? Or is a pie equivalent to a Samosa?

Looks like a pasty but is kinda like a pie in its use and accessibility?

In Japan I would compare it to onigiri. Greece it would be a gyros.

Anything else to compare?

comparing a samosa to a pie or a pastie is like comparing a raggmunk to rumbledethumps.
just met a feller from new plymouth, reckons our pies suck, the soft nz version is the bomb!

Our pies are hard?