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So GWB ended British visit with Fish and Chips in a pub with Tony Blair. Makes you think Howard dropped the ball in Australia. I know there was the BBQ at the Lodge but I think we know how culturally authentic that would have been. We missed the opportunity to introduce him to some of our cultural delights, the “pie floater” for example.
Unique to the state of South Australia the pie floater is a minced meat pie floating is a sea of thick split pea soup and topped liberally with tomato sauce, which is more savoury that American ketchup. Typically, they are only available extremely late at night from caravans parked around inner Adelaide and individuals who have usually had far too much to drink consume them.
An unaesthetic element to the whole proceedings is the excellent colour and texture that they add to the vomit some time later.
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or read the most recent entries here.the saint remembers many a time caught up in youthful exhuberance, when one would wander to the pie cart in the middle of the night and try to outdo ones mates by eating the most unlikely pie floater combo. like a pie floater topped with mustard and a magnum icecream.
they are neither a cultural nor culinary delight. a pie floater is a rite of passage.
Posted by: saint at November 25, 2003 11:35 AM"a pie floater is a rite of passage."
Given my only experience of a pie floater ended with a quick run to the dunny I would suggest a more accurate description ... a pie floater is a riot of *passage*.
Anyhow Saintly One, I'll see your pie floater and raise you half a dozen steamed dim sims.
Posted by: Sedgwick at November 29, 2003 07:43 PMI remember chucking up many a floater in front of the Adelaide Railway Station pie cart 30 years ago in my youth.
Posted by: Geoff at December 21, 2003 03:35 PMThere's a great little shop in Adelaide called NOSH which has taken the pie floater into the new millenium. Insteaaad of the old standard of a meat pie floating in green mush, they have taken a basically sound culinary principle of a pie upside down in soup one stop further. You can get combinations such as :-
Beef Burgundy Pie in French Onion Soup
Chicken and Mushroom Pie in Broccoli Soup
Pumpkin and Cauliflower Pie in Thai Spiced Pumpkin soup.
Hearty Beef Pie in Pea and Ham Soup
Unfortunately they're only open for Lunch Mon -Fri locate in Wyatt Street between Pire and Grenfell St.
Definitely something different and well worth trying.
Posted by: Chucky B at February 19, 2004 09:29 PMCan someone please give me a date when this culinary delight is supposed to have been "invented" here in Adelaide?
I believe the pie floater is originally English. Certainly my mother-in-law spoke of them being around when she was a kid in London, pre WW1
Can someone please give me a date when this culinary delight is supposed to have been "invented" here in Adelaide?
I believe the pie floater is originally English. Certainly my mother-in-law spoke of them being around when she was a kid in London, pre WW1.
i too have tried the PERFECT pie floater at
Adelaides NOSH.....I never thought I could be one over by a pie floater, until i was introduced to NOSH's pumpkin and cauliflower in spicy thai soup....YUMMMMMMMO!!!
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I have to say that Nosh's gourmet pie floaters are sensational. My favourite is the spicy lentil pie in roasted tomato and cummin soup..... I seriously recommend if you havent already to go give one a try, you will be pleasantly suprised!!!!
Posted by: Mon at March 16, 2004 10:57 AM
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