It’s Australia Day, and pictured is one of that country’s greatest achievements: Harry’s Floater pie, from Harry’s Cafe De Wheels. The floater is a meat pie with it’s top taken off, replaced with fluffy mashed potato formed into a crater, and filled with gravy and mushy peas.
Thanks to Eric Scheid of the awesome IAwiki for showing me the pastry nirvana that is Harry’s at Wooloomooloo.
Some other fantastic Australian things:
- The man about town’s choice for fine apparel: Imperfectionist
- Creativity/Machine
- The Avalanches
- SoulPacific
- TripleJ
- Being mauled by the vicious, dumping waves onto the gravel/sand at Bronte Beach and then going for a smoothy and/or a breakfast beer at Sejuiced, Bronte.
- Home of newstainment: CNNNN and The Chaser
- The Standard, The Laundry, The Night Cat Melbourne.
- Back-in-black and almost every record that has sampled it as a result.
- which leads to: duh-nunner-nunner-nuh-nuh… Angus!
- Introducing quantum mechanics to teenagers, it’s the other Angus… Dr. Angus Gray-Weale
- Rolf, who I met when I was about 4.
- and of course, Foe.
Foe has a more poetic commemoration of Australia Day over at her place…
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cheers matt – if u want to hook up for ‘a good time’, SP massive is in sydney town over next two weekends.. drop us a line
But but but – Harry’s Floater Pie is a poor imitation of the original and best “Pie Floater”, found only in Adelaide, the City of Churches.
More info here:
http://www.nationaltrustsa.org.au/heritage_icons_2003.htm#Pie
That’s not how a pie floater works.
It should be pea soup in a bowl with a meat pie floating in the soup (and of course, tomato sauce/ketchup on top!)
It has to be said sport – that Australis Day or no Australia day, that food looks even worse than the fodder they used to serve up in the Bush House canteen. Jesus H Christ mate!
I too have met the great man:
http://www.perfect.co.uk/gallery/UniPhotos/ME_ROLF
You bastard! You came you Sydney and did not look me up! Too bad – Simon