Geico gecko

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Has anyone seen the newest Geico adds, the geckos' accent seems to be Australian. On one add he talks about pie and chips. I think chips are french fries, but what is the "pie" he's talking about? Just a crazy question for a Wednesday!!!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what is the "pie" he's talking about?


"The Australian meat pie, beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flakey top, has an iconic cultural status, being held to be the Australian National Food".


.......yuke.
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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hum, some green slick slimy lizzard like things.  They are humorous.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Like the lizard monkey?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
but what is the "pie" he's talking about?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_meat_pie

Contents are usually regarded as dubious, but no more so than a hotdog from a roadside vendor

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the link Chris TH.... seems there is an Australian pie company called Four'N'Twenty...brings to mind the nursery rhyme..."4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"... food for thought there!!!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmm, Looks awesome!

Where I live it's the "Carne Asada Burrito" that seems to be on every corner, LoL

Taco stand hell...
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've had a "pork pie" I assume since it was an "English" friend of mine that made it, it was European...."meat pie"... btw, it was really good!
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
brings to mind the nursery rhyme.


Since I have my doubts about marketing types, it's probably a total concidence!

As you might have read in the Wiki, some instances only barely qualify for the 'meat' portion of the name - 'fat' pie is probably more accurate

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
More likely, covered roadkill.....
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seems there is an Australian pie company called Four'N'Twenty...brings to mind the nursery rhyme..."4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"...

That's where it comes from...the name.

Factory is about 1/2 mile from my place...

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
More likely, covered roadkill


Ooo...I'll have some of that
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Any Aussie pie has more meat 'content' than that poor excuse for a steak I had in Paris 30 years ago....

"How did you find your steak, sir?"

"I moved 2 peas and there it was."

Seriously...if it were thicker I would have put a stamp on it and sent it back to the chef....airmail....

Nuveau Quisine?  Overpriced food for wankers.....

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We have a "pie" here...called Shepherds pie... flakey piecrust on top and bottom...inside are hunks of beef, carrots, potatoes and gravy...actually you can put almost any kind of veggie inside!!! mmm good!!!
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We have a "pie" here...called Shepherds pie... flakey piecrust on top and bottom...inside are hunks of beef, carrots, potatoes and gravy...actually you can put almost any kind of veggie inside!!! mmm good!!


I have had that and it is *excellent, more of a midwest US dish, you dont see it too often on the west coast...
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have had that and it is *excellent, more of a midwest US dish, you dont see it too often on the west coast...


I find there are alot of things..food, etc. you find in the midwest, but not on either coast and vice versa... heck the midwesterners are just now discovering cell phones!!!