samsgoneagain replied:

those meat pie boat things that mrs macs make are good too. pitty wa's gun laws suck too much.

Footloose replied:

And what proportion of WA'a population weren't born in WA ? Seems to me that a lot of WA's yummies aren't due to the native WA people LOL

Robin replied:

You are kidding V8 , I couldn't wait to leave the place a few weeks ago when it was 40+ every day in early march.

And I won't even mention the poor quality of the Soya-cino's I had trouble finding !

Robin Miller

Alan S (WA) replied:

But we still cant get a decent steamed dim sim from the fish & chip shop.

Member - extfilm (NSW) replied:

Tend to disagree with the chocalate milk........ You have obviously never been to Vancouver (British Columbia) in Canada. Have drunk choccy milk all over the world including your WA brand and although it has been 7 years since I last had one from Canada I can still taste it today.
It is that good I can not wait to get back there in 2010 just for the milk....... Ok maybe the winter olympics might have a bit to do with it but the choc milk is sensational

Drew - Karratha replied:

Masters Iced Coffee - a whole meal in acarton!! I have to buy a dozen before crossing the NT border just so I dont have to subject myself to their horrible tasting stuff for my morning fix..

Member - Toolman (VIC) replied:

Back before I emigrated to the east it was Peter's Icecream, Peters Pies and Browns Choc-milk. How could things go so wrong so soon over there? I was too young to drink but understood Swan Lager was ok too.
Toolman

Member - Matt M (ACT) replied:

'Best icecream - Pauls Billabong. None of this nancy eastern states Steets Golden Gaytime in WA thankyou very much.'

Actually a Queensland based company, now owned by Italians.

Member - Jack replied:

Gotta agree with much of it, as an eastern stater .. but Mrs Macs pies???? ... C'mon. I'd rather eat my boots. But Tassie kills the rest of Oz for pies in their various styles, types and flavours.

Mrs Mac ... bleuggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack

Gramps (NSW) replied:

LOL more bleep envy from WA :))))

Member - Davoe (Nullagine) replied:

Coming from south Oz The first thing I noticed is they cant do a Pie with sauce in Wa!
I asked for a pie with sauce and I got a pie with a packet of sauce WTF! what are you meant to do? remove the pie and smear the sauce on top then put it back in the bag? (all while you are driving of course) to make a huge mess?
In SA they would use a suce bottle and pump the pie full of sauce the way its suposed to be

Member - John (Vic) replied:

I have to say that WA has so much going for it, its not funny.
I loved the place......... Except for the following couple of things.

1. The price of Dim Sims are just extraordinary!! $1.30 plus as opposed to .70 cents here in Vic.

2. No 24 hour supermarket shopping. How backward is that for such a progressive state?

3. Your meats pies are OK but they do not match Beaumont's from Geelong here in sunny Vic.

Sand Man (SA) replied:

This post is a TROLL and I'm gonna report you to......er.......somebody.

You have a very limited focus on life but I guess that's what happens when you are secluded in the remote western end of the Country:-)

WA is not a bad place all the same, but you can't be serious in your comments about Mrs Mac's pies. You obviously haven't tried the Villies product.

And I don't know, or care, about the Choccy milk which I thought only children drank anyway, but Farmers Union Iced Coffee leaves all others for dead.

So there!!!

Garbutt replied:

Sorry you blokes (and blokesses) but I travelled every state in Oz and consider my self a sewer of pies. The best pie is Oz in the curried scallop pie from the Salamanca Market in Hobart. Full stop.

GB

The Explorer replied:

Pies are off topic, suggest you all sign up here and leave us in peace

www.topix.net/forum/food/pies

Cheers
Greg

PS V8Diesel - was it you that wanted some maps scanned? Please contact me direct.

blue one replied:

And I thought the only wind in WA was the Doctor.

Cheers

kwozz replied:

Amen brother

Steve from Top End Explorer Tours replied:

The best pies in the country are the home made ones from the Bark Hut Inn, on the Arnhem Hwy, The best Iced Coffee is Pauls Iced Coffe made in Darwin.

Marcus if you think that Vic has the best 4wding in the country, you've never left Melbourne.

V8 there's only one other thing to say GO PIES.

ROTFLMAO.

Cheers Steve.

V8Diesel replied:

Anyone remember the old Bovell's pies made at their bakery in Bay View Terrace in Claremont? Now they were a good pie.

I love pies so much. I'm not really supposed to eat them anymore but some times I squeeze in a sneaky one when the dragon's not watching. Ahhh for the good old days.

Mate of mine was hitch hiking once and the big Kiwi singer Ricky May gave him a lift and while he was driving ate 4 pies in a row. How that for a brush with celebrity. Not bad ehhh.

Member - lyndon K (SA) replied:

Can't coment on all that, can say emu = emu piss. Pie's?? with all our local bakers here, anyone who eats a massed produced pie would have to have rocks in their head!!. :)))

Strahan replied:

WA = wait awhile -still 1970 over here!

Gossy replied:

11 years in the Army. 2 years in Darwin. 9 in Perth (swanbourne). Yes Perth is a fantastic place. Freo, Cottesloe, wedge island, down south, weather etc etc, but I always called Adelaide home.

Our cost of living in Adelaide in awesome. A friend of mine just paid the same amount of money for a block of land at Karrinyup (Perth) as what I paid for my land (and a larger block) and a 4 bedroom double garage house in Adelaide. The mining boom in Perth has killed the concept of luxury living for the majority in Perth.

yes perth has alot going for it (as do all places) but the cost of living in Perth now has put in down the scales a long way in my books now. No point having the best pies, cheese sausage, beer (prefer redback anyway), milk drink etc if you can't afford it!!

Gossy replied:

agree, many people are doing well (thats the theory of the word "boom"). Booms dont last forever. All of a sudden your $500,000 home is worth $300,000 but you still have a $400,000 mortgage.
The resources boom is due to 3rd world economies growing rapidly (India over 30% growth!). This will eventually stop and then what?
S.A. will experience the same problem soon with Uranium mines expaning and new ones being dug (Roxby Downs). Some country towns are already experiencing a housing boom up north. I just hope that those people don't over commit with their finances because booms don't last forever.