Best Sausage Roll?

Two mouthfuls of beer to every bite??

Sounds like the perfect pie to me!!! :)

Yep,,, would have to second that.

Denmark pasties are the best I have had except for my mum's.

Hope to go back there sometime this year.

Yes Landed Eagle, they are quite chilli hot. About an 8 or 9 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Tony

Denmark Bakery gets my vote too.
And I agree the c h i l l i pies are anything but chilly.
(Tony S is right at about 8-9 out of 10)
They certainly clear the sinus'.

Mind you the Beef, cheese and bacon pies are pretty good too.

Well worth stopping for.

Disco

It is a Thai restaurant now!!

I don't mind a good Thai feed, but this has got to be a wind-up??!

Cheers.

No, really!
I'm pretty sure the mob who run Som Thai Kitchen in Broome bought it.

Hover your mouse over the blue word shop. Maybe they have good ones as well

I agree with East Lynne. Excellent pies.

Graeme

Yep ... gotta agree ... was definitely one of the better ones I had recently.

Dubbo pie shop at the railway crossing lays claims to a bunch of "awards" too.

Ta for that Oz...next coach trip up there I shall check it out LOL

Fred.

Phew! Thanks all for your enthusiastic replies...we really are on a Roll here!
I did suspect there may be other travel-tragics out there succumbing to wafting scents from local bakeries.

I see many of you have mentioned pies (why do pies cop all the glory?) - ok, the King Island pies sound tops, (their cows eat seaweed, that's healthy isn't it?), but for my money the best pie was from Richmond in Taz - a red wine enhanced delicacy served with a knife, fork and plate (sacriledge!) Unfortunately the shop was closed during my last visit.
Never mind, I consolled myself with an old-fashioned cooked breakfast at nearby Ma Foosies (main street, Richmond) an old fashioned type eatery joint, dont miss it!

My other job involves health promotion (don't tell), but I believe the ancient Greeks (the "sauce" of all wisdom?) had it all worked out:

"Everything in moderation."

Keep 'em coming.

-Warwick

C'arn the Pies! No, seriously, that was a pun only. I didn't really mean it.

Cheers.

Well i do, C'arn the PIES!!. and I really do mean it.

Cheers

Mark

Probably Minlaton.

Cheers

Thats it thanks

It was probably Moonta!! Go there once a month and take home a stack of Cornish Pasties and freeze them till we go again!! Must say I have not tried a sausage roll, so that will have to be on the menu next time.

Cheers

Jo

G'Day Fred

Yes, I can see it now..."The Great Oz SR Trail" - (definitely not for lovers of haute cuisine!)
Survivors of the trip qualify for a free cholesterol check, and get a discount on their pending coronary bypass operation.

No, we are not talking health food here, the humble SR rates somewhere between the iconic Battered Sav and Chico Roll on the "health" scale!

Another contender is the Shell? roadhouse in Northampton, north of Geraldton WA. (It used to be called "Smiffies." Great home-made pies and SR's to die for (figurately speaking.)

I seem to recall a good feed from the Denmark bakery that someone mentioned as well.

S.A. ??? Isn't that where they have "Floaters" ??? from memory :-)

I'm not a native South Australian so I didn't think it was courteous to mention "floaters" while we are discussing haute cuisine. My wife is born and bred SA. Last year a journo from the Advertiser took me to a genuine "pie cart" to introduce me to the floater. Wife wouldn't get out of the car and insisted we park some way from the "cart" in case anyone she knew saw us.

I guess the vanilla slice has pastry (of sorts) in common with the SR.
Best V/Slice I have indulged was a home-made creation that had, wait for it, SAO biscuits as the pastry! Scrumptious! Wouldn't have believed it unless I tasted it with my own buds.

Warwick, you are a man of rare culture and discernment. I was hoping someone would get into discussing vanilla slices and eventually, in referring to the great Alice Springs version, I would have revealed that their pastry was in fact made with SAO biscuits. I think we are on to something here, it can't just be coincidence.
If anyone reading this is in the vicinity of Alice Springs, proceed immediately to the Casa Nostra, order a vanilla slice and give us your opinion.

Mfewster, Ill bite (especially on a nice pie)!

What transforms an ordinary pie into a "floater?'
Is it the one served on a bed of mushy peas?

I dimly recall that Harry's cafe-Du-Wheels in Sydney served a "floater."
Would it be considered an "upper-crust" pie? (Pun intended, unfortunately)!

-Warwick

Warwick, I'm not a born and bred South Aussie. My experience with "floaters" is limited to one occasion. I think getting the ambience right is essential. Unless eaten at a "pie cart", standing up, late at night and after a fair number of beers, I don't believe it is the authentic experience.
Essentially, it is a meat pie (I think it must be upside down) in a bowl, almost submerged in pea soup. Now the tricky bit. A variety of condiments is on offer to add to this. The journo who initiatedd me into this experience felt that adding vinegar was the way to go, tomato sauce barely tolerable and anything else was "flakey" pun intended and for wooses and interstate weakies.
As I said in my previous post, my SA wife proudly boasts that she has never eaten one and never will. She wouldn't accompany us to the "pie cart", stayed in the car and slunk low in the seat in fear of being recognized by anyone passing by
Are there any SA readers out there who can verify this account?
Personally, I really like pies. I really like pea soup. I felt the "floater" sold both short.
Incidentally, did you note the report in the news stating that the Aussie love of fast foods now means our diet is even worse than that of Americans. And I think the study responsible for this outrageous assertion was done in WA !!

Being born and bred Sth Aussie, I can verify that the famous Pie Floater from the Pie Cart is one of this earth's privileges. LOL. yes, have to be consumed late at night and after a cleansing Coopers or maybe a couple more. The Blue peas taste a treat but as a word of warning, wear good undies as your older ones may not survive in one piece.
Best Pie that I ever had was an Oyster Pie from the little town as you head down to Wine Glass Bay in Tassie. They were expensive but that didn't stop me from going back and buying the rest of their stock that day.
OK now what about Pan Cakes. The Mt Elephant Pancake shop also in Tassie would beat the best of the rest my a country mile.

Hi Barbara

Such old shops are gems. The old shop folk are so old-fashioned, they even put real meat (muscle) into their pies!
Nowdays you would be very lucky if a production-line pie contained 20% muscle. It is even legal for them to label pies as containing "25% meat" where the so-called meat may be 100% comprised of gristle, skin, connective tissue, offal etc.

The following is a description of a typical Aussie pie by a foreign gourmet chef:

"Dead meat, suitably entombed in a casket of pastry!"

-Warwick