No, no ketchup here! Honestly I'm not a big fan of it. I don't even eat ketchup on my hotdogs lolYou guys put Ketchup on your pie ?
I recall in the 80s a Californian friend came down under to fish with us and was surprised to see meat pies sold over the counter from corner stores as a lunch option same as you get hot dogs .
Millions are eaten every day for lunch as a pretty stable part of our lunch diet .
We call Ketchup Tomato sauce instead so was bloody funny when he’s walking out the store doing his best Aussie accent saying “ I got a pie with sauce mate “
One of those look back and laugh memory’s
But I'll tell you, I've been envious of your access to handheld, meat filled pies for a long time. Randomly, when I was a kid my dad would get these big boxes of frozen "Aussie Pies" from Sam's Club (a discount bulk food store) and we would eat them all the time. Then one day we couldn't get them anymore. And that's when I realized how uncommon they are here. Like, as a child I thought we also just ate meat pies and we ate the frozen ones cause we were poor and didn't eat out lol. I didn't even know the Aussie part referred to Australia till we couldn't get them anymore. This was a pre-internet world of course.
This is the first time I've ever seen these ones I just ate. I was at a Whole Foods, which I never go to and just randomly saw them and was like, yeah, I should have a few of those in the freezer. Hopefully it means they're starting to catch on in the states. Our street food sucks compared to the rest of the world.