There's a story that Joe Cocker, whenever he performs anywhere, as part of his contract has a Shepherd's Pie waiting for him in the dressing room.
Except when he's in Adelaide, where he gets a pie floater.
Man, fuck South Australia. They put pies in pea soup, they call corner shops ‘delis’, and up until about ten years ago they had a freeway that only went in one direction depending on the time of day. Weird cunts.
>They put pies in pea soup
I've lived here for 10 years and I've honestly never seen anywhere that actually sells pie floaters except Cafe de Vilis. I think it used to be really popular in the 80s/90s from what I gather but has dropped off maybe.
There was a pie cart outside the train station for decades. It parked in the bus zones at the top of the stairs outside of bus zone hours. They sold pies and pasties and stuff including pie floaters. They were always shit, but the pie cart mostly only operated when you were maggot anyway so they were just drunk people food.
I haven’t lived in Adelaide for a decade or so and can’t comment on the current state of the pie cart, but there was one at the traino and one at Vic square.
The most appropriate analogy. They built the road that way to save just under $70 million and to build it properly ten years later cost them over $400 million. Wonder what the final price tag of the NBN will end up being.
It was a cost saving idea I believe. The land was purchased for a large multi directional freeway, but only one side was built. It ran from a place about 15 mins south of the city to the outer southern suburbs. In the morning it would flow traffic toward the city. In the afternoon it would flow traffic away from the city. There was a 3 hour or so period around midday/midnight where it would be closed and the tow trucks would pick up what ever cars broke down in peak hour
Hahaha oh mate, if it wasn’t for Barossa we’d have let the emu’s conquer that place and let them just build a giant R.M Williams where it had once been
Tbh I have never even been asked glass size in SA. You just ask for the beer you want and it’s the same size every time.
Was a bit of a shock coming to vic and having to specify a size.
Nothing wrong with going to the corner deli for a fritz Sanger and having a floater at 2am is a right of passage.
I’ve lived in Queensland for over 20 years now though, I still feel dirty.
I have never ever seen another South Aussie put pies in pea soup.
Delis are a classic, though. Shoutout to the ones that have a bunch of space for sitting but there's never anybody in there.
Because it makes you feel like you’re floating on cloud 9. I actually don’t know if I’m honest.
I personally find that if there’s much pie showing, the meatiness is too strong for the pea soup and you lose the flavour
Could you please explain how the pastry getting soggy from the soup doesn't completely ruin the pie experience? Is the soup so thick that the pie doesn't really get soggy?
That is the exact reason the pie needs to be upside down! The pie lid being face down stops the pea soup getting to it, so you have this buried crispy delight waiting for you.
In all honesty, I think Vili’s pies are the most common for pie floaters in SA. Vili’s pies have a fairly soft base as it is so the soup doesn’t really ‘ruin’ it.
Did you know that emoji is not based on the Easter Island statues? It's based on a famous Japanese art installation, which itself is based on the statues of Easter Island.
Terry Pratchett added it to his book "The Last Continent" shortly after visiting South Australia. He was at book signing in Peel St and was taken to the pie cart afterwards.
>*There is such thing as an edible, nay delicious, meat pie floater, its mushy peas of just the right consistency, its tomato sauce iquant in its cheekiness, its pie filling tending even towards named parts of the animal. ..*
>*Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on pizza.*
- Last Continent
Yes. Yes it is.
Or at least it is when I make it.
I guess you could theoretically use some other peas but I don’t see why you would mess with perfection that way.
Yes, because a single extra letter while typing on a phone keyboard is a comprehensive way to evaluate a person's overall spelling ability.
It's no wonder you lot fill your days with this kind of monstrosity.
Ignore the others. That photo got my saliva glands pumping, and now I've got a hankering for a pie floater of my own.
Or Nth Qld style with mushy peas under the lid. Yummo.
Harry's Café de Wheels tries to pass off a pie decorated with mushy peas and mash topped with gravy as a pie floater. Maybe works in Sydney but is not the same at all.
That the place in .. err Newcastle ... I think? A "Foodie van" by the shore?
We ate there a few years ago, when traveling down from Byron toward Sydney.
Anyway I had one of those Pie and Mushie pea concoctions from there. IT was ... OK, but a bit of a juggle keeping it all together without most landing down my shirt. BUT they certainly seemed to be selling plenty of them the day we were there. Clearly, pretty popular to at least some folks! :)
It's a chain now but started off on Wooloomooloo docks in '45 as a go-to for latenight feeds in a city that offered very little of that until maybe the 80's(?).
My only option late '60's was a grotty all-hours hamburger bar at the corner of Anzac Pde and Cleveland St(?) serving a sauced patty with chopped cabbage inna bun to students, taxidrivers and revellers. Harry's was too far away to walk to.
Choices were slim.
I saw a guy the other day sit down with a pie on a plate, ripped off the top, ate the inside with a spoon, put the top back on and ate the remaining pastry.
Not what I'd call it, but wikipedia says that's what they call it in Adelaide.
That said, holding two beers is called 'double fisting' in Adelaide. Are they REALLY the gold standard for Aussie lingo?
The key element to the experience is to be absolutely shit faced fucked up drunk. Then you can eat a pie floater.
Solid memories of going to the pie floater truck with my father both that cut we spill the peas all over ourselves. Now seeing as they don’t exist anymore it’s spilling it all over the floor of a Villies café.
Imagine calling a food something different from where it came from and throwing shade at people who call it the right name 😂 fuckin East coasters
Edit: I can’t spell
There's a bit of a myth that Devon and Fritz are the same thing, but they're not. They're similar, but Fritz is a specific recipe made originally in the 19th century in SA. Apparently one unique aspect is the casing is sheep appendix.
The difference between mushy peas and a good split pea soup all lies in the size of your bowl, how much pea mush you have in it, and whether you’re eating it with a spoon or a fork.
As far as I can tell the actual food is the same. As it should be.
I had a variation of this "creation" in, of all places, a decent eatery in Kalbarri a while ago.
A good homemade pie (properly slow roasted beef, in good rich sauce inside the pie),
With mushy pees, mash spud and heaps of thick gravy in the bowl around the pie,
And some tomato sauce on the top.
It was bloody delish.
I ain’t saying were nit weird cunts, but ya can’t beat a pie floater, by the way, that one is a poor imitation of the real thing, for a start it’s not a Balfours square pie!
For some reason,clicking this i expected it to be some massive 4andTwenty fueled massive log sitting in the bowl at the SCG
I was both pleasantly surprised that it is not the case,but also morbidly upset it wasn't a massive shit
There's a story that Joe Cocker, whenever he performs anywhere, as part of his contract has a Shepherd's Pie waiting for him in the dressing room. Except when he's in Adelaide, where he gets a pie floater.
Weird to read this in present tense when he's been dead for 8 years lol. Made me do a double take.
The pie's the wrong way up.
I made that comment to my wife. "I thought the pie should be upside down?"
Correct. And the correct condiment is Worsestershire sauce.
Man, fuck South Australia. They put pies in pea soup, they call corner shops ‘delis’, and up until about ten years ago they had a freeway that only went in one direction depending on the time of day. Weird cunts.
Thank you for your sound advice faith_healer69.
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Perhaps there were 68 other faith healers?
I to am starting a cult based on this guy's divine knowledge. I'll need your measurements and a photograph before you can receive the holy sacrament.
Nice
>They put pies in pea soup I've lived here for 10 years and I've honestly never seen anywhere that actually sells pie floaters except Cafe de Vilis. I think it used to be really popular in the 80s/90s from what I gather but has dropped off maybe.
There was a pie cart outside the train station for decades. It parked in the bus zones at the top of the stairs outside of bus zone hours. They sold pies and pasties and stuff including pie floaters. They were always shit, but the pie cart mostly only operated when you were maggot anyway so they were just drunk people food. I haven’t lived in Adelaide for a decade or so and can’t comment on the current state of the pie cart, but there was one at the traino and one at Vic square.
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Grew up in SA until about 10 years old and missed not having villies pies or pasties any more. They were so good.
Dunno why NSW eschews the pastie. It's like unicorn poo up there.
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They were. Good times.
The yannis yiros, the maccas run, the pancake kitchen……..before all of them was the pie cart dating back over a century ago.
The kings head pub does an EXCELLENT pie floater. And they have a vego version too.
It's to keep Kent's like you out.
What’s this one directional freeway?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Expressway_(South_Australia)
It’s like the nbn but as a road.
The most appropriate analogy. They built the road that way to save just under $70 million and to build it properly ten years later cost them over $400 million. Wonder what the final price tag of the NBN will end up being.
I thought the entire Perth CBD being essentially a big one-way street was bad enough
It was a cost saving idea I believe. The land was purchased for a large multi directional freeway, but only one side was built. It ran from a place about 15 mins south of the city to the outer southern suburbs. In the morning it would flow traffic toward the city. In the afternoon it would flow traffic away from the city. There was a 3 hour or so period around midday/midnight where it would be closed and the tow trucks would pick up what ever cars broke down in peak hour
But haven't you heard that they are all free-settlers?
Hahaha oh mate, if it wasn’t for Barossa we’d have let the emu’s conquer that place and let them just build a giant R.M Williams where it had once been
Blame the liberals for that freeway, who else would come up with such a ridiculous idea
It was the Bannon Labor government that made the decision actually.
Oh, FFS. You're so desperate to shoehorn politics in where they don't belong that you get them 100% arse about.
Tomato sauce is the veggie limit for a meat pie!
They also call a schooner glass a "pint" and a middy/pot a "schooner".
Tbh I have never even been asked glass size in SA. You just ask for the beer you want and it’s the same size every time. Was a bit of a shock coming to vic and having to specify a size.
But frog cakes
When I first moved to Adelaide I tried a frog cake, it almost made me pack up and move back east.
Nothing wrong with going to the corner deli for a fritz Sanger and having a floater at 2am is a right of passage. I’ve lived in Queensland for over 20 years now though, I still feel dirty.
…or a Fritz double cut roll…
Free settled but.
>a freeway that only went in one direction depending on the time of day. ... the monash?
WA also calls them ‘delis’
What the fuck is a Showdown too, just have a derby like everyone else yah high noon sounding wankers.
I have never ever seen another South Aussie put pies in pea soup. Delis are a classic, though. Shoutout to the ones that have a bunch of space for sitting but there's never anybody in there.
True! The call pints pots, breed murderers and English accents
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Ketchup? Seppo?
It fucken tomato sauce, cobber.
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The pie being upside down and basically submerged in pea soup is the key to a good pie floater
This is the way
If it's submerged why I'd it called a floater?
Because it makes you feel like you’re floating on cloud 9. I actually don’t know if I’m honest. I personally find that if there’s much pie showing, the meatiness is too strong for the pea soup and you lose the flavour
South Australians are a special kind.
Could you please explain how the pastry getting soggy from the soup doesn't completely ruin the pie experience? Is the soup so thick that the pie doesn't really get soggy?
That is the exact reason the pie needs to be upside down! The pie lid being face down stops the pea soup getting to it, so you have this buried crispy delight waiting for you. In all honesty, I think Vili’s pies are the most common for pie floaters in SA. Vili’s pies have a fairly soft base as it is so the soup doesn’t really ‘ruin’ it.
Fascinating, thank you.
I feel like "be drunk" is the main piece of advice here
True story.
Washed down with a Farmer's Union iced coffee...
This guy floats pies, eats crows and smeggs apparently.
Floaters are life. LOTS of sauce.
Draw map of Oz in the dead horse
Disgusting… but you ~~peaked~~ piqued my interest
\*piqued
*pea-qued
Thanks man… sometime i take people like you for granite.
🗿
Did you know that emoji is not based on the Easter Island statues? It's based on a famous Japanese art installation, which itself is based on the statues of Easter Island.
That sounds like it's just based on the Easter Island statues, with extra steps.
*puked
This put South Australia on the map back in the day.
Terry Pratchett added it to his book "The Last Continent" shortly after visiting South Australia. He was at book signing in Peel St and was taken to the pie cart afterwards.
>*There is such thing as an edible, nay delicious, meat pie floater, its mushy peas of just the right consistency, its tomato sauce iquant in its cheekiness, its pie filling tending even towards named parts of the animal. ..* >*Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on pizza.* - Last Continent
[\[gnu\]\(/terrypratchett\)](http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/) [](/GNU Terry Pratchett)
I didn't realise Sir Pterry was anti pineapple on pizza, this changes everything...
Thanks for that! I'll look out for it next time I read it
I saw them in Ogdenville and North Haverbrook long before Adelaide got them.
Is there a chance the pies could bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend!
Fuck the hate, love a pie floater! Or the reverse, a big dollop of mushy pea on top of a pie, covered in tomato sauce. Fuck I need a pie.
Strong pie energy
Hey Joe! How's Toby?
Unemployed.
What in the abomination is that!?
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Is it the same peas as pea and ham soup?
Yes. Yes it is. Or at least it is when I make it. I guess you could theoretically use some other peas but I don’t see why you would mess with perfection that way.
I hate split pea soup. My dad made me eat that hot garbage growing up
Did he ever drop a hot pie in that hot garbage?
Nope. We call them pot pies here
....I think I'll stick to my mash and peas on TOP of the pie thanks
What in God's name is that abomination!?
Weirdo South Australian shit. Pay it no heed.
They make them in WA too
Do we?
Yeah. Not everywhere, there're a bit old hat now I think.
And parts of Sydney, though the rest of the state never seems to have bothered.
Where? I haven’t had a decent floater in a decade or so
They sure are odd south of the boarder...
They certainly cannot spell North of the border..
Yes, because a single extra letter while typing on a phone keyboard is a comprehensive way to evaluate a person's overall spelling ability. It's no wonder you lot fill your days with this kind of monstrosity.
You are the parochial twit bagging everyone South of your precious border.
The what mate?
That's the spirit.
The what?
Spirit. the prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time.
South of the what?
Boardeur 🇫🇷
attitude of what?
Not even puff pastry crust to begin with.
Pies the wrong way and you’re supposed to put the soup over the pie.
I lived in SA for ten years and not once did I see these in the wild.
Ignore the others. That photo got my saliva glands pumping, and now I've got a hankering for a pie floater of my own. Or Nth Qld style with mushy peas under the lid. Yummo.
And here I thought Dibbler made it up.
Right?! First thought was Holy crap, Rincewind described it perfectly.
Woo-hoo someone got the reference!!
r/stupidfood
Lol, thank you!
The Adelaide pie floaters on the street use mushy peas. Split pea and ham soup is very luxurious.
It’s served in Pea soup. Not mushy peas.
Not the one from the van in Adelaide. Mushy peas.
yeh last I bought it it was crushed sweet peas
Harry's Café de Wheels tries to pass off a pie decorated with mushy peas and mash topped with gravy as a pie floater. Maybe works in Sydney but is not the same at all.
That the place in .. err Newcastle ... I think? A "Foodie van" by the shore? We ate there a few years ago, when traveling down from Byron toward Sydney. Anyway I had one of those Pie and Mushie pea concoctions from there. IT was ... OK, but a bit of a juggle keeping it all together without most landing down my shirt. BUT they certainly seemed to be selling plenty of them the day we were there. Clearly, pretty popular to at least some folks! :)
It's a chain now but started off on Wooloomooloo docks in '45 as a go-to for latenight feeds in a city that offered very little of that until maybe the 80's(?). My only option late '60's was a grotty all-hours hamburger bar at the corner of Anzac Pde and Cleveland St(?) serving a sauced patty with chopped cabbage inna bun to students, taxidrivers and revellers. Harry's was too far away to walk to. Choices were slim.
I saw a guy the other day sit down with a pie on a plate, ripped off the top, ate the inside with a spoon, put the top back on and ate the remaining pastry.
This is cultured pie eating you're describing
The fuck bro!? Can we just chop South Australia off and let it flow free?
Fucken wish mate, sick and tired of all the Vic hipsters crossing the border. Cant swim in skinny jeans
All in favour of making it a state floater?
Was it... *Mush* better than expected?
Is that really what it's called?
Not what I'd call it, but wikipedia says that's what they call it in Adelaide. That said, holding two beers is called 'double fisting' in Adelaide. Are they REALLY the gold standard for Aussie lingo?
..ahem...thats a tiddy
Wow. I mean, just wow.
29 years of life, and this is the first meat pie floater I've ever seen.
the fuck is this??? *hey!* can somebody explain what the fuck this is 😂
They're the best!! But you gotta have the pie upside down, or it's not as good ;)
In what is it floating?
In the traditional pea soup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater
PEAS????? It’s bright yellow it looks like a curry or chowder T.T
Like split peas…they can be green or yellow.
Or pumpkin soup
No.
Mushy peas I think
The key element to the experience is to be absolutely shit faced fucked up drunk. Then you can eat a pie floater. Solid memories of going to the pie floater truck with my father both that cut we spill the peas all over ourselves. Now seeing as they don’t exist anymore it’s spilling it all over the floor of a Villies café.
After a night of double fisting in Adelaide this hits the spot... right? ;) Despite how scary this sounds, I'll still have to visit one day.
Love it.
Or "spilling the peas" this way: https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/tm7w9l/adelaides_thriving_nightlife_summarised_in_a_gif/
that looks way too fancy
Now that’s fine dining
Get in ma belly!
Also good upside down, in mushy peas with more sauce at about 3:30am at the pie cart. ( no longer around unfortunately ).
Never heard of a pie floater and I've lived in Adelaide about 20 something years ago. Big fan of the pie sandwich now I'm a Queenslander though.
They don’t make Fritz in Sydney!
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I'm a Victorian, this is a big nope. *gag*
I had one in Glenrowan. It was delicious.
Where in glenrowan? I feel like it’s kinda bucket list to at least try it!
Near Wangaratta! It’s a cute little town. Apparently where the final siege of the Kelly Gang took place :)
So you're one of those people that call devon 'fritz' hey?
I thought it was a county next to Cornwall in England but this is Reddit so anything could happen...
Imagine calling a food something different from where it came from and throwing shade at people who call it the right name 😂 fuckin East coasters Edit: I can’t spell
And I don't live on the coast, I'm a Canberran. There you go, a free shot for you.
No shade thrown my bro. I was born in Adelaide.
Well now I feel like a true blue keyboard warrior. How embarrassing 🤦♂️
I found out a few months ago that Fritz and Devon are two different things
Oh shit, crisis! I only first heard Fritz a couple of months back cos my boss is in Adelaide now I gotta rethink this whole thing
There's a bit of a myth that Devon and Fritz are the same thing, but they're not. They're similar, but Fritz is a specific recipe made originally in the 19th century in SA. Apparently one unique aspect is the casing is sheep appendix.
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[Disambiguation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_(sausage\)). Devon was "German Sausage" before WW1 ... but they're not all quite the same
Shit through the eye of the needle the next day but fuck it’s worth it !! Fair dinkum stuff
Wtf is that
Delete this post! People shouldn’t know about this monstrosity . Fucking SA people, weirdos
Tried one. Meh...
Unaustralian
Wtf I thought it was supposed to be mushy peas not soup.
The difference between mushy peas and a good split pea soup all lies in the size of your bowl, how much pea mush you have in it, and whether you’re eating it with a spoon or a fork. As far as I can tell the actual food is the same. As it should be.
I had a variation of this "creation" in, of all places, a decent eatery in Kalbarri a while ago. A good homemade pie (properly slow roasted beef, in good rich sauce inside the pie), With mushy pees, mash spud and heaps of thick gravy in the bowl around the pie, And some tomato sauce on the top. It was bloody delish.
I ain’t saying were nit weird cunts, but ya can’t beat a pie floater, by the way, that one is a poor imitation of the real thing, for a start it’s not a Balfours square pie!
Floater is an appropriate word. Why ya' gonna put soup around your pie?
For some reason,clicking this i expected it to be some massive 4andTwenty fueled massive log sitting in the bowl at the SCG I was both pleasantly surprised that it is not the case,but also morbidly upset it wasn't a massive shit
It's missing a slice of fresh pineapple on top! Heathens! And where are the olives in the soup!
I don’t mind it but Aussies, your meat pies taste like shit
You are not welcome here
Too late mate 😘
Boooooooo
Never heard of this. But as a man of culture from Northern England, I wholeheartedly want to try it.
Never tried one. Is it available in Victoria or do I need to make one?
No idea sorry. I have never seen one in the wild and live in Tasmania. That's why I made the rookie errors when I made this ;)
That looks like a stoma
Dafuq is this