Other Cultural References
In the 1970s meat pies were mentioned in an advertising jingle for General Motors Holden Australia. The jingle — football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, they go together underneath the Southern Stars — was an adaptation of an American jingle for the General Motors Chevrolet brand.
Fair-Go Dibbler, citizen of Fourecks (The Last Continent) in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, is famous for selling the archetypal pie floaters to his unsuspecting customers.
In 2007, Domino's Australia and Domino's New Zealand both released a meat pie pizza, consisting of minced beef, peas, diced fresh tomato, onions, gravy, thick pastry and tomato sauce.
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