Meat pie (Australia and New Zealand) ("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. Meat pie (Australia and New Zealand) An Australian or New Zealand meat pie is a hand-sized meat pie containing diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms, or cheese and often consumed as a takeaway food snack. The meat pie is considered iconic in Australia and New Zealand. It
Cowley's pie cart Cowley's pie cart was opened by William "Bill" Cowley, owner of Cowleys Bakeries, of Cross Road, Glandore, in 1937. A specialty of Cowley's pie cart was the "pie floater"; a meat pie upside-down on a plate, surrounded by a generous serving of thick pea soup (made from blue boiler peas), and frequently topped with tomato sauce. The last owner/operators of this pie cart were Ray Purvis and his family, who had a licence to operate it from 5pm (when the post Office closed), until around midnight, being then one of the few food outlets open in Adelaide after 9pm. Cowley's