Meat pie (Australia and New Zealand) Tasmania, the main manufacturer of pies is National Pies. National Pies make typical beef mince pies, as well as "Cottage Pies", which are topped with mashed potato. National Pies' mince pies are rectangular in shape, as opposed to most other brands, which are round. Australian Meat Pies were introduced into the United States in 1994 by Mark Allen, of Boort, Victoria, when he and his wife, Wendy, began operation of Pacific Products, Inc. in Marietta, Georgia. Pacific Products was a wholesale only business, selling their pies to chain retailers throughout the United States. Although Pacific Products is no longer in
Pie floater Pratchett 'The Last Continent' (Doubleday 1998) has extensive if scurrilous reference to the pie floater. Pie floater The pie floater (also known as a floater and a pea floater), is an Australian dish particularly common in Adelaide. Pea soup with meat has long been part of English culinary history, with mentions in the 19th century, including Yorkshire "pea and pie supper", "pea soup with eel", "suet dumplings or saveloys", (Dumplings in soup were known as "floaters"). It may have developed from those dishes, which are useful for feeding groups of people on a budget: for example at a sports match