When we were in Australia in 2017 I spent the whole holiday on the lookout for a real Four'n Twenty pie, the classic Australian meat pie. They're not the only commercial pie available, but they all seemed to follow the same formula.
These are not meat pies as your family knows them - these are two layers of lukewarm almost uncooked pastry, with a layer of mutton and beef gravy inbetween*. Vaguely pie shaped, they were somehow able to be heated up - or kept lukewarm - inside a plastic bag. They were standard fare at football matches, served with a squirt of tomato sauce injected through the top layer of pastry into the filling. If you were really brutal you could get more sauce in there than the gravy.
I never found a Four'n Twenty pie on our 2017 trip, nor on our 2024 trip. But I did find a Four'n Twenty pie warmer.
* This is the impression the 10 year old me had, and I am yet to be disabused.
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