"Robert Bannister" > wrote in message
...
> Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
> > >
> > In my youth there was a late night horror known as Twiggies Pie Cart.
> > You could order a number of exotic dishes to stimulate the palate you
> > could specify that 'hotters' were added. The pies were all at least a
> > day old. If you made the mistake of dining there (for, at that time
> > of night everything else was closed) you learned, early in life,
> > quite what the combination of a bad hangover and heart burn felt
> > like.
>
> An unforgettable experience was the pie cart in the centre of Adelaide.
> After an evening on the beer, one went there and had a 'pie floater'.
> This consists of a particularly obnoxious meat pie 'floating' in a
> thinnish pea soup. Tomato sauce (ketchup) is, of course, compulsory.
>
> I'm not sure whether the pie cart is still there. Perhaps a South
> Australian contributor can tell us.
>
I think that it must have been owned by Twiggie's brother!


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