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‘Australia’s Fast Food’ – meat pie exhibition coming to a library near you

An exhibition detailing the history of the meat pie and its iconic place in Australian culture is currently touring NSW libraries.

Titled ‘The Meat Pie: Australia’s Own Fast Food’, the exhibition is being curated by the Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology (ASHET). It first showed in May last year and by the end of this year it will have visited around 40 NSW libraries.

Ian Arthur, who researched and curated the exhibition, told ABC Radio the meat pie dates as far back as the second century AD. The pastry in the pie was intended as vessel to contain the meat as it cooked.

Arthur said the history of the pie in Australia started with the first white settlers and, over time, the meat pie became Australia’s iconic fast food, in the same way America is known for hamburgers or Britain for Fish and Chips.

However, interestingly, Australians are not the biggest meat pie consumers. New Zealanders share our love of the meat pie and they each consume an average of 15 of the tasty packages a year compared to the 12 per year that Australians consume.

Image: ASHET

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