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The Australian Meat Pie: A Brief Review

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Ben Simmons isn’t the only Aussie snack that made his debut at the Wells Fargo Center this year.

The Four N’ Twenty Beef Pie has also come to town, bringing an Australian sports snack to the States. I had to try it.

First things first: What is the meat? While the package says Beef, and it’s got Beef, it is, by Australian law, listed as containing at least 25% meat (beef and mutton). Or, as the Sydney Morning Herald noted in a trip to the factory in 2009:

Mindful of the old "lips and arseholes" myth, it's a relief to find that Patties uses 27 kilogram boxes of 85 per cent lean frozen beef and mutton, mostly shoulder meat.