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Pie Floater

This is a meal served from pie carts in Adelaide and other parts of South Australia for more than a 130 years. It consists of a traditional meat pie, covered with tomato sauce and sitting in a plate of soup.

To make this simple meal, start with a bowl of heated thick pea soup. Then take a hot meat pie and place it face-up in the centre of the bowl. Then smother it in tomato sauce, and consume it quickly, using a knife and fork, or a spoon, before it gets cold.

Across the rest of Australia, a similar combination of flavours can be found in a pea pie, which is a meat pie with a layer of mushy peas under the crust.