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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1311002" data-attributes="member: 1656">Since Billy T's Hangi Takeaways and Georgie Pie died... not that I can think of.Gosh, I'd actually forgotten about Georgie Pie until you asked that question <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In case the term's not familiar, a 'hangi' is a Maori earth-oven, similar to what you might get in Hawaii or Samoa.  Uh, lessee..."The Maori tradition of Hangi food is New Zealand's most unique cuisine experience. A hangi is an earth oven heated with red hot stones. Mutton, pork, chicken, potatoes and kumara (sweet potato) are lowered into the oven in wire baskets, then covered with wet sheets and earth to keep in the steam. Hangi food has a delicate, smoky flavour."So you're talking a whole lot of work to do it yourself... Billy T's provided the end result in a handy plastic takeaway box <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Georgie Pie wasn't quite so obviously "Kiwi" in, uh, flavour - it was a very McDonald's-style chain, but instead of selling burgers, fries, and shakes, they sold pies, fries, and shakes.  Steak pies, mince and cheese pies, chicken pies, seafood pies, apple pies, blackberry pies...The rumour I've heard is that they used to underbid the dog food companies for the meat they used... but the pies were edible.  About the same relationship to a real pie that a Big Mac has to a real burger, but what do you expect from a fast food chain?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Alas, both Billy T's and Georgie Pie are long gone, and we're left with McDonald's, Burger King, and KFC...(Over Christmas, KFC finally started selling potato salad again!  I used to love KFC potato salad, and they just stopped selling it here in about 1996.  I was all excited... until it turned out that they're now using some sort of mustard dressing.  It's horrid!  It's not fair!)-Hyp.</blockquote>

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