Jeff and Todd

Jeff and Todd

Where it all began...

  1. So Jeff and I love a good pie. Travelling as we do with Osler, now and again we've had the chance to sample the local fare. Not the mass produced variety, but the little bundles of love you can only get in a local pie shop or bakery.
  2. This all started as a running joke. As we made our way back up the Bruce Highway to the Sunshine Coast after yet another Brisbane trip, we passed "The World Famous Beefy's Pies". Resisting the urge, we vowed to save our Beefy's for a special occasion, perhaps our first sale. Everytime we passed Beefy's en route to home, we gazed longingly out the window, the car almost steering itself down the offramp. But we held firm, even when our colleagues threatened to sabotage our mission.
  3. With our first sale behind us it was time to break our duck. Beefy's didn't disappoint. In the glorious afternoon sunshine in May, Jeff tucked into a chunky beef, while I got stuck into my favorite, a steak, bacon and cheese. Mmmmmm.

    1. And so it began. Our mission now to document our Pie Cruise as we travel our home state, our nation and the world at large.
    2. Our mission? A parallel, cross-over systematic analysis of selected pie shops in our Osler journey

      Below you can follow our journey in reverse chronological order

      If you have a suggestion for our blog, please feel free to send it to todd.fraser@oslertechnology.com

Thursday 1 September 2016

Wooloomooloo Bay, Sydney

  1. Monday 15th August, 2016

    Harry's Cafe de Wheels is an institution in ol' Sydney Town. It dates back over 70 years now, to the times of the great depression when the winds of war beginning to blow across the city once more.
  2. A young Sydney-sider named Harry Edwards thought it would be a great idea to run a cafe from his caravan, and parked it at the end of Wooloomooloo bay, where the Naval Yards lay. A steady stream of soldiers, sailors, scumbags and socialites became loyal fans, and word spread quickly. Before long, the pie-cart had became part of Sydney folklaw.


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  4. We're standing before the cart, surveying the impressive photo catalogue of stars who have sampled Harry's wares. Elton John, Pamela Anderson, Hugh Jackman, Brooke Shields, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Marelene Dietrich, Kerry Packer, Sir Richard Branson, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Pat Rafter, Olivia Newton-John, Jerry Lewis, Billy Crystal, Sara O’Hare, Lachlan Murdoch. The list goes on. Even Colonel Sanders has his picture taken there, hoovering up a pie.
  5. But none of them are as famous as Laurina Fleure, from episode 2 of The Bachelor, Australia. Bachelor Blake thought the HMF bachelorette might need a bit of "real world, down and dirty" fun, but he soon realised he had missed the mark badly. Fans of the show dissolved into hysterics as she uttered the immortal lines, “Everyone else gets Ferraris, super yachts and private jets, and I get a dirty street pie.” Train wreck television at it's finest.


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  7. It didn't take them long to get my photo up there, did it? That's Harry himself, in the bottom right picture.

  8. Both Jeff and I take the "World Famous Tiger Pie" option - it's a complex recipe : take one pie, slop on a dollop of mashed potato, a spoon full of mushy peas, and top with gravy. Mmmmmmmm. I'm still a little disconcerted by having anything green on a pie though.


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  10. Got to say, it's a great spot to sit and enjoy the pie, though the endless stream of joggers makes it difficult to fully enjoy my pastry treat without a little guilt. Jeff nearly wears his after a close encounter with a cyclist.  
  11. The scores? Definitely scores a 4.5 from both of us. Great pie, but made even better by the nostalgia. Well worth a quick visit if you have the time.


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