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

Bendigo, Victoria

  1. Wednesday 10th August

    The beautiful central Victorian town of Bendigo owes its existence to the Gold Rush of the 1850's. As you drive into town, the past echos among the 19th century architecture that seemingly adorns every corner. Each street is an avenue of deciduous elms and maples, shivering nakedly through the winter, desperately holding on for the spring warmth to revive them. It's cold and grey here today, but that doesn't diminish its beauty.
  2. Situated 150km to the north of the Victorian capital, Bendigo is at the geographic heart of the state. Evidence of its golden past is everywhere, including an operational mine right in the middle of town that hosts daily tours, and the famous "Talking Trams". The 1850s saw an influx of tens of thousands of people from around the globe, contributing to a notably multicultural population today.  
  3. I'm told nearly three quarters of a million kilograms of gold have been either panned or dug up around the region since 1851. Perhaps we should pop out and do a bit of panning ourselves - it'd be easier than raising money from venture capitalists.
  4. We're heading for a quick pie before our next meeting and Jeff is taking us to the World Famous Beechworth Bakery. He assures me that this won't breach our "no chains - local bakery only" rule; in fact, he says convincingly, its a chain of local bakeries. I'm not convinced. The Beechworth Bakery is infact a chain, but there's less than a handful so I'm prepared to let that pass.
  5. We've subbed out the head of Tech-geeks, Ian, for this trip and off the bench comes our Chief Operations Officer Steve for our drive through the countryside.


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  7. Steve briefly contemplates the Ned Kelly Pie before settling on the Pepper Steak. Jeff and I take the easy option of the Beechworth Steak pie.
  8. I'm impressed with the "dead horse" dispensers. Even Ian could hit the target with one of these.


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  10. Steve's giving the Pepper Steak a 3.7 (probably just to annoy Jeff, and it works). It's appropriately conservative. Let's face it, its his first piestop, so he can't just go around giving top scores willy nilly, he's got to keep something in reserve.
  11. Jeff and I give the Beechworth Steak a 3.5. The pastry is excellent, giving it a satisfying crunch as you sink your incisors in, but there's just not enough chunks to call it Steak. Really, just a mince.


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  13. We're off again, but not before I peel the CEO off the cakes display.
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