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Thread #88301   Message #1671863
Posted By: jacqui.c
18-Feb-06 - 09:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why is the Geico Gekko a Brit?
Subject: RE: BS: Why is the Geico Gekko a Brit?
In the UK there are fish and chip shops which, in addition to selling the traditional fried fish with what the USA calls french fries, also sells various pies, the most popular of which tends to be steak and kidney - a real British delicacy. Pies also come with chicken filling and sometimes vegetable filling.

In the West Country, Devon and Cornwall, for instance, they will stock the traditional pasties, made of a circle of pastry folded in half with fillings of meat and vegetables for the main part but which may also contain cheese and vegetable or chicken and vegetable.

Mostly these pies or pasties will have been mass produced and heated up in the shop before sale.