As a taunt, the starving defenders sent out a 50-pound meat pie.

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Some current book favorites include how to build a ship in a bottle, how to make a stealth piano bench, and how to make Pie-Eyed Meat Pie.

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Friends paid tribute to the "quiet" and "timid" teenager, who is thought to have visited the shops and returned to the house with a meat pie when she was attacked.

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He said to the lady behind the counter I'll have meat and potato pie, chips, peas and gravy three times....now what shall I get for my mother?

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Gastronomic gigantism may be a fad in Lebanon, where chefs recently baked a tray of kibbeh, a pie of minced meat and cracked wheat, at 20 square metres (215 square feet) a candidate for the Guinness Book of Records.

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Products withdrawn include pasta dishes with meat sauce, shepherd's pie and moussaka.

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When an unseasonable April thunderstorm brought an abrupt end to emu-tracking, we took refuge in the fishing village of Cervantes at a tough-looking pub called the Ronsard Bay Tavern, whose menu offered, in addition to burgers and meat pies, steamed rock lobster and rock lobster pie.

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It tenderizes the meat and gives its multi tastes to stews, steak and oyster pie, stuffed pork and roast duck.

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