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Party Pies One bite, all gravy
A meat pie shrunk to a single bite. Lid, gravy, a dollop of sauce, gone.
Sausage Rolls Flaky, golden, endless
Sausage meat rolled in puff pastry. Flakes everywhere, nobody minds.
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| When | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Colonial days | The meat pie came early: flour and meat were part of convicts' rations, “so any convict could make a pie”, as the ABC put it.2 |
| 1896 | Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, The Grand Duke, opens in London. Its conspirators' secret sign? You must eat a sausage roll.78 |
| 1947 | Les McClure first makes his Four'N Twenty pies in Bendigo3 and brings them to the Royal Melbourne Show the same year.4 The name comes from the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence”.5 |
| 2018–2022 | LadBaby score five UK Christmas number ones in a row with sausage-roll songs and covers, passing The Beatles' record for Christmas number ones.9 |
| Still open | Who invented the party pie? We couldn't find a confirmed answer. Gourmet Traveller calls it “an Aussie classic in the league of lamingtons and Anzac biscuits”.1 |
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📚 Sources
- Gourmet Traveller — Party pies, accessed 28 Oct 2026
- ABC News — The history of the pie includes ancient Egypt, medieval England and Australia's First Fleet, accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Australian Dictionary of Biography — McClure, Leslie Thompson (Les) (1908–1966), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Melbourne Royal — Pie in the Sky, accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Four'N Twenty — Our Story, accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Wikipedia — Sausage roll, accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive — The Grand Duke (premiered 7 March 1896, their last opera together), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive — The Grand Duke, No. 2: “By the mystic regulation” (lyrics), accessed 28 Oct 2026
- Official Charts — LadBaby make UK Official Chart history as Food Aid debuts at Number 1, 23 Dec 2022
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