Care For A Pie?

My dear friend Mandi knows we have no Pies available here in Germany - it´s.such.a.pity, I tell ya!!!

You´re in town and run a wee bit hungry?
Problem!!!
You can get a piece of Pizza - so large, it´s a whole meal (to me at least).
You can get - hey, we´re Germans, right? - a sausage in a breadroll (I come to that later - it´s totally different to a Hot Dog).
You can get Chinese Food - too much for a snack...
French Fries are ok, but hey... all the time? Burger King... too large, Big M .. boring...

It´s just not a Pie, ya know???

A hot, yummy Pie you can pick up anywhere, oh how I miss that, seriously!!!
It´s a bigger snack, but still a snack somehow, no?

(Wish Mexican Snacks were available, too!)

Anyhows. Mandi probably remembered when Ingo and I tried to make our own Pies, making the "dishes" out of ashtrays? Yeah, yummy idea, huh?

For one reason or both...

She saw receipes of/for Pies in her super food ideas-magazine and went to the store to pick one up for me (or/and Ingo), too - and, wisely, payed a visit to Coles, too, to get us some proper Pie-dishes - thank you so much, Mandi!!!

Mandi sent it by sea, which is the better and cheaper way to go - and guess what?! That German customs duty apartment sure - again/as always - needed to pick out "my" parcel for control.
So... it took the happily awaited parcel with to me unknown content (other than I´ll like it) from early July to end September to arrive!

@customs duty Germany... aren´t you bored opening parcels adressed to me?
They always lack drugs or such, always!

Anyhows, funny coincidence: Ingo´ll buy a new hob - we get a great chance to try it out!

Thanks to custom duty we can try out the "Christmas in July"-receipes soon, too (it´s getting cold) ;-)

What really cracked me up, though... the back of the magazine is covered with an ad from... Mc Donald´s!!!! Is that a joke? I laughed my head off :-)

If I can choose.. when I could choose I actually prefered The Fresh Food People above Coles. Except once:
I don´t remember that place´s name, it was somewhere in the Asherton Tablelands .

There was a very small Coles, but with a bakery section.
The baker was from France/had French roots maybe - they offered "Petit Pain" with Pain being Bread (!) and they were like German Brötchen - you cannot even compare it to a breadroll.
We stayed another night just to get Brötchen once again.

Hmmm... thanks, Mandi, for thinking of us and sending it over, too!
Can´t wait to try it out!

Addendum: On the packing it reads: "coles smart buy - why pay more for everyday basics?"
everyday basics... basics! Wake up, German Food Industry - I want Pie as a basic stuff!