Selling Pork Pies and Haggis in Australia

06/13/21 • 18 min

Jim Arrowsmith from Chorley in Lancashire arrived in Australia as a 20-year-old backpacker in 2006.

After realising there was a huge gap in the Australian market for British foods, Jim and his mate Pete Tonge (real name) decided to make their own pork pies.

The pair of British travellers set up a pork pie factory on a pig farm on the edge of the Australian outback.

Fifteen years later, they now sell pork pies, haggis, black pudding and other British goods across Australia.

USEFUL LINKS

● Pacdon Park Free Range British Butchery

● Echuca Moama – where Jim makes his pork pies
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This episode is sponsored by Pacdon Park (www.pacdon.com.au).
Pacdon Park is the only free range British butchery in Australia providing products such as pork pies, black pudding and haggis. All of their products are made using traditional British recipes.
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Jim Arrowsmith from Chorley in Lancashire arrived in Australia as a 20-year-old backpacker in 2006.

After realising there was a huge gap in the Australian market for British foods, Jim and his mate Pete Tonge (real name) decided to make their own pork pies.

The pair of British travellers set up a pork pie factory on a pig farm on the edge of the Australian outback.

Fifteen years later, they now sell pork pies, haggis, black pudding and other British goods across Australia.

USEFUL LINKS

● Pacdon Park Free Range British Butchery

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Find them on facebook and instagram - follow @pacdonpark

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Transcript

Anna (00:20)

It's not until you go abroad, that you really appreciate the food you can get at home. For example, in Australia, if you go to a fish and chip shop, you have to ask for salt and vinegar on your chips, Otherwise, they'll give you something called chicken salt. I’d quite happily pay $5 if I could get hold of a bag of prawn cocktail flavored crisps. And pork pies, well-. Our next guest is a bright spark who decided to make his own.

Jim (00:52)

Hi, I'm Jim Arrowsm