Geico gecko
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 by teddybearcholla | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Has anyone seen the newest Geico adds, the geckos' accent seems to be Australian. On one add he talks about pie and chips. I think chips are french fries, but what is the "pie" he's talking about? Just a crazy question for a Wednesday!!! 
WOM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:14 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:14 PM
Hum, some green slick slimy lizzard like things. They are humorous.
Chris TH
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:12 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_meat_pie
Contents are usually regarded as dubious, but no more so than a hotdog from a roadside vendor
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:12 PM
| but what is the "pie" he's talking about? |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_meat_pie
Contents are usually regarded as dubious, but no more so than a hotdog from a roadside vendor
teddybearcholla
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:20 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:20 PM
Thanks for the link Chris TH.... seems there is an Australian pie company called Four'N'Twenty...brings to mind the nursery rhyme..."4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"... food for thought there!!!
Double Zero
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:21 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:21 PM
Hmmm, Looks awesome!
Where I live it's the "Carne Asada Burrito" that seems to be on every corner, LoL
Taco stand hell...
Where I live it's the "Carne Asada Burrito" that seems to be on every corner, LoL
Taco stand hell...
Cynder-Elluh
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:34 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:34 PM
I've had a "pork pie" I assume since it was an "English" friend of mine that made it, it was European...."meat pie"... btw, it was really good! 
Chris TH
Reply #11 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:28 AM
Since I have my doubts about marketing types, it's probably a total concidence!
As you might have read in the Wiki, some instances only barely qualify for the 'meat' portion of the name - 'fat' pie is probably more accurate
Reply #11 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:28 AM
| brings to mind the nursery rhyme. |
Since I have my doubts about marketing types, it's probably a total concidence!
As you might have read in the Wiki, some instances only barely qualify for the 'meat' portion of the name - 'fat' pie is probably more accurate
Jafo
Reply #13 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:43 AM
Reply #13 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:43 AM
| seems there is an Australian pie company called Four'N'Twenty...brings to mind the nursery rhyme..."4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie"... |
That's where it comes from...the name.
Factory is about 1/2 mile from my place...
Sugaree
Reply #14 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:46 AM
Ooo...I'll have some of that
Reply #14 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:46 AM
| More likely, covered roadkill |
Ooo...I'll have some of that
Jafo
Reply #15 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:48 AM
Reply #15 Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:48 AM
Any Aussie pie has more meat 'content' than that poor excuse for a steak I had in Paris 30 years ago....
"How did you find your steak, sir?"
"I moved 2 peas and there it was."
Seriously...if it were thicker I would have put a stamp on it and sent it back to the chef....airmail....
Nuveau Quisine? Overpriced food for wankers.....
Rhonda Rogers
Reply #16 Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:11 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:11 AM
You people need to get a life.. Or join the gecko's...
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Link
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Link
teddybearcholla
Reply #17 Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:45 PM
Reply #17 Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:45 PM
We have a "pie" here...called Shepherds pie... flakey piecrust on top and bottom...inside are hunks of beef, carrots, potatoes and gravy...actually you can put almost any kind of veggie inside!!! mmm good!!!
Double Zero
Reply #18 Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:01 PM
I have had that and it is *excellent, more of a midwest US dish, you dont see it too often on the west coast...
Reply #18 Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:01 PM
| We have a "pie" here...called Shepherds pie... flakey piecrust on top and bottom...inside are hunks of beef, carrots, potatoes and gravy...actually you can put almost any kind of veggie inside!!! mmm good!! |
I have had that and it is *excellent, more of a midwest US dish, you dont see it too often on the west coast...
teddybearcholla
Reply #19 Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:14 PM
I find there are alot of things..food, etc. you find in the midwest, but not on either coast and vice versa... heck the midwesterners are just now discovering cell phones!!!
Reply #19 Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:14 PM
| I have had that and it is *excellent, more of a midwest US dish, you dont see it too often on the west coast... |
I find there are alot of things..food, etc. you find in the midwest, but not on either coast and vice versa... heck the midwesterners are just now discovering cell phones!!!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:43 PM
"The Australian meat pie, beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flakey top, has an iconic cultural status, being held to be the Australian National Food".
.......yuke.