Southie’s Australian Meat Pies

South Boston is an amazing place. If you weren’t already convinced, maybe you didn’t know that the West Side is home to KO Pies, an Australian meat pie store. What’s an Australian meat pie? I didn’t know myself until the other day. It’s a pie crust stuffed with beef, lamb, Irish stew, or sausage. Sometimes they come filled with cheese, and you eat them smothered in ketchup. I don’t even like ketchup all that much, but in the context of meat pies, it’s great. Any homesick Australians might want to check out the store – they also sell Berocca, Vegemite, and other strange Australian obsessions.

Here’s a typical meat meat pie spread, along with instructions from KO on how to eat a pie: