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3 unusual facts about Pork pie


Pork pie

This was alluded to in a Labour Party broadcast during the 1997 UK general election, entitled 'John Major's Pork Pie Factory'.

An annual competition is held in April at The Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden, Yorkshire to find the best pork pie.

Pork pie hat, so called because of its resemblance to pork pies.



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Mansfield 103.2 FM

In July 2010, Mansfield 103.2 revived a 70 year old Mansfield Tradition of a Gooseberry Pork Pie.

Rock cake

In the Benny Hill song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) – performed first on television in 1970, later released as a single in 1971 in the UK – Ernie is killed by a rock cake below the heart and a pork pie to the face.