Sign, Four’n Twenty Pies 1970s

Summary

LOVE AT FIRST BITE. Four’N’Twenty has been the pied pieper of pies since the year pie-nteen forty-seven. I’m not sure what month the company was born but their star sign is definitely pie-ces. I’ll never forget the first time I stuffed my pie hole with a Four’N’Twenty. I was at the footy with my Dad, we’d travelled to the game on public transpietation and pie-lled in to the grand stands, Dad was holding a pie-nt of beer and as he shouted “Carn the Pies!” that’s when I took my first bite, simultaneously igniting a fire in my heart and burning the roof of my mouth. Contrary to the nursery rhyme that Four’N’Twenty is named after, the pies are not baked with black birds, but you’d think they were from the way they’re flying off the shelves. Apparently Four’N’Twenty make 50,000 pies an hour. Yes, the Four’N’Twenty pie-aneers are working Twenty’N’Four seven, Monday to Pieday, earning their crust and forcing all of their half baked compietitors to eat humble pie. Don’t start a beef with them because for Four’n’Twenty it’s pie way or the highway. Sauces say that Australians eat an average of 12 pies a year, and I'm certainly pulling my weight at trying to bump that average up a bit higher with every meal I eat. Whenever I’m hungry, or am just in the mood to spill meat and pastry onto my t-shirt, Four’N’Twenty is always there, helping us roll with the punches and sausage-roll with the lunches. Some people say that love is just a four letter word, but you and I know that love isn’t four letters, it’s two numbers; Four’n’twenty. Kenny Pittock, 2018