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Global Snack London

Kiron KreuterOctober 4, 2011

The typical London snack is NOT fish and chips, but pie and mash. We visited London's East End, where the port's warehouses used to be.

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F. Cooke's Pie & Mash Shop is a family business in the fourth generation. Joe Cooke is currently the boss. His great grandfather opened the shop in 1896 and is supposed to have been the first to make this kind of pie -- ground beef, mashed potatoes, and the signature parsley sauce in a pie crust.