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Pie for the People
If you’re partial to a meat pie, you’ll love this giant Yorkshire delicacy, made in Denby Dale near Huddersfield
Overview
On 4 August 1928 around 50,000 people, including the intrepid Topical Budget film crew, besieged Denby Dale, a village near Huddersfield, to sample the legendary local delicacy - a slice of giant pie. Denby Dale has a tradition of baking monster meat pies to mark major national events. In this case, the pie was made to belatedly celebrate peacetime and to raise funds for the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
The 16-foot-long pie weighed three and a half tons and served 20,000 people. Look out for the float transporting the local women who baked the pie - it took forty of them to produce it. The fundraising target of £1,000 was surpassed. Other giant Denby Dale pies were made in 1815, 1846, 1887 and 1896. More recently, a giant pie was baked for the Millennium celebrations in 2000.
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