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The great Overberg PIE DEBATE

Two farm stalls, both alike in – well, most ways really – but whose fans are more at odds than the Capulets and Montagues. Our scene is a 13-kilometre stretch of the N2 in the Elgin Valley, an hourʼs drive from Cape Town. Itʼs here that a culinary debate has raged for years: who makes the best pies? I drove out to settle the argument once and for all. A highly technical criteria was set: pies would be rated on whether you have to spend 20 minutes picking pastry crumbs

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