The Great Melton Mowbray Pork Pie!
Wellington won Waterloo because his troops were fed up with eating frogs legs in garlic sauce de Bruxelles, and all that continental stuff, and wanted to get home to a decent Pork Pie and pickles.
The day was saved at the Battle of Alemain, when Monty's guns were running out of ammo, and the order was passed down the line, "Bring out yer Porkie!"
The Berlin Wall fell when the East German's thronged over to get to the British sector Pork Pie Shop.
The NASA Space probe into outer space carries a description of Man and Woman, a space map of the solar system, and a recipe of a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie!
There was of course the famous 1930's Pork Pie Hat, and if you're a cockney, telling a pork pie, is telling a lie!
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