Porky Pie-cycle: Appleton's of Ripon create butcher's bike to celebrate Tour De France
Appleton’s
Pork Butchers has cooked-up an edible ‘pie-cycle’ in honour of the Tour de
France – a life-sized bike made from all its best bits (including those famous
pies)!
The porky
project has giant pork pies for wheels, complete with specially designed
‘spoke’ crust; black pudding for handlebars and pedals; chipolatas for the
chain, belly pork for the brakes; gammon joint for the saddle and breakfast
sausages for the frame!
Created by a
12-strong team at Appleton’s Ripon branch, the tasty two-wheeler took 24-hours
to cook and several hours to put together – and is guaranteed to give you a
spare tyre!
“We wanted to
do something fun to mark the Tour and show just what we’re made of here at
Appleton’s,” says Ripon shop assistant Toni Vauvert. “Everyone had an input –
even our van driver – and it gives a whole new meaning to the notion of fast
food. All we need now is a fork in the road!”
Modelled on
French-style charcutier, Appleton’s Pork Butchers, which has branches at Ripon
and Wetherby, certainly knows a thing or three about pork pies. Made to an
ancient family recipe, which uses pork shoulder and brawn, it sells more than
3,500 pork pies per week.
The pie-cycle
will be on display in the window of the historic Ripon butchers from Monday
June 30.
Log on to
appletonsbutchers.co.uk
For recipes follow this link
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