Be it a Rumster's Special, or a homemade Beef and Beer, pies are regular fare for all classes. Portable and tasty, the pastry helps disguise the quality and freshness of the contents—a considerable boon to the "cook them fast, sell them cheap" Halfling vendors found in many cities. A traveller would do well, however, to check out his meat pie dealer, for some of the pies sold in the streets of the Empire's cities have mysterious fillings that result in many trips to the loo to ease the stomach.[1a]
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