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NEVER AFAR
All hailing from around the Lancashire county in England, the Arrowsmiths and Tonge bring the Pacdon Park tagline, “making what we miss”, to life, not only with pork pies, but also with a range of haggis, sausages, bacon and black pudding. Arrowsmith says the popularity for traditional British food is on the rise from more Australian consumers.
turning to the bigger, more processed manufacturers. Everything we make is domestically produced and uses a hundred per cent Australian pork.”
Arrowsmith highlights that being based in the country is great when it comes to raw ingredients and the brand, however supply and distribution “can be a bit tricky”. As a small producer, Pacdon Park manages
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LEFT: Pies, puddings, snags and haggis abound.
OPPOSITE: Jim Arrowsmith started Pacdon Park because he missed foods from the Mother Country.
“ Take haggis, for example, we barely had any interest at the start but now the demand is crazy. People are finding new ways to appreciate it.”
“All our customers were Poms living in Australia when we first started but now there seems to be this British food and chef revolution that we see from TV shows and celebrities,” he says. “People are beginning to understand more about the food.
“Take haggis, for example, we barely had any interest at the start but now the demand is crazy. People are finding new ways to appreciate it. We’ve also noticed as free range producers, people are coming more to our way of thinking rather than
its distribution almost entirely itself, working with only a few distributors and logistics teams up in Queensland.
“With social media and the internet, we’ve found that it's easier to do the distribution ourselves and out of our own store in Echuca,” says Arrowsmith. Pacdon Park continues to grow its avenues in stockists around the country and farmers markets in Victoria, contributing to the British food revolution that's here to stay. ✷
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