The Australian
30 April 2018
To most customers, she’s the sharp-tongued pie cook
who serves them tea and cakes at her quirky Devonshire tea house in the
Northern Territory outback.
But now Fran Hodgetts is having to tear down a poster
linking her pies to those of Sweeney Todd, the fictional, bloodthirsty “demon
barber of Fleet Street” whose victims ended up in meat pies.
A placard plastered over another tourist sign for the
old Gorrie Airfield near the NT town of Larrimah, 500km south of Darwin, last
week advertised “Frans Sweeny Todd pies (sic)”.
The scrappy fake advertisement was apparently in
reference to the disappearance of Larrimah resident Paddy Moriarty and a rumour
around town that he had ended up in Ms Hodgetts’ famous buffalo, crocodile and
camel pies. […]
