Coles now selling ‘self-saucing’ meat pie with tomato sauce inside

The supermarket is now selling “self-saucing” meat pies with the sauce already inside “so you don’t have to” worry about it.

Priced at $5 for a two pack, the pies won praise on Facebook for doing away with the need to lift open your pie lid and risk being scalded by its molten contents just to put tomato sauce inside.

“Freakin awesome,” one customer who taste tested the pie wrote. “Sauce is tangy, unique not just your average pie, crusty, tasty.”

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But many weren’t sold on the idea of hot tomato sauce, pointing out that the condiment worked as a crucial cooling agent.

“Cold sauce helps relieve the pain of burning the roof of your mouth when you bite into it,” one person pointed out.

Others were so concerned they labelled the product “lazy” said there simply would be “wouldn’t be enough” sauce inside the pie, 7news.com.au reported.

“You will still put sauce on top,” one shopper wrote.

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The self-saucing pie is part of a new range of the Aussie delicacy launched by Coles this month.

Made with 100 per cent Aussie beef the other new flavours are cheeseburger and spicy burrito.

There are two new vegan-friendly options with Nature’s Kitchen Plant-Based Cheesy Cauliflower and Hearty Mushroom & Lentil pies.

Coles general manager for dairy and freezer Charlotte Rhodes said the supermarket had seen “widespread excitement” over the next pie range.

“Frozen meat pies are one of the most popular products in the freezer aisle with more than 7500 tonnes sold over the past year alone – and we think it’s time to have some fun with the flavours as we lead into the colder months when customers are buying more frozen meals to warm up at home,” she said.

“The fusion of flavours in the new range allows us to deliver new and exciting meals that our customers haven’t seen before at Coles, and with the addition of two vegan options in our Nature’s Kitchen range we’re helping to make the range more accessible to all customers.”