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As British Pie Week gets underway, one Wigan bakery is celebrating its best selling pie that's been made for generations.
The meat and potato pie is a favourite among Dawsons customers, well known for its peppery flavour.
So much so in fact that most customers simply refer to it as the 'pepper pie' or the 'sloppy pie' because of its running filling.
The bakery and confectionery chain, which has shops in Atherton, Leigh, Tyldesley and Astley, sells 1,000 of them every day and makes them overnight at the bakery, which is based at its Atherton site.
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It's been somewhat of a resurgence for the company over recent years.
Established in 1910, the original shop and bakery were in Shuttle Street, Tyldesley, opposite the swimming baths.
After a short period of closure with the company going into administration, new owner Michael Smith bought the name and rights and reopened in 2018, with the Atherton store.
Five years later and as well as now having the four stores, there are two Jiffy vans that sell the goods, travelling regular routes and the products are also available in some local shops and convenience stores.
Jodie Hodgkinson, who works in the Tyldesley store with mum Judith Stevens, said: "It's a family business so the owner Michael is my mum's cousin.
"Our most popular pie is our famous meat and potato pie and it’s well known for being peppery. We have the original recipe from the original shop - it was the Dawsons family recipe.
"We sell about 60 pasties a day from each shop and have around 30 of each of the pies. The Jiffy vans were really popular during Covid and sales have just carried on really.
"They mainly go to industrial estates for
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