A Christchurch bakery has sold out of its horsemeat pies on the first day of their release, proving online doubters wrong.<\/p>\n
Hoon Hay Kiwi Bakery revealed on social media it had run out of horsemeat offerings, just two days after announcing the upcoming arrival to the pie cabinet.<\/p>\n
“What an incredible response! Thank you all for your tremendous support and for showing so much love for our new Horse Pie!” the bakery posted.<\/p>\n
A bakery staff member, Dany, told the NZ Herald the response to the pies was unexpected, acknowledging the addition to the menu had sparked debates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we post it on Facebook, it\u2019s gone viral and, without us knowing. We\u2019ve got, I think now, over 400 comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of them, they oppose us selling the horse, and they said it\u2019s kind of like the bonding animal, and we shouldn\u2019t do that. And some people say there has been like the culture of eating horse like 1000 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the online backlash, the plain horse, horse and cheese and curried horse pies proved popular, with Dany telling the Herald the controversial Facebook post worked in their favour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of people this morning, they came by Facebook and mostly it\u2019s their first time coming here, so I think the post was quite successful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the high demand, Hoon Hay Kiwi Bakery reassured Christchurch pie lovers that Thursday’s sell-out did not mark the end of the horse pies.<\/p>\n
“Don\u2019t worry \u2014 there will be MORE tomorrow!” the bakery told followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Christchurch bakery has sold out of its horsemeat pies on the first day of their release, proving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-589127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-food-drink","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}