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Speaker 1: Now you might have heard me mention on the show

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Speaker 1: yesterday that what If produces a guide to the best

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Speaker 1: local gems, ranking everything from surf clubs to finger buns.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of entries across the six categories and well the

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Speaker 1: award show that Ossie's are eager to share their local

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Speaker 1: travel favorites. But it is the classic sausage roll which

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Speaker 1: caused the most debate. It earned the title of the

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Speaker 1: most voted category by Australians in these awards and the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territories. Ben's bake House in Darwin was the best.

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Speaker 1: Now the owner Susannah joins me on the line right now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Susannah.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Thanks for having me on the show.

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Speaker 1: It it is lovely to have you on the show now.

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Speaker 1: I frequent Ben's bake House often. My favorite is a

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Speaker 1: salami roll, as you know, Susanna, but the sausage rolls

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Speaker 1: are uh well, best in the country by the sounds.

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Speaker 2: Of USh wow, well wow. It's so great to be

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Speaker 2: recognized to have the best sausage roll after being known

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Speaker 2: as the best pie shopping Darwin. So yeah, we are

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Speaker 2: so thrilled.

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Speaker 1: I bet you are. You and the whole crew are. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful, wonderful crew. Now, when did you find

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Speaker 1: out that you had officially one the best sausage rolls.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been away all last week, so I only

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Speaker 2: found out on Monday from a customer and then, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a wonderful surprise. But yeah, and then you

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Speaker 2: came into the store, and then I got emails and yeah,

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Speaker 2: customers coming in letting me know, and the whole crew

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Speaker 2: were just celebrating this whole week.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now tell me how popular are your sausage rolls, Susannah.

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Speaker 2: They are very popular. We have they come in three flavors.

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Speaker 2: We've got it in plane, cheese, and bacon, and chili.

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Speaker 2: We do a lot of catering for corporate events with

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Speaker 2: our sausage rolls, so they're the go to even for

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Speaker 2: breakfast too.

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Speaker 1: I love a good sausage roll for breakfast. Now, in

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Speaker 1: terms which flavor is the most popular amongst your customers, I.

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Speaker 2: Would say the plane, but chili is up there. To Darwin,

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Speaker 2: we love our spice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't it interesting Territorians do seem to love, you know,

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Speaker 1: like love their their spicy foods. Maybe not like other

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Speaker 1: places in the nation. I wonder if we do like

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Speaker 1: our spice more than others.

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Speaker 2: I think so because with the Laxa Festival, our lux

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Speaker 2: of pies are super super popular and they've been in

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Speaker 2: demand all year round, but we're only saving it for

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Speaker 2: the luxA Festival.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, look forward to fair Enough, Susannah. Is

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Speaker 1: it a special recipe fear sausage rolls?

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Speaker 2: I think so that I don't know it because it's

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Speaker 2: the back of house team and Maxa Sausage Rolls. I

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Speaker 2: think it's made with love. Yeah, I love efforts being

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Speaker 2: put in. It's handmade and all the it's freshly baked

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Speaker 2: every day. You know, it's not so good, so using

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Speaker 2: all the fresh ingredients and local projects, so that's been

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Speaker 2: really good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it does make a big difference, right you know.

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Speaker 1: And that nice, beautiful fluffy pastry. People love it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you can actually take a difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, much so, so Zada. You sell so many tasty traits.

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Speaker 1: What's the most popular thing do you reckon that you sell?

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Speaker 1: Because I was having a discussion about this with a

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Speaker 1: friend yesterday and she said it's the vanilla slice.

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Speaker 2: Vana's Life is very popular to we've got so many.

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Speaker 2: It's the h a very popular store amongst our office workers.

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Speaker 2: Now it's transflibed to with our tourists now that visit Darwin.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of visitors. Our freshly backed sandwiches

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Speaker 2: and rolls, yeah go to especially with this climate. Our

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Speaker 2: doughnuts are super popular and of course the pie is

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Speaker 2: the pastry. You cannot go wrong with them. And the coffee.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, we're all around it as you know,

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Speaker 2: when you come in, it's just, you know, super busy

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Speaker 2: and it's just wonderful to see the support of the community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely, and so nice to be recognized as

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Speaker 1: well on a national stage I think through the What

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Speaker 1: If Awards. So big congratulations to you and the whole team.

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Speaker 1: A wonderful crew there at Ben's bake House. Susanna, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for having a chat with me today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Katie, and for everyone supporting us

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Speaker 2: and voting us, voting for us. Thank you so much.