IT was pie in the sky for Blackburn girl Laurie Jacobs, who took a dozen chip shop meat and potato pies with her to America.

Her older sister Jamie, of North Carolina, developed an addiction to the Lancashire delicacies when she visited Laurie in England but couldn't find anything to compare back home in the States!

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