They say history is written by the victors — but in Bendigo, it was piped into pastry and hurled steaming into the open mouths of post-war Australia. And the man doing the hurling? Just a flour-dusted madman named Leslie Thompson McClure — baker, inventor, and the patron saint of heartburn.
Les didn’t just rewrite the rules of fast food. He torched the r…
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