A pop-up pie van gives Seymour students a hands-on approach to hospitality PERFECT PIE-FUL: Abbie Martin and Monika Drum try some of the delights served up by Georgia McMahon and Indiah Salerno, back, at Seymour College. MOROCCAN lamb with sweet potato mash and caramelised onion with spinach, feta and semi dried tomato have been on the menu at Seymour College. The school's Year 11 students took an old idea - the traditional pie cart - and created a new-age, pop-up pie van to sell their low fat, low salt and high protein creations to teachers and students yesterday The school's food and hospitality teachers Lindy Gower and Madalena Styles challenged the students to research and develop a food truck concept based on Adelaide's surging niche markets for the vans. The hands-on approach required the students to write a business plan, develop and manufacture gourmet pies in bulk, market their product and then to sell them in their very own refurbished truck cafe front. But, they also had restrictions - their pie recipes had to be adapted to suit a low fat, low salt and high protein diet, and include a vegetarian option. Year 11 students Abbie Martin and Georgia McMahon said they enjoyed creating the gourmet food van and four varieties of pies. "I found it a great but challenging experience," Abbie said. "It was not only an exercise to promote the new-found trend, but it brought the Year 11s together as a community on the day," Georgia said. The girls said the pies were also promoted through social media, as many other food vans also do. The other flavours were beef, pancetta and red wine, and chicken, chorizo and rosemary potato.