[3] Wild rabbit, as opposed to farmed, is most often used as it is easily and affordably obtained, and is described as more flavoursome.

[5][6] Australian recipes for rabbit pie sometimes include the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient.

[10] Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs.

[11] Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional Easter celebrations in the English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire.

[12] In Beatrix Potter's children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit and his siblings are warned "[not to] go into Mr. McGregor's garden" because their father "had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs.