Savory meats nestle in Aussies’ pastry pouches

FORT COLLINS — In a neighborhood such as Fort Collins’ Campus West, which is dominated by its proximity to a university, how can businesses survive when most of those tens of thousands of students and staff go home for the summer? Especially shops as specialized as purveyors of Australian meat pies?

For Waltzing Kangaroo, the answer has come easily.

“We’re not 100 percent reliant on student business,” said co-owner Steve Phillips. “What happens here is that we only slow down twice a year. When school lets out, we’re slow for about a week until everybody’s gone.…