Busaholic
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I'm itching to get Cornish pasties in here hint...hint.
I'm itching to get Cornish pasties in here hint...hint.
I love pork pies, although I don't buy them as much as I used to.
the bland lifeless meat in them,
I've a suggestion for British airlines to make money - when you have had two or three weeks in some hot and sticky resort where food is basically chips with anything that's been freshly caught that's been running round the car-park, what price the smell of a cooking pork pie on the flight home?
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Then again, I'd also be thoroughly alarmed to find myself eating a pork pie - I also can't stand the things, although my main complaint with them is that I don't like the pastry, I can sometimes tolerate the meat (without jelly - the only thing that jelly belongs on is dog food), again with the condition that it is completely lifeless.
The jelly is jelly because pork pies are supposed to be served hot. Presumably in the 1980s someone had the idea to put them out cold at a finger buffet and for some reason this caught on. Warm them up in the oven, and serve with mushy peas. The "jelly" will have melted and soaked into both pastry and meat.
The ones with a layer of black pudding in are particularly tasty, as are black pudding scotch eggs.
Pork pies have been served cold, e.g. with salads, since at least the '50s and that's the way I've always had them.
I hate pork pies.
I know someone who had worked in a pork pie factory when he was a teenager. He told me that the factory supplied Tesco, M&S, Waitrose and Sainsbury.
They only change the wrapper between the batches! IE they are all exactly the same pie recipe!!
I know someone who had worked in a pork pie factory when he was a teenager. He told me that the factory supplied Tesco, M&S, Waitrose and Sainsbury.
They only change the wrapper between the batches! IE they are all exactly the same pie recipe!!
Well if this person can't tell the difference between pies of different shapes/sizes, appearance and constituency, let alone eating them then they either have deficient senses or they are telling porky pies!
Now we're talking, but only of the genuine Cornish variety and definitely not the Ginsters made for export rubbish!
Well I like Pork Pies, Cornish Pasties (even Ginsters )...
The jelly as has been mentioned is the natural juices of the contained meat and in my view is a pleasant part of the pie. I do admit to liking jellied eels though (probably much to the disgust of the tripe and onion brigade up north ).
I've also in the past worked in a pork pie factory and there as well they just changed the wrapper role between batches
I seem to be a finicky so-and-so. I have a burning hatred of Ginsters' Cornish pasties, because of the way that -- in my experience -- the firm's recipe for them seems to stipulate an ample quantity of gristle in every pasty. Owing to this, I boycott anything made by Ginsters -- regardless of whether their non-pasty wares, might be quite delicious.
I've also in the past worked in a pork pie factory and there as well they just changed the wrapper role between batches
I'm surprised that more forum members haven't worked at said factories with the number of porky pies that are sometimes told here.
Don't worry I won't let the door hit me on the way out
Don't worry I won't let the door hit me on the way out
I seem to be a finicky so-and-so. I have a burning hatred of Ginsters' Cornish pasties, because of the way that -- in my experience -- the firm's recipe for them seems to stipulate an ample quantity of gristle in every pasty
That's my experience too, what an incredibly short-sighted view to imagine cold pork pies weren't around before the 80s.
I'm almost in agreement with yorksrob because this morning "I ate pork pie" and very nice it was too.
Yeah, gristle puts me right off. I used to prefer Sayers' Corned Beef pasties over the regular type for that reason. Also used to like their veggie sausage rolls - tasted near enough the same as the real ones but with no danger of gristle (which I think just shows that all cheap sausage tastes of is salt). I used to amuse the staff in the one in Ormskirk by ordering a veggie sausage roll, then if they'd run out switching to a corned beef pastie.