Who does the best one?

 

Going to check out Dawsons in Tyldesley, any other recommendations?

I prefer Optrex myself

Sounds like something you might get 4 of for ?1 in Iceland

 

Savoury pies without meat in, I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!

 

A north west lad who doesn't know what a butter pie is and has never eaten one, I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!

The Pound Bakery is Hampsons/Sayers trading under another name - same produce...which begs the question, if crap pies and pasties are your thing and you're in Town, why would you go to Hampsons/Sayers?

 

There used to be a good one near Swan Lane Mill that hasn't had a mention yet. It was opposite the Launderette, just after the 'spanish factory' section of the Mill.

The Pound Bakery is Hampsons/Sayers trading under another name - same produce...which begs the question, if crap pies and pasties are your thing and you're in Town, why would you go to Hampsons/Sayers?

 

Yeah but, no but, just because they're owned by the same company doesn't mean exactly the same produce comes trundling down the production line but ends up in different shops.

 

If you've had a pasty from Hampsons and a pasty from the Pound Bakery you'll realise this. The two are incomparable. I had one once from the Pound Bakery just because it had only just opened and curiousity got the better of me. It was fucking horrible. The local scrotes/scroungers who spend all day hanging around town seem to lap up their produce though.

I went through this with No Balls, regarding Marks & Spencer's stuff a few month back, and got short shrift. I'm therefore aware I'm on a losing argument here, if you think the lines are halted and everything gets chopped and changed around for more 'upmarket' clients, then keep believing that.

 

If you get bacon barms from different Hampsons/Sayers they vary in quality, from edible (just) to more suited for making into a dubplate. Same goes for their pasties - but honestly, the stuff at Pound Bakery is off the same lines as Hampsons/Sayers.

 

They don't make a big song and dance about it because it looks bad - selling the same stuff nearly half price. As you said - the Pound Bakery is always rammed with the underclasses, so they make up for what they lose on discounting with the volume they sell. If they could do the same volume at all the other stores, as they do at the one near Burtons in town, all the Hampsons/Sayers would become Pound Bakeries.

I wonder if the Pound Bakery has a policy similar to the soylent green film.

 

Skutters eating skutters.

I went through this with No Balls, regarding Marks & Spencer's stuff a few month back, and got short shrift. I'm therefore aware I'm on a losing argument here, if you think the lines are halted and everything gets chopped and changed around for more 'upmarket' clients, then keep believing that.

 

You got short shrift because it's bollocks. My mother once bought a ready meal from Asda, what the fuck she was thinking, I don't know, but I can assure you, it wasn't the same as an M&S ready meal.

The chicken in it was grey. Never ever again.

I went through this with No Balls, regarding Marks & Spencer's stuff a few month back, and got short shrift. I'm therefore aware I'm on a losing argument here, if you think the lines are halted and everything gets chopped and changed around for more 'upmarket' clients, then keep believing that.

 

I don't think this at all.

 

I just think that maybe there is more than one production line. meaning no need for any chopping and changing. Is that really all that unlikely?

Galloways pies are the bollocks

 

surely none of your efforts beat anything made in the pie capital of the world?

 

The little meat pies galloways sell called patties are exceptional.

Edited May 11, 201214 yr by Mounts Kipper

So you know these freezer shops, we've all seen them, who say "M&S seconds", are they really also Aldi seconds?

 

I'm just not having it, sorry.

 

Hanbury's Coquille St. Jaques is the same as Waitrose's? Aye alreet.

My mother once bought a ready meal from Asda, what the fuck she was thinking,

 

Is that when she went scutting around the "whoops" section?

 

Anyway, hopefully that learned her, and she now just chooses Waitrose or M&S ready meals

Wilsons meat and tatoe!

Is that when she went scutting around the "whoops" section?

 

Anyway, hopefully that learned her, and she now just chooses Waitrose or M&S ready meals

 

She said she was "passing". These sort of things happen I suppose when you've too much time on your hands.

 

It was quickly resolved.

NB, never mind all this tittle tattle what's happened to your recipes thread? I had to eat out at a restaurant last night!

NB, never mind all this tittle tattle what's happened to your recipes thread? I had to eat out at a restaurant last night!

 

I'm cooking for my stepfather tonight, he's home alone this weekend poor thing, so will report back laterer on what I've conjured up, if that's ok with you x

I wonder if the Pound Bakery has a policy similar to the soylent green film.

 

Skutters eating skutters.

 

I wondered why there was a sovereign ring baked into a 'mince' pie I bought from Pound Bakery last Christmas. I took it back and they looked puzzled for a minute before breaking into a cautious round of applause and telling me I was that months winner (Pound bakery Tat Tombola - in association with Elizabeth Duke).

 

You got short shrift because it's bollocks. My mother once bought a ready meal from Asda, what the fuck she was thinking, I don't know, but I can assure you, it wasn't the same as an M&S ready meal.

The chicken in it was grey. Never ever again.

 

I distinctly said in the area of bakery related produce only - then you start weighing in with wines and chicken meals aargh!

I can't speak for vintners or makers of crapula plastica pingers ?.

 

I concede they aren't exactly the same, but, they're closer in their components than the mind will allow you to think.

One year all the 'Extra Special' mince pies for a certain upmarket chain of stores probably tasted a bit different. This is because someone had swiped all the Bona-fide Courvouisier or Martell (or both) that was meant to go into the mix - big, huge catering buttes of the stuff, they'd replaced it with brandy essence and had a f*cking corking Christmas and New Year (and the sack, when it came to light shortly after). Anyway, they (the chain, let's call them S+M) now insist on the brandy/cognac being added to the mix under the supervision of one of their lot...

 

As for holding Aldi up as being the nadir of supermarkets, some of the stuff they sell is alright, their fruit and veg is good - as is their selection of cooked meats, the Pastrami is miles better than Sainsburys.

Edited May 11, 201214 yr by Youri McAnespie

Bowens have just won the Gold Award for their chunky steak pies at the Annual British Pie Awards in Melt on Mowbray.

Bowens have just won the Gold Award for their chunky steak pies at the Annual British Pie Awards in Melt on Mowbray.

My mother was just telling me, it must be the talk of Adlington . Apparently there was 900 entered and they won.

Well, we did say they were good.

And for those that hadn't heard of them

 

Class 11: Vegetarian Pie (hot)

 

Winner: Butter Pie from Morecambe FC

Jazza may back me up, but Killie pies are the best pies!!

 

Carrs for a pasty!

Just been to Dawsons, only took 2 years to get round to it. Very stodgy with a runny inside. More like a pastie than a pie. Bit peppery. 6/10.

Just had a Grimshaws Hotpot from the Bakery by me. well peppered.

 

solid 7's

Just had a pie from the services at tarbey or whatever it's called. Lovely.

Tebay?

Known locally as 'peppery pies'