You realise you have to count the hours that you sleep?
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It is called Pate because it is similar in consistency to Pate - Impossible to achieve with ice cream. What we have here is more akin to a bowl of cold hate soup. Good in â > good out is the key. This attempt contains neither factor. Namaste.
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Quite so
The fortnums offering this year is satisfying although different from
Last year. Whilst the fruit is plump and succulent there is a fairly strong apple content which combined with the spicing is rather nice - not too boozy, 8/10
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Is that a thing ?
For most no.
Show biz age 
If itâs a store bought pie that utilizes nasty industrial grade spirits masquerading as âbrandyâ or ârumâ, then yes.
Enjoy your ban
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The perfect end to a perfect day. Shite pies and a wife craving craving a roast chicken only to have a bowl of soup.
Fucking french onion soup at that. She chose that particular flavour for a reason.
No water in pastry? Pah. Iâve heard it all.
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I am losing hope with this thread⌠Jesus weptâŚ
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Review of Sainsburyâs Taste the Difference 'pies begins now.
Part One:
Cold Test; the Build Quality isnât as good as it might be. If Sainsburyâs must go to the trouble to manufacture these with star-shaped lids, please have the decency to ensure that they are properly aligned.
The following image shows noticeable inconsistencies in Fit and Finish
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Itâs getting better by the day. Envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath with a side order of angst. All human life is shuffling in. Marvellous & stilll 2 1/2 weeks til Christmas.
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You canât properly ĂĄlign a star shaped lid. It simply shouldnât be there.
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Exactly. I donât know what they were thinking.
Sam, my mrs, worked for a desserts and sweetmeats company a few years back (~2015), and arranged a day there for me to watch all the different processes &c.
Back then, most of those would genuinely have gone straight to the swill bins! The lines are almost fully automated, and the air guns would have blown the wonky ones into big fuckoff plastic carts and thence off to the piggies, or the anaerobic digesters (here, we call ours @Jim ).
Itâs a sign-of-the-times that 7 years later theyâre being sold. TBH, itâs a good thing, as batshit-insane amounts of food was being wasted in all British food factories, due in no small part to the highly-unrealistic tolerances demanded by certain supermarkets (hang your heads in shame M&S, Aldi and Lidl).
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Part 2:
Modification.
Having recovered from my conniption fit re: Fit amd Finish, I noticed the smell to be somewhat artificial; a strange chemical smell.
I looked around the kitchen to make sure no containers were left unsealed.
All were sealed.
At this point, I decided to modify the 'pies so as to manage said odour.
The best solution was to remove the lids and add some Port.
you canât make a silk purse out of a sowâs ear
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Part 3:
Taste.
The structural integrity may have been compromised by my aftermarket modification; it is possible that this was the cause of the total structural failure upon attempted removal from the aluminium containers.
Not to worry. The taste is acceptable; an acceptable amount of filling, although I found the pastry cloying and heavy.
This may be different when they are heated.
I will conclude that they are OK, but I donât believe they are worth the premium over the standard offering by Sainsburyâs mentioned upthread.
I will review them warmed through tomorrow.
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