The Mince Pie Thread

That was Saturday girl.

I reckon that I thought that her self-proclaimed lesbianism was simply a tactic to see if I was put off by her unavailability, thus proving how much she must have fancied me. THAT is how drunk I was.

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Lovely. I think the banana really sets the mood.

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A dessert based variant on your profile pic?

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We need straight bananas

Are you calling his banana a fruit

It’s clearly bent.

Breeding Program

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High end M&S, as recommended by @notaclue, we’ll see. Not over dusted but Definitely decorated…

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This made the mince pie run interesting…

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I am informed by the good lady wife that we will be making Mince Pies this weekend, I shall update on the success of this…

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Good Housekeeping:

Mince pies (26 tested)

Winner Tesco Finest six mince pies, £2. Score: 82/100.

Runner-up Iceland six luxury mince pies, £1.50. Score: 81/100.

Best of the rest Gail’s mince pies, Ā£1.50 each, Ā£8 for six-pack. Score: 76/100.

Sorry,but what the hell on toast are you doing reading good housekeeping?

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It was the source in this article:

M&S wins crown for best Christmas turkey and fizz in blind tasting

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I had the tesco one’s the other day,ok ish.

There has to be better out there,i will persevere to find them.

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diy Stu, it’s the only way :wink:

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I stopped reading that at ā€œflexitarianismā€ - fucking stupid cunts.

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I’ve found the controversial Good Housekeeping test here https://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/institute/food-reviews/mince-pies

I haven’t seen the Tesco Finest in real life, but it looks suspiciously ā€˜deep dish’ and appears to be dusted with white sugar. To me, those are too two things a luxury supermarket mince pie should avoid. Not celebrate. As Good Housekeeping is doing here.

The Iceland #2 looks much more luxury, but nonsense like ā€œ[t]asters adored the charming star design that’s dusted finely with icing sugarā€ doesn’t inspire confidence in the test. Iceland were the best last year so worth a try this year.

A glance in the Mirror

M&S fail. Whilst the panel respect that these are a luxury item, we thought that they were somewhat OTT. The pastry is good, buttery and thin and the pie is the right size but the mince is where the problems start. Glace cherries. Really? Chewy, sticky and over sweet. The rest of the mince was somehow too big in flavour too and the effect is that the pie is unbalanced. You can’t taste the pastry. Thumbs up for a whiff of brandy though :+1:

Third behind Pret.