Elderly Mum and Fray Bentos pie tins....

Stompa

margaretclare wrote: »

I've never even considered buying a meat pie in a tin! What's so special about them?

They're like no pie you've ever had before - though probably not in a good way!

Biggles

Errata wrote: »

They are extremely useful when camping, caravanning, or during an emergency.

What kind of emergency would necessitate quickly eating unhealthy food out of difficult-to-open tins?

margaretclare

Stompa wrote: »

They're like no pie you've ever had before - though probably not in a good way!

I don't often eat pies of any kind, but if I really wanted a meat pie, our local butcher sells them, and they're also in the monthly farmers' market. I wouldn't consider buying one in a tin.

Stompa

margaretclare wrote: »

I don't often eat pies of any kind, but if I really wanted a meat pie, our local butcher sells them, and they're also in the monthly farmers' market. I wouldn't consider buying one in a tin.

Well the FB ones can typically be had for around £1 each, and keep pretty much forever. I'd hazard a guess that your local butcher or farmers' market would be somewhat more expensive, so they're not really comparable.

margaretclare

Stompa wrote: »

Well the FB ones can typically be had for around £1 each, and keep pretty much forever. I'd hazard a guess that your local butcher or farmers' market would be somewhat more expensive, so they're not really comparable.

So the attraction is: they're cheap, and will keep pretty much forever.

I haven't priced the ones locally - as I said, I rarely eat pies of any kind. If I really wanted a meat pie I'd make one, but I assume the title of this thread 'elderly mother' means that she can't. Apparently Princes also do meat pies: http://www.princes.co.uk/our-products/meat-pies-and-ready-meals/

There may still be the problem of opening the tin. Is it possible to get a frozen meat pie - if so would that be easier?

Stompa

margaretclare wrote: »

So the attraction is: they're cheap, and will keep pretty much forever.

I guess so.

margaretclare wrote: »

Apparently Princes also do meat pies: http://www.princes.co.uk/our-products/meat-pies-and-ready-meals/

AFAIK they're pretty much identical to the FB ones.

Errata

Biggles wrote: »

What kind of emergency would necessitate quickly eating unhealthy food out of difficult-to-open tins?

No idea. What might be an emergency for one person would not be an emergency for another.

pimento

I think they are the only pie you can buy where the pastry comes uncooked. Most other pies, the pastry is already cooked and you're just heating it up.

My husband likes them. They're not bad, once in a while but I'm not a pie eater generally, anyway.

margaretclare

I asked DH if he'd ever had these pies, because he used to do a lot of camping and caravanning in an earlier existence. 'Yes. Long time ago. Once. Absolute rubbish. Meat no good - cheapest possible.'

DH mainly does the cooking nowadays because he's good at it. He reckons that he can always make a good nutritious meal for 2 of us for the price of fish-and-chips for one.

Ah, pies...my first husband used to make lovely steak-and-kidney pies. It was his contention that making a steak-and-kidney pie was the test of a good cook, it was the basics. He certainly would have been absolutely scathing about the idea of eating a pre-made meat pie out of a tin.

I no longer eat pies of any kind - have to battle to keep my weight under control!

zaksmum

I never eat pies...not just for health reasons but I genuinely don't like them.

But O/H has just discovered a bakery that sells the most amazing (he says) pork pies, complete with the jelly on top.

Just glad it's not too near to us, or he'd be well heavier by summer.