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Warning - Fray Bentos

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  • lindens
    lindens Posts: 2,870 Forumite
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    Wow very low percentage


    Ingredients
    Water , Puff Pastry (27%) (Wheatflour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (Mono-and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids)), Water, Salt) , Beef (12%) , Pork Kidney (9%) , Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum) , Modified Maize Starch , Wheatflour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) , Salt , Spices , Yeast Extract , Flavouring , Tomato Paste , Barley Malt Extract , Beef Extract , Chicory Extract , Sugar , Colour (Plain Caramel) , Tomato Powder , Garlic Powder .
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  • DoaM
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    Going by the ingredients then it is 52% flavoured water.
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    Pollycat wrote: »
    Yes, that sounded logical to me.
    But you never know.

    Maybe its steak and kidney 'flavoured' pie. :cool:
  • Pollycat
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    lindens wrote: »
    Wow very low percentage


    Ingredients
    Water , Puff Pastry (27%) (Wheatflour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (Mono-and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids)), Water, Salt) , Beef (12%) , Pork Kidney (9%) , Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum) , Modified Maize Starch , Wheatflour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) , Salt , Spices , Yeast Extract , Flavouring , Tomato Paste , Barley Malt Extract , Beef Extract , Chicory Extract , Sugar , Colour (Plain Caramel) , Tomato Powder , Garlic Powder .

    OMG!
    I'd read the ingredients on the tin and be running out of the store in horror.
  • AndyPix
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    That ingredients list is shocking - as is the OP experience.


    Never had a fray bentos pie .. Never will now !
  • owen_money
    owen_money Posts: 764 Forumite
    I thought Fray Bentos was a Cuban leader?
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  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    owen_money wrote: »
    I thought Fray Bentos was a Cuban leader?

    It's a town in Uruguay.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Bentos
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  • vuvuzela
    vuvuzela Posts: 3,648 Forumite
    DoaM wrote: »
    Going by the ingredients then it is 52% flavoured water.

    Better than cannibalism, we're all around 60% flavoured water :wink:
  • owen_money
    owen_money Posts: 764 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    It's a town in Uruguay.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Bentos

    Thanks for the information, although my statement was more aimed at 'the office' fans, however I have learned something today so thanks.
    Lets hope it comes up in a pub quiz
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  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 18,873 Forumite
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    Even when there was some meat content in "steak and kidney" pies, my feeling was that they should have been called "kidney and steak" pies!
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