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My missus and a good friend of mine love them - but I think they lack flavour. My other half raves about the pastry on them. I actually prefer a cold steak & kidney pie straight out of the packet with Colmans mustard smothered on it - especially if I've got a hangover.
(On a side note, the acic test for any can opener is if it can open a Fray Bentos pie - without you having to apply a vice like grip)
(On a side note, the acic test for any can opener is if it can open a Fray Bentos pie - without you having to apply a vice like grip)
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I have a minced beef n onion one in the cupboard but am a bit nervous about opening and cooking the thing. The whole idea of a tinned pie seems grim. What's so good about the pastry before I go in??
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MARVELLOUS PUFF PASTRY!
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Getting a little more interested!
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Always reminds me of our man on here paultadhunter, a very funny bloke who was part of the furniture in here for years that the oldtimers of us who still remain will no doubt remember.
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Created in the latter half of the 19th century, the name is derived from the port of Fray Bentos in Uruguay where the products were originally processed and packaged until the 1960s.
The brand is now owned in the UK by Baxters, which manufactures the product range in Scotland. Had worse out of a can.... |
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like a dirty muff, you end up just diving in anyway.
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Steak and Kidney flavor
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ive had some filthy pies.
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I think their collective name is VEGAN, Yuck yuck yuck.
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They don't still sell that sh1t do they,unreal..
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I know what you mean about the Can Opener, I use a Blow Torch. You cook it as you are opening it.
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If memory serves they used to have a slogan "No lumps, no fat, no gristle GUARANTEED" - No longer valid or adhered to
That being said, I don't mind them at all |
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Morning Aspro, hope you're well. You've got some nerve showing your face after yesterday.......
Umm, don't these Fray Bentos pies have a sell by date somewhere in the region of a decade or so? |
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Umm, don't these Fray Bentos pies have a sell by date somewhere in the region of a decade or so?
Got a few hundred in the loft... just in case! All good this end JM, aside from yesterday's result  |
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Good to hear. Very jealous of your CL group although it probably lacks the, ahem, glamour, of our EL one. We were no better yesterday either, can see us ending the season scoring 142 and conceding 150!
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Got a few hundred in the loft... just in case!
Think I'd rather starve to death, thanks |
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I can't see either of us having a great year JM or at best the pair of us with Utd vying for that 4th spot. Liverpool, City and Chelsea look almost certs for the other 3 (sorry Watford)
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Whilst we're at it, and I'm quite distressed openly admitting this, I like those tins of Stagg Chili on a baked potato.
Only if we're fresh out of foie gras of course. |
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You'll do better than us though. Thought you played OK yesterday and didn't give Watford many chances, just one of those games really. We, on the other hand look utter mugs playing out from the back and Cech is an accident waiting to happen. No idea why Leno hasn't started given that we spent millions on him.
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Have to admit that I have two in the larder, bought a fair few years ago, when on offer at £1.00 each!
If there is a use by date, and expired, they will probably go the same way as my jar of Vine Leaves, if my daughter sees them! |
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Top ingredient.....
water 27% pastry 12% beef 9% pork kidney actually, in between all the brackets, water is mentioned again, so god knows how much water is in there... mmm....so 79% of other stuff.... lovely....http://www.baxters.com/product/fray-bentos-classic-steak-and-kidney-pie |
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or to put it another way, This is a Steak and Kidney pie where not even half of the ingredients are Steak, Kidney OR Pie (Pastry).
What else is in it ffs, apart from vast quantities of water. |
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Its most probably artificial c*ap, blackbarn
None of our food from these corporate food chains is organic Tyson Fury said it best a couple of years ago "unless you get your own cow and bring it up yourself on just grass, your bound to be eating some form of chemicals and steroids" He's right, the cows are pumped full of the stuff (chemicals and steroids) and tortured before being killed in the most inhumane way imaginable, we are essentially eating steroided up petrified meat  |
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My kids used to love them until one of them nearly swallowed something hard. Turned out to be part of a cows tooth. Got in touch with them and they sent an apology and a box of goodies ie: some of their other 'meaty' products. The unopened tin which was left in the larder never got opened but was used by the kids for practicing the Discus
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tried one and its horrendous. Its pretty much dog food in a pastry
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Turned out to be part of a cows tooth
Does that suggest that the small amount of meat is actually from a cow's head? |
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How many "pies" go uneaten because they can't get the lid off. If you can it makes a very good throwing weapon with its razor sharp edge.
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Not had one for years but I always loved the pastry, specifically the moist underside bit. Yum.
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what would you pick a mingy muff or a vegan pie?
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The Quorn "steak" pies are actually surprisingly good, probably not Vogon though.
Now where did I put my towel... |
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Lady Faye - Nothing wrong with meat from a cows head - Ox (or beef cheek) is amazing and seriously good value. Available at nearly all good supermarkets.
Sontaran - thank you for your reply. "the cows are pumped full of the stuff (chemicals and steroids) and tortured before being killed in the most inhumane way imaginable, we are essentially eating steroided up petrified meat" This is not true if you source your meat from reliable sources, local butcher, local farm shop etc etc. |
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Ox (or beef cheek) is amazing and seriously good value.
Tried that, packaged in a red wine and, whatever, marinade and I was very disappointed. |
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Maybe you got the cheeks from the other end?
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Lady Faye. get it from a butcher or even Waitrose, then just google one of the dozen or so excellent recipes available. Needs cooking low and slow and its really easy. No need to buy it in a packet
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Lovegod - that'd be "topside", so even better
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the mrs got some oc cheek from waitrose, its still in freezer it looks fatty and nasty.
on a plus note I had a pieminister moo pie that was tasty. |
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she also picked up some nice wing rib of beef for £5 reduced so that will be good.
Our nexy door neighbour only buys reduced food, you should see the crap she buys. 30 packets of smoked salmon the other day, freeze it all. how can you eat that much!!!!!!! |
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she buys the reduced sarnies then pops it in the lunch boxes the next day (out of date)
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