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Scott

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I'm sitting lunching on a couple of "Extra Special" chicken and bacon pies from Asda. Why on earth is there potato in this thing? I didn't buy chicken, bacon and potato?

 

Is it for filling or is potato in a chicken and bacon pie seen as extra special? Extra special for me would mean big tender chunks of chicken and nice strips of bacon in a white chicken sauce. Instead I'm presented with stragles of washed off the bone chicken, more fat than bacon-bacon and huge chunks of potato. I wouldn't mind so much if these were the cheap, bottom of the barrell smartprice pies but they are meant to be extra special!

 

Cheeky feckers so they are, filling out their pies with dross that isn't on the advertising. You need to read the ingredients to find potato.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm no chicken and bacon pie connoisseur. I'm quite happy to sit with said smartprice pies. I just don't understand how they can throw in the worst quality of ingredients, fill it out with potato for some strange reason, throw some nice looking dustings onto the pastry and call it extra special?

 

I think I'll write a letter!

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I had this with some cod that Birdseye sell, not cheap and meant to be the best quality. The box shows a nice piece of cod with flakes of white, when you cook and cut open you are faced with a grey mush of crap!

I e-mailed birdseye and told them about this and the fact I wouldn't feed this muck to my dog and they just sent a standard apology letter with some poxy voucher.

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And people tell me off for posting useless rubbish :D

 

I think it's more the 1 word/sentence replies you give in almost every thread to increase your post count than it is useless rubbish ;)

 

I have been wrong in the past though, back in 93' I think it was.

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I think it's more the 1 word/sentence replies you give in almost every thread to increase your post count than it is useless rubbish ;)

 

I have been wrong in the past though, back in 93' I think it was.

 

But this thread and one about boiling water at altitude.

 

Anyhow, I'd write a letter to them if I were you.

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But this thread and one about boiling water at altitude.

 

Anyhow, I'd write a letter to them if I were you.

 

Ahh yes, but these are all in the name of fun to ease the boredom. Not to increase the number underneath my username ;)

 

 

Check this out...

 

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/search.php?searchid=451586

 

Have a look at the content. Page 1 should be plenty to make my point, feel free to look on though :p

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That's not chicken in your pie scott, more like road kill piegeon.

 

Loving your posts at the moment bud.

 

If only, they might not have been so stingy with the innards if it was pigeon lol.

 

:D True .

 

Anyway , enjoy your pie - Im off to Greece now :burp::wave::yahoo:

 

Alright for some mate, hope the boys at work have something special planned from you at security :D

 

Have a good time.

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On the subject of unnecessary fillings in comestibles, I'd just like to say that I found a fingernail embedded in my Morrison's loaf last week. It was a good 1 cm long (the nail, not the loaf).

 

I know Morrison's aren't the most upmarket supermarket, but come on. It's not like it was Lidl.

 

Was that a loaf from the morrison's bakery, or just a branded one from the shelf?

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On the subject of unnecessary fillings in comestibles, I'd just like to say that I found a fingernail embedded in my Morrison's loaf last week. It was a good 1 cm long (the nail, not the loaf).

 

I know Morrison's aren't the most upmarket supermarket, but come on. It's not like it was Lidl.

 

To be fair, if it was Lidl, you would have got the entire hand.

 

And Scott, I think you need to take you pie up to high altitude and then see what happens under test conditions - I'm not sure which ones exactly, but you'll come up with something - while you're waiting for your brew to boil.

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Scott - it was Morrison's own bakery. To be fair, the nail was free from varnish and was quite clean. It was embedded in the top crust.

 

Paul - comestibles = edible items :)

 

LBM - you know if you have a cast on your leg for six weeks or so, the skin underneath becomes thick, yellowish and cheesy? Well, that's what Lidl make their bread from.

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To be fair, if it was Lidl, you would have got the entire hand.

 

And Scott, I think you need to take you pie up to high altitude and then see what happens under test conditions - I'm not sure which ones exactly, but you'll come up with something - while you're waiting for your brew to boil.

 

I'm 6'5 so that's about all the altitude my food generally sees :D

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