Sometimes people complain, but this wasn't really because of that - I was just conscious that there were some extra things to say before we got the can open
@@AtomicShrimp Fair enough. I can't imagine that anybody familiar with the contents of your channel would complain about that, must be people popping in from their recommended videos.
@@AtomicShrimp Certainly, there was freeze-frame so that I could do the arithmetic to work out whether the % meat increase claim was correct, gratifyingly confirmed later! Top review: I only ever buy these when I think that I ought to have something in the cupboard that I can eat if I'm locked in and can't find my door keys. Again.
Do you remember back in the olden days when Birds Eye produced Chicken and Vegetable Pies? They ran a 'New Improved' marketing campaign "Now with more chicken pieces". Well someone took one apart and the amount (weight) of chicken was unchanged all they had done was to cut what was there was into smaller pieces, so technically they weren't lying. I've never trusted any marketing BS since. As a child the pies were quite tasty, shortcrust pastry and the veg to the best of my memory was just a few peas and pieces of carrot in a chicken gravy along with the now smaller chicken pieces.
Just a quick message Mr. Shrimp, about the Random Stuff vids. The longer, the better...They really help me get through an intensely boring, tedious and monotonous Saturday morning! Love you dude!!! xxxx
@@pressetoascend yes! I find Mike's way of speaking very relaxing and comforting. Like an old friend popping by to chat. That and I share a lot of interest in what's being shared in his videos. Very eclectic and sometimes odd but I find it all interesting lol
I'm in Canada, I was at a UK import store and bought a Fray Bentos as a curiosity. I had it one evening when I was hungry and it was amazingly disappointing, I did keep the can to use in the shop though, it's a great shape for putting lose screws in when fixing something. Food 2/10 Can 9/10
I'm disappointed that the inane wittering didn't last longer than the actual pie content in a sort of meta commentary critique of the ratio of meat to gravy in a Fray Bentos pie.
Just like Hunger Breaks All Day Breakfast, no matter how many times people tell me they're not that good I still think they look delicious and would love to try some. For now eating vicariously will have to do.
I made a steak and kidney pudding in the pressure cooker yesterday. Glorious winter grub even when you realise that suet is 11 times the price of the flour.
Suet is crazy expensive right now. I like a suet pastry topping on pies I make - I like the crispy top and soft dumpling like undersides that have absorbed some of the gravy!
You're a braver man than me Mike!! Pro tip, once the pie looks done, remove the pastry lid, flip it over onto the baking tray and cook the lid alone for a further 10 minutes. Then place back on the now cooled filling and bake for a further 5 minutes, which cooks the pastry and reheats the filling. 👍
Oh, as a savoury pie aficionado, I can say that the soggy pastry is to kill AND die for. My favourite is zucchini, onions and cheese. I always eat the veggies first and the shell I eat it last. So good!!!
I used to buy these pies when I was living in digs or shared houses. As AS suggests, they are ideal if you don't have much/any freezer space. I suspect their demographic is highly skewed to male, under 30. Actually I'm impressed how Mike took a slice out of the pie. From memory that was always the biggest challenge. You need to take the lid off first, so my solution was to put it onto a smaller plate, then scoop the filling out onto my dinner plate and pop the pie lid on top.
I really want a few of these as loads of people recommend the tins as the perfect size for making Yorkshire puddings you fill with your dinner. Problem is I don’t actually want to eat the pies.
I have to confess to quite liking these even though they are kinda naff, in fact, as a student back in the late 80's, I considered them an expensive treat! The empty tins happen be a perfect fit in my small air fryer, so I use them as semi disposable trays therein.
'Bloke Food™' at it's finest. Along with tinned sardines, pilchards, corned beef, kippers, bags of Brazil nuts, and SPAM. I love the pastry on these pies, all of it, and have done so for as long as I can remember. Long may they still exist!
@mistertestsubject - I have never known any women who enjoyed Brazil nuts - and I meant raw, in shell nuts. My late father would get through a couple of pounds of assorted nuts over Christmas, and offer them about, and I cannot recall ever seeing mum, gran, assorted aunts, etc , ever eat any Brazils. I never had any girlfriend who would eat them, either. This was before a lot of people had nut allergies, which in itself sounds odd, but when I went to school, in the late 1960's and early to mid 1970's, it just wasn't common at all. I never knew any child who could have been killed by eating peanuts. It just wasn't a thing. I find that very odd. But I definitely class Brazils as 'Bloke Food™'.
I love steak and kidney pie, can only get them in the states when I make my own... I also love tricking people into eating it and always bring them whenever I attend any event or gathering where I am expected to bring something. Every time they say how delicious it is, only then do I tell them there are kidneys in it. My favorite reaction is when they suddenly don't like it anymore. lol American's freak out at the notion of eating kidneys for some reason. Lamb kidneys are hard as hell to find sometimes too.
I love the pastry in these, not sure why it’s very soggy. Most people buy them I think out of nostalgia maybe once a year. They never quite live up to the childhood memory.
There are a few overly processed products I have as a guilty pleasure and the steak and kidney pie (actually I prefer the pudding) is one of them, I hate and love everything about it. It is like a comfort food that I really should not like. I love it with some creamy mash (if I am being totally lazy some instant mash is perfect) and the soggy pastry is definitely a feature that is a major part of my love for these pies (serve me soggy pastry in any other format and i will be upset lol) and though I love making my own it is nice to have once in a blue moon.
LOL.I was in Texas when New Coke was supposed to replace the original. The new stuff sat on shelves while grocers put out ads saying they still had the original and people drove miles to get some. Steak and kidney pie is something I tried exactly once and that was it. It was an "English Pub" over here but I don't think even a celebrity chef could make it smell better. Pastry in a can with liquid is just a no for me. Dumplings are not squishy, that's just what you called it, boiled dough. You folks can have all these you want, I'll go for Pierogis.
Do you figure your earlier criticism of Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie in a can had anything to do with their attempt at contrite reversion? After all, they don't call you Influencer for nothing!
How uncanny (pun intended?) - I'm currently pulling out my Fray Bentos chicken curry pie, along with some crispy fries from the oven when I saw this upload to watch while I eat 👍
How interesting! I checked my Fray Bentos. It's made here in Australia and contains 27.7% beef and 13.6% kidney. There's more meat in weight than pastry (26%). It contains no palm oil. Campbell's Soups Australia own Fray Bentos here. I wonder if that is why there is such a huge discrepancy between the two countries? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I’d pay extra for a talking pie , whatever the meat content or pastry consistency. Also enjoying the drum and bass type interlude music in this episode.
The deceptiveness of adding more meat to then reduce it again is so wrong. Essentially winning the customer back to then secretly revert and screw them over again while their top of mind thinking is still the "better meat and more of it". Thanks for highlighting it.
EXPLOSION CONTAINMENT PIE DISH with free steak pie ............. [Credit; "Big Clive"] 11:32 "Back to our classic recipe " however the image shows the meat to be the same on both tins but the pastry is not. did they only change the pastry ?
I think people mentioned that on the previous video. This combo probably is quite common in any kind of commercially-produced steak and kidney pie - the steak is always expected to be beef, but the kidney might be pork, ox or sometimes lamb
@@AtomicShrimp Perhaps their marketing team could celebrate the fact that it's a conglomeration of different animals from different farms and different regions. "50% more livestock than 80% of people imagined, from the largest varieties of countries than ever before"
These things I never take as a gourmet meal so when people complain that it looks weird etc I always think "would they say the same thing if they were a victim of a huge hurricane and got their fresh food spoiled?
It does look like it has more meat.. however it seems to look lower quality meat not better. It looks almost exactly like my dogs wet food. (Which I will admit actually smells nice)
Palm Oil is a tasty and healthy product (as plant oils go). It's bad press originates from the portion of it that is not sustainably and ethically sourced (deforestation, child labour etc.) But as time passes the media programmes us and the only part we remember is 'Palm Oil bad'
@@mikew1972 I understand palm oil when considered as a simple foodstuff is not bad. However I do not think the palm oil in this pie is sustainably or ethically produced, I cannot see any claim on the product itself or their website. Also, pastry should be made with BUTTER (I love butter, butter is love, butter is life.)
M&S do a puff pastry steak pie for £5.50 which serves 3 (Fray Bentos serves 2) and has 40% beef not 15%. I can attest to the quality of the M&S pie. Morrisons do a pair of chicken pies for £2.50 which is closer to the price of Fray Bentos. The pie filling is thickened with chemicals that I didn't like, but the puff pastry is far better than the pastry here and with a lot more meat. If you can avoid Fray Bentos, I highly recommend you do.
I'm a fan - reminds me of growing up. I used to buy tinned kidneys & loved the Umamini (spelt right? but hopefully got the jest - of what I'm on about. Bought an air fryer - bloody thing doesn't fit. Deliberating an air oven. Rage!!
When I'm eating animal, I get to act like an animal. I have 5 forks on each hand and when a product comes in a dish, that is one less dish I have to wash and I'm saving the world's supply of water too. I'm lazy Captain Planet.
That's how my dad used to do it - Fray Bentos pie, and mug of tea on a tray, and midweek sports special on the telly. In some places, I think to deviate from that, was illegal, possibly tantamount to treason. 😆😆😆
How do food producers get away with this? If there isn't one already, they should be made to register their products including sizes/weights and ingredients and when it changes they list the alterations so we can all see the lies about "new and improved", "bigger size" etc.
Any product that has water listed first on the ingredient list is a beverage in my books ;)
Or soup.
@@rolfs2165 A good soup should get most of its liquid from the ingredients not from adding it.
@@marcpearson2913 otherwise it's a stew.
Huh... Sounds like you don't know how to cook.
This is the inane wittering channel I go to listen to inane wittering. It's a feature. We enjoy the inane wittering, very much.
Yes indeed, has someone complained about inane wittering? shame on them 😀
Sometimes people complain, but this wasn't really because of that - I was just conscious that there were some extra things to say before we got the can open
@@AtomicShrimp Fair enough. I can't imagine that anybody familiar with the contents of your channel would complain about that, must be people popping in from their recommended videos.
@@AtomicShrimp Certainly, there was freeze-frame so that I could do the arithmetic to work out whether the % meat increase claim was correct, gratifyingly confirmed later!
Top review: I only ever buy these when I think that I ought to have something in the cupboard that I can eat if I'm locked in and can't find my door keys. Again.
I love your little chit chatting in your videos. Its like listening to a friend talk about something they're interested in. It's all good.
The inane wittering is what I'm here for, Mr Shrimp!
i second this!
Do you remember back in the olden days when Birds Eye produced Chicken and Vegetable Pies? They ran a 'New Improved' marketing campaign "Now with more chicken pieces". Well someone took one apart and the amount (weight) of chicken was unchanged all they had done was to cut what was there was into smaller pieces, so technically they weren't lying. I've never trusted any marketing BS since. As a child the pies were quite tasty, shortcrust pastry and the veg to the best of my memory was just a few peas and pieces of carrot in a chicken gravy along with the now smaller chicken pieces.
Just a quick message Mr. Shrimp, about the Random Stuff vids. The longer, the better...They really help me get through an intensely boring, tedious and monotonous Saturday morning! Love you dude!!! xxxx
Fully agreed! I love seeing a big 2 hour video in my feed, especially one as varied as the random stuff videos
@@pressetoascend yes! I find Mike's way of speaking very relaxing and comforting. Like an old friend popping by to chat. That and I share a lot of interest in what's being shared in his videos. Very eclectic and sometimes odd but I find it all interesting lol
Anything that can convince my gf to eat these works for me!!!😊
I get it. It’s like bitter flavour cancelling out another bitter flavour.
I can't always dedicate a single chunk of time to the longer videos but it means I can watch different sections throughout the week. :)
I'm in Canada, I was at a UK import store and bought a Fray Bentos as a curiosity. I had it one evening when I was hungry and it was amazingly disappointing, I did keep the can to use in the shop though, it's a great shape for putting lose screws in when fixing something. Food 2/10 Can 9/10
I bought one for the tin. Ideal for a small cake size; good size for airfryer too.
Idea for April Fools. A review of another fray bentos pie but with better inane wittering and 33% more of it
I’ve got a better idea. Combine the meat of four pies into a single pie, re-apply the crust, to provide the greatest fray bentos pie of all time!
Love the "review commences" bar that (at least for my screen) is accurate! Not sure I've seen anyone else do that on RUclips.
I'm disappointed that the inane wittering didn't last longer than the actual pie content in a sort of meta commentary critique of the ratio of meat to gravy in a Fray Bentos pie.
we just have to wait for the Classic Weird Stuff in a Can recipe now with even more inane wittering
@@whatr0 Waiting for the "more wittering than ever" episode.
UNACKNOWLEDGED TOUCAN SPECIAL!
"Accidental" on "Purpose". Nice one:)
Shrimp you need to show us how you would make this pie! As close to fray bentos but better quality! 😊
We can assure you that our pies do include meat, from exactly the kind of animals you would expect!
Frogs are what I'm expecting.
Gotta do _something_ with all those horses...
your oven has to be one of the coolest ovens I've seen EVEN THE BUTTONS PRESS IN LIKE THAT so cool
Impressively clean oven door!
Just like Hunger Breaks All Day Breakfast, no matter how many times people tell me they're not that good I still think they look delicious and would love to try some. For now eating vicariously will have to do.
Just so you know, I'm mostly here for the inane wittering.
Inane, not insane...
@@SaxonSuccess I am ever the victim of autocorrect.
@@SaxonSuccess it's fixed now I hope it didn't upset you too much
@@YYZed has this exchange now become inanely insane? I mean, you could have been correct the first time. 😂
this may be a first for this series where a Fray Bentos didnt have a giant hole in the top
I made a steak and kidney pudding in the pressure cooker yesterday. Glorious winter grub even when you realise that suet is 11 times the price of the flour.
Suet is crazy expensive right now. I like a suet pastry topping on pies I make - I like the crispy top and soft dumpling like undersides that have absorbed some of the gravy!
I don't care much about kidney pie, but that sliding oven door @7:08 is amazing!
The music around 08:00 reminds me of 90's racing game soundtracks. Blast from the past! Cheers
"Enchiladitos - they make you wanna eat 'em"
I enjoy the oven cam.
Thanks for taking one for the team, I see these all the time and I stay well clear! I'll have my diced cow freshly moo'd thanks.
10:30 - Let's give that pastry a *tastry*. Come on, shrimp!
You're a braver man than me Mike!!
Pro tip, once the pie looks done, remove the pastry lid, flip it over onto the baking tray and cook the lid alone for a further 10 minutes.
Then place back on the now cooled filling and bake for a further 5 minutes, which cooks the pastry and reheats the filling. 👍
Yeah those gummy gelatanous under cooked layers are kind of weird(things in a can)
@LordmonkeyTRM It resembles torn zombie flesh.
can't believe i'm spending my friday night watching a fray bentos pie rising in an oven...absolute carnage.
The highlight of this video has nothing to do with pies, but the oven temperature dial! 180°C at 180°, ambrosia for OCD adherents!!
New range coming soon Eyes and nostrils, Spleen and jowls and a relaunch of a classic heart valve and testicles
It just seems a bit rude to kill an animal and then throw half of it out instead of eating it.
While barren Madge prepares hot dinner
Fray Bentos pie. Always a winner!
- Ian Anderson, Thick as a Brick 2
7:20 Shrimp's oven takes us to Zone of the Enders on Playstation 2.
Served as suggested. 🤣 Thanks for making me laugh out loud. I really enjoy weird stuff in a can videos.
I was JUST watching the 2017 review of this right as this uploaded!
That Oxo can opener is like Eva biting you. The WL Magican used to do that too
Oh, as a savoury pie aficionado, I can say that the soggy pastry is to kill AND die for.
My favourite is zucchini, onions and cheese. I always eat the veggies first and the shell I eat it last.
So good!!!
I used to buy these pies when I was living in digs or shared houses. As AS suggests, they are ideal if you don't have much/any freezer space. I suspect their demographic is highly skewed to male, under 30. Actually I'm impressed how Mike took a slice out of the pie. From memory that was always the biggest challenge. You need to take the lid off first, so my solution was to put it onto a smaller plate, then scoop the filling out onto my dinner plate and pop the pie lid on top.
I love listening to your "Inane wittering."
As far as "instant pies" go I think that looks serviceable. It would do in a pinch - good to have in the cupboard for emergencies.
I really want a few of these as loads of people recommend the tins as the perfect size for making Yorkshire puddings you fill with your dinner. Problem is I don’t actually want to eat the pies.
I have to confess to quite liking these even though they are kinda naff, in fact, as a student back in the late 80's, I considered them an expensive treat! The empty tins happen be a perfect fit in my small air fryer, so I use them as semi disposable trays therein.
The 180c being a 180 degree turn, oddly satisfying.
it's easy to add 33% more meat when the last iteration didn't have hardly any... 33% of .5
Thank you for this, it’s reminded me that I need to clean my oven door, It’s been a while since I saw my food cooking. 🥴
I hope these used to be bigger as you say, we used to have one of these between a family of five!
I feel like I remember them being available in two sizes
Oh goodness! No size of pie should be for five people.
I feel like these FB pies should say "Serves ½" as I think I'd need two.
Same! We had with mash and other veg. Loved it!😊
'Bloke Food™' at it's finest. Along with tinned sardines, pilchards, corned beef, kippers, bags of Brazil nuts, and SPAM.
I love the pastry on these pies, all of it, and have done so for as long as I can remember. Long may they still exist!
Why are brazil nuts in particular 'bloke food'? Everything else you listed made sense, but I don't get the brazil nuts.
@mistertestsubject - I have never known any women who enjoyed Brazil nuts - and I meant raw, in shell nuts. My late father would get through a couple of pounds of assorted nuts over Christmas, and offer them about, and I cannot recall ever seeing mum, gran, assorted aunts, etc , ever eat any Brazils. I never had any girlfriend who would eat them, either. This was before a lot of people had nut allergies, which in itself sounds odd, but when I went to school, in the late 1960's and early to mid 1970's, it just wasn't common at all. I never knew any child who could have been killed by eating peanuts. It just wasn't a thing. I find that very odd.
But I definitely class Brazils as 'Bloke Food™'.
I love steak and kidney pie, can only get them in the states when I make my own... I also love tricking people into eating it and always bring them whenever I attend any event or gathering where I am expected to bring something.
Every time they say how delicious it is, only then do I tell them there are kidneys in it. My favorite reaction is when they suddenly don't like it anymore. lol
American's freak out at the notion of eating kidneys for some reason. Lamb kidneys are hard as hell to find sometimes too.
I love the inclusion of the Waffle-o-Meter because who would possibly skip the inane wittering? It's the best part of a Shrimp video
I used to love these as a student back in the 80's... including the lasagne-like under layer
Best description of Fray Bentos pastry texture ever!
@@Fairyfink I stole it from Shrimp’s earlier video 🫢
I remember (and preferred) when there was pastry underneath the filling, could have been a different brand.
The yellow text on that lid looks surprisingly like your own style.
god, much has changed in the UK since i moved away. the implication of "better meat" alone is terrifying.
It's like the emergency services! Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers...
I find it pretty hilarious that the quality of these pies has gotten so bad that 'better meat' is now a selling point. Pathetic marketing.
I love the pastry in these, not sure why it’s very soggy. Most people buy them I think out of nostalgia maybe once a year. They never quite live up to the childhood memory.
To be fair everything seems like an extreme when you are a child . Extremely good , extremely dramatic etc .
We'll be seeking out Vesta curries next :)
@ Absolutely 😂I loved those too.
I used to absolutely love Frey Bentos Chicken and mushroom pie but they seem to have replaced it with Just Chicken pie
High quality witter fest. Excellent work. Keep it up, Mr Shrimp.
There are a few overly processed products I have as a guilty pleasure and the steak and kidney pie (actually I prefer the pudding) is one of them, I hate and love everything about it. It is like a comfort food that I really should not like. I love it with some creamy mash (if I am being totally lazy some instant mash is perfect) and the soggy pastry is definitely a feature that is a major part of my love for these pies (serve me soggy pastry in any other format and i will be upset lol) and though I love making my own it is nice to have once in a blue moon.
Whatever your analysis... I like them. Crispy pastry, soggy 'dumpling' pastry, meat and gravy... in a can, lasts forever, buy as many as you can!
If anything, the wittering isn't inane enough
LOL.I was in Texas when New Coke was supposed to replace the original. The new stuff sat on shelves while grocers put out ads saying they still had the original and people drove miles to get some. Steak and kidney pie is something I tried exactly once and that was it. It was an "English Pub" over here but I don't think even a celebrity chef could make it smell better. Pastry in a can with liquid is just a no for me. Dumplings are not squishy, that's just what you called it, boiled dough. You folks can have all these you want, I'll go for Pierogis.
Do you figure your earlier criticism of Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie in a can had anything to do with their attempt at contrite reversion? After all, they don't call you Influencer for nothing!
Gosh no. I very much doubt they've even heard of me
How uncanny (pun intended?) - I'm currently pulling out my Fray Bentos chicken curry pie, along with some crispy fries from the oven when I saw this upload to watch while I eat 👍
How interesting! I checked my Fray Bentos. It's made here in Australia and contains 27.7% beef and 13.6% kidney. There's more meat in weight than pastry (26%). It contains no palm oil. Campbell's Soups Australia own Fray Bentos here. I wonder if that is why there is such a huge discrepancy between the two countries? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Yeah, I think it's just a licensed brand name, so no commonality of manufacture
Now with added inane wittering.
As I get older and lose grip strength, I can only recommend a Bonzer tin opener.
I just went back and watched this video 2 days ago. Strange coincidence.
I’d pay extra for a talking pie , whatever the meat content or pastry consistency. Also enjoying the drum and bass type interlude music in this episode.
As an American the only other time ive seen the words Fray Bentos was about a WW2 story involving a tank. Neato to see what its namesake is.
You should try their pouch meals, they're actually really good I was pleasantly surprised
@@IAmMike2K Without sounding disrespectful to you, they're not!
Everything with the Fray Bentos logo on isn't fit for human consumption!
@DLC-sy7pp 😂 fair enough lol I was just expecting them to be terrible but they weren't bad overall, definitely edible. High praise indeed lol
I've eaten these pies 50 years ago I have no bad memories. I think they used to do meat puddings in a can.
Still do. I've bought them in Home Bargains.
The deceptiveness of adding more meat to then reduce it again is so wrong. Essentially winning the customer back to then secretly revert and screw them over again while their top of mind thinking is still the "better meat and more of it". Thanks for highlighting it.
I can’t believe that last video was from 2017!
EXPLOSION CONTAINMENT PIE DISH with free steak pie ............. [Credit; "Big Clive"]
11:32 "Back to our classic recipe " however the image shows the meat to be the same on both tins but the pastry is not. did they only change the pastry ?
When it says steak and kidney, who else thought that both the steak and kidney would be from the same species of animal?
It’s a good point I hadn’t even thought about! But yes, I certainly did think they’d be from the same species
When I make steak and kidney I usually use lambs kidney. I think i've seen beef kidney for sale maybe once in my life!
I think people mentioned that on the previous video. This combo probably is quite common in any kind of commercially-produced steak and kidney pie - the steak is always expected to be beef, but the kidney might be pork, ox or sometimes lamb
@@AtomicShrimp
Perhaps their marketing team could celebrate the fact that it's a conglomeration of different animals from different farms and different regions.
"50% more livestock than 80% of people imagined, from the largest varieties of countries than ever before"
Fray Bentos? More like Cray Bentos, you wild mr. bentos
"Now 15% of our meat is actual meat!"
The inane wittering. Saying what we're thinking 😂
The shape and usefulness of the tins are more interesting than the pies.
thats some nice music at 7:35
These things I never take as a gourmet meal so when people complain that it looks weird etc I always think "would they say the same thing if they were a victim of a huge hurricane and got their fresh food spoiled?
That's not exactly high praise. After a few days, even dogfood would start to look tempting.
It does look like it has more meat.. however it seems to look lower quality meat not better. It looks almost exactly like my dogs wet food. (Which I will admit actually smells nice)
Mike you should make a pie like this on a video
The sheer misery examining a pie where Palm Oil is the fifth most abundant ingredient in it. Oh lord.
Palm Oil is a tasty and healthy product (as plant oils go). It's bad press originates from the portion of it that is not sustainably and ethically sourced (deforestation, child labour etc.) But as time passes the media programmes us and the only part we remember is 'Palm Oil bad'
@@mikew1972 I understand palm oil when considered as a simple foodstuff is not bad. However I do not think the palm oil in this pie is sustainably or ethically produced, I cannot see any claim on the product itself or their website. Also, pastry should be made with BUTTER (I love butter, butter is love, butter is life.)
@@lwoods507 Indeed, butter is healthier than vegetable oil and tastier. 🙂
If pies could talk, they'd say "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
M&S do a puff pastry steak pie for £5.50 which serves 3 (Fray Bentos serves 2) and has 40% beef not 15%. I can attest to the quality of the M&S pie.
Morrisons do a pair of chicken pies for £2.50 which is closer to the price of Fray Bentos. The pie filling is thickened with chemicals that I didn't like, but the puff pastry is far better than the pastry here and with a lot more meat.
If you can avoid Fray Bentos, I highly recommend you do.
The Fray Bentos pie serves ONE. No arguments.
@@SaxonSuccess And barely that. :)
But is it in a can?
Good news. Chocco rations to be increased by 15%.
I do like seeing your review…. Even if it means you’re eating a pie that you’re not especially fond of.
You're a braver man than me with those things.
Over the years I tried these when they were on offer and was dissapointed every time
I'm a fan - reminds me of growing up.
I used to buy tinned kidneys & loved the Umamini (spelt right? but hopefully got the jest - of what I'm on about.
Bought an air fryer - bloody thing doesn't fit.
Deliberating an air oven.
Rage!!
"New Improved" is always a worrying sign on any product. Can't really remember "Old Improved" or similar on a product - well maybe Coca Cola.
Used to love these pies back in the eighties before I emigrated. Would like to find a source here in Canada.
I want more inane withering. I demand it in fact
You mean you're not supposed to eat the entire pie out of the tin like an animal?
They're so small eating an entire one doesn't even seem gluttonous
When I'm eating animal, I get to act like an animal.
I have 5 forks on each hand and when a product comes in a dish, that is one less dish I have to wash and I'm saving the world's supply of water too.
I'm lazy Captain Planet.
That's how my dad used to do it - Fray Bentos pie, and mug of tea on a tray, and midweek sports special on the telly. In some places, I think to deviate from that, was illegal, possibly tantamount to treason. 😆😆😆
I wonder what difference if any it would make to cut a steam vent or 2 into the top of the pastry.
I like the puddings even better.
the soggy part is the best bit lmao
Now *this* is the content I’m here for.
that thumbnail just instantly made me burst into singing Britney Spears xDDD
How do food producers get away with this? If there isn't one already, they should be made to register their products including sizes/weights and ingredients and when it changes they list the alterations so we can all see the lies about "new and improved", "bigger size" etc.
17g, so less than a teaspoon per quarter of the pie - Sooo generous!
Yeah, I reckon the amount of extra meat is approximately the same as the amount on the fork in the serving suggestion
use the oxo top wise as a can opener instead of on the side
You can't. It only works in the side-cutting orientation.