What's everyone's opinion on pork pie?

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InvertedOvert@reddit

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prustage@reddit

There is such a wide range you have to be careful what you buy.

A good butchers pork pie, lean meat well seasoned and baked in the crust rather than "cured", add a little jelly - perfect

How are they delivered? Raw, or is it a reheating only situation?

tricky12121st@reddit

Exactly, off to Melton Mowbray, pick up a good pie. Slice it up, touch of mustard, perfect.

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Prestigious_Bat2666@reddit

I use mustard in or on a lot of dishes, but I swear pork pies are where mustard was supposed to be

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scarygirth@reddit

literally a jug of meat flavoured jelly

You mean like a sort of ooze that comes off the boiled remains of the carcass?

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spikewilliams2@reddit

Not too keen on Melton Mowbray because they don't have the bad stuff in that keeps them pink. Nothing worse than a grey pork pie.

Also all the flavours, pickle, pork and apple etc all sound good but I either can't taste anything or I think the original is best and can't be improved on.

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mall234@reddit

I’m not sure when this tradition started. But for every birthday I get a pork pie from the local butchers instead of a birthday cake. This thing is more akin to a loaf of bread in size and shape.

My Botswanan girlfriend was unfamiliar with this tradition when it was brought out to me, candles and all, assuming it was a Brit’s attempt at a cake. But politely laughed along and joined in. Until we sliced it and she saw the pork and jelly.

If you can find a good homemade butchers one they are divine.

My wife used to do a crafting market every so often at Bridgenorth and one of the stalls did a ploughman's pork pie and it was amazing.

Like it, but the jelly can F off

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Throwawaylife1984@reddit

Well I've just sat by the riverside, watching the boats and eating a pork pie ( Melton mowbry) in the sun. Please find a picture of said boats as I've no banana for scale

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Galmeister@reddit

10/10

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Orange-Squashie@reddit

Incredible. Everytime I go a farm shop I will get one.

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Herne_KZN@reddit

Pork pie is best pie.

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irish_horse_thief@reddit

There are pork pies and there are Great Pork Pies.

Toedipper19@reddit

Try Dickinson and morris for a supermarket pie they are lovely.

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IsWasMaybeAMefi@reddit

Alas until they create a pork pie with a gluten free crust then I, and many like me cannot partake :(

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timster@reddit

Pork Farms are pretty good, but a Dickenson and Morris is a god-tier delicacy.

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DazzlingClassic185@reddit

Agreed re the Dickinson and Morris - It’s the most widely available Melton Mowbray pie, but it is bloody good

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Warm_Badger505@reddit

To be honest it does go a bit soggy but not necessarily in a bad way. The pork in a pork pie is not cured as such - it's just seasoned pork which gets cooked as the pie is baked as far as I am aware (could be wrong about that though).

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Chrolan1988@reddit

I think you’re right but not sure my belly would enjoy the possible aftermath. Will have to give it a go on a weekend to be sure ahah

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sharps2020@reddit

Sorry

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InternationalGlove@reddit

Proper pasties deliver them in the post frozen. If you have room for 12 frozen pasties. They're pretty good for frozen but you can't replicate freshly cooked.

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cactusplants@reddit

Had a pasty from gear farm in helston, Cornwall.

No pasty is gonna top it.

But I feel so bad that I went and got a ginsters as that was my best choice in the shop that was open ;(

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InternationalGlove@reddit

Gear farm are top tier.

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SnooRegrets8068@reddit

It's disturbingly difficult to get a decent one outside of Cornwall.

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Kistelek@reddit

I think it’s been worse since they got designated status. Everywhere else just seems to have stopped trying.

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SnooRegrets8068@reddit

The west Cornwall pasty company who seem to be spread further were crap 20 years ago. When I'd occasionally grab one in Bristol.

Only difference with designated status was having to remove the cornish bit. Was no need for it to replace the pasty bit.

Depends if people are basing this on Gregg's tho.

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markedasred@reddit

Ready Rolled pastry is your friend. Its more of a winter thing to make as that is turnip season. The secret ingredient is a dab of cream, apparently.

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InternationalGlove@reddit

Our local butchers scotch eggs are sublime. Massive, warm as they cook them through the day with pink sausage meat, not that grey sad stuff.

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elbapo@reddit

Slight disagree on scotch eggs. They have had a proper renaissance with decent fresh made scotch eggs on most upper end pub menus. It's my favourite starter.

It's just not in the supermarkets (albeit there are a few gourmet scotch eggs available). I only really recall the pale grey version anywhere in the early noughties- although I was a different demographic back then

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cactusplants@reddit

Tbh, the m&s scotched eggs for £1.45 or whatever are damn good. Sainsbury's ones are nearly double and not so great.

At one point m&s had gastropub scotch eggs and they were still runny yolkers.

So damn good.

Yuck!

Went to the "best pork pie place" in the UK in Melton Mowbray - eh... They were OK, I've had better from farmers markets to be honest.

Dizzy_Manufacturer93@reddit

Great with brown sauce.

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Ikswokallok@reddit

Fucking awesome. Staple English snack!

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Joshualevitard@reddit

When they have quality ingredients they are awesome but that´s not often.

AprilBoon@reddit

The product of extreme animal suffering that’s disturbingly legalised Plant based vegan pork pies are good

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Resipa99@reddit

Perfect for the carnivore diet which also is great 👍

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Nastypasty-bitches@reddit

A gift from god to the British people

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PhantomOwl709@reddit

Love them, great energy grub wether your out cycling running or just out these and scotch eggs are good snacks for on the trot.

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ArcTan_Pete@reddit

It's OK.

From a reputable bakers / butchers, heaven.

You’re right, best brand is Pork Farms, when I was a lad we had Pork Farms, Walls, and Bowyers, now back then the Bowyers was the best by a long chalk, but I guess they went bust ages ago.

Best supermarket own one is the Aldi Melton Mowbray, now that is delicious.

My local butcher for a shoutout for his Gala pie, I could eat that til it came out me ears.

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hellothere56734182@reddit

If you know what you like, why not have a go at making a mega one.

We have 1 for Xmas and have started making our our own one for the last few years, it takes a while day, but a lot of that is waiting for it to cook then cool, so can do something else. But it is really easy to do and difficult to fuck up completely.

The one we made last year I think ended up weighing about 4 kgs!

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StuartHunt@reddit

Hulsons pie shop in Mold North Wales make the best pork pies I've ever tasted in my life, they literally have queues to buy them and if you don't get there early they're sold out.

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UltraHyperDonkeyDick@reddit

This is right at the top of my list when I head back to Blighty. A Melton Mowbray from Tesco will do. A bag of Real McCoys or Roysters and a bottle of Oasis to finish it off.

Radiant-Big4976@reddit

How pigs are killed in this country. They are smarter than most animals thus are able to tell they are about to be killed. So they will thrash around and fight to stop a captive bolt gun going to their head as they are able to tell what it is and that it will kill them. So instead we put them into a cage, then lower the cage down into a chamber of Co2.

It is complete agony for them, but they cant get out so who cares.

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Master_Poet5106@reddit (OP)

I'd still rather that than have my throat slit and left to bleed out like halal killings. That's one of the great things about pork is you know its not halal

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Radiant-Big4976@reddit

They are both as bad and neither should happen. Go look up a video of either of them if you have any doubts.

I love it, makes me feel nostalgic.

I get a salad with a tiny slice in from pioneer now and again it’s really nice.

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homelaberator@reddit

It is a food

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Spam_Frittering@reddit

I like it, but couldn't eat it all the time.

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chulk607@reddit

"Meat not too pink"... what, you like grey meat? Are you alright?

I'm not a huge fan of the jelly, but I understand it's needed so agree on that front, but why would you actively like inferior meat?

A good one->food of the gods.

EntertainmentRare697@reddit

Love em with some branston pickle

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SpaceGeorge1@reddit

They remind me of my Grandad because he always use to say "are you telling me porkie pies?" if he caught me lying when I was little

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DOPEYDORA_85@reddit

Like a really old ladies nether region

Pick at the crust

Lick the jelly

Before you get to the meat

Farm shop pork pies hell yes!

Prepackaged shelf stable pork pies hell no...

Home baked pork pie spoils after 3-4 hours unless refrigerated and even then it won't last more than 3 days..

Supermarket pork pie is pretty much on par with the stuff Egyptians used to preserve their mummies.

Enjoy it!

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bru_tkd@reddit

Pork and pickle ftw

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A_Chicken_Called_Kip@reddit

I love pork pies, but I don’t care for the gross jelly.

I know everyone loves the jelly though, so come at me!

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Outrageous_Ad_4949@reddit

that "gross" jelly is primarily gelatine, or hydrolysed collagen.

the stuff that keeps your skin look young and plump.

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sleepyprojectionist@reddit

I’m not a fan of the texture. The filling is too dense for my taste and I do not enjoy the jelly.

They serve them in Valhalla.

Although I find them to be lacking in jelly nowadays.

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Immorals1@reddit

Absolutely grim and the jelly just makes it even more grim.

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neilkeeler@reddit

Try it warmed up, takes it to another place IMHO

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Immorals1@reddit

Had it, the other place was the bin.

It had a fire, unfortunately and the family sold the premises and business to a local pie firm, Dickens & Morris. They do a decent pie, but it doesn't compare with the original.

Best pies:

Your local Pork Butcher

Marks and Spencer

Pork Farms

Caremelised onions on the top !!!!! You can buy them in Asda an there amazing

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xX8Havok8Xx@reddit

Has its place.

On a platter with appropriate accompaniments, work of art.

Out of a plastic wrap eaten alone on a train ride home, actually depressing.

If you've convinced yourself otherwise even worse

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Pure_Recognition_715@reddit

No jelly I’m happy

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Angeret@reddit

An old school friend has been a butcher most of his life and he's bloody good at it. His pork pies...

One of the most hit and miss foods possible.

They’re either absolutely fucking awful, or incredible, there is no middle ground.

You won’t find a “meh, that’s alright” pork pie. It’s either “oh my god that’s amazing!” Or “I’m not having another bite of that shit!”

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orbtastic1@reddit

When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's very bad.

My farm shop does a good one but Morrisons do a huge thing that's a kilo in weight, big square thing. I got one at Christmas and smashed about 3/4 of it. They will also cut you one up if you don't fancy a full kilo.

there are far too many shit pork pies avaliable. i had one from a supermarket recently and the crust was spongey, there was too much jelly and the meat content was low like it was that poor quality sausage meat with loads of filler in it. that being said pork pies can be banging from the right place with the right condiment.

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