Come on Davpaz. This isn’t your first Christmas. What were you thinking?

Unless it was one that came in a 8-12” diameter tin made for slicing* you made a serious error in judgement.

*even then, could go either way.

On a tangentially related Christmas foodstuffs theme: Do not be tempted by the heavily discounted "Prosecco and Peppercorn" Pringles that are currently being sold off at fire sale prices.

"They can't be that bad" you will tell yourself.
"They're Pringles! Pringles are delicious!" your lying brain will whisper.

These things are an abomination. They are mildly effervescent on the tongue. You read that right. They're fizzy. The underlying weirdness of the peppercorn flavour hits like an aftertaste freight train and stays with you for hours.

Do yourself a favour. Save your 50p. Do not buy.

We now return to your regularly scheduled mince pie review

Not a mince pie, but I've just heard the first Slade of the season. But it's not Slade, it's some terrible, Terrible europop version.

There may not be a lot of love for the original but that was an abomination.

Do you mean the Robbie Williams/Jamie Cullum version?

Asda Extra Special Crumble Mince Pies.

Not a fan of the standard pastry? Crumble topping is the way to go. Forgoing the traditional foil tray, the crumble mince pie nestles naked in your hand and awaits your first bite. And bite you will, as they are fucking lovely. Not too big, sweetness balanced with just a hint of Brandy.

Very nice. 9/10

Billy Mince Pies is an excellent character waiting to break out in a guy Ritchie movie.

Sure I have mentioned it before, but once the test bakery in the factory I once worked in brought down mince pies made with the Viennese biscuit dough, and it was perhaps the most amazing mince pie i have ever had.

I can’t believe this thread is close to a decade old!

She’s so difficult yet fascinating to watch. Partly because she just says the most random things: ‘now don’t get me wrong, I’m not one for Womens Lib, I’m not such a clot’, but also just her ways of working. Everything looks terrible. She serves things up and they look disgusting, and (even bearing in mind the time constraints) the food hygiene is atrocious. She’s got her hand fully up a turkey, then that same hand straight into a jar of honey, then she’s touching some marzipan. She makes reference to the crew eating it all afterwards, too, and how they didn’t all die I do not know.

I just read her wikipedia article, and by jove her personal life was a bit bonkers.

Yikes. You are not wrong. I think I'm glad to have missed the whole phenomenon, particularly with that hairstyle giving me Thatcher shudders, but I can feel my attention being dragged over. Like passing a car crash.

the pies were consumed at lunch time with a friend and with quantities of fizzy juice, i believe that technically makes it a minor party yes.

Use for the lid. Lush.

I like the idea of chunks in the mix, that would dilute it enough for it not to be a hateful experience.

I like the idea of chunks in the mix, that would dilute it enough for it not to be a hateful experience.

I'm with krazywookie. The best thing to do with marzipan is to encase it in concrete and hurl it into the sea.