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There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).
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There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).There’s a dazzling yet daunting selection out there on the mince pie market – how can you be sure you’re making the right choice? There would be nothing worse than providing your guests with a sub-standard snack, so to help you choose SD’s Ellie Connolly hit the shops to sample the selection. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
It’s a familiar and pleasant scene – snuggled up on the sofa watching a Christmas classic of the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ sort, munching on a mince pie straight from the oven with lashings of cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar. Until today though I thought all pies were alike, how wrong I was…
I took housemate Vicky for a second opinion, the first pie we sampled was from Greggs bakery, costing 27p. It might be that it got a bit squashed in my bag, but aesthetically it was very disappointing – flat and sad looking. Despite this it tasted pretty good, stodgy and sugary in a pleasing way.
Next stop was Tesco where 6 deep filled mince pies are a bargainous £1.03. This was the most traditional of everything we tried – it looked the part but lost out on the filling which was a sort of unappetising grey sludgy colour, detracting from the taste which wasn’t bad at all.
Pie number three (was starting to feel a little sick by now, possibly a mistake to accompany the food with gallons of tea) was without doubt the worst we sampled, surprisingly coming from well known Mr Kipling brand. At 49p it was basically full of air and not nice, the chunky filling left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and we couldn’t finish it between us in the end. Exceedingly bad!
Thoroughly regretting the project by now, we trudged towards pie number four in the shape of Marks and Spencer’s classic lattice. Definitely the best yet, it looked good and tasted very nice indeed – pastry not too sweet and the filling was a perfect cinnamon blend. Well worth £1.19 for 6… it worries me how exciting we found this pie.
The 5th and final subject had a lot to live up to now, especially as it declared itself ‘Award Winning’. Starbucks must think it’s pretty special if they charge a whopping £1.40 for a single pie, it did look good and was easily the biggest– the buttery pastry wasn’t quite to my taste but it was impressively filled and delicately sprinkled with sugar. Feeling peculiar and rotund, the quest was thankfully at an end.
I feel like such a connoisseur now, ready and waiting to impart my wealth of mince pie knowledge to the world. I’ve learnt that price doesn’t necessarily equal quality, and that ugly pies can be quite nice inside. Unfortunately I’m sick of the sight of them now, and doubt I’ll touch another over the festive period - but don’t let this stop you – get munching on their hefty goodness, and check out Marks and Spencers if in doubt (I still prefer my mums).