Gareth, I’ve noticed over the years that mass produced pies are basically “flavoured pasty containers”… the manufacturers must make a fortune in selling us flour-fat-water… I used to love the Birds Eye individual chicken pies that were “full” of chicken/peas/gravy… price was about £2.50 for 4… same pies now are just under £4 and nowhere near as good…it’s all about profit I’m afraid…
Food technologists and psychologists are employed by major producers now. Look at the makers of Cornish pasties - Ginsters, everything is proportionate. Now compared a smaller pasty maker, chalk & cheese (not literally)! As for homemade, Mmmm.
When i was a lot younger my Mother used to give us all a Mince Pie ( Scotch Pie ) drenched in an oxo cube after watching the wrestling on T.V with the baddie Mick McManis and Big Daddy throwing each other around a ring. The Pies were a ritual together with the wrestling.
I am sure Frasers used to be only available in the Scottish store so I am really glad I caught this one as I wanted to try them :). Had a Holland's steak and kidney pudding the other night and I have sent a complaint in, I actually found meat in it 🤣.
I live in Seaham, Co. Durham. We used to get Gelder's pies and they were lush hot or cold, I'm gutted they went out of business during COVID. The Fraser's looked more inviting to me from the start 😀
Used to be a hollands fan, now make our own and they taste better and run out cheaper. Started doing hot waster pastry, massive improvement in pie quality
Hollands went down hill in the 90's when the company was bought out. As soon as meat and potato changed to potato and meat they were never the same. Shame really!
The first ingredient in the name of the pie is the dominant ingredient - meat & potato is mainly meat, with some potato in it, whereas potato & meat is mainly spud, with only the occasional bit of meat in it! I’ve often had meat pies that were predominantly gravy, despite not having gravy even in the name!
Got banished from work yesterday ( health care assistant ) due to testing positive for Covid ( again) Eight days with no pay . Your videos cheer me up 🎉❤
Well thank you Gareth 😅! I can't buy either, here in Belarus! They have no idea of pies😅😅😅! But just the way the Aldi Fraser pie looked.... 👌 Presentation is everything.... Still trying to work out why I enjoy watching your videos so much, as I can't buy any of them to try myself? 🧐🤔🤔
I go into Aldi and get Kilmarnock pies as I’ve bought them before a football match in Kilmarnock, and I must say the shop ones are totally different from the ones I bought in Kilmarnock. They are not cheap either at around £1:50p each, I will definitely be checking out those Frasers Steak and gravy pies very soon. Thanks for the review Gareth, keep up the good work.
Great review Gaz I think you are right the Fraser pies look the part and you get 2 for for 30p more Aldi wins again and there seems a pattern emerging with Aldi food 👏👏👍👍
Soggy bottom because you used greaseproof paper. It holds the steam from the pie base stopping it from crisping. Put the pie on preheated metal baking tray...no soggy bottom. Great as always Gareth
I watch you every single day mate. I thoroughly enjoy the channel and you have gotten me through a tough time. Youve even inspired me to start a podcast about my favourite team aston villa. Top guy
Hate Tesco and their Club Card prices - most of the time just massively inflated so that it looks like you’re getting a good deal. Morrisons started doing it as well and so actively avoid buying anything “on offer” unless it’s a truly good deal and it’s something I want/need. Funnily enough I just had beef and onion pies with roasties, mash, yorkie puds, peas and lashings of bisto pigs in blankets gravy! Mmmm!
So glad someone has mentioned this BULLSHIT pricing policy, forcing you to buy more than you really want, because it's cheaper when buying 2 etc, the single price is set stupidly high. Loads of shops doing the same thing now.
Gareth, said before. I love pies 🥧 😊😊Frasers pie the look of a Scots pie. But i think,a true Scots is made with mutton? However, both lacking gravy and looked a bit " claggie". Still some buttered baked beans & a pile of chips that'll do me😂❤ Rib sticking British grub😊keep the cold& sniffles away with good old stodge 😊 Another good video mate❤ Allan&Family
Never eaten a mutton pie in Scotland, it's either steak pie or scotch pie which contains mince. Prefer steak pie myself, if you ever get the chance to go to the highlands, to Inverness and the Black Isle then the best pies you will ever taste are from a baker called Harry gow. Best steak pies I have ever tasted, in my life, and none of this Gregg's crap made in a factory they are all made fresh.
I was just thinking that the frasers one looked like a traditional mutton pie. Very popular at the football. If at home the rim is perfect for filling with beans, the way it sizzles when the beans meet the molten fat, is a thing of wonder. I do love a good steak pie from the butchers, in fact it is my greatest loss since leaving the old country.
You may have reviewed the Frasers pies without knowing about it as I am more than certain these are Bells Food Group pies re branded and packaged for Aldi as Frasers. It certainly looks like a Bells Pie and the packaging is very similar
Hi Gareth from Spain. I don't count minced meat in a pie as steak, it could be any old offcuts minced up. Steak pies should have pieces of steak not mince.
Check again strands of beef , neither were minced . traditional Scotch pie has minced lamb and although the Frasers pie looked like a Scotch pie it was strands of beef in it .
Another good one Gareth, I've got the Aldi mince beef pies at home ready to try. Just watching this video whilst enjoying a surprising good double whopper meal from Hindpool Rd Burger king
Yeah Aldi pies all day long i get them for work sometimes and are tasty ,Tesco are just overpriced and im not impressed with their stuff. Cant beat a good pie 😋 👍
That twin pack looks a treat Gaz. And an excellent price. A resounding yes from me. I enjoy these videos so much, I wish they were an hour long. Top of the range job Gaz.
As a kid, Holland's pies were the go to supermarket pies. Now days I would never buy them. I don't know what happened but they ain't what they used to be. The only Holland's product I would buy today is the steak and Kidney pudding.
Thanks Gareth a good review, I will definitely try the frasers pies, good value too, 👍 I didn't like the look of the other pie, looked a bit pale to me,
Love my pies, I cook things from scratch after I watch you eat, I'll be making pies again, on a diet again, I'm on twitter with pics of food I've made after watching you😊, I'm the radio bam that cooks , cheers, apologies for any spellings I'm visually disabled
In my neck of the woods, down South, we had Gillards pies in chip shops, they were delicious, thick gravy with a lot of flavor. They disappeared and were replaced with, 'Peters' pies, gravy thin and watery. They got replaced by Pukka pies, which when they first emerged the filling was similar to Gillards. Now even Pukka seems to have changed the quality of the filling as they became more commercial and more widely available.
Gareth, thank you for your entertaining videos. It feels like being part of a family being subscribed to your channel. I really look forward to hearing your views on all these products. Keep going mate.
Hello bud another corker of a video. Another pie for my shopping list. Those Holland pies got dryer about a year ago I used to buy them but not now. Can't wait to give the Frasers a try. Nice one bud bye for now. 🤗😃🤚✌️👍
Definitely eat your crusts make's ya hair curly. We need these kind of Chanels we are being royaly screwed from the super markets thanks pal every idea could save a penny or two but with good tasty food, I've had to cut down to two meals day so I could have decent sunday dinner which i look forward to, strange but you appreciate food more. Thanks mate keep on chomping. 👍🏻♥️💂🏻♀️🇬🇧
You can still get the Scottish steak n gravy pie supper out of Scottish chippies, as well as the normal Scotch pie, you can also get those Hollands shape pies in Scottish chippies but they are called Ashet pies or something, if in doubt ask for a steak pie supper.
I just put two chicken and mushroom pies in for my dinner and seen this vid uploaded,they from an Irish supermarket dunnes stores and are top quality and value,enjoy yours I will mine
What you want Gaz is a Kilmarnock Pie from brownings the bakers, you can get them online, without a doubt the greatest steak and gravy pies ever, actually have steak in them 😉
@britpackdog4545 About Kilmarnock Pies? Brownings and the football club had a disagreement, they had relationship for years but club tried to trade mark the name ' Kili' so Brownings pulled the plug on supplying the pies to the club, bit stupid since the pies are constantly rated best football pie in UK
If one uses a proper beef OXO cube (must be OXO), add minimal amount of boiling water, pinch of salt, one crack of pepper and large knob of butter, mix well and pour on most warmed up pies (except Ginsters), it will transform the taste to best comfort food. Thanks Gareth
Pie playlist 😂 - brilliant, you are one of a kind matey, keep up the great work, you are doing us all a great service here and providing a few good laughs too 👍
A good quality pie with great pastry, plenty of top quality filling is getting harder to find these days. And musshy peas are almost a thing of legend, so hard to find. Sad to see basic foods becoming rare.
Hi, I live in Australia. Growing up musshy peas were an add on in every pie shop, but that was 60 years ago. Yes, there are canned musshy peas from England and they're very expensive, a luxury. So now you can buy a pie with peas inside but that's it. I love steak and kidney pies with musshy peas, but they are almost impossible to find a pie shop that still sells them as a separate add on. Australia is losing it's Englishness.
Hi gaz absolutely love your videos I have been watching since the start but I will be honest me and the misses are missing the lives!! 😢 please do one before Christmas all the best to you, the good lady and the 2 girls.
Blinded by %'s, at last count it was 158% in a pie - I like the mashup up of "clear labelling" and "listing of ingredients". I wonder if it is used to provide a rosy picture to anyone who wants to look at the list and work through war and piece.
Had these, there decent enough, not seen the individual Holland pie, but a frozen pack in Farmfoods. Aldi do the Kilmarnock pie, it’s more expensive than the Frasers, but more tasty. But for out n out value, the Frasers is good. You also get bells, but their larger steak round, is full of gristle. I normally stick to a butcher’s individual steak pie, pricy but decent steak. Mass production one’s are less in quality and meat content.😊
I’m sure I’ve said this before but as a person on a low food budget I like to keep below 10 pounds a day for food . Love them Aldi pies mash peas and gravy ❤
you get what you pay for, the Frasers individual steak pies are a Scottish traditional individual steak pie, ie round with puff pastry top, my local butcher makes fantastic steak pies , they are filled to the top with big chunks of steak and gravy, but it costs £2.50 for one but it has 4 or 5 times the steak of a Frasers pie, so i reckon £2.50 is a great deal, but the likes of Frasers pies are most likely sold by company to a middleman who sells them to a supermarket chain and they all get there share of profit, where as my local butcher sells direct with no middlemen involved, hence for me i feel it's a better deal, but not everyone has time to visit a local butcher shop and a supermarket is more convenient, so the Frasers pie will work for them, i've seen me make a batch of mushy peas and have a individual steak pie from my local Butchers and that has made my dinner
One of your comments mentioned not being able to find mushy peas,Iceland sell Lockwoods frozen mushy peas and they are the real thing without having to soak them.
The Scottish one looks great . Here's a recommendation next time you are in Asda l got one of their Minced beef and vegetable pasties ( yellow label just essential range ) cooked in the airfryer for 10 mins couldn't believe how nice it was..just like a cornish pasty but off memory about 50p ... their cheese and onion are also good.
Have to concur - the Frasers pies (as far these things go) are very nice indeed - their traditional "Scotch" Pies are great as well. Often get them as a guilty treat now and again. Hollands used to be amazing, grew up with them, being a Lancashire born lad - but they've been disappointing for quite some time now.
I usually buy peters pies or pasties. They cost a bit more, but they're usually good quality. But if I go to aldis I'll be looking out for the Frazer's pies.
Gareth, I’ve noticed over the years that mass produced pies are basically “flavoured pasty containers”… the manufacturers must make a fortune in selling us flour-fat-water… I used to love the Birds Eye individual chicken pies that were “full” of chicken/peas/gravy… price was about £2.50 for 4… same pies now are just under £4 and nowhere near as good…it’s all about profit I’m afraid…
Wonderful comment and here was me thought i was seeing things😆
Food technologists and psychologists are employed by major producers now. Look at the makers of Cornish pasties - Ginsters, everything is proportionate. Now compared a smaller pasty maker, chalk & cheese (not literally)! As for homemade, Mmmm.
I liked the look of the Frisers pie even before it was cooked. 👍
When i was a lot younger my Mother used to give us all a Mince Pie ( Scotch Pie ) drenched in an oxo cube after watching the wrestling on T.V with the baddie Mick McManis and Big Daddy throwing each other around a ring. The Pies were a ritual together with the wrestling.
That’s a lovely memory ❤
I am sure Frasers used to be only available in the Scottish store so I am really glad I caught this one as I wanted to try them :). Had a Holland's steak and kidney pudding the other night and I have sent a complaint in, I actually found meat in it 🤣.
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I love those.
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Too funny!😂😂😂
Sorry it wasn’t meat I am afraid, it was a Mirage. Lol.
I have always wanted the pie comparisons to come back and Gaz you couldn’t have done it better keep it up
I live in Seaham, Co. Durham. We used to get Gelder's pies and they were lush hot or cold, I'm gutted they went out of business during COVID. The Fraser's looked more inviting to me from the start 😀
Do they still make the pitta breads down in Seaham ? I helped build up the machinery inside the factory when it was built
The words "Geld" and pie should not be used in the same sentence. I am holding my conkers right now! 😂😂😂
@@chriscringle7740I honestly don't know buddy
I’m glad the Frasers came out on top as they looked more delicious. Had a Galloways steak pie the other day and that was superb. Great review
Used to be a hollands fan, now make our own and they taste better and run out cheaper. Started doing hot waster pastry, massive improvement in pie quality
Hollands went down hill in the 90's when the company was bought out. As soon as meat and potato changed to potato and meat they were never the same. Shame really!
Ahh that's how they get away with the lack of meat filling, I dodn't twig that one, the ones I had were pretty disgusting tbh.
Nevertheless, the Holland's potato and meat pie is tastier than the Pukka one. For me, anyway.
The first ingredient in the name of the pie is the dominant ingredient - meat & potato is mainly meat, with some potato in it, whereas potato & meat is mainly spud, with only the occasional bit of meat in it!
I’ve often had meat pies that were predominantly gravy, despite not having gravy even in the name!
Holland is up for sale again
The potato and meat description was down to the EU
Got banished from work yesterday ( health care assistant ) due to testing positive for Covid ( again) Eight days with no pay . Your videos cheer me up 🎉❤
Hope you get better 🙏
I know that Hollands are not the best pies. But they tasted great while wobbling home on a Friday night after a couple of shandies. Nostalgic.
Well thank you Gareth 😅! I can't buy either, here in Belarus! They have no idea of pies😅😅😅! But just the way the Aldi Fraser pie looked.... 👌 Presentation is everything.... Still trying to work out why I enjoy watching your videos so much, as I can't buy any of them to try myself? 🧐🤔🤔
You’re welcome 😊
I go into Aldi and get Kilmarnock pies as I’ve bought them before a football match in Kilmarnock, and I must say the shop ones are totally different from the ones I bought in Kilmarnock. They are not cheap either at around £1:50p each, I will definitely be checking out those Frasers Steak and gravy pies very soon. Thanks for the review Gareth, keep up the good work.
Cheers Jim
Great review Gaz I think you are right the Fraser pies look the part and you get 2 for for 30p more Aldi wins again and there seems a pattern emerging with Aldi food 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
Soggy bottom because you used greaseproof paper. It holds the steam from the pie base stopping it from crisping. Put the pie on preheated metal baking tray...no soggy bottom. Great as always Gareth
I thought he baked it in the foil tray?
@@SuperLittleTyke He was referring to the Frasers pie that had a soggy bottom, not the Hollands that was heated in it's foil tray
@@SuperLittleTyke I meant the Fraser's one...sorry I should have said
Respectfully disagree GPP is fine as long as the oven temp is right. Better browning and no sticking than things like foil.
Yes was afraid of spillage on the tray. Save on washing up 😂
Love your channel mate good work
Much appreciated
Fraser pie looked like a traditional Scottish style bakers pie , whereas the other one looked like bur hers style pie . Love the bakers pastry
whats a bur hers style pie?
@@squeakmillward butchers
Gareth, the Fraser's pies are excellent, for the price, we have been buying them for ages, just glad you now get to try them.
Cheers Andy yes tasty mate
I watch you every single day mate. I thoroughly enjoy the channel and you have gotten me through a tough time. Youve even inspired me to start a podcast about my favourite team aston villa. Top guy
Glad to hear it all the best pal
Brilliant as ever. Thanks for posting some pie goodness. Yum!
Our pleasure!
Hate Tesco and their Club Card prices - most of the time just massively inflated so that it looks like you’re getting a good deal. Morrisons started doing it as well and so actively avoid buying anything “on offer” unless it’s a truly good deal and it’s something I want/need.
Funnily enough I just had beef and onion pies with roasties, mash, yorkie puds, peas and lashings of bisto pigs in blankets gravy! Mmmm!
So glad someone has mentioned this BULLSHIT pricing policy, forcing you to buy more than you really want, because it's cheaper when buying 2 etc, the single price is set stupidly high. Loads of shops doing the same thing now.
Gareth, said before. I love pies 🥧 😊😊Frasers pie the look of a Scots pie. But i think,a true Scots is made with mutton? However, both lacking gravy and looked a bit " claggie". Still some buttered baked beans & a pile of chips that'll do me😂❤ Rib sticking British grub😊keep the cold& sniffles away with good old stodge 😊 Another good video mate❤ Allan&Family
Never eaten a mutton pie in Scotland, it's either steak pie or scotch pie which contains mince.
Prefer steak pie myself, if you ever get the chance to go to the highlands, to Inverness and the Black Isle then the best pies you will ever taste are from a baker called Harry gow.
Best steak pies I have ever tasted, in my life, and none of this Gregg's crap made in a factory they are all made fresh.
I was just thinking that the frasers one looked like a traditional mutton pie. Very popular at the football. If at home the rim is perfect for filling with beans, the way it sizzles when the beans meet the molten fat, is a thing of wonder. I do love a good steak pie from the butchers, in fact it is my greatest loss since leaving the old country.
You may have reviewed the Frasers pies without knowing about it as I am more than certain these are Bells Food Group pies re branded and packaged for Aldi as Frasers. It certainly looks like a Bells Pie and the packaging is very similar
They are indeed marketed as Bells in Scotland
Definitely bells
The Bells Scotch pies are really good. The Greggs are poor.
They are in the same wrapper
I’ll try them, thanks mate keep up the great work ❤
Thanks 👍
Gareth, for me, the Fraser pie wins as it looks more appetising, and judging by your Nigella facial expressions you agree. 👍
Haha yes
I bought the ones you had the other day to try from Aldi yesterday, deffo gonna try the frasers next
Hi Gareth from Spain. I don't count minced meat in a pie as steak, it could be any old offcuts minced up. Steak pies should have pieces of steak not mince.
Check again strands of beef , neither were minced . traditional Scotch pie has minced lamb and although the Frasers pie looked like a Scotch pie it was strands of beef in it .
Another good one Gareth, I've got the Aldi mince beef pies at home ready to try. Just watching this video whilst enjoying a surprising good double whopper meal from Hindpool Rd Burger king
Gday BFG. Thanks for da vid. Made my day. Ben from Perth Aus ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
I like the poppy, I used to enjoy Holland pies. I love “butter pies” but cannot get them in the Midlands and south.😊
Another great review……I’ll try the Frasers next time
Yeah Aldi pies all day long i get them for work sometimes and are tasty ,Tesco are just overpriced and im not impressed with their stuff. Cant beat a good pie 😋 👍
Gotta say aye tae a pie😋
That twin pack looks a treat Gaz. And an excellent price. A resounding yes from me. I enjoy these videos so much, I wish they were an hour long. Top of the range job Gaz.
Glad you enjoyed it
cheers, gonna try the frasers now
Both have their own place, I would eat them. Thanks for another honest review 💜💜💜
Cheers Barbie x
we have aldis come to our town next year so i will certainly be trying their pies
Thanks Gareth x
As a kid, Holland's pies were the go to supermarket pies. Now days I would never buy them. I don't know what happened but they ain't what they used to be. The only Holland's product I would buy today is the steak and Kidney pudding.
Yes years ago I remember it was the only one to buy.
Gareth thank god they put gravy in pies saves you making your own 👍
Hi Gareth is the pastry the same as a scotch pie , just asking because i'm not keen on the taste and seems a bit too brittle.
Gareth the soothsayer says “life is like a pie…It’s not fair”… An education as usual😂👍
Thanks Gareth a good review, I will definitely try the frasers pies, good value too, 👍 I didn't like the look of the other pie, looked a bit pale to me,
No problem 👍
👍great review ps the aldi fish was handsome😊
Love my pies, I cook things from scratch after I watch you eat, I'll be making pies again, on a diet again, I'm on twitter with pics of food I've made after watching you😊, I'm the radio bam that cooks , cheers, apologies for any spellings I'm visually disabled
No apologies needed.
In my neck of the woods, down South, we had Gillards pies in chip shops, they were delicious, thick gravy with a lot of flavor. They disappeared and were replaced with, 'Peters' pies, gravy thin and watery. They got replaced by Pukka pies, which when they first emerged the filling was similar to Gillards. Now even Pukka seems to have changed the quality of the filling as they became more commercial and more widely available.
Cheers for the information 👍 must see if I can get one
Gareth, thank you for your entertaining videos. It feels like being part of a family being subscribed to your channel. I really look forward to hearing your views on all these products. Keep going mate.
I appreciate that! Cheers
Thankyou Gareth I don’t mind paying a we bit more if it’s good sadly these days people have no option great comparison❤
You're welcome 😊
Greggs have a new steak pie in Iceland, beautiful
Thanks for the info. Good to know
DId someone say 'pie'?! 🥧🥧 Another great review, Gaz 🤝🏻
Cheers pal
Hello bud another corker of a video. Another pie for my shopping list. Those Holland pies got dryer about a year ago I used to buy them but not now. Can't wait to give the Frasers a try. Nice one bud bye for now. 🤗😃🤚✌️👍
Cheers pal
Definitely eat your crusts make's ya hair curly.
We need these kind of Chanels we are being royaly screwed from the super markets thanks pal every idea could save a penny or two but with good tasty food, I've had to cut down to two meals day so I could have decent sunday dinner which i look forward to, strange but you appreciate food more.
Thanks mate keep on chomping.
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I prefer the Frasers as well, they look much more appetising.
I Tried the Hollands steak peppered pies in Morrisons at £3.25. It was very nice but quite pricey.
They're £3.15 at Home Bargains. Also Iceland started doing two packs of pies for £6 last time I was in (you're on about frozen 4 packs, right?)
have you done the scottish mince pie try it
Both looked 👍
Best wishes gareth
Cheers Kizzy
You can still get the Scottish steak n gravy pie supper out of Scottish chippies, as well as the normal Scotch pie, you can also get those Hollands shape pies in Scottish chippies but they are called Ashet pies or something, if in doubt ask for a steak pie supper.
Spot on Gary
In asda today the pukka pies were on offer at 1. 25 .
I just put two chicken and mushroom pies in for my dinner and seen this vid uploaded,they from an Irish supermarket dunnes stores and are top quality and value,enjoy yours I will mine
Sounds great!
Spot on 😋🔝🚦😉
Thank you kindly
That frasers pie branding is the bells pie in Scotland
What you want Gaz is a Kilmarnock Pie from brownings the bakers, you can get them online, without a doubt the greatest steak and gravy pies ever, actually have steak in them 😉
2nd that 👍Love the Killie... oops... Kilmarnock pie 😁
@@honestg
😂😂 can't call them Killie pies now, I forgot
@Boogeyman.78 what's the story?
Aldi sell the Kilmarnock pie as does Asda.
@britpackdog4545
About Kilmarnock Pies? Brownings and the football club had a disagreement, they had relationship for years but club tried to trade mark the name ' Kili' so Brownings pulled the plug on supplying the pies to the club, bit stupid since the pies are constantly rated best football pie in UK
If one uses a proper beef OXO cube (must be OXO), add minimal amount of boiling water, pinch of salt, one crack of pepper and large knob of butter, mix well and pour on most warmed up pies (except Ginsters), it will transform the taste to best comfort food. Thanks Gareth
At least use a decent stock
I could see floating one of the small pies in a bowl of onion soup, like a big dumpling.
In Kent/London we have loads more Sainsbury's, m&s and Waitrose so would be good if could review some of their products.
Gareth, you going all posh on us 2 knives and forks😜
Spot on lad!
Anyone that knows their Holland's pies will say the only pie that's still good is actually their Kate and Sidney pudding 👌
Pie playlist 😂 - brilliant, you are one of a kind matey, keep up the great work, you are doing us all a great service here and providing a few good laughs too 👍
Thank you kindly
That steak and gravy pie is nice, it doesn't look much but it's alright.
A good quality pie with great pastry, plenty of top quality filling is getting harder to find these days. And musshy peas are almost a thing of legend, so hard to find. Sad to see basic foods becoming rare.
Mushy peas are in every supermarket in the UK from cheap to the expensive brands you don't live in Taiwan or anywhere like that do you lol
Hi, I live in Australia. Growing up musshy peas were an add on in every pie shop, but that was 60 years ago. Yes, there are canned musshy peas from England and they're very expensive, a luxury. So now you can buy a pie with peas inside but that's it. I love steak and kidney pies with musshy peas, but they are almost impossible to find a pie shop that still sells them as a separate add on. Australia is losing it's Englishness.
Hi gaz absolutely love your videos I have been watching since the start but I will be honest me and the misses are missing the lives!! 😢 please do one before Christmas all the best to you, the good lady and the 2 girls.
Thanks 👍 very kind mate
Blinded by %'s, at last count it was 158% in a pie - I like the mashup up of "clear labelling" and "listing of ingredients". I wonder if it is used to provide a rosy picture to anyone who wants to look at the list and work through war and piece.
I think Lidl in Scotland sometimes have the Brownings and the Macintosh's Steak Pie. That looks like it would be a big upgrade from the frazers.
Had these, there decent enough, not seen the individual Holland pie, but a frozen pack in Farmfoods. Aldi do the Kilmarnock pie, it’s more expensive than the Frasers, but more tasty. But for out n out value, the Frasers is good. You also get bells, but their larger steak round, is full of gristle.
I normally stick to a butcher’s individual steak pie, pricy but decent steak. Mass production one’s are less in quality and meat content.😊
I’m sure I’ve said this before but as a person on a low food budget I like to keep below 10 pounds a day for food . Love them Aldi pies mash peas and gravy ❤
The Frasers really do remind me of the pies that my late father-in-law used to make. For context, he was from Dundee.
They forgot the gravy but they do sound tasty
you get what you pay for, the Frasers individual steak pies are a Scottish traditional individual steak pie, ie round with puff pastry top, my local butcher makes fantastic steak pies , they are filled to the top with big chunks of steak and gravy, but it costs £2.50 for one but it has 4 or 5 times the steak of a Frasers pie, so i reckon £2.50 is a great deal, but the likes of Frasers pies are most likely sold by company to a middleman who sells them to a supermarket chain and they all get there share of profit, where as my local butcher sells direct with no middlemen involved, hence for me i feel it's a better deal, but not everyone has time to visit a local butcher shop and a supermarket is more convenient, so the Frasers pie will work for them, i've seen me make a batch of mushy peas and have a individual steak pie from my local Butchers and that has made my dinner
Cheers pal
😊top vlog Gareth we love pies 🥧 it's luton thing 😂😂😂
Mr BFG, the way you sway left to right and back again when eating these Pies, must be a snipers nightmare.
Haha
One of your comments mentioned not being able to find mushy peas,Iceland sell Lockwoods frozen mushy peas and they are the real thing without having to soak them.
Good spot thank you 😊
I love Hollands pies, I don’t care what anyone says,lol. The others pies look proper scottish, the scots know how to do pies 🙂👍
Think you would like a Killie pie from Brownings the Bakers I Prefer my pies to be more darker and golden great review as always tho keep it up🫡
I need one
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"Who puts pies back in the packet?"must be a northern thing😂😂from BIGMICK IN HULL 🎉
Put the pie in a sandwich bag and seal it. That way it won't dry out in the fridge.
Love a scotch pie. Have you tried the Bells macaroni scotch pies from Farmfoods? somehow it works!
I've not but I've reviewed macaroni Pies from Iceland I think. Yes I liked it. 👍
The Scottish one looks great . Here's a recommendation next time you are in Asda l got one of their Minced beef and vegetable pasties ( yellow label just essential range ) cooked in the airfryer for 10 mins couldn't believe how nice it was..just like a cornish pasty but off memory about 50p ... their cheese and onion are also good.
All the best pal
@@BaldFoodieGuy You too ..have a great Christmas
I've gone veggie our kid. Doing somany Brussels I've blown myself away!!!!
Please try the pukka pepperoni pie it's amazing
Will do
have you done the puka pies most fish and chip shops sold them
Ever tried the Xsell pollock at Heron? Very nice.
Not yet
Have to concur - the Frasers pies (as far these things go) are very nice indeed - their traditional "Scotch" Pies are great as well. Often get them as a guilty treat now and again. Hollands used to be amazing, grew up with them, being a Lancashire born lad - but they've been disappointing for quite some time now.
Just a thought, potato cakes and crumpet comps ,warbis vs the rest😊
Good one cheers
I usually buy peters pies or pasties. They cost a bit more, but they're usually good quality. But if I go to aldis I'll be looking out for the Frazer's pies.
Try Brownings The Bakers The Famous Kilmarnock Pie 150g from aldi
Yes will have to mate, cheers
Can you use milk over a pie crust to thickn it?
No, but it will help it to brown nicely like egg wash does.
I’m going to look for Fraser’s at Alvdi’s here lol. They look good
had hollands pies before and found them to be really dry, but you would normally have it with gravy and mash etc anyway so should taste better
Nice review but are you sure you couldn't take a bigger bite 🤣🤣 Stay well and have a good weekend.
Thanks, you too!