....in LOVING Fray Bentos pies in a tin

[Hopelesslydisorganised]

blop blop blop slurp

Mmmmmmmmmm! Puff pastry full of salt, about three bits of steak in a gloopy gravy and a side order of ............ vegetables (you thought I was gonna say "chips" admit it). Lovely - delicious and real peasant fodder.

Ohhh my, they are sooooooooooo nice! Unfortunately I once sat and looked at the calories in one and have never dared eat another since Same with my lush corned beef stew that I used to make, there was me feeling so virtuous that we had a meal full of veg, till I checked the corned beef, and gravy, and dumplings...

OMG. Me too, all of this. Brings back so many memories - who said caravan holidays? [wistful]

I used to love Fray Bentos Steak Pies. In fact I noticed them in the Co-op the other day and really wanted to buy them, but DH said no.

My mum wasn't a very good cook either - lots of findus crispy pancakes, super noodles, Sandwich Spread,and Heinz tinned sausages and beans and tinned Vegetable salad in our house especially on (oh, my arriviste parents) gite holidays.
[nostalgic nom nom nom]

DH on the other hand grew up amidst a family of meat eaters who used to butcher their own food and looks, with disgust, on my love of 70s food.

On the other hand, now that he is in Brisbane....

OMG YES!!!!!!! AND the steak and kidney puddings!!! big sloppy gloop on a plate with vague tasting "meat" or whatever it is. Dont eat them now as we are virtually vegetarian and only eat organic free range meat once or twice a week!! i miss my shit food sometimes

YANBU !
Always keep a couple in the cupboard. On a busy night, with frozen veg, they're a godsend.
Are we greedier nowadays though? Nan and Grandad used to eat one between them. We have one each, and DH would eat 2 quite happily. (34 inch waist as well. GIT)

I've just been wondering why Diddle thought FaceBook made steak and kidney puddings

MrsNonsmoker - i guess they are good for just buning on a stove?

I must admit to buying some heinz beans and sausages for DD the other night, she had been to an after school club that she takes a pack lunch to, i was knackered and she thought they were amazing, special treat only.

YANBU - I alwasy buy up a stock when they are £1 in ASDA which is regularly, and occasionally when work has been really crappy I put one in the oven for my lunch - never fails to cheer!

FFS
shit in a tin

I cant believe the crap that some people eat

bloody chavs

Yabu!

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That bit where pastry touches gravy? Bleuuurrrrgggghhh.

My DH cooked himself a frey bentos pie one day while I was out.
He only forgot to take the lid off so it exploded in the oven, then actually rang me up to tell me his pie was faulty!

'Did you take the lid off DH?'
'Err no I forgot'

It wasn't the first time he had cooked one either

I just tried to view this thread and it said 'you must be logged in to view this topic'. I wondered what the hell must be so confidential about fray bentos pies. DH made me a toast topper last week, I didn't even know they still made them, it was like eating plastic flavoured mush on toast. I'm having another one tomorrow.

Oh help me! I just looked at the pic in the link posted by thefinerthingsinlife......BOAK BOAK BOAK
Go look and then come back and tell me that's ok to eat.

Megatron I used to love those Toast Toppers but only the meatless ones which they've not done for years. God only knows what those chewy bits of dead old flesh are that's in them now. Once and never again.

I find it quite amusing that the chicken pot noodles are completely vegetarian

When I was a kid, beans on toast was an awesome meal, and if it had sausages in it, all the better. Unfortunately, since the times when I was very very skint, it's lost its shine nowadays, although I do indulge once in a while with a poached egg on top - nom!

Red Rum's father was called Fray Bentos.

Hope it wasn't prophetic.

count me in.

Once had a fraybentos pie and beans cooked over a fire while driving cross desert in Australia. We were proper skint grotty backpackers
and hadn't. eaten properly in ages. I hadn't had one before.Best thing I ever tasted!

UABU. End of.

vesta beef risotto!!

port inbox your addy i will send u some!!!

I love the pastry- particularly the bit where pastry touches gravy. The filling is rank as old shit though.

Remember the favourite sandwich thread?

Who was it that liked the soggy bottom layer of pastry on a fray bentos pie between two slices of white bread?

Words cannot express the amount of respect I have for that poster.

Oh yes, fraybentos pie and tinned tatties were a staple on caravan holidays. There were 5 kids though, and I don't remember my mum cooking 2 pies so we must only have got a spoonful each.

I have to take Fraybentos pies when I go to visit family in the States. I think security go cos my bags get checked every time I go! They probably look like landmines on the xray.

When I want to impress my man I 'cook' him a Fray Bentos S&K pie, with tinned peas & tinned potatoes.

It's his all-time favourite, takes him back to childhood.

His mother never cooked anything fresh, poor sod.