Johnson's Porkie Pies, now available worldwide

[MockersthefeMANist]

So far we've had

Kippers in ice pillows. (Not true.)
Melton Mowbray pies in Thailand. (Nowhere to be seen.)
BBC Promises to fund free TV licence for Rupert Murdoch. (It didn't)

Expect the porkie pies to come thick and fast off the production line as the days count down to Halloween.

No one does porkie pies like Johnson's, the original and the best.*

(Actually, that's not true.)

Johnson lied about something to get a headline.

No surprise there....good to hear him being called out on his lies this morning.

Him & Trump go well together. I've just read an article where Trump had the great idea of dropping nuclear bombs into the eyes of hurricanes to stop them making landfall.

Johnson! Can you believe any politician in the current crop. The odd few perhaps but line up May, Gove, Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott....just a few.

It seems that having integrity is a bar now to being an MP

It emerges that there was a single order for a small batch of pork pies from Thailand two years ago, but none since.

As the man from the Pork Pie industry explained, it is a fresh product with a shelf life of a few days. It is not practical to send it very far.

You could send raw frozen pies overseas to be baked locally, but then you might as well make them locally.

The problem, pork pie man said, is the US refusal to recognised protected origins. They make American Mozzerella, American Feta, American Mortadella (Baloney, aka Bologna Sausage) and even American Scotch and Irish Whisk(e)y, possibly both incorrectly spelt.

BJ was informed by his back room staff who got their data from the latest available product export information which are two years old. They stated there had been exports to these countries.

But you all have a good old laugh about something neither you nor the BBC actually researched.

But you all have a good old laugh about something neither you nor the BBC actually researched.

But we don't export there now.
And it looks like there are good reasons why there are no pork pie exports to the USA - both from their point of view and from the point of view of manufacturers - a low demand. It seems that we can export to the USA - but there are a whole lot of regulations because of the type of meat that makes it difficult. I guess they are concerned over health as well.

Of course you can buy Melton Mowbray pork pies in the USA. Because the EU geographical restrictions don't apply there - so anyone can make them and call them MM pork pies.

A MMPP exported to the USA would have to go by air in a refrigerated container, then by refrigerated truck to a distribution centre then onto local stores. It would cost many times the local product and would be three days old, on the verge of its use-by date.

There is realistically only one market for such perishable products, just across the channel.

Seems a bit far to send a pork pie anyway, particularly when it would have to be sold at a lower price to compete with the pork products derived from the USA's unacceptable pig-rearing practices.

Luckily though, although we may struggle to export pork pies to the USA, there's a far larger market, much closer, who we can export pork pies to. If they want them.

uckily though, although we may struggle to export pork pies to the USA, there's a far larger market, much closer, who we can export pork pies to. If they want them

If only we were in a system where we could trade easily with 500 million people without barriers.....

I hear the market for jam roly poly and spotted dick in Swaziland is huge.

This thread is hilarious! Better to laugh than cry...

I think BJ has a great love of Pork Pies thus his use of them as an example. But obviously the logistics and demand are another thing entirely. I would say that you can get frozen mini pork pies, I think from Farm Foods so possible.
Personally he would have been on saver ground had he suggested Haggis! which has been banned in the USA because of the ingredients but is very popular with many Americans who come to Scotland and ex pats.

I think BJ has a great love of Pork Pies

This

Hilarious 😂

He's a born liar, all wind and no fart!

Did you see the episode of The Durells where mama Durells makes porky pies (and roly poly and other stuff) to sell at the market in Corfu and half of the village gets food poinsoning ‘cause of the heat??
:-)

(It might have been the scotch eggs that gave them all the poisoning....good reason to try and watch it again ;-)

Lol @ thread title

Yes boris and trump go well together

They are used to saying whatever and everyone nods along

How are so many of the public going for it?

I googled the Melton Mowbray pork pie makers and found this article in British Baker from 2015 (did Boris Johnson use the same anecdote in the referendum?);

"Pork Pie maker embraces export markets"
"Walker & Son has stepped into the export market, after finding a way to deliver its Dickinson & Morris pork pies frozen."

The rest is copyright protected but it sounds to me as though frozen pork pies were a bit of a flop and the company are denying they had ambitious export plans - they mention Iceland and Hong Kong;

bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/14453/Pork_pie-maker_embraces_export_markets.html