So... What are the best mince pies?

[DaddyCoolNippingAtYourNose]

.. and i don't mean the crappy standard ones. i mean the finest ones ever. i was always partial to tesco 'finest' and sainsbury 'taste the diff' but someone last year recommended the next step up on the posh scale to 'Duchy Originals' which i've bought but haven't tucked into yet.

which are the very very best in your opinions?

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maybe he bought one too small!

lol! yes, i arrived at work with all the buttons straining against my bulbous gut the neck so tight, i was turning blue. by lunch time the thing had just fell apart and was hanging from shreds exposing my pasty white upper body.

of course i bought the right size you ASDA shopping peasant!

Greggs vienese once are ace they melt in your mouth I ate 6 all on my own the other day. Cost was £1.80 for six at our local distributor!!!

I normally quite like M&S ones or Waitrose, but am novice at mince pies (experience to date: 11 years, @ about 12 mince pies a year on average)

frenchgirl - i admire and appreciate your calculation. are you an accountant like me?

eeeeeek no not an accountant

but a lawyer

however I do not practise law anymore

so you can speak to me, I'm nice

what's your take on M&S ones then?

you are a one man panel, that's quite an achievement, isn't your dw a pie appreciater?

nope, she hates the mince pie.

i haven't tried m&s yet but i'm going to pick some up next time i'm around.

I admire your single mindedness

How has a thread about mince pies got 109 posts?? Is there something I'm missing?

i'm proud of my single mindedness . i think its a strong characteristic.

flashingnose - there is much more to a mince pie than what meets the eye. join us. join us in our quest.

I had a Greggs mince pie recently (am a big fan of Greggs despite it's pikey reputation, and have conducted a similar experiment to this with Eccles Cakes, which Greggs won hands down, but then thy discontinuted them ). Verdict was the the pastry was lush bit a bit stingey on the filling. But I do LOVE pastry so I can just about forgive them that.

very nice review penny. it has been noted and will be entered in the 'best pie UK daddycool challenge - 2005' with the rest

pmsl at this thread. You'd think we were a load of snobby-ar$ed wine tasters!

we are!

SD, daaarrrrling one can't get too snobby-@rsed about one's mince pies.

... but instead of taking a bit and swishing it round my mouth and spitting it out, i inhale it straight into my fat bulging gut

soupy!!!!

how can you ever compare tasting mince pies to tasting wine??????

and there are no french mince pies to make me feel superior or under attack

frenchgirl - LOL!

I cant believe you eat them with a fork DC.
But of course I am a northern peasant we use our fingers!!

i'm surprised you northerners don't just eat them off the floor

on DC's np;;pvld.

Don't knock northerners...

....too hard or they'll dent your car.

ouch!

straight out of the packet or tin..not worth ditying a plate for!!

i thought cro-magnons (sp?) killed off the neanderthals about 20,000 years ago? ... when really, they waited for the glacier to melt and legged it up to the north of england.