We normally have some Gala pork pie over Xmas. Was shopping at Tesco this morning when noticed, printed on the label it said "buy all of me at £2.70 per KG". I asked the assistant to weigh it and he said it would be just over £8. I asked if that was at £2.70 per KG and he seemed unaware of the deal, and checked the label. he said it had a different code, re weighed it, and it came to £4. They had 2 so i bought both for £7.89. It seems each pie is packaged in halves and if you buy a full half, you get the cheaper £2.70 price. Both pies weighed in at close to 1.5KG and were approximatly £4 each. Great pork pie for the family over Xmas. (Not sure if they had any left in Failsworth Manchester).
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therealslimkaty to StauntonLick
21 Dec 116#23
Eggs are separated, the yolks are mixed together and cooked in a long thin sausage type skin. they are cooked in hot water then the skin is peeled off. then the yolk length is inserted into a wider sausage skin, then the mixed whites are added and cooked. Then it's peeled too, then it can be inserted into the pie.
Saw it on tv yrs ago :stuck_out_tongue:
joel06
21 Dec 114#14
Thought this deal was for a ltd edition gamecube when i saw the picture.
StauntonLick
21 Dec 113#22
How do they make the egg run the length of the pie? Do they have GM chickens laying rectangular eggs?
boggydweller
21 Dec 113#19
a pork pie ain't a pork pie unless its got an egg in it!!! :smiley:
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middla
21 Dec 11#1
A half of pie is exactly how it looks in the picture above.
middla
21 Dec 111#2
I'll post Puff pastry for you later.
cb-uk
21 Dec 11#3
Didn't know they still made these - it sits right up there with plastic ham and fried spam :wink:
milesy29
21 Dec 11#4
Its all the "meat" that makes it expensive!
OleSkinFlint
21 Dec 11#5
"Gala Pork Pie With Egg normal price ...."
I know I'm being pedantic, but its just a Pork Pie if it doesn't have eggs in it..
bigbaz to OleSkinFlint
21 Dec 111#10
Yes you are.
happyharry
21 Dec 113#6
Whats a 'full half'?? :stuck_out_tongue:
middla to happyharry
21 Dec 11#8
Half a half is a quarter a full half is a half. Tongue, finger and hairy were sold out.
dai70
21 Dec 11#7
Mmmm I love gala pie.
MR GUS
21 Dec 11#9
Nice find OP, I love a bit of gala pie! ..& at this price the dogs can have a left-overs treat too!
punkstoner1
21 Dec 111#11
Wow. Disgusting.
Cold.
jaybee55
21 Dec 11#12
is a full half same as half a full?
Roderz
21 Dec 11#13
Cheers, just grabbed one
joel06
21 Dec 114#14
Thought this deal was for a ltd edition gamecube when i saw the picture.
KenDoddDadsDogDead
21 Dec 112#15
I can feel the fat collecting around the gut just looking at the picture.
Then again, if I have to eat pig's ears, lips and ****, then thats how I want it!!!
RedOnRed
21 Dec 112#16
This is the dogs b0llocks...and perhaps quite literally too.
odom
21 Dec 11#17
Might be a good chance for DTD if the counter staff aren't aware of the deal :smiley: cheers OP.
wassupjg
21 Dec 112#18
scotch egg 2.0
boggydweller
21 Dec 113#19
a pork pie ain't a pork pie unless its got an egg in it!!! :smiley:
nlman
21 Dec 11#20
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!
sukysue
21 Dec 11#21
BLOODY LOVE THESE! Ta op, bottoms up lol................
StauntonLick
21 Dec 113#22
How do they make the egg run the length of the pie? Do they have GM chickens laying rectangular eggs?
therealslimkaty to StauntonLick
21 Dec 116#23
Eggs are separated, the yolks are mixed together and cooked in a long thin sausage type skin. they are cooked in hot water then the skin is peeled off. then the yolk length is inserted into a wider sausage skin, then the mixed whites are added and cooked. Then it's peeled too, then it can be inserted into the pie.
Saw it on tv yrs ago :stuck_out_tongue:
waz101
21 Dec 11#24
Good price for a shop, but wholesale these are dirt cheap, I think about £5 for a 3kg pie. Voted hot anyway
Geo77
21 Dec 112#25
At last, I can now sleep at night!
t0mm
21 Dec 112#26
Not at Sainsbury's ours are just full eggs laid end to end.
bulkomuff
21 Dec 11#27
probably more meat in the egg than the rest of it!
NUMBER8GAMESTER
22 Dec 111#28
Goes really nice with chutney and little slices of mature cheddar.
darkh0rse
22 Dec 11#29
3kg of pie?
radishnet
22 Dec 11#30
I was told they put a cork up a chickens burn! Made the eggs really long....
hosepiper
22 Dec 11#31
Didn't this stuff used to be called "grosvenor pie" ?
Maybe folk couldn't say it so they changed the name?
middla
22 Dec 11#32
Actually, having cut the pie you can see that the eggs are individual ones. I think you must have been having some sort of nightmare when you saw this.
therealslimkaty
22 Dec 11#33
i always knew it as Grosvenor Pie too, I like it whatever it's called though. :stuck_out_tongue: I've noticed more recently that ones I've had have been ordinary boiled eggs in, as I got a slice with just white in it, to my annoyance!
A common variation on the common pork pie is the gala pie: a pie in which the pork is mixed with chicken and with a hard boiled egg in the centre. Gala pies are often baked in long, loaf-type tins, with multiple eggs arranged along the centre. The so called "long egg" in Gala pies is actually made of several eggs. The yolks are separated from the whites and the yolks are then poured into a long tube-shaped mould in which they are cooked. The hard yolk is removed from the mould then put inside a larger tube-shaped mould and the egg whites are poured round the outside of the hard yolk. The whole thing is then cooked again to harden the whites around the yolk. This is then removed from the mould thus producing one very long hard-boiled egg.[7]
[quote=therealslimkaty]i always knew it as Grosvenor Pie too, I like it whatever it's called though. :stuck_out_tongue: I've noticed more recently that ones I've had have been ordinary boiled eggs in, as I got a slice with just white in it, to my annoyance!
Talk about 'hard' done-by !! lol!! *giggle*
therealslimkaty
22 Dec 11#35
*groan* :laughing:
dean031
23 Dec 11#36
Please don`t egg him on :stuck_out_tongue:
therealslimkaty
24 Dec 11#37
lol you're such a big ham.
mik55
23 Sep 16#38
I love them, they are a really good eat. Michael Baggot { flog it }
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Saw it on tv yrs ago :stuck_out_tongue:
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I know I'm being pedantic, but its just a Pork Pie if it doesn't have eggs in it..
Cold.
Then again, if I have to eat pig's ears, lips and ****, then thats how I want it!!!
Saw it on tv yrs ago :stuck_out_tongue:
Maybe folk couldn't say it so they changed the name?
A common variation on the common pork pie is the gala pie: a pie in which the pork is mixed with chicken and with a hard boiled egg in the centre. Gala pies are often baked in long, loaf-type tins, with multiple eggs arranged along the centre. The so called "long egg" in Gala pies is actually made of several eggs. The yolks are separated from the whites and the yolks are then poured into a long tube-shaped mould in which they are cooked. The hard yolk is removed from the mould then put inside a larger tube-shaped mould and the egg whites are poured round the outside of the hard yolk. The whole thing is then cooked again to harden the whites around the yolk. This is then removed from the mould thus producing one very long hard-boiled egg.[7]
Taken from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie
Talk about 'hard' done-by !! lol!! *giggle*
:stuck_out_tongue: