The Ultimate Pie?

[Gob]

In the words of its famous adverts, this is not just any portion of fish and chips … this is Marks and Spencer fish and chips. And it comes in a pie – complete with a layer of mushy peas.



The extraordinary creation is made from chunks of cod, pea puree and tartar sauce, all held together in shortcrust pastry and topped off with a chip ‘lid’.

Designed to treat indecisive eaters to a mixture of two traditional favourites of British cuisine, the pie is due to hit the shelves later this month, priced at £3.49.

And for those fearing something of a calorie overload, a spokesman claimed they are slightly lower in calories than most pies, and have around half the amount found in a take-away fish and chip supper.

Each pie contains 581 calories – just over a quarter of a woman’s recommended daily intake, and a little more than a fifth of a man’s – and includes 31g of fat, 44 per cent of the daily allowance.

According to the M&S spokesman, the pies are nutritionally on a par with a typical BLT sandwich.
Ahead of the new creation hitting shelves on April 22, the company – which sells 21million pies a year – said: ‘Specially handcrafted in Yorkshire, each pie is lovingly created with top quality fillings made in small batches for a truly delicious taste of the seaside.’

M&S food developer Matt Dawson said: ‘Creating this pie has been the culmination of lots of love and hard work from our development team.’

[Sean]

First things first.

They need to lose the tartar sauce and replace with salt and malt vinegar. Then they will have my attention.

[Gob]

and make them larger

[Guinevere]

No peas. Blech.

[Long Run]

We call those "garden orbs" in crossword land.

[TPFKA@W]

I hate tartar sauce.

[rubato]

I hate tartar sauce.

I'm ecumenical on the subject of but I'll usually ask for cocktail sauce instead, if they have it.


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rubato

[Sean]

I like tartar sauce but it has no place with traditional British fish 'n' chips.

[Daisy]

Agreed, salt and vinegar only. Tartar sauce goes with scampi not fish and chips.

And those "mushy peas" in that pie just look like crushed normal peas. Everyone knows that a mushy pea should be a gloopy lurid green with no trace of recognisable pea shape left.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Amen!

[Gob]

Thirded!!

I make my own, can't beat homemade mushy peas.

[Rick]

I thought you didn't eat meat

[Gob]

I don't eat meat, but I returned to eating fish a couple of years ago, this is why;

We were presented with our menus at the start of the meal, they had a special one for me, as I’d requested “piscatarian” food. Yup, after thirty years of being a vegetarian, it only took Heston’s prices to get me to eat fish again. I was not prepared to, and thought it would be silly to, eat meat at the Fat Duck. My body may have reacted against it, and it would be silly, embarrassing and expensive to hurl the bloody lot up again. I told the waiter this, and he offered to change my tasting menu to fully vegetarian, I decided to stick with the fish adventure.

[Rick]

Oops guess I missed it

[Gob]

No worries, I didn't make a big fuss of it here, that quote was from our blog, so you didn't really miss it.

[Rick]

Uh I read yer blog from time to time, haven't in a while though since my pc crashed and I lost the addy

[Daisy]

Thirded!!

I make my own, can't beat homemade mushy peas.

Us too. My dad made brilliant mushy peas when we were kids, a real treat with proper chips and bacon ribs.

[Lord Jim]

I guess mushy peas are another one of those cultural things...

When I think of "mushy peas" I think of:

[MajGenl.Meade]

How odd! I always think of Frank Zappa