The Pies

Gazboro said:
There must be other places to buy a cheaper pie from them prices are shocking
Go to greggs at 5 bells get a nice pie bang it in the microwave before yer set off to the game
And put it in yer sky rocket
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Do you ever go to football matches?
It's what they all charge Udders wanted 3.90 and my Lad reckoned it's one of the worst pies ever.
 
Gazboro said:
I agree with you it is now a shithole
But I was. Born there and I still think of it my home
I have not lived there for 20 yrs
I cant be arsed tonight with knobheads good night god bless
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You're right, I am a knobhead, a day on the pop + another point thrown away = knobhead. Apologies.
 
Back to the salient issue of pie quality. I arrived early and procured steak pie chips and gravy from the Chinese chippy just up from the Bloomfield. The pie was stone cold. Never again! Seems like we are locked into a bad pie vortex 🏝️ 😗
 
Mark_GT said:
Back to the salient issue of pie quality. I arrived early and procured steak pie chips and gravy from the Chinese chippy just up from the Bloomfield. The pie was stone cold. Never again! Seems like we are locked into a bad pie vortex 🏝️ 😗
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There must be somewhere in blackpool you can get a decent pie and at a reasonable price ?
 
Gazboro said:
I agree with you it is now a shithole
But I was. Born there and I still think of it my home
I have not lived there for 20 yrs
I cant be arsed tonight with knobheads good night god bless
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I've heard people say that a lot about Middlesbrough but I when I last visited for our game in 2009 I actually thought it was a nice looking town, ended up walking around for hours from the train station, remember a big ferris wheel in the center of town with the christmas lights. Even walked around a lot of the residential areas and maybe I was just in a nice part of the city but everything seemed in good order to me.
 
Gazboro said:
I agree with you it is now a shithole
But I was. Born there and I still think of it my home
I have not lived there for 20 yrs
I cant be arsed tonight with knobheads good night god bless
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Worked at Wilton for 20 years but had a house in Yarm .Used to cycle to work ,could be scary going through Grangetown.🤣
 
Mark_GT said:
Back to the salient issue of pie quality. I arrived early and procured steak pie chips and gravy from the Chinese chippy just up from the Bloomfield. The pie was stone cold. Never again! Seems like we are locked into a bad pie vortex 🏝️ 😗
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I see your steak pie n chips and raise you two cheese and onions pies and one sausage roll from BFCs concourse. 3 hungry kids = £10! All of them enjoyed their food however I was left looking aghast at the cost..... whilst I drank my 2 x beers at £3.50 each 🤪🍻
 
PdxTangerine said:
I've heard people say that a lot about Middlesbrough but I when I last visited for our game in 2009 I actually thought it was a nice looking town, ended up walking around for hours from the train station, remember a big ferris wheel in the center of town with the christmas lights. Even walked around a lot of the residential areas and maybe I was just in a nice part of the city but everything seemed in good order to me.
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Some places are ok but it has got a lot rougher over the years
There are some good boozers in the boro also
When I am back I tend to drink in stockton it was my old hunting ground
 
Goforgoal said:
Straight question, if you’ve had them before and they were very poor, why would you buy them again? I have never had them and reading the uncomplimentary comments on here never will.😁
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Because the Pork Shop is generally very very good so its only right and fair to give them another chance ....
 
The only pie worth it's crust is a Hollands Potato and Meat. Old faithful.

Yeah it's full of unidentifiable, grey, semi-liquid "matter" but it tastes bloody great and it has a nice hard, crisp water crust pastry. The top of the pie is also the perfect vehicle for a spiral of HP sauce.

All other pies are simply imitations full of stodge.
 
Not much use for Bloomfield Road, however, for our FA Cup match v Hartlepool, there are a couple of excellent local butchers who do some really good pies; Morell's just edge it.

I may get a job lot and sell them in the ground.
 
Pork Shop have taken too much on. When they had the one shop in Poulton their pies were excellent. They’ve gone a bit too big for their boots & let standards slip.
 
Macseasider said:
The only pie worth it's crust is a Hollands Potato and Meat. Old faithful.

Yeah it's full of unidentifiable, grey, semi-liquid "matter" but it tastes bloody great and it has a nice hard, crisp water crust pastry. The top of the pie is also the perfect vehicle for a spiral of HP sauce.

All other pies are simply imitations full of stodge.
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I got them all the time when I worked in heysham
I liked them.
 
Ginge said:
We go there every Saturday.... fantastic old fashioned bakery. Pies both savory and sweet
They even bake their own bread and barms.
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We went there every Saturday around 40 years ago, or should I say my dad drove and I went in for the family order.

It was called Ditchfields then but was just the same.

Ditchfields pie, baked beans, brown sauce and bread and butter was our Saturday lunchtime staple back then.
 
Tangerine_Homo said:
Because the Pork Shop is generally very very good so its only right and fair to give them another chance ....
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I’ve tried the Pork shop twice now, the first time I was unimpressed, but thought I’d give it another go, the second time I was even more unimpressed. Don’t get the hype, the club needs to find another supplier and look at their equipment for keeping pies hot, without murdering them.
 
It is a long time since I bought pies anywhere in Blackpool - Berry's pork pies near the bus station anybody? To read the posts on this thread about hot pies within the ground - one of the match pleasures - should concern the BFC management. Why not approach the likes of Laines, or " the bakery opposite Bloomfield Road" and get them involved. Price them right and sales will soar - no waste - what they don't sell they just take back. Win/win. Just a thought.
 
WeMightScrapeADraw said:
Pork Shop have taken too much on. When they had the one shop in Poulton their pies were excellent. They’ve gone a bit too big for their boots & let standards slip.
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This is true. They were brilliant back in the day when they were made in the shop by the previous proprietor.

Since his son took over they have shifted to Poulton Industrial Estate and quality has dropped.

However, it was always the pork pies they were famous for, not M&P etc. I've still not had a bad pork pie from the shop, but never tried one at the ground.
 
Cheesyleps said:
This is true. They were brilliant back in the day when they were made in the shop by the previous proprietor.

Since his son took over they have shifted to Poulton Industrial Estate and quality has dropped.

However, it was always the pork pies they were famous for, not M&P etc. I've still not had a bad pork pie from the shop, but never tried one at the ground.
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The pies should be fine in the ground but I feel the problem is not the pies themselves but the way the club keep them warm. I am certainly no expert but as a layman it appears to me that the pie warmers the club use just dry them out hence the filling becomes tasteless and dry and the pastry is also dry and often looking nearly burnt. I have noticed the earlier you get to the ground the better they are as presumably they have less time in the warmer. Are we the only club who has this problem....I think we might be as I have not come across it at other grounds. So, to me we need to look at how long the pies are in the warmer....the type of warmer we use and any other alternative methods. As an aside our food offering in my view us really poor and limited. It's basically pies and hot dogs yet other clubs do chips, pulled pork, chilli, etc so why can we not. I raised this with the SLO and got nothing back apart from the usual generic response "I'll raise with the club". We should be doing much better food wise, you can't even get onions for a hot dog which is rubbish!
 
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