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Sainsbos Taste the Difference. These have a weird stale and yeasty smell. The pastry is too sweet and has a crispy, crunchy, feel that verges on nasty. The filling has strong flavours of fruits and spices, but it's not worth the dodgy pastry. 🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sainsbos Taste the Difference. These have a weird stale and yeasty smell. The pastry is too sweet and has a crispy, crunchy, feel that verges on nasty. The filling has strong flavours of fruits and spices, but it's not worth the dodgy pastry. 🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Sainsbos. The pastry has a nice crumble and crunch but is a bit bland and dry. The filling is fruity and juicy, but there's nothing else going on, no hints of booze or spice. Decent pies, but there's nothing festive about them. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay #mincetagram
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sainsbos. The pastry has a nice crumble and crunch but is a bit bland and dry. The filling is fruity and juicy, but there's nothing else going on, no hints of booze or spice. Decent pies, but there's nothing festive about them. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay #mincetagram
A lovely proper pie crust, thick and with a pleasant bite. The filling is spicy, has a HUGE glog of brandy and port, and a little citrus kick at the end. Very tasty indeed. These would probably get a top score, except they are half air. 🥧🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A lovely proper pie crust, thick and with a pleasant bite. The filling is spicy, has a HUGE glog of brandy and port, and a little citrus kick at the end. Very tasty indeed. These would probably get a top score, except they are half air. 🥧🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Firm pastry, just the right side of "crispy", with a pleasant bite. It looks a bit dry, but appearances are deceiving. The filling is fruity and tasty, but lacks any sort of kick. No spice, no citrusy zing, and no booze. Decent but generic. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
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November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Firm pastry, just the right side of "crispy", with a pleasant bite. It looks a bit dry, but appearances are deceiving. The filling is fruity and tasty, but lacks any sort of kick. No spice, no citrusy zing, and no booze. Decent but generic. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
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#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
OMV! Merrily Vegan (Asda)
The pastry is so soft as to be almost non-existent, like biting into a sugary cloud. The filling is tasty, although it's all fruit and no interesting booze or spices, and it's a bit stingy. Vegans deserve better. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
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The pastry is so soft as to be almost non-existent, like biting into a sugary cloud. The filling is tasty, although it's all fruit and no interesting booze or spices, and it's a bit stingy. Vegans deserve better. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
OMV! Merrily Vegan (Asda)
The pastry is so soft as to be almost non-existent, like biting into a sugary cloud. The filling is tasty, although it's all fruit and no interesting booze or spices, and it's a bit stingy. Vegans deserve better. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
The pastry is so soft as to be almost non-existent, like biting into a sugary cloud. The filling is tasty, although it's all fruit and no interesting booze or spices, and it's a bit stingy. Vegans deserve better. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Aldi Perfect*Christmas. The pastry is far too soft, has no bite to it, and is dry and chalky. The filling is bland and with a slightly unpleasant crunchy texture. Chewy, I like, crunchy, not so much. Not actively bad, but not much good either. 🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Aldi Perfect*Christmas. The pastry is far too soft, has no bite to it, and is dry and chalky. The filling is bland and with a slightly unpleasant crunchy texture. Chewy, I like, crunchy, not so much. Not actively bad, but not much good either. 🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
M&S Collection. These have a big initial juicy, orangey hit, that does overpower the other flavours a bit. The pastry is too soft and sweet and gets a bit claggy, which muddies the lovely taste of the filling. A bit on the small side too. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
M&S Collection. These have a big initial juicy, orangey hit, that does overpower the other flavours a bit. The pastry is too soft and sweet and gets a bit claggy, which muddies the lovely taste of the filling. A bit on the small side too. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (No Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Asda Exceptional. These have a lovely firm and sweet pastry, and a mild but tasty filling. There are lots of varied fruity, spicy, and boozy flavours in here, but never overwhelming. A bit tight on the filling maybe, but very good indeed. 🥧🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Asda Exceptional. These have a lovely firm and sweet pastry, and a mild but tasty filling. There are lots of varied fruity, spicy, and boozy flavours in here, but never overwhelming. A bit tight on the filling maybe, but very good indeed. 🥧🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil) #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Aldi Specially Selected. The pastry has a nice firm texture, but the flavour is a tiny bit sickly. The filling has a full, fruity, tangy taste, and there is plenty of it, but the texture is a bit... gritty? Nice, but also disappointing. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
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November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Aldi Specially Selected. The pastry has a nice firm texture, but the flavour is a tiny bit sickly. The filling has a full, fruity, tangy taste, and there is plenty of it, but the texture is a bit... gritty? Nice, but also disappointing. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
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#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
SO IT BEGINS.
Asda "Joyous"
A firm pastry with a pleasant crumble gives way to a tasty filling full of lovely spices. There's a hint of saltiness in the pastry that I don't enjoy, but I am fussy about salt. Pretty good for a cheap(ish) pie. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Asda "Joyous"
A firm pastry with a pleasant crumble gives way to a tasty filling full of lovely spices. There's a hint of saltiness in the pastry that I don't enjoy, but I am fussy about salt. Pretty good for a cheap(ish) pie. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
SO IT BEGINS.
Asda "Joyous"
A firm pastry with a pleasant crumble gives way to a tasty filling full of lovely spices. There's a hint of saltiness in the pastry that I don't enjoy, but I am fussy about salt. Pretty good for a cheap(ish) pie. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Asda "Joyous"
A firm pastry with a pleasant crumble gives way to a tasty filling full of lovely spices. There's a hint of saltiness in the pastry that I don't enjoy, but I am fussy about salt. Pretty good for a cheap(ish) pie. 🥧🥧🥧 out of 5. (Palm Oil)
#MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Double bill part two.
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Double bill part two.
As is traditional. #TheNightHECameHome
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
As is traditional. #TheNightHECameHome
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Grand sumo on the BBC. What a world!
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Grand sumo on the BBC. What a world!
Family photo.
September 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Family photo.
In truth, it will be a bit of a struggle, not least because I can't take the villain Syril Karn seriously. He's basically Arnold Rimmer.
September 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In truth, it will be a bit of a struggle, not least because I can't take the villain Syril Karn seriously. He's basically Arnold Rimmer.
I started watching Andor yesterday. Gosh that first episode is *terrible* at setting up the premise, isn't it? If you were coming to this without having seen Rogue One it must be baffling. But I will stick with it, as I am told by everyone that it is very good indeed.
September 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I started watching Andor yesterday. Gosh that first episode is *terrible* at setting up the premise, isn't it? If you were coming to this without having seen Rogue One it must be baffling. But I will stick with it, as I am told by everyone that it is very good indeed.
Nah, it's all good. I've got one of these cool 90s superhero masks that totally hides my identity.
September 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Nah, it's all good. I've got one of these cool 90s superhero masks that totally hides my identity.
Crikey. Even I think this is a *bit* early. #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Crikey. Even I think this is a *bit* early. #MincePieFest2025 #MincePieADay
Ominous forecast for me today. Apparently the Eye of Sauron is about.
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ominous forecast for me today. Apparently the Eye of Sauron is about.
It was this, which is weird as I'm in the UK and 2000ad would have been readily available to me. But no, US format reprints for me, apparently. I also had a couple of Quality Comics Rogue Trooper reprints, but those came later.
September 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It was this, which is weird as I'm in the UK and 2000ad would have been readily available to me. But no, US format reprints for me, apparently. I also had a couple of Quality Comics Rogue Trooper reprints, but those came later.
Tango and... Cash?
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tango and... Cash?