Buckster Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Not found any exceptional ones this year, there are plenty of fancy attempts but nothing stands out, last year Lidl did one with a butterscotch drizzle which was excellent but this years offerings are much the same wherever you get them. Very disappointing, it is the only redeeming feature about Christmas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I love Mince Pies.....I picked up 36 from Albox! However I've eaten about half of them already! Wife hasn't noticed yet! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 ca't get either mince pies or Christmas pudding here, the French just cqn't get their heads round them. They all seem to eat oysters for Christmas, along with other seafood. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, MooN said: ca't get either mince pies or Christmas pudding here, the French just cqn't get their heads round them. They all seem to eat oysters for Christmas, along with other seafood. They don't do mince pies......they are just weird 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, MooN said: ca't get either mince pies or Christmas pudding here, the French just cqn't get their heads round them. They all seem to eat oysters for Christmas, along with other seafood. Any Brit shops near you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I've ate more mince pies this year than any other, the best so far are the Co-Op butter pastry jobbies 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, XTreme said: Any Brit shops near you? A Brit shop in France , are you f*cking mental ....................... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, XTreme said: Any Brit shops near you? no, thank God. qctuqlly I think there's a "comptoir Irlandais" in Dijon where N01 daughter buys the occasional pot of marmite, or gets me a packet of custard creams from time to time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, boboneleg said: A Brit shop in France , are you f*cking mental ....................... I'm sure there are some Bob, in the midi or dordogne I imagine where the big Brit ex-pat communities are / were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, MooN said: I'm sure there are some Bob, in the midi or dordogne I imagine where the big Brit ex-pat communities are / were. Well there's nothing around Phil's way and there are plenty of Brits in that area . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, boboneleg said: A Brit shop in France , are you f*cking mental ....................... No......just well informed! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, boboneleg said: Well there's nothing around Phil's way and there are plenty of Brits in that area . @Tango, any round your way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, MooN said: @Tango, any round your way? Google lists fucking loads in France! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 minute ago, XTreme said: Google lists fucking loads in France! Paris ( which doesn't really count as part of France and the south west mostly 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, Marcel said: We have the meat pie... there's no meat in a mince pie Marcel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 19 minutes ago, XTreme said: Google lists fucking loads in France! I'm surprised to be honest, nowhere near as many Brits in France as there are in Spain. Spain is overrun with them and they're not all as honest as you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, boboneleg said: Spain is overrun with them and there not all as honest as you That's what surprised me when I got here......I expected Brits here to be fairly upmarket. Instead I found it was like a Council Estate had exploded and the occupants had landed here. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Buckster said: Not found any exceptional ones this year, there are plenty of fancy attempts but nothing stands out, last year Lidl did one with a butterscotch drizzle which was excellent but this years offerings are much the same wherever you get them. Very disappointing, it is the only redeeming feature about Christmas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrider Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 15 hours ago, boboneleg said: I've ate more mince pies this year than any other, the best so far are the Co-Op butter pastry jobbies morrisons can do good mince pies as well 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 I thought they would have minced meat on the inside, but turns out nothing inside those pies is minced? Is the whole food thing in the UK a joke on foreigners? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 No mad keen on mince pies. Will eat them though. Weirdly we were given a food hamper this week with these inside. Quite nice but they were free which puts them in pole position for me 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Not cheap but they'll post most things.. except mince pies https://www.britishonlinesupermarket.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1PTDzcCD_AIViLbtCh2zQgMOEAAYASAAEgL67PD_BwE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 What Is Mince Pie and How Do You Make It? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 20 hours ago, MooN said: @Tango, any round your way? No, mate, but we make our own mince pies and Christmas cake. There's a few online places that do deliveries of brit food stuffs, mainly from the Republic of Ireland so they have less red tape to deal with. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Most supermarkets here have some British stuff in their foreign food aisles, but it's normally limited to extremely expensive jars of marmite and McVities biscuits! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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