As anyone knows, who has ever been birding with the SPAT team, pies play a key part in any twitch. In the course of this blog we hope to review many pies and offer a comprehensive guide on what to look for in a good one. So here goes, the first review of a pie I found in of all places Waitrose, Sandbach.
Grub are a company whose packaging is obviously aimed to make you think you are buying into something wholesome made from good ingredients. For once the claims seem to be true!
This pie oozed quality. Proper chicken, pork and apricot chunks, nice and moist and seasoned well. The pastry was crisp and was made from wholemeal flour which added a nice twist to things. On the top were toasted sunflower seeds (which have the added bonus that they could be used to tempt a rarity to stick if you leave them on site). Also size wise it seemed slightly larger than the normal hand grenades we are used to. Only one let down, and this is why it only got a 7, there was a large amount of side VAG (Visual Air Gap) where quite frankly there should have been jelly. Maybe one day they will address this and make this pie into the best you can buy from a supermarket.
Even still, it didn't touch the sides and tasted great!
