Fray Bentos Pies

[Porty]

I used to really like them when i was younger. Now my mum denies that she ever used to give them to us.

Anyways, i bought 6 a couple of weeks ago, as they were on a 2 for 1 and although he had never tried one I thought Bruce and pals were bound to like them and It might keep them away from the more expensive provisions. Well? I was certainly right about the first bit, Ive had to buy 4 more. Sadly, they've still eaten everything else too.

I know Dada is a nap for being an FBP fan. When was the last time you all tried one? (I haven't risked it yet)

[Epykat]

My mum used to buy them a lot as well. And they were served with TINNED potatoes (yuck) - I loved it! That's always supposing you still had enough fingers to hold your fork after you'd opened the dashed thing Did anybody elses mother make them eat spam fritters? Really, it's a wonder we've lived this long.

[Porty]

My mum used to buy them a lot as well. And they were served with TINNED potatoes (yuck) - I loved it! That's always supposing you still had enough fingers to hold your fork after you'd opened the dashed thing Did anybody elses mother make them eat spam fritters? Really, it's a wonder we've lived this long.

My dad made outstanding Spam fritters and corn beef ones too. He also used to smoke when he was doing the dishes and put his fag out in the water.

[Epykat]

My mum used to let me play with the dirty ashtray. It was sort of like etch a sketch when you mashed the bits of ash down and then drew in it with a spent match

(think we need a new thread: Things Your Mum Would Deny)

[Robin!]

Fray Bentos = rank those pies are horrible.

[foxy]

We had FB pies, spam fritters, corned beef fritters and potato fritters. We even had eggs cooked in the hot fat in the chip pan after the chips were ready....absolutely brilliant cos they sort of exploded, cooked in seconds and the white went all lovely and cripsy. The dilemma was getting the egg out with a straining spoon without the yolk all running back into the pan

I used to like the pastry on the FB pies but the meat was vile

I also remember having rissoles from the butcher on a regular basis...who knows what was in them although I seem to remember they had different types to choose from

God help my ateries

[Porty]

God help my ateries

You can be so vein.

[Epykat]

We also used to get that Irish Stew stuff in a tin But, in her defence, my Mum did make brilliant stovies.

[teddygirl]

Mr TG loves Fray Bentos pies so I let him have one now and again for a treat I like the pastry but not the meat so I don't bother with them. The dog adores the tin afterwards and chases it round the kitchen for ages licking every last morsel. Haven't tried any of the other flavours, just the steak one.
When I was wee my favourite tinned meal was Goblin hamburgers, I tried them recently(in a nostalgic mood) and they have either changed the recipe or my palate has improved somewhat.

[Porty]

The dog adores the tin afterwards and chases it round the kitchen for ages licking every last morsel. Sounds like Bruce. When I was wee my favourite tinned meal was Goblin hamburgers, I tried them recently(in a nostalgic mood) and they have either changed the recipe or my palate has improved somewhat.

I hated Goblin hamburgers, only tried them once and oddly enough they reminded me of Gibbs tinned toothpaste, which I loved.

[teddygirl]

What on earth is Gibbs tinned toothpaste?

[Poppy]

Gibbs tinned toothpaste

Good grief, I'd forgotten about that - fantastic stuff!! Can taste the green one as I type!!

[teddygirl]

There was more than one colour?

[Poppy]

Thought there was white, pink and green? Or is that my medication giving me weird 'memories'??!!

[foxy]

When I was wee my favourite tinned meal was Goblin hamburgers, I tried them recently(in a nostalgic mood) and they have either changed the recipe or my palate has improved somewhat.

I'd forgotten about them. Yucky thick glutinous gravy and possibly some meat in there

[teddygirl]

The yucky thick glutinous gravy was the best bit, as for meat, I doubt there was any, don't really want to think about what it probably was.

[Dadaist]

Sorry I'm late. This is my dream thread.

Normally I am verbose, but let me say only 2 things.

1. I still think any crisps which aren't Fine Fare Yellow Label are posh

2. These fancy shmancy reality programmes with their complicated tasks should just give participants a FB pie, an old tin opener and the average student flat's oven. The one who manages to sit down and finish a complete cooked pie with the least cuts and burns wins. A real test of manual dexterity and patience is them things but oh criminy the rewards. Lumps of kidney and soggy pastry oh mummy.

[Porty]

Sorry I'm late. This is my dream thread.

Normally I am verbose, but let me say only 2 things.

1. I still think any crisps which aren't Fine Fare Yellow Label are posh

2. These fancy shmancy reality programmes with their complicated tasks should just give participants a FB pie, an old tin opener and the average student flat's oven. The one who manages to sit down and finish a complete cooked pie with the least cuts and burns wins. A real test of manual dexterity and patience is them things but oh criminy the rewards. Lumps of kidney and soggy pastry oh mummy.

I won't say I told you.

[teddygirl]

Of course running a close second to the hamburgers came Campbells meatballs

[foxy]

Of course running a close second to the hamburgers came Campbells meatballs

Think you can still get them at Ikea

Who was Campbell anyway

[Bob Jefferson]

Has anyone tried Fraser's marvellous meatballs at Findlay's? The spicy lamb ones are excellent. I think that Campbells have effectively blighted the whole concept of meatballs for the last 3 decades but ... oh whatever, please post your pathetic double-entendres here!

[foxy]

Has anyone tried Fraser's marvellous meatballs at Findlay's? The spicy lamb ones are excellent. I think that Campbells have effectively blighted the whole concept of meatballs for the last 3 decades but ... oh whatever, please post your pathetic double-entendres here!

Wouldn't dream of it...and I think you're right about Campbell. I for one would never eat meatballs..even Fraser's

[Porty]

Campbells boast about their production kit.

Base Handling Products designed, built and installed new hoisting and tipping equipment for the Worksop facility. The seven machines have been a key factor in the re-launch of the entire Homepride cook-in-sauce range, completely transforming the production process. Manufacturing various soups and sauces involves the loading and mixing of many different ingredients: from vegetables and meat to herbs and spices. Before the new equipment was introduced, only defrosted ingredients could be handled. The new machinery allows frozen materials to be used, which speeds up the production process. There were also problems involved with the double handling of materials and damage to delicate ingredients. Campbell's ingredients are either delivered in cardboard octoboxes (in the case of frozen vegetables), IBCs or as a tinned product. The new process of loading the ingredients into the cooking vessel, at a height of approximately 4.3m, had to accommodate all the ingredients.

Four of the machines supplied by Base were double pillar mechanical octobox tippers, which have a lifting capacity of 1,000kg and a discharge height of 4,300mm.

The main ingredient in most recipes is frozen vegetables, which are supplied in 1,000kg cardboard Octoboxes. These boxes are loaded directly into the Double Pillar Tippers, using a powered hand pallet truck, and tipped into the cooking vessel.

Yummy

[Pal of Porty]

FRAY BENTOS: THE INGREDIENTS

Water, Chicken 26%, Wheatflour, Margarine, Mushroom 5%, Chicken (Mechanically Separated), Vegetable Oil, Modified Starch, Whey Powder, Salt, Flavouring, Spices. Minimum 26% Meat (Meat as defined under the industry standards, not really what we call meat).

YUKKY YUKKY YUKKY

Give me home made any day!

[Novastar]

I once put cabling through a factory where the mechanically seperated turkey's.

String the birds up and then blast steam at them. Bits go everywhere. Get collected up, mushed together and pumped out to your local chicken scrap user (**Cough**McDonalds**Cough**)

Put me off chicken nuggets for a long time

[wangi]

And now you work at a vets? Sheesh!

[Porty]

FRAY BENTOS: THE INGREDIENTS

Water, Chicken 26%, Wheatflour, Margarine, Mushroom 5%, Chicken (Mechanically Separated), Vegetable Oil, Modified Starch, Whey Powder, Salt, Flavouring, Spices. Minimum 26% Meat (Meat as defined under the industry standards, not really what we call meat).)

This is Pornography for Dada.

PoP give us your expert opinion on how poor the above is for balanced diet.

[prombabe]

Dont forget the oxo gravy with the FBP and the processed peas mmmmmmm and the fags oh yes those fags were put out in the half empty tea cup Spam fritters ......who cares about furry arteries when you can have spam fritters along with potato fritters(my dad could make fabby tattie fritters)and of cource processed peas.
Treacle pieces thrown out to you while you were playing wrapped in plain bread greaseproof paper naturally.Am I getting carried away here

[foxy]

I always wondered what made processed peas different from other peas. I thought they were totally manufactured somehow, but apparently not

Agricultural crops contains naturual enzymes which assist in the metabolic and regulatory functions of the plants. When these crops are harvested, enzymes can be released into interstitial and tissue spaces. This is true in the case of apples that have been bruised, or other fruits that have been harvested but not consumed and then brown (i.e. bananas). These enzymes cause browning reactions, which make the food unappealing, and trick the consumer into thinking it is spoiled. Processing peas involoves a blanching step - which is simply a quick dunk of the peas in hot water. This hot water dunk inactives the degrading enzymes, preventing their reactions, and maintaining the freshness of the food for an extended period of time

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Sounds ok

[Pal of Porty]

PoP give us your expert opinion on how poor the above is for balanced diet.

Porty you don't need an opinion, just look at the facts. Start with the meat for instance - The industry definition of ‘meat’ - allows Mechanically Recovered Meat to be used. MRM is basically:

" . . residual material, off bones, obtained by machines operating on auger, hydraulic or other pressure principles in such a manner that the cellular structure of the material is broken down sufficiently for it to flow in puree form from the bone. It can be used in any product containing chopped or minced meat. But in practice it is used in very few fresh, raw meat products and in few fresh cooked products. The main use is, apparently, in products at the bottom end of the market, such as frozen sausages, burgers and pies etc. In 1995, Mr J Slinger of the Federation of Fresh Meat Wholesalers put the value of bovine MRM at 80p per kilogram"

Fray Bentos is the name of a place in Uruguay - that's as near as their pies are getting to the PoP household.

[foxy]

PoP give us your expert opinion on how poor the above is for balanced diet.

Porty you don't need an opinion, just look at the facts. Start with the meat for instance - The industry definition of ‘meat’ - allows Mechanically Recovered Meat to be used. MRM is basically:

" . . residual material, off bones, obtained by machines operating on auger, hydraulic or other pressure principles in such a manner that the cellular structure of the material is broken down sufficiently for it to flow in puree form from the bone. It can be used in any product containing chopped or minced meat. But in practice it is used in very few fresh, raw meat products and in few fresh cooked products. The main use is, apparently, in products at the bottom end of the market, such as frozen sausages, burgers and pies etc. In 1995, Mr J Slinger of the Federation of Fresh Meat Wholesalers put the value of bovine MRM at 80p per kilogram"

Fray Bentos is the name of a place in Uruguay - that's as near as their pies are getting to the PoP household.

Going veggie sounds like a very attractive option after reading this

[bellybabe]

Has anyone tried Fraser's marvellous meatballs at Findlay's?

You just couldn't help it, could you? Here we were, having a nice chat about the real food we all used to eat and you had to do the foodie thing, trying to bring us upmarket again...

oh whatever, please post your pathetic double-entendres here!

Er...ok. I have to say I don't think I would find even Fraser's meatballs appealing. Meatballs just don't do it for me. I'm pretty much veggie these days...

[bellybabe]

My mum used to let me play with the dirty ashtray. It was sort of like etch a sketch when you mashed the bits of ash down and then drew in it with a spent match

I used to do that too...about the only toy I had *sniff*. It was a wee flowery saucer thing inside a miniature Firestone tyre. One of the tackiest things I ever saw - although next to the coloured glass fish, the fishermen's net of coloured glass balls, and the horse brasses, it looked quite stylish... Drawing in it with matches was the only way you ever got to uncover the flowery design. And then you wished you hadn't. Enough to make you start smoking.

[bellybabe]

As for the last time I had a Brother Bentos I must have been about 10. But it seems like more recently because then me mam took to making her own pies, using Goblin tinned steak'n'gravy, but rather than be upmarket and buy a pie dish, she continued using the same old FB tin a genuine FB pie had once lived in, and in fact still does, more than twenty years later.

[Dadaist]

As well as the usual fire extinguishing equipment in my chemistry classroom at school, the teacher kept an old Fray Bentos tin full of sand for chemical spills or accidents.

I remember so many things from that one room - the posters on the walls, old benches and stools, raised podium for the teacher, enormous periodic table poster, old warped glass in the windows, fume cupboard etc, but the tin stands out.