Richard Neville was judge of pork pies at Alec’s 100th
birthday party.
Five fatal stabbings this year.
Sport
Paul O’Donnell footballer with Motherwell died on the pitch.
Huddersfield knocks Birmingham out of Cup 2 -
1.
Halifax
beat Huddersfield Giants (reserves)
Pies
Richard – Best pie all year!Meat to die for..Fresh course,succulent meat. Crispy pastry.one of the
best we have had.9
Peter – Supberb pie,crispy nutty pastry. Delicious meat,
porky and tasty.9
Mark -As above,
Granges’s of Slaithwaite9
John – Golden pastry, tall pie. Great model of a pork pie.
Course tasty meat. Lovely jelly. Void between meat and top of pie.8
Stuart – Fresh well filled. Really enjoyed it.8.5
Kevin – Grangers pie. Pastry was burnt and tasted burnt.
Hollow top. Tasty jelly and succulent meat.7
Bob -Enjoyed it.
Good afterburn. Fresh pastry.9
Grange’s of Slaithwaite.80p Average =8.8
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January 2008
World Events
Peter’s birthday today. 58 and does not look a day over 48.
( Peter is writing this)
John is a Grandad. Avy ( girl) 6lb 11oz.
ID theft – Jeremy Clarkson and Chairman of Barclay’s get
stung for £500 and £10000 respectively
Sir Edmund Hiliary,first man on Everest. Dies at 88 years.
Hiliary Clinton makes a comeback
Asda will fine people for using disabled parking spaces.
Parking fines are to go up.
Sport
Man Utd beat Newcastle Utd 6 – 0 and Sam Alladyce loses his
job as manager
Harry Rednap turns the job down.
Pies
Mistake made today. 2 fetchers today.
1St Pie
Peter – Tasty pie,deep pie, a little soggy,succulent good
pie 8
Phil – Spongy on the sides,bit a jelly, quite like a Stuart
Booth pie. 7.5
John – Golden pastry,soggy pastry. Plenty of pepper,good pie
7.5
Mark – Fresh,nice pie.Well filled. Good tasty meat, good
jelly. 8.5
Kevin – Full of meat. Spicy, prime meat. Thin pastry9
Bob – Pleasant, well filled. Not sure it was fresh. Spicy. 7
Bruce – Belter of a pie. Deep,well filled. Spicy nice
afterburn. Just right amount of jelly. Slightly soggy. Well glazed.Best pie of the year.9
Richard – Disappointed with soft pastry. Lovely pie. Meat
was great. Well filled. Brosters Farm shop.Ave mark 8 cost 85p
2Nd Pie
Kevin – Did not like pastry,burnt. Meat was ground to a
paste. Could only taste pepper. Did not like it.1.5
Bob - Grey meat,
spicy, liked it.7
Bruce – Wholemeal pastry. Very dry pastry. Meat was a shock.
Chewing for ever. Was it a beef pie? Did not enjoy it.Mark for round ,mark for
pastry and one for luck 3
Richard – Cut into it and reminded me of a pathologist’s specimen.
Persisted with it. 5
Peter – Dessicated pie. Fossilised pie. Cross section looked
like a slide of liver, with holes, perhaps George Best’s liver. 4
Phil – Thin pastry. Peppery meat.6
John – Looks like a pork pie but could be a vegetarian pie.
Chewy, could not taste any pork. New fetch gone wrong.2
Mark –. Pastry,jelly and something else not sure it was meat.
3
Steven Morris from Loughborough. 95p Ave mark = 3.9
Pies 19 January
World
Events
Boeing 777 crash lands at Heathrow. First
Officer Coward is a hero. Gas and Electric going up by 15%. Rains keeps on
going all week. Brighouse blobbers blob on the 25 anniversary reunion meeting.
Royal Navy lose a laptop with names and
addresses of personnel
Bobby Fischer, Chess champion dies at 64.
Sport
Kevin Keagan gets Newcastle
managers job and first match they draw against Bolton.
Andy Murrey out of Australian Open. Australia lost chance to set a new world record
for successive test wins after losing to India.
Pies
Peter - Greasy, lardy thick pastry. Made
your lips shine like lipstick.Little spice in the very finely ground meat
slurry.2.5
Phil-Big pie, biscuity pastry.
Liberal amount of jelly.Lacked
something. Fell apart. Lot of salt. Not
bad6
Mark – Pastry was dire, soft and nasty.
Hard work to get to the meat. Big pie and this was a problem. Meat spicy but
nothing to write home about.4.5
John – Large pie. Tasted burnt. Was soft
biscuity pasty. Dog meat. Tasteless and salty jelly. Did not look bad.2.5
Kevin – Looked a good pie with a shiny top.
Under baked biscuit pastry. Very salty. Soft chewy meat.5
John Edwards – Pastry biscuity and greasy.
Not unpleasant and fulsome.6
Bob -Not fresh, poor pastry,5
Bruce – Great looking pie. Extremely thick
pastry. Meat was strange. Had plenty of jelly but much too salty.5
Ellisons of Cullingworth. 75p. Ave = 4.6
25
January 2008
World
Events
Fire bomb in Taxi office in Ripponden.
French finance trader loses 3.5 billion.
Duke of Wessex child in hospital
Floods in West Yorkshire
and every where else
Peter Hains forced to resign for police
investigation
Israelis blockade power and supplies.
Sport
Bob reckons the fight of the year this with
Joe Calzghie
Kerin Falon banned for cocaine use.
Havant and Waterlooville Football Club put
up a good fight against Liverpool. 5 -2
Newcastle lose again.
Pies
Mark - Very fresh pie. Flat funny shape,full of
jelly, favoursome course grain meat.Very crispy pastry.9
Colin – Nice meat and jelly. Touch too much
pepper. Bit cold.6.
Maria ( sister in law of Neil Young, Bob
says the greatest left winger Man. City ever had.)
Salty, too much pepper. Fresh crispy
pastry8
Phil – Fresh, crispy packed pastry. Loads
of salt and pepper.8
Kevin – Not a ladies pie! Fresh crispy
salty, Michael Thewlis has done well. 8.5
Bob -Lot of pepper. Pastry great. Jelly and
meat was superb.8
Peter – Fresh, crispy succulent meat and
lovely jelly. A superb pie. 9