[Closed] Who else in the north can smell pies?

I love pies, me.

I think the question should be 'can anybody up north not smell pies?'

yes indeed. pie paradise

Used to work near Hollands Pies - the smell first thing in the morning was rather nauseating... Especially with a hangover. It was reminiscent of a poor person's armpits.

ask your wife to close her legs.

I work just round the corner from Stanforths in Skipton - pork pie heaven!!

If you spot a cat or dog whilst driving through Baxenden all the other people in the car have to give you a pound.

Fact that, my dad told me years ago.

Time for this?
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I honestly don't know what the fuss is about Hollands, they're nowt special. They sell them at Turf Moor, which is where Delia Smith had one and had a load shipped down to Carrow Road for the Canaries.

For my money Haffners are far superior.

I'm only ten minutes away from Haffners!

AND YOU POST THIS ONE MINUTE AFTER THEY CLOSE!?!?!?

Pieteaser. 😐

I can, the wifes homemade chicken pie, yum yum in my tum. Happy in Sheffield. ;0)

how anyone can be proud of a factory that churns out third rate baked goods is beyond me.

Back in the day when York had a proper chocolate industry you could tell when they were making chocolate oranges when you rode past the Terry's factory , Rowntrees just smelt of chocolate but had a great factory shop where you could get big bags of mis-shapes including solid chocolate KitKats where the wafer had been missed out, they were awesome 😀

Worked at Nestle in Halifax for 10 months. Walking past the caramel section was mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Thought I'd be a right biffer when I left. Kinda put me off chocolate.

I want a Caramac right now!

surely everyone in the north positively [i]reeks[/i] of piss..?

EDIT: aah, sorry.. Misread the thread title 😳

I once heard a story about workers at the former truck factory Seddon Atkinson in Oldham went out on strike after the pie supplier to the works canteen was changed without consulting the Union rep.
Probably a bit of an urban legend but why let the truth spoil a pie story.

Hollands are ok. It pains me to admit it but the ones on at Blackburrn Roverrs were bloody good. Claytons.
A little surprisingly the ones at Wiggin in their funny little football ground were shite.

I live in Wigan, the shopfronts go in this order

Pie shop/bookmakers/charity shop/empty shop/pie shop and repeat.....

Ey enough you two, Wigan pies are the finest, Hollands are crap

And what's this funny little football ground you speak of? Can surely be the mighty DW

binners uses pie juice as eau de colongne............ 😀

MrNutt - Member

how anyone can be proud of a factory that churns out third rate baked goods is beyond me.

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Have you BEEN to Baxenden?
I'd be proud that the sun still bothers to visit, tbh. 😉

"ask your wife to close her legs"

I thought he said Holland's not Birds Eye.

mmmmmmmmpie juicemmmmmmmm 😀

Just about to tuck into round 2 of my homemade Goose, Leek & Mushroom pie.

It looked like this
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Before we tucked into it
This on the plate before I added the Broccoli
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Many years ago, when the world was in black and white, and man wot not of.. Hollands used to do a thin plate cheese and onion pie that.. Wait for it... ...... Fitted in an oven bottom muffin perfectly! and if you were a real [s]greedy bastard[/s] pie connoisseur, you could have a dollop of mushy peas on it as well...
Those were the days... 😥

the ones on at Blackburrn Roverrs were bloody good. Claytons.

Never been but I'm assuming they're [url= http://www.pietastic.com/ ]Clayton Park[/url] pies, local company. Their butter pies are tremendous.

Can't smell any pies.

The last regional smell I can recount was the fullers brewery in London

The north smells of nowt

Ha...... goose leek and mushroom in a pie, could only be a southerner

What's up with meyt n spud?

The pie factory in Carlisle smells boffin'. It certainly doesn't smell like any pie I've eaten anyway!

Middleton Junction - Joseph Holts brewery AND Sarsons Vinegar factory.
Smelliest place in the world.
Smells even more malty than a bag of Maltesers on Malta.

Don't mean to be rude but that goose/leek thing doesn't look [i]that[/i] appetising. We have Unicorn and stardust pie for lunch today. The joys of living daaaarn saaaarf. 🙂

I used to walk past the McVities factory in Levenshulme every day. Could explain why I demolished most of a packet of chocolate hobnobs yesterday.

Sweeney & Todd (Reading) is the true source of pie excellence.
FACT

I had an otter & quince pie for dinner yesterday (thats the meal eaten in the early evening, not the middle of the day) it was splended.

That's today's lunch taken care of.
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Now [i]that's[/i] a sandwich...

Has anyone tried one of those lid-less pies with an eggy/bacon filling?
Fewer carbs apparently 😉

Has anyone tried one of those lid-less pies with an eggy/bacon filling?

Mmmm quiche. Real men don't care what other people think of them.

how anyone can be proud of a factory that churns out third rate baked goods is beyond me.

You've clearly never been to Baxenden. If you had, you would know why they are so proud of Hollands... 😯

Quiche?

Flan, you mean?

Quiche? Flan? Bit OT really guys. This is a pie thread!

A pie without a lid??? Witchcraft.

Haffner's pies. Mmmmmm. John Haffner's an old friend of mine.

I used to live a stones throw from the McVities factory. I had to move before my arse became permanently wedged in the door frame.

Off to Haffners this afternoon.

Which do you recommend?

Now that's a sandwich...

It's a Wigan Kebab.

You've clearly never been to Baxenden. If you had, you would know why they are so proud of Hollands...

In Accrington, Baxenden is considered to be the posh end.

Rusty Spanner - meat and potato, of course. The prince of Pies.

I had Sausage Pie for breakfast this morning, I now have an urge to speak Northern, like, init.

Will you lot give it a rest.......... you haven't had a pie till you've tried a Pooles meyt n spud

Wigan is the land of pies

with or without gravy? i don't like too moist meself

No don't be daft and it must be eaten out of the foil, non of this knife and fork rubbish

You need to add gravy a drop at a time, ideally with a pipette. It separates out the gravyphilic and gravyphobic flavours in the pie.

[i]*loses everyone who's not been reading other threads...*[/i]

You can't tell a Wiganer about pies

The Spongebob bachelor pad will have a dedicated pie oven - the homemade ones - I've 25 years of homemade pie deprivation to catch up on!

You can't tell a Wiganer about pies

A friend of mine witnesses a major street brawl erupt in Wigan over who's turn it was to get the pies in. Its not why Wiganers are referred to a Pie Eaters though - thats to do with eating metaphorical pie, not meat and potato.

An old friend of mine went to college down in Bucks, and when his birthday was approaching his brother tried to persuade a certain well respected St Helens pie proprietor to send a box down for his birthday party. Some wires got crossed and the pie vendors understood this to be some sort of media event, not a student party, and sensing an opportunity - sent not a box, but a van load of free pies.

Actually Trailmoggy - talking of Wigan.... I wonder if this distinction still applies:

In your opinion which of these is a moggy?

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[i]You can't tell a Wiganer about pies[/i]

Or soup.

Bloke at work said that if you woke up in Wigan after being in a coma for a year you could tell what day it was by the smell from the Heinz soup factory.

Is this true?

You can't tell a Wiganer about owt,nivver mind pies.

It's true we aren't called pie eater because we eat a lot of pies, it's because the minors of wigan were the first go back after the general strike in 1926 and were said to be eating humble pie or something like that

but we seem to have taken a little too far and even have a pie eating championship......and our pies are the best

Oh and a moggy is a mouse, not a cat.

Oh and a moggy is a mouse, not a cat.

Good, thats not changed then.

When I lived in St Helens my GF at the time was reticent to go camping because of the Moggies. I thought she meant she though the site would full of feral cats but in St Helens a moggie is a spider or general creepy crawly.

It's true we aren't called pie eater because we eat a lot of pies, it's because the [b]minors[/b] of wigan were the first go back after the general strike in 1926 and were said to be eating humble pie

Child labour was still a major factor in Wigan until well into the 20th Century... 🙄