Waddo 921 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 So then, Robin made prize winning pork pies but let pork farms take the credit, when he could have turned himself into a multi millionaire. Or pork farms could have paid Robin a tidy sum and bought the recipe and won the prizes legitimately. Where did it go wrong ? Or have I missed something? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 We had a pork pie making contest at our local many years ago. I cheated and put in a Pork Farm’s. I won! I did own up though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 You've missed something obviously, he worked for Pork Farms they owned the shop and factory. He got very well paid for what he did, which left him plenty of time to follow his sports which was his passion, it seem to us he was always either up the shoot, fly fishing or what ever. Pork Farms even sent him over to France to take part with the Chevaliers du Goute-Boudin in their competitions but I don't know whether he did any good or not but his boudin-nior was very good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waddo 921 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I still don't get it, if he worked for them, how is it classed as "rigged" surely it's a pork farms pie!!. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Funnily enough one of our pub pie making entrants took lessons from a Pork Farm’s pie maker but my “genuine” pie still won. He didn’t even come second! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Simple Waddo it wasn't the pies sold in Pork Farm shops, they were mass produced down the Queens Drive plant at the time, these were hand made just for competition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 552 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 If you think Pork Farms pies are good try one from Barlows at Newthorpe or Nuncargate. Don't think you would go back to Pork Farms, I certainly wouldn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 ^^^^^^^I do regularly, had one of their beef pies for tea this week. We work all the time in and around Sutton so its no pain for us to drop in to Nuncargate on the way back. The do great hot pork cobs too. And I certainly wouldn't class Pork Farms pies as good in ant circumstance's, but like I have pointed out Robins pies were very different. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Robbs Butchers of Newark..... Superbly morish. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gem 1,430 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I have decided on a hand raised pork pie with mustard and slice of ham on the bone, lots of suggestions to choose from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 22, 2017 Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 Not frugal, tight, or a skinflint by any stretch of the imagination, but I never buy bags of logs for the chiminea from garden centres or other retail outlets. I've seen some perfectly formed designer logs for £5.99 for a small net bag. What an utter joke and a rip off. When residing at Saxondale, I exchanged duck and hen eggs for scrap pallet blocks for my multi fuel stove. Nowadays with only the chiminea, I constantly collect scrap timber from country walks, coastal visits, and anywhere else that takes my fancy. If it's burnable, then ill take it. Although I've currently got two plastic coal bunkers full, and several compost bags full in the shed. Roll on spring so I can use them ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 I am rather lucky, FLY2, in that I have permission to take any windfalls from the conifer wood across the road. This morning I went over and cut up a whole tree that fell during Storm Caroline a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow I am going back over to cut down a dead but standing tree, before it falls on the railway adjacent to where it stands.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 All this talk of Pork Pies and mustard brought to mind a chap called Carl Brindley, with whom I served some time in the RAF. At the local pub he would go in every night, buy a pork pie and sit with the pie and jar of Colman's mustard, spreading the mustard on the pie like sandwich spread. Eventually, the landlord barred him from having mustard, saying that he couldn't afford to provide a whole jar of mustard for a single pie! Unphased, Carl subsequently took in his own mustard 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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