Most expensive pork pie ever!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This would be a rant in the pit if it wasn’t for the fact that the whole episode cheered me up.

Yestarday I went shopping. I bought 2 scotch eggs, a small pork pie, 2 scotch pies, some jacket potatos with cheese in them, a magazine (Winxp mag, for the coverdisk), and a 24 can box of coke.

The lot came to about £49 (give or take a quid)

It didn’t register at first. I handed over 2 £20 notes. The clerk told me that wasn’t enough and then realized and said “Pass me the ciche”.

“I don’t have a chiche”

“The pie then. Do you have a pie?”

I handed her the pork pie.

“Thought so. This pie cost £25”

She voided it and charged me 75p for it, but I got to keep the label with £25 written on it. I was ready to pay the full £49 and if I hadn’t made the mistake of handing over £40 The other error might not have been discovered until too late.

She told me the same thing happened yestarday. Someone was charged £75 for a cornish pastie.
Check your labels!

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Geez, I know inflation hits hard, but 49 quid for 2 scotch eggs, 3 pies, jacket potatoes, a magazine and a case of Coke and you didn’t even flinch at the price? I wouldn’t be going back to that place any time soon.

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I don’t know what a “scotch pie” is. Is it filled with an alcoholic beverage? Or does it come with a tape dispenser?

Also I don’t know what “scotch eggs” are. Above questions obviously can apply here as well.

“Jacket potatoes” are obviously what we (meaning US’ians would call “potato skins” and not a potato that got cold and had to cover up.

I feel so uncool not knowing these obviously important Englishians.

Note: The above contains made up word not neccessarily approved by the Chicago Reader or affiliations thereof. :slight_smile:

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Scotch pie was new to me until I bought one. I think it’s scotish. It’s basically a meat pie.

Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and then wrapped in breadcrumbs.

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I LOVE Scotch Eggs! I had them for the first time at this weird “English Pub” in North Augusta, South Carolina (right across the Savannah River from Augusta). They had English beer, darts, and things like Scotch Eggs and pub lunches, etc. I would go there and eat three scotch eggs and wash it down with a couple of pints of Guiness. Dinner is served!

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Were they homemade? Hot or cold?
The scotch eggs I bought were cold and not homemade. They are ok as a snack.

Homemade, warm, with salad. That’s a different story! The yolk is not set, the sausage tastes like sausage. Pure heaven.

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I loved Scotch pies when I was a kid. My grandparents were the stereotypical expatriates who became far more Scottish than anyone who actually lives in Scotland. They ate Scotch pies on a regular basis, and my grandfather encouraged me to gross out my parents by scooping out the filling and eating it on its own first (it’s kind of a gloopy grayish mystery meat).

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They were freshly made to order and hot. I dont know if the sausage here is similar to the sausage there; it might be a bit spicier here. But yeah, the yolk was kind of medium-hard.

Damn! gotta get me some of those Scotch Eggs now…maybe I can make them…

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Do you mean “quiche”?

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Real men don’t eat cliché.
I thang yew . . .

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Yes.

“The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.”

Not any more! HA HA HA!!!

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Er, no. Jacket potatoes are what you US’ians call baked potatoes.

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Shhhhhh !
The first rule of the quiche . . .

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goes to see if Weebl and Bob have updated lately