Originally, they were quite nice, as was the pastry - they were, in fact, steak & kidney pies - over time, they should have been kidney & steak pies, as they tried to make them cheaper by making them more kidney than steak - the principal ingredient comes first - my mother never liked steak & kidney pies, as she didn’t like the liver in them - no mention of liver in the recipe - it’s actually kidney - they taste similar - anyone tried heart? Over time, they have changed the recipe to cheapen it - but have ruined it in the process! Fray Bentos used to do some really nice steak & kidney puddings as well! My eldest sister gets these pies, or similar - and keeps the little tins that they come in to make assorted flans with any combination of cheese, ham, bacon, onions and even pigs in blankets - washes them first, obviously - who wants bits of steak and kidney pie in a cheese & onion flan? I certainly don’t!

@@arthurvasey I have found that nearly all foods whether it's pies or generally tinned foods, don't taste the same as they did many years ago. Many original recipes have changed for the worse, as it's all about the savings with cost. Foods used to taste so good back when I was a kid but then, life was so much better than today.

@@arthurvasey cheers Arthur

These used to be lovely years back, lots of meat. But over the years the meat has been replaced with grissle and fat and then tonnes of gravy and horrid pastry.

@@mmwaashumslowww7167 i agree.

Yes it's great

i really didnt mind the soggy bits but misses will not have them in the house lol

Agreed 100% Sean...

I agree 👍

@@chipnroll I know the feeling,if I buy them and spam you would think I brought drugs or something in 😂

Haha yes bet there is

Haha Chappies the Melton Mowbray petfood factory now Mars Masterfoods.

Definitely more meat on a butcher's pencil than one of these 'pies'

That's a thought. I'm going to slip a few chunks of Chappie under the puff pastry of my next Fray Bentos before I pop it in the oven.

@@pvere3246 lmao my mother made my dad cat food burgers using beef "whiskers supermeat" 🤣 he knew something was wrong because he could actually keep it down 😲

Haha yes you're right

I thinks it’s the council house upbringing 👍

@@Tony-tourette My mates lived in council houses and so they had far more money to spend on food than we did. We were on our arses with the mortgage payments and upkeep looming. The Fray Bentos pies were a real rare luxury on a Sunday.

@@jwsuicides8095 me included I loved em so not knocking anyone

OR just closing the kitchen: switch off fridge freezer lock the door and eat at Wetherspoons - much cheaper. The £100s you save by just switching off your fridge freezer will shock you

I just checked the price of Aldi puff pastry. £1.09. Plenty enough for one pie, maybe two. So a tin of Aldi minced beef and onion at £1.75 would make a really nice pie for less than Morrisons are asking for a Fray Bentos.

Haha cheers Bob, they certainly have their own style.

if u love soggy texture in a pie , its best to make a beef suet style dumplin base with a puff pastry topping and using tinned stewed steak !

Lol.x

Well you'd certainly have difficulty picking out the kidney in todays Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney pie to slip to the dog. Poor dog would starve. Loved them when younger, persevered more recently but given up buying now.

Sit the tin on a wire rack on a tray in the oven, the heat gets underneath and cooks the base better.

In the 50s and 60s mum used to buy one pie to feed 4 of us. I do wonder if the pies have got smaller?

Cheers Laura 👍👍

The value of the tin can has increased dramatically since the 1960s🤣

With inflation, that's about £3.60.

Nice one

Hope you enjoy

Great tip! Cheers Louise.

Cheers Greg glad it took you back 👍👍

@Bald Foodie Guy you're welcome duck. I've re subbed, too, lost a lot of channels when my last phone went black screen. I'm glad to be back. Now going through the last few months of your videos.👍

Defo the fruit cocktail, evaporated milk and bread and butter -Sunday night desert after cold meat left from lunch n salad … Loved those times

@@Loobylooto2. Always hadcold meats left overs with a salad and the tin fruit cocktal and bread and best butter. 😊

I used to prefer Fray Bentos pies to mum's home made ones.

Great idea!!

Yes a lot were sold out in the shops.

The new one is currently £2 in asda , morrisons are having a giraffe 🦒

@@garyk1334 £2 at Tesco, too

So good

Brilliant pal yes last for years 😋😋👌

You know what they say about folk who eat all the pies

@@RUDI-UK Yes, that they have no pies left!l

@@RUDI-UK I know the song ''Who ate all the pies, who ate all the pies, you f- b-, you f- b- you ate all the pies!''

stevemre has proven this. when he eats ww2 and Vietnam army rations haha.

So good

Cheers Barbie xx good times 👍👍

Why caravan holidays?.......Did your dad build a caravan from used Bray Fentos pie cans?🤣🤣

@@howardosborne8647 😂

Sounds great!

Cheers Iris thank you

same we use to use the tins to keep our spare change in lol

Cheers yes was a good one for me lol

Sounds great!

You're welcome

Enjoy 😋😋👌

Cheers pal

No difference just more meat.

@@BaldFoodieGuy ahhhh that's good to know, I just mean I can't believe the amount of times on KZfaq I hear 'I'll put it in the description' and then it isn't there 🤪 I like the crunchy pastry 😁

Cheers Gerry

Thank you 👌

Haha cheers pal 😊👍👍

Thanks for the tips!

Good choice!

Lovely!

cheers pal

Cheers Miles, yes very expensive but it was the only place that had it. Cheers Miles 👍👍

Haha yes cheers for mentioning that. Was pretty good, well this one was the others where they stray off the normal arnt so good.

£2 in tesco

£2 in Asda

Cheers Graham

Cheers pal

I was just about to write the same!

Yes there was definitely more meat in the new one and no gristle. I enjoyed it.

Cheers Linda

Cheers James yes I agree. Used to eat allot of them years ago.

I am considering buying 2 old ones from B&M and when cooked,make a flaky pastry sandwich out of them.🐷

That is because the food standards have tightened up the tests for horsemeat in pies etc these days.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Sounds great!

Cheers pal, yes allot were sold out

Treat yourself

came here for this

Cheers Linda

The £1 ones found in discount shops are smaller!!!!

@@newsmonger77 Oh right, never really noticed, but they're still filling enough. Can't really complain for £1.

Glad I could help!

Yes just a lid pal 👍

Cheers you're welcome

Cheers John

Cheers pal

Cheers John

Cheers will do 👍

No offence taken Brother 😉

Cheers Matt, I've not reviewed that one. I do like Hollands pies.

@@BaldFoodieGuy £4.40 they are now in Asda. Can't find it on Tesco but they did have it when I was last in. It's really nice. I remember getting them for about £2.50. but even at £4.40 they're still worth it. A lot better filled than the individual pies and the pastry is a lot better. You'll easily get four servings out of it. They do a cheese and onion and a minced beef aswell.

Cheers pal

Cheers Richard

Cheers Anna

Sainsburys website has the new fuller ones at £2.

@@juliej9999 yeah I wouldn’t rely on Iceland for the cheapest options most of the time. They just suck people in with deceptive multi buy offers. Edit: looks like Tesco is also £2. Iceland deal is a bit shite really

@@juliej9999 Indeed and I have since found asda ditto - but as they say these days - for how long?

Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda £2.00

Haha cheers pal, hope you get into them soon 👍👍

Don't waste the electricity cooking them. Take them to your nearest clay pigeon shooting range and launch them out of the clay trap.....it's a far more appropriate use for these dreadful items.😂

@@howardosborne8647 How much does that cost?

Thank you 😋

Cheers 👍👍😋😋

Very true

My thoughts too. Plus, I notice they have re-designed the lid artwork, to suggest increased size. Sure they've had complaints. If this were a case of a new product needing some fine tuning, you could accept the low meat content as being an honest mistake by the manufacturer. But Fray Bentos have been around for decades. The original firm traded for many years without complaints like this, AFAIK.

A couple of our local butcher's shops make and distribute homemade pies of excellent quality. Chicken,Ham&Leek. Steak&Onion etc. A large family sized pie from them costs £6.20p and is certainly multiple times more meat in them than this Fray Bentos crap.

Thanks for the info!

Cheers Colin yes good reading when you look them up.

Fry Bentos river in Urugwaj. Worked for the company it was called Brooke Bond....with PG tips headoffice in Croydon Leon House. Tea tasting rooms on the 12th floor , with specialists from India , tasting by brewing 30 pots a day to come up with the same tasting blend. Yes it merged with Vandenbergs, moved way from Croydon, I still have pass to staff shop. Use to feed yorkie with the pie, we also eat it.

It is now owned by Baxters of fochabers

Cheers Benn

Glad you like them!

I just watched the video and was thinking; surely someone knows it's way more than 10% extra meat! On weight alone 15% of 425g is 63.75g verses 25% which is 106.25g. As you say 66% extra, well pointed out.

Are you being serious or is this just pie in the sky?

Haha cheers pal 👍👍

Cheers 😋😋👍

Sorry to hear that

@@BaldFoodieGuy It was a nice nostalgic journey. Love your comparisons!

My pleasure!

Yes better is it was £1.89 lol cheers for pointing that out. I was so excited about opening it lol 🤣👌👌😋😋

Maybe, but for £1.89 ... ??

Haha cheers pal

Thanks 👍

Yes good point

Too true Mark

🤣🤣👌You from up the coast? Whitehaven

😂

Happy new year!

Wow Dan thank you kindly. That's very kind. It's just come through on my chat. Very kind. Will give shout outs in videos coming up as I've got some pre recorded. 👍👍

Thanks for that!