Tesco small Melton Mowbray pork pie

have said many times before that I will always be a sweet toothed person as opposed to a savoury one. However, occasionally I do get the munchies for savoury foods; this normally happens when I am doing my weekly shop, starving hungry and anything will do to satisfy my appetite. A few weeks back I decided to treat my partner and me to a Tesco Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. I had not had one in a long time and suddenly decided to try one again. I opted to buy 2 small pork pies, they cost 74p each which made a total of £1.48, the size of these being 145g each. I could have chosen to buy the large pork pie at the cost of £1.92 but which comes in the 440g weight but I ...  Read the complete review

Being patriotic, I love the fact that things like Cheddar Cheese are being given EU status, where things like Cheddar can only be authenticated if created in that region, the same applies to Pork Pies from Melton Mowbray, which are now protected and rightly so as a decent authentic Pork Pie, is worth the problems with cholesterol and fat, its a wonderful pie filled with pork, egg and some lovely spicing. Well Tesco have their own version of the Melton Mowbray, its not really comparable to true versions of the pie and really lets down the Melton Mowbray name , this is a small almost plasticity version with bland pastry, meat which is not particularly ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit that I am more of a savoury than a sweet person. I know that pastries are really bad for you but there are times when only a sausage roll or a pork pie will do. It was during one of these times that I picked up a small Melton Mowbray pork pie form Tescos. This pork pie is 145g in weight, so it is little more than a party sized one, and it cost £0.74. ****Packaging**** The pork pie is wrapped in dark blue shiny paper with "Melton Mowbray" written in italics all over it. The packaging is understated and boring. Most packaging is bright and bold in order to catch the public's attention, but this is not the case with ...  Read the complete review