Well, how lovely, that’s all of the Norwich city centre Greggs re-opening on Thursday 18 June 2020….
Category: Food and Drink
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Do You Even Iron Bro? from Lost Industry
As mentioned in some previous posts, there aren’t many opportunities to post about beers in pubs, so I’ll have to limit myself to beers bought from pubs to takeaway. This is a twist on the Scottish soft drink, a collaboration between Lost Industry and Steel City Brewing.
The taste was there equivalent to the soft drink, but it was so authentic that it also tasted of a soft drink. Weak in body, not particularly sour and with a limited aftertaste. So, a fine idea, although it’d probably just be easier just to buy Irn-Bru.
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Don’t Quit from Hammerton Brewery
I can’t write about pubs at the moment since they’re a bit shut, so photos of beer at a BBQ will just have to do instead. And this is the rather lovely Don’t Quit from Hammerton Brewery, a vanilla pecan pie imperial stout which comes in at 9.1%.
The beer had a rather lovely smooth taste, richness of pecan pie and an elegant sweetness with a flavour of chocolate running through it as well. Very drinkable, this was one of the options stocked at the Artichoke pub in Norwich and the can is also quite attractive.
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Greggs – So Nearly There
And what lovely news about Greggs and the re-opening of a third of their outlets in mid-June. I understand that Cukiernia Sowa have re-opened across Poland as well. For the many, not the few……
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Co-op Mini Melton Mowbray Pork Pies
I’m not intending to write a food blog, but I felt the need to comment on these. I accept there are many more important things in the world to write about than the snack component of a Co-op meal deal, but notwithstanding that, these really are a complete waste of time. How can you possibly manage to have a product that is high in fat, high in saturates and quite high in salt to taste completely bland? There was no discernible taste to the pork, let alone a pleasant peppery or vibrant aftertaste.
But what puzzled me is how on earth this rubbish managed to win a bronze award at the British Pie Awards. Then it becomes clearer when I visit their web-site. I had assumed that Bronze would be third-placed. However, this would be wrong. In the 2019 awards, there is a section on pork pies and there is one gold winner, thirteen silver winners and twenty-five bronze winners. How many awards do they need to give out?
I can’t check the 2017 awards, when according to the label these pies stormed into bronze place, as the link on the British Pie Awards web-site is broken for that year. So, what the Co-op are saying about their pies is that three years ago, the pies managed to come in the top forty in the country. And, to be honest, I think they were lucky to manage that.
