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Aldi Holly Lane Deep Filled Mince Pie Review 2020

November 18, 2020December 15, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2020, 7/10, Aldi (Holly Lane), StandardLeave a Reply

Overall rating: 7/10

Price per pie: 13p

Review: Aldi’s most standard of their enourmous mince pie range has faired averagely over the last few years. They’re cheap and pretty cheerful.

Morrisons ‘The Best’ Deep Filled All Butter Mince Pie Review 2020

November 14, 2020November 14, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2/10, 2020, Morrisons, StandardLeave a Reply

Overall rating: 2/10

Price per pie: 35p

Review: These very tall pies look suspiciously like the bakery pies ASDA and Co-op have had great success with over the last few years (a raft of 9s and 10s no less). Have Morrisons managed to copy a winning formula?

Mr Kipling Deep Filled Mince Pie Review 2020

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020Mince Pie Reviews3/10, Mr Kipling, Standard1 Reply

Overall rating: 3/10

Price per pie: 25p

Review: The box hasn’t changed since last year, and the Good Housekeeping Institute approval sticker is still proudly displayed. Last time I rated these 7/10 and thought they were fairly standard but ok.

Co-op Shortcrust Mince Pie Review 2020

October 20, 2020December 15, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2020, 5/10, Co-op, StandardLeave a Reply

Overall Rating: 5/10

Price per pie: 31p

Review: The Co-op bakery mince pies have faired well in previous years – but those are the deep filled ones. These flatter ones don’t inspire tonnes of confidence – not sure how the ratio of pastry to filling will work?

Lyon’s Cakes Mince Pie Review 2020

October 3, 2020December 15, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2020, 8/10, Lyons Cakes, Standard1 Reply

Overall rating: 8/10

Price per pie: 17p

Review: A first showing for Premier Foods’ ‘Lyons Cakes’ brand mince pies on Mince Pie Reviews. It’s a standard pie – no promises of the fancy stuff. No idea what to expect…

Co-op Mince Pie Review 2020

October 3, 2020December 15, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2020, 8/10, Co-op, StandardLeave a Reply

Overall rating: 8/10

Price per pie: 17p

Review: A standard mince pie from Co-op….we’ve been here before. The last mince pie I reviewed in 2019 was Co-op’s standard mince pie. I needn’t remind regular readers what happened there, but for the new or uninitiated – it was an *abomination*.

Tesco Butter Enriched Pastry Mince Pie Review 2020

September 25, 2020September 29, 2020Mince Pie Reviews2020, 4/10, Standard, Tesco1 Reply

Well here we are….closing in on Christmas 2020. Things aren’t going *quite* to plan are they… I questioned whether to even do this again, considering how we’ll all be sat apart on Christmas day, saddened by the global pandemic, the lockdowns, the masks, the tests, the deaths and the bloody god damn misery of it all.