We have a tie at the top*, which has never happened before.
So, for the first time ever, we enter a SECOND ROUND.
The "finalists": COOP Irresistible, Holly Lane, Tesco Merry, Tesco Finest, and Waitrose Un-Numbered.
Because I love you, my readers, and because I am dedicated to this, my job, I made the difficult decision to try all five of the Fours again, in one tasting session, to decide once and for all.
(If you want to reward me for this terribly onerous task, then my Ko-Fi is still available.)
I took this very seriously and tried each pie, then had a good swig of plain water to cleanse my palate before trying the next. It came down to two front runners, so I tried those two again, which means that I've basically just had an 800+ calorie lunch.
Anyway.
The second-best 4 out of 5 pie is...
Holly Lane! These are still surprisingly good for such a cheap mince pie. Well done, Aldi.
And the best?
COOP Irresistible!
It's still very close, but COOP just edges it this year, and I suspect it will not be beaten, but one never knows for sure... #MincePieADay #MincePieFest2024
*(There is at least one supermarket mince pie I haven't yet tried, so maybe this will all be irrelevant.)
No Infinity Foods mince pie this year?
ReplyDeleteOh worry not, they are coming. They hadn't started making them as of this week.
Delete"Testing" and scoring will continue until I run out of new pies to try, it's just the main available-throughout-the-UK scoring that is (mostly) complete.
You might have simply arrived too late in the day. I bought some from Infinity a week or two ago.
DeleteInteresting, they didn't even have a space for them when I went in!
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