Both pastry and filling are quite bland, even tasteless, were it not for a welcome but far too late aftertaste of festive spice. These aren't bad as such, but they have very little going for them. 2 out of 5. (No palm oil)
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It looks like they just plopped the crust on top like a sandwich cookie.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it doesn't seem like it's been a great year for the mince pies, only three 4 out of 5s (which is two more than I had remembered before I checked the label, but still.) Enshittification has even come for mince pies now!
It does feel a bit like that! That said, there are a lot of 3/5s this year, and fewer truly bad pies. At the same time, although we've had three 4/5s (more on that in a few days) there have been no super impressive mince pies. Aside from the Asda Bakery ones, but even those were flawed.
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