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@am*3 wrote:

We were talking about people with little or no money, not ones who can afford to buy a kilo of mince, some veges,& some pastry and take it home and bake some pies.

 

 

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it is much cheaper to make them yourself. it costs about 1/4 or less if you make them yourself. that applies to ALL food.

 

i could make pies that cost the same as bought ones if i put truffles into my pies, otherwise they cost a fraction.

i do not buy pies from the supermarket

 

isn't there an amount of offal in those.

 

 

i make our own pies but i use diced steak more leaner that way than using mince although i could mince the steak but we prefer chunky steak pies.

I don't like pies because I know the abattoir that supplies the meat for some of Australia's largest pie producers...and not much beef goes in. Erk.

The men in my life love supermarket pies (yuck) . They were less than $3 for 4 last week at our local woolworths. I think I could only make them for that price if I fought the cats for mice corpses to fill them.

i don't mind any eeeww things (offals, cartelage if it's properly minced and doesn't leave hard bits in my teeth) in food as long as i can't see them and as long as it tastes good.

 

i am not an organic puritan or so i just like good tasting food and if that food comes from mc donalds so be it.

 

the ones we bought from the supermarket were ...hhhmmmm an abomination of what a pie should be like.

supermarket pies leave a lot to be desiredthat's for sure.

 

where i live we don't have the option of maccas ect as there are no stores like that here.

 

 

once a year or so i NEED a maccas burger.

 

i do not want a real burger it needs to be junky spongy ...stuff.

 

i went there and they said something about brekky menue **bleep**?

 

it's bleeding maccas! i want a "burger" for brekky, and they offered me pancakes!

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@am*3 wrote:

We were talking about people with little or no money, not ones who can afford to buy a kilo of mince, some veges,& some pastry and take it home and bake some pies.

 

 

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@kennedia_nigricans wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

We were talking about people with little or no money, not ones who can afford to buy a kilo of mince, some veges,& some pastry and take it home and bake some pies.

 

 

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it is much cheaper to make them yourself. it costs about 1/4 or less if you make them yourself. that applies to ALL food.

 

i could make pies that cost the same as bought ones if i put truffles into my pies, otherwise they cost a fraction.

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do you make your own pastry?

 

 

and poppy seed roll thing (can't remember the real name, but joz will know what I'm talking about), is that something you make?

I know it costs less to make pies, muffins, most things yourself at home, and I do that myself.

 

For people that have no or little money (as joz was describing) who want their next meal, that is when the pie/spag bol was suggested by a charitiable organistion. The person most likely doesn't have $5-$10 for 1/2 -1 kg of mince, $5 for pastry, any pie tins to cook them in and maybe not even the skills to be able to cook something like that.