The tale of the One pound mince pie

Hippo


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 05:33

Has anybody else spotted the exorbiant prices that food purveyours are charging at the boot fairs.



My best is 2.5 Tl for a mince pie.



They must be having a laugh

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 07:16

How about 3TL for a small sausage roll - is this approx. equiv. of UK bakery shop price?

Bambi


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 07:44

Hi Hippo I would just like to comment on your posting the blame lies with the person who purchased the goods. They had a choice whether to buy or not. I would ask you to remember that the people that make these products spend time to cook and take things to these boot fairs to give you the chance to buy English home-cooked products that you cannot purchase here, again may I respectfully remind you that you do not have to buy but can go to any store and try and get these products which are usually out of date and are substandard I would also like to remind Tenakoutou that we are not in the UK and ask why do the expats here keep comparing prices with the UK.

Tenakoutou



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Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 08:08

Bambi/Msg 3: 'we are not in the UK and ask why do the expats here keep comparing prices with the UK.'



Being a 'Kiwi', I have no idea of UK prices - I was just asking.



I had a trip to Hull, in UK, about 15 years ago and had 'sausage & bacon & mushroom butties' in a cafe on Hessle Road - they were top-notch tucker, and cheap as... !

denizen



Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 388

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 08:20

Hi Roy, doubt that the motive for the pie makers is primarily to please the hungry ex pats. As to your question re. UK prices, you can get 5 fresh warm sausage rolls in Hull centre for a quid.

Think they'd be cold 'n not so fresh if you got 'em sent out.

It's the price of the paperbacks that pees me off but the stalls have to pay for the holders, as me owd dad used to say "a man that'll work for nowt is like a ............................................

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 08:30

Ta everso, for that info., Denise - your owd dad was spot-on - 'you can have the best job in the world if you work for nowt!'

Bambi


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Posts: 216

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 13:51

Hi Hippo I would just like to comment on your posting the blame lies with the person who purchased the goods. They had a choice whether to buy or not. I would ask you to remember that the people that make these products spend time to cook and take things to these boot fairs to give you the chance to buy English home-cooked products that you cannot purchase here, again may I respectfully remind you that you do not have to buy but can go to any store and try and get these products which are usually out of date and are substandard I would also like to remind Tenakoutou that we are not in the UK and ask why do the expats here keep comparing prices with the UK.

apc2010


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Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 13:54

Plus I am sure these people have to get work permits and pay taxes...........

yenibob


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 14:00

What are the prices like in Paphos these days APC? Last time I was there you could get breakfast for next to nothing near the Harbour (but it was rubbish).

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 15:19

I could not buy a good pork for love nor money, so I make my own, problem solved, so if you don't like the prices at these fairs , MAKE YOUR OWN

hawkeye


Joined: 12/09/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 16:50

apc2010 .............plus they do not have food handling certificates..............only bought one thing from there adn that was under protest.......YUK................my opinion. Food in the sun. All cooked food the sort that they sell should be kept cool 4 degrees ideally.......................

Tenakoutou



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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 18:39

If the gut-worms are biting, you'll eat anything!

yenibob


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Message Posted:
07/12/2010 19:57

Absochcuffinglutely mate. Too many softies worrying about a few germs.

suehowlittle


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Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 20:56

Hi there everyone, my daughter has a farm and has her own bakery and farm shop.



She sells HOME MADE sausage rolls made from organic pork which are 8 inches long at 75p so I think there is some overcharging going on.



However, the mincemeat is very expensive there and it is also expensive to make your own, the fruit in the trnc is full of gritty seeds and buying it in the south is also expensive.



Anyway, if you want it, you can always make your own or pay the price for someone else to make it



Personally, I would rather do without!

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 21:31

Bambi. If income is in TL then perhaps no reason to compare prices with sterling. However, if the source of income is all from the UK surely there is every reason to compare prices, and indeed monitor exchange rates, otherwise how else to keep to a budget or know that you are spending wisely ?

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
07/12/2010 22:07

Message 15..easy I would have though..exchange all into ytl make yourself a budget and stick with it ! what you do not have you cant spend and what you can its up to you ! Your choice like they say either make your own or buy them..same anywhere..a budget it just that ) I do compare prices just to see if what I want is worth the ytl from my budget more so that what I would spend at home..I am not there !



Personally 3yrs ago we went to the Sat Market and purchased two sausage rolls we both spat them out ! and have not been back i n three years..do not feel the need to either...I enjoy cooking and may get in the mood for Christmas with a little baking, but we are out for lunch..and anyway it will only put the weight ON..AHHH.



Like they say your choice to buy and most go to a great deal of work getting this food for so many that DO WANT IT.

Spider X

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 00:13

I cant beleive what Im reading, you wanted little britian, people try to bring you what you miss. They spend many hours sourcing products so you get a taste. Go to bells buy frozen and still you moan, are you saying you have now gone into tc mould and eat that way. These people sell out week after week so something is right but as the old addage goes if you cant afford it dont try. You know the cost of things here also the electric costs. You know I dont know why they bother if all you do is slag off. I had friends in Wales who sold their company for 77 million to Grand Met a management buy out happened a year later, now i find their pastys and sausage rolls in bells 8tl for a sausage roll , i wanted it and bought it, a pack of 3 in asda would be 69p. so what they got it here xxx

apc2010


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Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 00:19

lilli , my question was at a market do they pay tax etc, like you or is it pocket money ..???

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 00:38

apc i cant say as most would have a residents permit so cant have a buisness permit, not their fault its the law, but im sure that they know they are watched and will abide x

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 00:49

Well, I cannot condone illegal practices .......I understand why prices are high after taxes and permits, at all the markets advertised on here .".Cooks` Market at the Ozankoy Bookshop "or lambusa ....



If someone goes to the trouble of all this and making a product that is normally unavailable....good luck to them .........do not knock them ...

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 01:14

sweetheat i would never knock them, the provude a serice and bring a commuity together, it up to the buyer. we started there after loosing the brasserie, and thought there was a need for a deki. Our customers found us and so we became the restaurant again, guess what we have turned full circle we are back on the market slicing pama, salami etc xxxxxxxx (will email you)

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 01:23

sorry Lilli , being new to the forum did not know you lost "brasserie" good luck will check emails ...for truffles .

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 06:27

brings a whole new meaning to "we moved here because it was cheap".................

deeom


Joined: 17/03/2009
Posts: 62

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 07:58

FYI....



These markets are classed as craft markets so the people who sell there do not need to have work or business permits. Hence the amount of interest. They just pay for the table hire.



If you have a business here selling food you need to get a hygiene certificate you do not need one for the market! Also pies etc should be kept at a certain temperature and although I assume the food gets sold quickly it is still out of the fridge for a while. The health people visiting a restaurant would close them down if food was out of the fridge like that. More so in the summer months.



I think it is a case of buyer beware and if you need to have these items buy them but take the consequences! By the way...a jar of Robertsons mincemeat in Tempo is 4.99tl or the same in the south (Carrefour) 1.99 e. You can make 12-18 very well filled pies with one jar and pastry has a mimimal cost to make. Do the math!!



A fool and his money are soon parted!!!



Dee

maggymay


Joined: 04/05/2008
Posts: 701

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 19:02

Hi,

To all the members that have posted on this thread. I don't normally participate in the threads on this forum but in this instance I feel I need to put my point of view as it seems the 2.5tl mince pies are the ones that I make. Hippo you put on a post and then disappear from any more comments, shame. If anyone thinks I do this to earn a living then think again. I do this to give a service for things you can't get here and for the social part as I have many customers and enjoy a chat and a laugh. Just to run all you mislead people through, when making my produce aprons are worn and hair is covered. When completed the food is packed and placed in fridges. At 5pm Saturday mornings they are packed in cool bags,tins and cartons. When laying out my goods they are place on trays covered with paper towels and rubber gloves are worn. Everything is then covered. When the items are sold they are picked up with tongs and placed in covered cartons or bags. I do not sit smoking or touching

Co

maggymay


Joined: 04/05/2008
Posts: 701

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 19:13

Cont:

anything with my hands as my customers will tell you. My mince pies are made with freshly made mincemeat with plenty of Brandy and they are filled to capacity, not out of a jar, I would need several jars to make 18 of my mince pies. Have you nothing better to do all day than to continually slag people off. Lilli I have never met you but thank you for your support and the next time that you are at Lambousa please make yourself known. Bambi you are spot on you don't have to buy. Just think of all the places you eat that hasn't got a generator and a power cut happens, freezers go off, you don't think they throw all that food away do you?. If I go home with anything left my TC neighbours or their workmen benefit. I defend my prices and my goods, I do not speak for anyone else, so unless you have tried my food please keep your comments to yourselves. You never hear the dogs complaining about their biscuits I make.

Maggymay

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 19:26

I was at the "cooks market ozankoy" today and bought 2 of the best scotch eggs i've ever had.

Saw NO problems with storage.



How can anyone complain or question storage issues at these markets when you all buy raw meat from supermarkets. Do you have any idea how this meat has been stored, packed etc?... No!



Think about the mince!



Stop stirring the sh1t.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 19:32

Original, REAL mince pies are made with mince beef, delicious they are too!



Richard

Tootie


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Message Posted:
08/12/2010 19:45

Very true Richard, but would be wasted on most!

HotHippo


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Posts: 402

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 20:05

Very well said, MaggyMay!

More power to your elbow!

cooper


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Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 20:10

Thats right Mags don't mince your words only your pies )

maggymay


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Posts: 701

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 21:17

Thanks for your comments HotHippo and Cooper

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 21:57

maggy we havent officially met but i do buy the dog bics, my lot cant get enough of them. I will call and say hello saturday as we now have a stall there doing our pates , boiled ham parma and salami together with a dish of the day x

maggymay


Joined: 04/05/2008
Posts: 701

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:38

Hi Lilli,

Look forward to seeing you on Saturday. Good luck with your stall.

Maggymay

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:45

thank you love, will pop up again to buy my bics and a mincepie to say hi xxxx If any one has not tried them the pies do please and you will agree what you get is worth every penny. Also if you have dogs get these bikkies. Please just remember the work that goes into all the stall holders do here. We are up at 3am baking bread and making fresh pasta, we do care about hygiene, If you see how quickly pies , cakes etc sell out with no reports of food poisoning then someone has got it right.Every food stall I have ever seen there has the shades over their food, gloves on to serve, tongs to pick up etc x

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 05:25

Magymay- Hippo has not disapeared just waiting for you to start the JCB up and dig the hole bigger.



B.....ks- it would take several jars to make the mnce pies i make!!!



If you made them from especially imported items- flown in by your own Lear jet you are still making a handsome profit.



Nobody is doubting the hygine of your domestic kitchen, beuse thats what it is.

And of course you do this just as a hobby?



Now if i was to say-it is not fair for people to do taxi runs because the Taxi drivers lose buisiness

it would be a different

See the the argument then.

So by priducung mince pies you are depriving the owners of the supermarkets thier justly income!!



Come on do you think we all came up the Mersey on a bannanna boat i did my maths as well jar of Robertsons mince meat 7tl add a little local brandy makes about 20 plus mince pies.



I didnt single you out the post was to illistrate generally the overcharging for confectionary at these boot fairs



Not all I may ad

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 06:50

i'm with Hippo on this one............



I'd expect to go to the market and buy home made produce a a much lower price than buying from a shop.........



A quid for a mince pie is taking the p@ss....





Well done to Hippo for a) pointing it out and b) for not buckling when the OP started trying to justify the blatant profiteering....



i'll be avoiding the place like the plague when i'm back..............

maggymay


Joined: 04/05/2008
Posts: 701

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 07:38

Good morning Hippo and Negativenick,

I will put one last post on this thread and then you can pop off and slag someone else off.

Now Girlie's put your nails away. I have not dug myself a hole you have done that for your self. I never once mentioned profit, (can't get the facts right). I do object to your foul mouths, but that says it all. Try the spell check next time and what is a Bannanna boat? As for avoiding the markets that's your choice and certainly no loss to us.

Have a nice day Maggymay

Hippo


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Message Posted:
09/12/2010 08:01

Well all I can say is I have obviously touched a very raw nerve.

negativenick


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Message Posted:
09/12/2010 08:03

mess 38 - thanks Maggie - the truth hurts doesn't it.............

cooper


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Message Posted:
09/12/2010 09:17

I could understand it you had no choice but to buy from Mags but no one is actually forcing their mince pies down your trap so maybe its just sour grapes because someone used their loaf before you - the truth hurts doesn't it.............

hattikins


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Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 09:43

You can always go to Bells and buy a box of Mr. Kiplings, but they taste like cardboard compared to home made ones. If I want to enjoy a mince pie but can't be bothered make them myself then I am willing to pay the price, you pays your money, you takes your choice.

pupaden


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Posts: 75

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 09:57

i was asked to post this for nowaypedro i suspect it will be banned but i like fredom of speach well said cooper and Lilli the amount of members on here whos opioions are worth anything can be counted on fingers of one hand Hippos is not one of them the only thing he has ever got right is his profile occupation as he spends most of his time on the moon with fairys as for his shaddow Negativenick his name says it all with regard to Negativenick mess 37 would it be possible for you to avoid the NC completly i guess those in Uk put their hands together when you both left

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
09/12/2010 09:59

mess 41 - you're right Cooper - how i wish i'd have spent hours in the kitchen making mince pices then sat round like a fagot for hours trying to flog them..............







A quid for a mince pie at a local market is total tosh...........



if you want to defend this - that's up to you.....

nowaypedro


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Message Posted:
09/12/2010 11:03

well said cooper and Lilli the amount of members on here whos opioions are worth anything can be counted on fingers of one hand Hippos is not one of them the only thing he has ever got right is his profile occupation as he spends most of his time on the moon with fairys as for his shaddow Negativenick his name says it all with regard to Negativenick mess 37 would it be possible for you to avoid the NC completly i guess those in Uk put their hands together when you both left