Fray Bentos - why do we eat this muck?

[Seakindly]

I used to work in same office as Environmental Health. They said the most common complaint, but not upheld as it wasn't injurious to health, was the discovery of large eyelashes in Frey Bentos stuff. Chiefly the corned beef.

 

[SimbaDog]

I got one last year for the first time, cooked it, tasted it & then gave it to the dog

 

[Kilter]

I got one last year for the first time, cooked it, tasted it & then gave it to the dog

Cruelty to the poor animal!

 

[elioti]

the first time i heard of these pies was on this forum recently! and just noticed them in the supermarket today, read the back, one tin contains 2 thirds of your daily recommended salt allowance! Pretty bad stuff!

 

[Cymrogwyllt]

the first time i heard of these pies was on this forum recently! and just noticed them in the supermarket today, read the back, one tin contains 2 thirds of your daily recommended salt allowance! Pretty bad stuff!

I advise that you do not repeat my experiment

 

[CoVianna]

Our local butcher does unbelievably good steak and ale pies, and they are absolutely stacked full of lovely beef. I have told him to put them in a tin so i can boat cook one but he just laughs at me.

Tim

If you ever pass through Stoke-on-Trent get a Wright's pie! Lovely!

 

[mcframe]

I didn't think you were supposed to eat them!

It's a kind of bilge-carried obol for Charon if TSHTF, or you end up on the IOW after the chip-shop has closed.

Alas, I had to buy my own FB tin 'co the previous owner didn't leave me one, nor do we have any as family heirlooms....

 

[VO5]

I think you are all confusing the pies and the puddings.
The puddings are awful, the pies not so bad.
The pie tins are a challenge to open though..

 

[planteater]

I don't think your supposed to eat them before the fourth day adrift in the liferaft.

 

[Seajet]

The pie tins are a challenge to open though..

That reminds me of a test pilots' verdict on a new aircraft; " the cockpit is difficult to access - it should be made impossible "

That armour-plated tin was some kind soul at the Frey Bentos factory's last desperate attempt to prevent consumption by humans or indeed anything organic.

 

[planteater]

It's a kind of bilge-carried obol for Charon if TSHTF, or you end up on the IOW after the chip-shop has closed.

I don't think even Hells ferryman is going to accept an FB pie as payment!

 

[mcframe]

I don't think even Hells ferryman is going to accept an FB pie as payment!

Any evidence (c.f Carl Sagan) for that?

I've now got a vision of Dylan gaffa-tapeing (pop-riveting or welding is too posh) an FB tin under the mast of the _slug_ ;->

 

[Sultans_Kapitein]

Utter philistines, the lot of you!

These delightful epicurian commodities should be praised by the whole world. They have all you need, just get some Smash instant mashed potatoes and instant gravy, (why waste time with fresh food, all that peeling and boiling and bashing!!!) a veritable feast, I am getting quite hungry as I key these words, yum yum

But then I forget, non of you had the pleasure(!) of my mothers attempts at cooking, poor thing tried really hard to feed us well, but the vegatables were like soup and any meat was as hard as gravel, after that Frey Benetos was the Ambrosia of the Gods


Mal

 

[samwise]

FB pies are hard currency on our boat as bribes to persuade my number four son to sail with us.
He is not one for the social round and when the parents decamp to a neighbouring boat "For a quick drink." He know full well that "quick" does not adequately describe this activity and keeps himself happy and contented with an FB pie and a computer game until parents return.

Sadly he will be off to Uni soon and is likely to be unavailable to crew, so the remaining pie complement will have to do duty as ballast.

BTW if you regard FB puddings as inedible you should try Hachis Parmentier -- the French Shepherds Pie that thinks it's a Pot Noodle. Needless to say, No.4 son thinks they are delicious. Thankfully, he appreciates the good stuff as well.

 

[Boo2]

How can you all be so cruel about the food of the Gods?

I wouldn't go that far, but I must admit that I also am quite partial to FB S&K puds.

Boo2

 

[Bru]

There's either something wrong with you lot or something wrong with me 'cos I LIKE Fray Bentos Cake and Sidney pudding!

Boiled one up with some tinned new spuds last time out on Brigantia and it was yummy

OK, I'll grant you they're not as good as my home made S&K puds but they're top notch boating grub

 

[Downsman]

I always store up with FB pies before a voyage and I never throw the tops of the tins away after I've opened the tins either, I give the lids to local people.
It's great to see a village re-roofed with circular tin roof tiles when I leave, not that I eat many FB's you understand..

 

[Seajet]

What do you use the bowl parts for then, corracles for Leprechauns on the way ?

 

[Cymrogwyllt]

But everyone knows that Leprechauns have the ability to hover over water

 

[CoVianna]

Yorkshire Puddings.

What do you use the bowl parts for then, corracles for Leprechauns on the way ?

They make great tins for making proper Yorkshire puddings. I think it is the slight corregations on the bottom.