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[Graham]

http://www.guardian....2008559,00.html

[eddiedunc]

I think Pimblett's have gone off.
Does anyone remember Mercer's very short pastry? Use to sell them in a little shop by the gas works.

[Bonneylass]

I remember them, really tasty pies.
I remember I think, being told it was one of their daughters who married into Pimbletts family and that was how Pimbletts started doing pies, or have I missheared it from some where?

[brunty]

bonneylass i have had pies from everywhere and i dont remember pimbletts pies.the shop in baldwin st. used to be mercers who is a relation of pimbletts.the quality of the pie depends on the quality of the meat that goes into it.for me the tastiest pies in st.helens are greenalls in duke st. and next blackburns in cambridge rd. any pies are not good for you,i am down to 5 per week.

[brunty]

oh its a pie war you want is it do you know i beat kendy in a pie eating contest,bring em from anywhere and i will tell you whos they are.greenhalghes arent bad,lievsleys were o k. when old sam was alive but they seemed to go downhill when it changed hands.anyway they arent good for you.ask kendy.

[Griffin]

Bonneylass, on Feb 11 2007, 11:10 AM, said:

I remember them, really tasty pies.
I remember I think, being told it was one of their daughters who married into Pimbletts family and that was how Pimbletts started doing pies, or have I missheared it from some where?

That's exactly what I heard. My uncle Eric Massey married one of the Mercers in the 1930s. I think the Mercers shops were based somewhere around the Fingerpost area. BTW, an absence of eight years enables you to judge the quality of something like pies. If you have them regularly, you don't notice a gradual change. Same with cigarettes. I gave up in the seventies and took them up a few months ago. There is no comparison - the current cigs are tasteless and poisonous. While it might be a bit harsh to say the same about Pimblett's pies, they are nowhere nearly as good as when I last had them on a regular basis about 1997. Burchall's pork pies were legendary. Can you still get those?

[kes]

burchalls it is, for pork, sammys slurpers with 6 mm pastry, the best steak,and no meat and spud anygood,?

[Alan]

kendy, on Feb 11 2007, 12:30 PM, said:

sammys slurpers with 6 mm pastry,

Have pies gone metric in Sintellins?

[familyman]

Sorry but Greenhalgh's pies are the best as far as I'm concerned!

[brunty]

aye if you can get em i dont think there is any in st.helens,royles used to be the best from sutton.

[Voll]

Do meat and potato pies have meat in them now? I seem to remember them being filled with potato that had flecks of a brown substance that I assumed was the meat, but I haven't had one for over 40 years; they were still bloody good though. The ones I remember particularly well were from a shop on Knowsley Road near the Saints ground and that was over 50 years ago, it was very close to a chippy.

Edited by Voll, 11 February 2007 - 03:55 PM.

[eddiedunc]

Due to Trading Standards requirements we now have two types of pie involving meat and potatoes.
Meat and Potato and Potato and meat. Categorised by the relative amounts of each ingredient. I don't think there is a spcified standard for onion content

[Voll]

Oh, eddie, you should have left off the smilies and you might, just might, have reeled me in given what I've read about the EEC rules and regulations.