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  • I'm not averse to a supermarket pre-packed sandwich but they can be awfully expensive when compared to say, a local sandwich shop and they're often hit-and-miss with the quality.

    Product review: Sainsbury’s Egg & Bacon Sandwich

    Posted on May 9, 2012 | No Comments
    I'm not averse to a supermarket pre-packed sandwich but they can be awfully expensive when compared to say, a local sandwich shop and they're often hit-and-miss with the quality.

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  • The short version: It's a pie. It's got chicken and mushroom in it. It's barely mediocre. 59p, 452 calories, 10% saturated fat.

    Product review: Sainsbury’s Chicken and Mushroom Puff Pastry Pie

    Posted on September 14, 2011 | No Comments
    The short version: It's a pie. It's got chicken and mushroom in it. It's barely mediocre. 59p, 452 calories, 10% saturated fat.

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  • A long time ago, a country was invented called Mexico. It was filled with sombreros, moustachioed men shouting 'Ariba, ariba', spices, chilli peppers and all sorts of other nice things to eat. Then, a little while later, Sainsbury's came up with the Chicken Fajita Puff Pastry Slice. Aliens looking unto Earth sniggered behind their telepathic telescopes and labelled us 'Definitely Harmless', a severe downgrading from 'Mostly Harmless' only a few years previous. These aliens knew that once a chicken fajita snack in puff pastry entered the market, our destiny as a people and a world was foretold. We're all doomed.

    Product review: Sainsbury’s Chicken Fajita Pastry Slice

    Posted on August 22, 2011 | No Comments
    A long time ago, a country was invented called Mexico. It was filled with sombreros, moustachioed men shouting 'Ariba, ariba', spices, chilli peppers and all sorts of other nice things to eat. Then, a little while later, Sainsbury's came up with the Chicken Fajita Puff Pastry Slice. Aliens looking unto Earth sniggered behind their telepathic telescopes and labelled us 'Definitely Harmless', a severe downgrading from 'Mostly Harmless' only a few years previous. These aliens knew that once a chicken fajita snack in puff pastry entered the market, our destiny as a people and a world was foretold. We're all doomed.

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  • Apparently, it's food. More to the point, it's food that human beings from planet Earth can eat. Even more to the point, it's a weird rubbery thing encasing a vaguely cheese-like filling. I've seen things you humans would not believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, but this ... 'thing', this awful, awful 'thing' takes the whole biscuit barrel.

    Product review: Sainsbury’s Cheesy Bean Slice

    Posted on August 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Apparently, it's food. More to the point, it's food that human beings from planet Earth can eat. Even more to the point, it's a weird rubbery thing encasing a vaguely cheese-like filling. I've seen things you humans would not believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, but this ... 'thing', this awful, awful 'thing' takes the whole biscuit barrel.

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  • So there we were, Husky sledding over the frozen Antarctic tundra, as you do. Next thing, we'd hit a pothole and after that thing had led to another thing, we were holed up in a small tent, waiting for a ten year snow storm to pass. I'd like to say we got on but Bob Smedley-Watson, my erstwhile cohort, really grated on my nerves after a while. I should have chosen more wisely before undertaking this adventure and an advertisement in Exchange and Mart for 'Haughty Victorian Gentlemen required for death-defying snow expedition' was a little naive I have to say.

    Product review: Sainsbury’s Cornish Pasty

    Posted on August 19, 2011 | No Comments
    So there we were, Husky sledding over the frozen Antarctic tundra, as you do. Next thing, we'd hit a pothole and after that thing had led to another thing, we were holed up in a small tent, waiting for a ten year snow storm to pass. I'd like to say we got on but Bob Smedley-Watson, my erstwhile cohort, really grated on my nerves after a while. I should have chosen more wisely before undertaking this adventure and an advertisement in Exchange and Mart for 'Haughty Victorian Gentlemen required for death-defying snow expedition' was a little naive I have to say.

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  • It's a ready-meal adaptation of curry-house favourite Chicken Jalfrezi which is another of those strange anglicized dishes originating not from India but no doubt as the result of a late-night drinking session by some drunken munter. No matter, it's a tasty dish anyway and usually quite hot with a tomato-based sauce. Unusually for curries here in England, it tends not to be overly saturated with cream or clarified butter.

    Product review: Sainsburys Chicken Jalfrezi

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | No Comments
    It's a ready-meal adaptation of curry-house favourite Chicken Jalfrezi which is another of those strange anglicized dishes originating not from India but no doubt as the result of a late-night drinking session by some drunken munter. No matter, it's a tasty dish anyway and usually quite hot with a tomato-based sauce. Unusually for curries here in England, it tends not to be overly saturated with cream or clarified butter.

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  • The Worlds Saddest Pie With only a few coppers to my name, a Sainsburys Puff Pastry Steak Pie is about the only thing I can afford at 60p a pop...

    Product Review: Sainsbury’s Puff Pastry Steak Pie

    Posted on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
    The Worlds Saddest Pie With only a few coppers to my name, a Sainsburys Puff Pastry Steak Pie is about the only thing I can afford at 60p a pop...

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