The annual taste test has started.
On our way back from dropping the dogs off for their wash and blow dry I popped into our local coop to get some cash from their cash machine. As I left it hit me.
I hadn't noticed them as I'd walked in but there they were in their wonderful, glistening Christmassy box. Mince pies.
I may have mentioned before that I'm rather partial to the odd mince pie, so much so that we have been known to fly back from France just to buy some of the delicious little blighters.
The annual routine runs like this. Buy a box of the deep filled ones from every supermarket during October and November and decide which ones get pride of place in my stomach during December and January.
Avoid the 'luxury' brands because in the attempt to make them 'luxury' they usually spoil them. Regular deep filled are best.
Supermarket shares rise steeply at this time of the year and now you know why.
We have piles of them here, too. They're between the mountains of tins of biscuits and the shelves of tins of chocolates.
ReplyDeleteJean - you know exactly how to get Alex's mouth watering, and he'll be complaining that we don't have loads of tins of biscuits and chocolates too!
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