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Pierate - Pie Reviews: Football Pie: Accrington Stanley

Not bad still can't believe we only had 1 kiosk selling pies

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Blimey, it's not just Somerset whose 'interest' in football verges on OCD.

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Yeah, there's no hope for the kid that wrote that review.
Also, if that is a picture of a holland's peppered steak pie then i'm not a member of the aristocracy. Peppered steak pies are flaccid, gooey affairs. His looks more like it's filled with dried out pedigree chum.
Plus, they are inedible - but maybe some uncouth southern loony would not notice that.

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The strange, stilted writing style...the obsessive attention to detail...the way he goes on and on...and on. It must be his cousin!

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What a hoot! Where do you find this stuff st06nc2?
After the home game with Carlisle, I paid a visit to their fans forum to get a view of their response to the game.
Apparently, one CUFC fan had promised his mates they were in for a treat as you could get a pie & pint for a fiver at the Wham.
You can imagine their anger to find that this bargain 'meal deal' was only available to home fans.
Their description of the catering facilities for away fans cannot be repeated on here. Save to say that there were no pies on offer, just an overpriced burger & a can of beer that cost £3.
Surely it's time for the club to give priority to providing better facilities for away fans, as articles like this just reinforces the view of visiting fans that our ground is a right s***hole.

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After reading the article, what is with the catering van on the away end charging higher prices than that on the home end. I also remember the previous catering vans had pies for sale and there were also the pies in the clubhouse, so how come only 1 now? One for the club I think

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Was the one kiosk selling pies because it was a Tuesday night? Or was it a certain someone's visit to the wham enough to scare them into only selling in the home end

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Maybe my offal devouring Northern palate isn't as refined as some...but the peppered steak need to stay. �� Unless of course Clayton Park or the Mecca of pies that is Cissy Green's stepped into the breach.

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Chipmunk old boy!
Without doubt the vendors you mention produce a toothsome product.
The Cissy Green's meat pie is famous locally, although a little overpriced considering it's gone after one bite.
Having savoured many a pie on my travels, I have confidence in stating that the best steak pie available within the county is produced by D T Laws in Haslingden (also the home of Cissy Greens). No offal or gristle here, just quality braised steak wrapped up in a crisp shortcrust shell.
For meat & potato, Alpes the butchers in Clitheroe is unsurpassed, as it contains actual meat as well as potato. Totally delicious!
I can assure pie aficionados they will not be disappointed if they sample said pies when next in the area.

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Laws Pies are sold at our chippy along with Hollands a bit dearer but well worth it in my view.

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Never heard of D. T. Laws pies. Are there any purveyors of these comestibles in the town centre?

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You need to try the home made giant sausage roll's as well :) I live a couple a hundred yards from the shop:D

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Best sausage rolls ever!
They're so big that last time I tried one, I never ate for 2 days!
:D

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Not that I'm aware of Wyn.
But they are on the right, just before the town centre traffic lights, as you enter from Accrington.
Well worth a visit if you're ever passing - or if you're really hungry!

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I used to like Cissey greens pies, However they have shot up in orice and down in size. Hollands are good. I do think £2.50 for a pie is a bit OTT for this area. I am aware they offer a meal deal for a Fiver. I was unaware that away fans were not allowed to buy this deal. If this is true then it is a disgrace.

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agree about away fans as the wham has a bit of a captive audiance. apart from the chippy on the main road thats about it unless you get there very early and walk into town. think the club could be missing out here.

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Bring a shedload with you tomorrow Mab, you could make a bob or two selling them on the away end by the sounds of it :D

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As Chrisr said, it is pretty poor that away fans are treated shabbily as regards what's on offer and how much is charged.
I know it must be more difficult to judge how many there will be, but the club can't afford to put off those that do make the effort to visit the ground.

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I was not aware of this, guess most people were not? its disgraceful to charge more for away fans as far as i'm concerned.:(

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especially when storm dora bryan comes back and they,re stuck out in the open if they bring a few. need something to eat and drink at the same prices as we pay. i wonder if this puts any off coming as we need as many as possible for our finances.

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on principal it would put me off,if i was an away fan and i was aware of this.

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Best Pies for me are from Porters Butchers in Chatburn. Especially the ones with a slice of Black Pudding under the lid!
Awesome with a bit of Mustard on the top!
No :130: or any other kind of Offal anywhere in sight!:alright:

I agree that we need to cater much better for our visiting fellow football supporters.
It is time to put a roof on The Coppice End, improve the toilets and offer equality of service regarding pies etc!

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Perfect Plaice chippy on Union Road in Oswaldtwistle sells D.T. Laws pies

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Cheers, Neil, may have to make a detour there next time I'm up.

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I said that post 10, yeh do need me bins mate.:D

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I think its a bit unfair to criticise the club (at this point) with regard to the differing fayre for home or away supporters.

The Clayton End was redeveloped last summer and the kiosks added. I believe main standers can access these kiosks, and these are club owned, and club run.

The away fans (at this point) have no such kiosks and are therefore provided for by outside caterers. I'm quite sure TPTB will assess the improved revenue on the home end and look to repeat the venture at tuther end asap. However, will the cost of an overall development be justified against an improved away revenue?

AH has said in the past that his priority is to improve facilities for home fans in the hope of increasing and retaining the fan base. Is it acceptable to forego that 'plan' in order to better feed our once a year interlopers? In an ideal world all developments go full steam ahead at the same time, but its not our money that we're trying to spend!

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Which is great & all power to the guy, but if the away fans are treated fairly & feel welcomed then they're more likely to return & also put down good money when visiting which also benefits the club in the long term.

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Whilst thats possibly true Dave, the point is that he is trying to prioritise how and where his money is spent. Id rather a happy home supporter than a happy away supporter.

Slightly off topic, but relevant nonetheless, I wonder if we keep tabs on the average spend per person WITHIN the ground? It would make an interesting comparison between home and away fans. I personally never used yo bother eating, as I couldnt queue for beer AND food. Now I get a pie at half time.

Twas a good point raised earlier with regards to away fans not being able to spend money in the vicinity

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And that's a proper & sensible approach & it appears from our visit in Feb that things are moving along quite nicely from what we saw. As to average spend, since we normally only get across once a year we're lucky to get in 2 or if really lucky 3 games each time so 2 Adult walk ons 40 quid, a prowey 3 quid, a pie a piece at half time a 5er, then about 10quids worth of nic-naks from the club shop & a couple of quid in 50/50.

All told then about GBP 60 for us on a visit. :)

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The fair thing to do is sell away fans pies at the same price they charge us?

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I wonder if we keep tabs on the average spend per person WITHIN the ground? It would make an interesting comparison between home and away fans. I personally never used yo bother eating, as I couldnt queue for beer AND food. Now I get a pie at half time.

Twas a good point raised earlier with regards to away fans not being able to spend money in the vicinity[/QUOTE]

as a home fan you,ll probebly have something to eat at home before heading off to the match. away fans don,t have this luxury so therefore you,ve got a captive audiance and if we have a reputation for decent grub for away fans they,d be happy to use the facilities giving more money to the club. i personally don,t spend a penny in the ground unless i forget my flask and i can go 5 hours or so without food.

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That's a very, very good point MH.

The reality is ASFC is a business, away fans are customers. Give them a good experience, develop a good reputation and more of them will come. And yes, they will probably spend more.

That fanzone outside Wycombe last year was a good case in point. They actually sold IPA, had a nice tented area....ok the sun was an added bonus but wasn't it lovely? And WW would have raked in a good few bob for their efforts. I bet they would not have made anything like it from home fans.

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The sports bar is open today for home @ away fans, beer @ grub then should be same price for both sets of fans, that can only be a good move imho.:)

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For 'once a year interlopers' read valuable cash paying customers.

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It's national pie week this week.
This lunchtime I went to Pieminister and had a delicious saag paneer pie with mash for £5.
Put Hollands to shame.

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Stanley could be a Pieminister stockist. It's on their website in fact. I reckon it could put a few hundred on the gate and solve that away fan dilemma.

Favouring local business may be a noble aim, but not when it comes to Hollands. They should be in a pie crimes tribunal for their peppered steak abomination.

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Not unless they sell em at the pound shop!
Accrington's last factory closed when I were nobbut a lad!

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I thought the holland's factory still makes pies?

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It does not officially accy though- Baxenden.

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pies are really a personel thing. one mans meat or lack of it etc. found the pies i got as a kid bigger and more tasty than todays. a lot are far too poncy for my northern taste buds with bloody herbs and such in em or sould i say infused. but thats me as some people love pukka pies so i,ll leave it there.

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Good memory there Monkey Hanger. To remember how things tasted decades on. I can still recall the taste of burnt rice pudding on a cub camp in Whitby circa 1972 but that's about it for me.

Isn't there a bit of a classic debate about the size of Wagon Wheels (could be a different choccy bar) where people are convinced they are smaller when they aren't. Theories abound about the relative size of it compared to the size of your hand when you were a kid, or just seeing the past through rose tinted glasses? Maybe that could apply to pies too.

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Hollands went downhill after the takeover. And when they discovered the best way to improve profit margins on the meat and potato pies was to not bother putting any meat in.

Make the shift to steak puddings. It'll change your life.

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Aye...but I regard Bash as merely a fancy suburb of Acc. :D

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Does it not come under Rossendale?:confused:

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They're a bit messy to eat at football though, can't get your hand round it like you can with a pie :D

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[QUOTE=Lord Didsbury;1189333]Good memory there Monkey Hanger. To remember how things tasted decades on. I can still recall the taste of burnt rice pudding on a cub camp in Whitby circa 1972 but that's about it for me.

quite easy really as a lot of products including pies are now unavailable from when i was a kid. lots of smaller butchers who made em have gone out of business to be replaced by tasteless or over priced and over herbed specimens from supermarkets or deli,s. i lived in the midlands and east anglia for over 20 years and actually used to take pies back when i,d been up north. used to sell em also to other exiles as you couldn,t get anything in those places worth eating even if you could afford it. a pork pie with leek and apple, they just didn,t understand.

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My parents kitchen window has a magnificent view of a field with the Hollands pie factory at the far end of the field.

I'm guessing it's only about 400 yards away and they tell me they live in a place called Rising Bridge.

Is that not where it is?

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Think its just outa rising bridge lord d, jen will know fer sure. she lives in Rising Bridge.;)

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Think official address is Baxenden, Lord D but as somebody else put it's just a posh suburb of Accrington :)

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It is just looked up fer curiosity s sake.;)

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Excellent. Expectations of the size of my inheritance have just risen now I know their house is in the posh part. Does that put it on a par with London prices?

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Oh worth well above London prices.due to the fact yeh aint living next to cockneys.

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Until you've eaten a soggy NAAFI "Growler" out of the vendys, you're life experiences have been sadly lacking! :D

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Well who hasn't eaten a soggy growler

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There's definitely those out there as haven't participated in this somewhat dubious pleasure, in all probability preferring a soggy sossy roll. :D

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Amazed any of the food sold in the Clayton end is reccomended for human consumption

I will say the new caterer is a step up on the old one which sold out of date junk

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Steady on old boy!
I thought catering in the Fanzone was now being run 'in-house' by the club?
The comestibles on offer are reasonably priced & freshly prepared.
They're certainly as good as anything being offered at other stadia & a damn sight cheaper.
Of course, no one is forced to purchase anything.

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Think he might be pining for his regular portion of Jumbo Sossy of a Saturday afternoon ....... who knows? ;)

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I was fortunate enough to call into Ossy Mills and bought some Cissy Greens large pork pies at £1.65 each they had large beef ones as well at the same price. These are an excellent pie and would sell well anywhere. Perhaps the club could do a deal with wham to supply something like a plastic lunch box with the clubs logo on the lid with a pie and peas or beans and a plastic spoon inside at the match, They could then take the pack lunch box home and use for school lunch boxes or picnics. I am thinking a slightly different spin on a meal deal we could offer at a reasonable price. A small idea. I am not sure about doing an opposition team lunch box as well due to copyright perhaps. Worth a thought maybe?

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Chrisr - it's just more of the same. Beef, pork etc.

The world has changed. If Stanley is to attract a new breed of pie eaters it must serve saag paneer, mushroom risotto, chorizo and roasted red pepper filled pies.

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you couldn,t stock every pie for every taste. would no more eat the ones you suggest as i would a courgette.

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Courgette pie! Brilliant idea.

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What's wrong with just a plain simple steak and ale

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Cashman has asked if he can buy some pootang pie.
He said its his favourite

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No need for any fancy stuff - meat & tata for the carnivores, cheese & onion for the veggies -simples! :)

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Careful Dav007, you'll be getting this vital and informative thread blacklisted.

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Why are people so wedded to the old ways? A pie should be a blank canvas for the artist chef to produce a wonder of exciting cuisine.

You'll be telling me you still eat baked beans plain next.

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love baked beans and egg on toast. will be having mine shortly. totally sick of all the poncy food on offer nowadays with all fancy sauces covering them. only thing it does for me is giving me gut rot. if i get chicken or steak i want to taste it not some fancy made up stuff plus i want it cooking also, so no semi raw food or garlic allowed in this part of keighley.

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There's a time & place for fancy cuisine (including weird pie fillings) but Imo at a football match isn't one of them, good old fashioned plain stodge is what's required.
Remember once going to an away game & they were selling candy floss!! I ask you, really??? Can't for the life of me recall where it was - suppose at least it wasn't in a pie but still. . . . . . .:eek: