Generously filled with succulent chunks of British chicken and asparagus in a rich creamy Champagne sauce, finished with a butter enriched shortcrust pastry.
Regular readers may recall that I once doubted the existence of Yeo Valley. I'd never heard of the Yeo mountain range and I therefore rated the likelihood of there being a valley at somewhere between 0 and 5%. Of course, I had yoghurt all over my face when I discovered that the place really does exist. Somewhere in Somerset, I seem to recall. Today, having read an article in the latest edition of The Marketer magazine, I'm astonished to discover that there really was a Captain Birdseye. Well, I need to qualify that just a little. There was a Mister Clarence Birdseye who invented the fish finger back in 1955. The avuncular, uniformed figure who dominated our TV screens for about thirty years may have been an invention of over-eager advertising creatives, but he didn't blow in on a trawler during a squall. There was actually some connection to a real human being. These revelations about fish and yoghurt are causing me considerable disquiet, because I'm wondering h...
Phil
ReplyDeleteI bet you were gratified to know your chicken and asparagus pie was "limited edition" - did they make you perform some sort of test before you bought it, or did you have to enter a competition to win it? Was it a numbered edition, just to reassure you of its exclusivity, like all those plates at Franklin Mint?
As you munched down on that rich creamy champagne sauce, I bet you enjoyed it all the more knowing this sort of quality cuisine wasn't being noshed down by any old plebs.
Hoffy