Tesco's Crispy Bake Pork Pies

Another wet start to the pre-pie walk, our weather wizard took us west to Hempton, just south-west of Fakenham. The walk took in two churches, none with scratch dials, and by the time we’d reached the first, the weather had cleared up. We had lunch in the second, then Giada had a swim in a nearby pond. We then only had about two and a quarter miles to go to the Bell in Hempton for a pleasant pint. Returning to the cars for mini poppadoms & potato squares to dip into a mixed olive & tomato and a Jalapeño Houmous. Next a new pie: Tesco's new Medium Crispy Bake Pork Pies – these appeared to be hand made, not being of a uniform shape. Slicing revealed a nice pink filling with a small amount of jelly, but it’s the munching that counts. Sadly these pies disappointed, the crust was OK, the little jelly nice, but the filling lacking any intensity of flavour and having no aroma. The pies scored a spot on 4.7, but opinions were very mixed, individual scores ranging from 2 to 7.5, resulting in a massive standard deviation of 1.81353 – the highest we’ve recorded. So a normalised 4.5 for Tesco Crispy Bake Pork Pies.