Who here likes pies or pastries around Thanksgiving or Christmas time?

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I’ve never had Aussie Angus…it looks good on the packaging!

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I had a delicious wild boar pie in Borough Market a few years back. Where precisely they sourced the boar from I really don’t know. The meat was far richer and more flavoursome than those anemic excuses for pork pies available in the supermarkets.

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Did I read “wild boar”? :astonished: :laughing:

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:smiley::smiley::smiley:

Oh dear!
Am I in trouble Rose? Best not tell your buddies about this! :shushing_face::wink:

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I can keep a secret. :grin:

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Phew!!! :face_with_hand_over_mouth::pray:

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These are nice any time

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With a little bowl of olives on the side! :yum:

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You lot are so posh!!!

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There are a number of wild boar farms around the UK (so technically not completely wild but its a name not a behaviour). One in Perthshire is in the estate that first released beavers back into the wild.

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Gotcha!
Thanks Lincs, I did wonder, lovely pie although the quality was reflected in the price.
Typical Borough Market!

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Haven’t been there lately, but there used to be some lovely pie shop and sausage butcher in Clitheroe.

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The KFC of the pie world?

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Where I am there are local hunts that shoot a lot of boar … and there’s a lot to shoot. So I usually get a slab of boar from them a couple of times a month. I’ve cooked it a few ways but never tried a pie. This winter though as it sounds like a good idea. Any clues as to what else was in the pie or was it boar forward?

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I’m afraid not! It was an impulse buy, sadly slabs of wild boar are hard to come by in Southwark :slightly_frowning_face:
Affordable ones anyway…

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True, Southwark and Bermondsey have gone all gentrified so the usual boar haunts have been greatly reduced

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Portugal has the most delicious pork, Porco Preto, black pig. It’s semi domesticated, left to run wild among the cork oaks and eat the acorns.

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The meat is dark with lots of fat.

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True, Southwark and Bermondsey have gone all gentrified so the usual boar haunts have been greatly reduced
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Way before my time!:wink:

I can remember pulling these fellas out of The Thames willy nilly

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An endangered species now!

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are those eels?

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Yes they are, a cheap source of protein for many in days gone by. We’d catch them as kids without even trying, especially when night fishing. I’ve never fancied the jellied eels experience! :nauseated_face:
Gorgeous when smoked though :drooling_face:

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