Currently tucking into two efforts from Sayers, the rating is as follows.
The Brunch Pastie (Christmas Special Edition)
Before you eat it you marvel at the idea, breakfast is the superior of all meals and pasties are snacktastic so put the two together and you have the Brunch Pastie, beautiful simplicity. This pastie ventures into the above £1.50 territory which is controversial but Im willing to forgive Sayers their profiteering if they deliver.
The contents is a whole sausage, egg and bacon and certainly is more fatter than the conventional pastie range, on first bite it I found that the sausage taste dominated the egg and the bacon, and I have to disappointingly admit that this was the common theme for the rest of the savoury snack.
I ate the first half of without HP then added the mandatory brown sauce as the contents were breakfast based. The HP (or Daddy's which is a fine alternative) did add to the overall performance of the pastie but I cant help feel its tainted by the price. For 99p you would be looking at a surefire mainstay and not just exclusive to Christmas and the absence of brown sauce satchels in Sayers lowers its overall score.
Rating: C+
Chicken Pastie
A mainstay favourite of all respectable pastie outlets. Competition is hard in this department as Chicken pasties are very compareable and along with sausage rolls a real way of comparing the oppostion.
For the past three years I have changed my preferred supplier of chicken pasties to Greggs and have revelled in the creamy glow of their flagship product.
This pastie was a decent size and dare I say it bigger than Greggs. Taste wise its very good indeed with a strong hint of pepper and a good creamy effort. You get very good value for money but it just lacks that edge on the Greggs version. Still dont let that put you off what is a good, versatile all round pastie.
Rating: A-
The Brunch Pastie (Christmas Special Edition)
Before you eat it you marvel at the idea, breakfast is the superior of all meals and pasties are snacktastic so put the two together and you have the Brunch Pastie, beautiful simplicity. This pastie ventures into the above £1.50 territory which is controversial but Im willing to forgive Sayers their profiteering if they deliver.
The contents is a whole sausage, egg and bacon and certainly is more fatter than the conventional pastie range, on first bite it I found that the sausage taste dominated the egg and the bacon, and I have to disappointingly admit that this was the common theme for the rest of the savoury snack.
I ate the first half of without HP then added the mandatory brown sauce as the contents were breakfast based. The HP (or Daddy's which is a fine alternative) did add to the overall performance of the pastie but I cant help feel its tainted by the price. For 99p you would be looking at a surefire mainstay and not just exclusive to Christmas and the absence of brown sauce satchels in Sayers lowers its overall score.
Rating: C+
Chicken Pastie
A mainstay favourite of all respectable pastie outlets. Competition is hard in this department as Chicken pasties are very compareable and along with sausage rolls a real way of comparing the oppostion.
For the past three years I have changed my preferred supplier of chicken pasties to Greggs and have revelled in the creamy glow of their flagship product.
This pastie was a decent size and dare I say it bigger than Greggs. Taste wise its very good indeed with a strong hint of pepper and a good creamy effort. You get very good value for money but it just lacks that edge on the Greggs version. Still dont let that put you off what is a good, versatile all round pastie.
Rating: A-
