The Secrets to London's best Pie & Mash | Secrets of Your Ready Meals

Alexis Conran explores the home-cooked or heated staples of our freezers and cupboards, comparing the different types. Can a home-heated spag bol match one from the local Italian kitchen? Watch the full series over on My5: www.channel5.c...
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[@labradorgeek]

2:08 - wait... F.Cooke and Manze's are related?!?!!!?!?

[@ghostly4certain578]

I just ate a Manze and when I heard that my jaw dropped!!

[@goodputin4324]

​@@ghostly4certain578are you okay now?

[@ghostly4certain578]

@goodputin4324 yes, only a minor wound but should recover

[@leestephenfitzpatrick6373]

Yeah old man Cooke's daughter married a son of an Italian immigrant, who's surname was Manze & they opened their own shop

[@DerrickWhittle-mm7jz]

Great review subscrabed. Becacase I saw you flip the pie upside down into the liquor. Just learned some london pie shops use short crust on the base flakey on the top tell me which is best. Live in Cincinnat but from Cheshire.

[@Simon-pg1bm]

Cheshirechesterleicestershire born here as well! The LICKAH is really unbeatable.

[@wildernesstraining1957]

One time I was sitting down to pie and mash. A bloke came in and asked ‘Do you do fish and chips?’ The reaction by the diners was one of total insincerity. I thought they might lynch the bloke in times gone by. Even after he left, there were some utterances of despair 😂

[@realitygaming4088]

Never beat a chicken an ham pie from a good local bakery

[@Robc--jd6yh]

Alex hustled them by not paying for it.

[@madzen112]

:)

[@Paulie.k]

Browning the secret ingredient?

[@goodputin4324]

Eel juice

[@jeffs3752]

I have no problem with pie & mash, but stop trying to tell me that "parsley sauce liquor" is better with a beef-based pie than beef gravy. That's just overly-traditional nonsense.

[@LondonGooner]

It's because it is simple as that it goes with the pie and mash much better.

[@johnbarton974]

One is Liquer, the other is Gravy, both good, but liquer is traditional for the London dish....malt vinegar and white pepper of course.

[@goodputin4324]

If only it was Halal