Always give me indigestion....they're pretty fowl at the JJB IMO.....the pooles is nothing like they used to be and I cant understand why everyone rates them so much.

IMO the best pies are greenalghs by some way

Have you read this thread?

Heatons pasties ..... mmmmmmm....... oh God, I'm a leyther!

Yeah but theres still some that do rate em and previously on here people have said their good

Hollands pies are almost the only ones sold around my area.

Now they are cat !

Hollands got bought out by pakistanis over 20 years ago.

About five years ago the police raided Hollands at Baxendale as an old asian woman had been murdered and they thought had been disposed of.

(Before the screams of the PC brigade arrive, this info is in the public domain)

Anyway thanks all for your input, I will buy my Mum & Dad their choice of Pooles pies this week as requested them see what they say.

Were?

As far as I can see Holland's Pies was bought out in 1979 by Pork Farms and then later sold to Northern Foods.

As for the Pooles Pies question I have only ever had one at the stadium (assuming it's Pooles at the stadium), which was decent enough but nothing special.

The current Poole's ones are bloody dreadful. Nowhere comes close to Dawson's of Tyldesley...always found Galloway's to be a bit touch and go, and although Greenhalgh's probably taste the better of the 'pie chains', they're not half bloody expensive.

Rollin Pin pasties are abysmal, by the way (I can't be seen to be eating pies

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Seem to know a lot about pies Matt

Aye, 'tis true what he says but they gave the pie factory the all clear. I heard she ended up seeing a lot of Blackburns night life.......... wrapped in a pitta blanket with some salad and a splash of chilli sauce to keep her warm. Moral of the story - don't eat kebabs in Blackburn, they may not be quite what they seem

Take the crust off it. You'll get away with it then

Brilliant.

Pooles pies pastry is too crumbly and too much flour on them, the gravy is too thin but the meat aint bad.

Pimbletts - Meat and potato pies and pasties the best that have graced this earth but has sadly shut down.

Galloways - Chunky steak although slightly salty.

Cottams - Hot pots

Best pies ever!

Dawsons Meat & Potato are bloody lovely! They sell them at most local shops in Leigh. Used to keep me going at school they did. Pie on a barm from Green Lane shop!

What i say is bring back the Pieman mascot and get some proper pies int ground

Bring in Edwards Pies the best in all the land

In Leigh never they must be Lobby with a crust blanket to keep them warm.

Is that the Edwards in Platt Bridge, if so you are right they are brill and well priced as well.

Thats the one

as i work at the dw, i turn down the chance of free pies as they are cack and i don,t like indigestion
pooles pies
made with recycled potatoes, meat and river Douglas water going off the taste

Wouldn't be of Bedford origin, in that case Jeff?



I always went to the shop opposite the cemetery (we were based in the upper school) but I think they were Dawson's as well actually.

If I've got the money It's Greenalghs all the way for their steak an ale pies. mmmmm

If I'm running on a budget then it'll be gallaways for a chunky steak. Everytime I come home to visit my mum and dad i'll nip across the road from the train station to get one.

I'm living out in Manchester and haven't found a decent pie shop near me, (greggs doesn't count cause its a pasty place!

) so I nip to the supermarket and get a peters pie.

I picked up a peters pie because it had super league players on the packet and I'm sad like that, but they're really nice. The steak one is brilliant.

I don't think people in general rate them, rather they used to like them.

I think people always defend it because you get the scousers saying theirs are better. And there's no way you can admit defeat to them, even if we know deep down that pooles are awful!

If you were talking about the frozen ones in asda then yeah they're good. They will never compare to a fresh pie but as far as frozen cook at home pies go they're brilliant and well worth a try.

I bought two pooles pies a year or so ago I had one bite out of a meat n prayter and it tasted like someone had spilled a load of vinegar in it, it was absolutely vile. I have never nor will I ever buy another one I confine myself to Greenhalgh's or Sergeants now.

Meat n tattie frae Fry's of Barrow Island