Posted in February 2007

Fifteen Cornwall - are you watching?

Source: Kim Mutton
Tuesday 27th February 2007, 5:26pm

As Fifteen Cornwall fail to take up the pasty challenge the web hisses with pasty rage.

"ATo add insult to injury I found this under Fifteen Cornwall's list of funding supporters: "Ann’s Pasty Shop demonstrated how to create the best pasties"

My goodness I bet Ann is seething at the disregard now shown to her cherished techniques.

Now take a peep at this vid clip - apart from some glaring inaccuracies it sums up the process of making a pssty quite well - so come on guys roll out the pastry and get mixing your filling.

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Trago Mills - shopping heaven or pasty muncher hell?

Source: Kim Mutton
Monday 26th February 2007, 12:29pm

If you live in the south west or have been lucky enough to holiday in the region you will have undoubtedly heard of if not yet visited Trago Mills

Turn of the A38 between Exeter and Plymouth abnd head towards Newton Abbot. The first roundabout has a sign to "Trago Mills Retail and Leisure Park". Curiosity gets the better of you and you turn off.

The approach road is peppered with anti European posters such as "EU-phemism for disaster" - ironic as Trago clearly enjoys the cheap labour of recent immigrants

There is ample free parking although spatial awareness is clearly not a strong point as selfish pasty munchers just leave vehicles at jaunty angles, across lines and block side roads in their urgency to find the Trago Riverside or Atrium Entrances.

Trago Mills, Key Facts

Trago Mills is vast

Trago Mills is cheap

Trago Mills has nasty pasties

It gets better and betterer

The peacocks that wander freely around the site add a sense of style and glamour that sadly is distinctly lacking from the shoppers, some of whom are possibly the roughest folk from Torbay and surrounding areas. Entire families, heads shaved and tatoos on display, shuffle and grunt their way round the labyrinth of DIY and Household products before returning to the crowded tills clutching their bargains.

Trago doesn't have trollies - odd decesion for a shop that pressumable wants to shift stock. Checkout time can be quite hairy with multiple pots of paint, self assembly furniture. planks of wood and rolls of vinyl flooring.

The Trago Garden Centre really has a great selection of well priced plants although browsing is spoilt by noxious wafts from the adjacent food court.

Trago, Newton Abbot, has appalling staff - it seems that on appointment the staff at Trago are under strict instruction to be awful ignorant shabbily dressed pasty munchers. They never ask if they can help and look fiercely annoyed if asked anything.

For anyone who cares Trago has its own fishing areas - just look for the bizarre Colossus - a hundred foot tall yellow plastic model astride the water!

Visit Trago Mills yourself - its a true west country experience.

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Less Munching

Source: Kim Mutton
Tuesday 20th February 2007, 4:26pm

My penchant for the flakey is getting the better of me - time for change

Seeing that quite a few IMM bloggers including the IMM Team are slipping on their running shoes I thought i should make some effort to shape up. With New Year well behind us its time to look forward. In an attempt to keep the old blood pressure down as well as keep my wasit size I think I'll do a trot. My fundraising page is http://www.justgiving.com/pasty-muncher.

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Pasties on parade for the Duchess

Source: Kim Mutton
Monday 19th February 2007, 3:39pm

The Duchess of Cornwall got a taste of what a Cornish pastie sounds like when she visited Pasty Fest this weekend

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Skint! - and that's a fact!

Source: Kim Mutton
Friday 16th February 2007, 5:53pm

I heard the news today, oh boy....South West tops bankruptcy league

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Cock-a-Snoot at the great cornish pasty

Source: Kim Mutton
Tuesday 13th February 2007, 3:27pm

Fifteen Cornwall rubbing our noses ins salt as they ignore pleas for genuine Cornish Fayre

Following last weeks call for Fifteen Cornwall to rise to the Pasty Challenge they have the audacity to Headline their latest promotion "Totally Cornish Lunches extended to 2nd March" lazily adding an identical cow image from the previous post.

Twocows, one blog, no pasty.

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Fifteen Cornwall - no pasty zone.

Source: Kim Mutton
Friday 9th February 2007, 9:18am

T'is a pity but for a restaurant that boasts its Cornish location there appears to be no pasties on the cards however there is pollock saltimbocca, chicoria, Amalfi lemoni - ohh ahhrr.

The team over at Fifteen Cornwall may well be enjoying their first year in the South West but I would love to see them embrace the true taste of Cornwall - the pasty.

Consider - a world class restaurant in a fantastic location offering an amazing (pukka) cornish pasty for lunchtime diners.

I'd be happy to return to Newquay to review them!

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Ginsters Pasties

Source: Kim Mutton
Thursday 8th February 2007, 9:21am

A truly awful pasty.

Widely available in petrol stations, convienience stores and supermarkets this over priced, low quality snack brings a real sense of shame to Callington, Cornwall and the whole South West region.

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How Much?

Source: Kim Mutton
Tuesday 6th February 2007, 9:50am

Extortion at the end of the line.

At a London Station, (yes I know its not the South West - bear with me), after an excrutiating four hour crawl I left the platform and headed straight to the food court. You'll be right in guessing that I am a greedy pasty muncher for whom this blog is a pleasure, not a chore.

The West Cornwall Pasty Company had a prominent stall with a huge array of pasties to suit all tastes.

My choice was a straight forward cornish, meat, shortcrust large pasty.

Blow me it was piping hot - no faults there but when asked for payment I nearly dropped! Three pound and ninety five pence!!

I reached for my so far unused Mint Credit Card that was given to me as a gift (with cash on it) and handed it over.

The tempting aromas and wonderful presentation the stall presented was a far cry from the goods. A couple of huge chunks of gristle, some pale veg and a heap load of salt.

Don't go there.

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Call that a Pasty?

Source: Kim Mutton
Friday 2nd February 2007, 2:08pm

I was presented with a flat, warm soft thing...

The great pasty munch began today with a tasting at Brimley Post Office and General Stores.

Lurking on the front counter cum chiller display was a couple of likely suspects.

Prices - £1.40 cold and astonishingly £1.50 warm.

Pasty was warmed in a microwave for 30 seconds.....ping....slipped into a paper bag and handed over.

I had been presented with a flat warm soft thing in a white paper bag.

Broke it open there and then - took a nibble of the luke warm contents - nothing special but the pastry was awfull as is the microwave way.

I left it with the shop along with my Pasty Muncher Card.

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Don't spare the skirt

Source: Kim Mutton
Thursday 1st February 2007, 4:34pm

Real Men Munch Pasties

Pasty Munching, Mmmmmmm.

I'm not from the South West but I have embraced the Pasty - a formidable snack cum entire meal in itself.

In amongst other babblings I'll be reviewing the Pasties I've had fortune to munch.

Pasty Makers of the South West go create your fine foods.

Don't spare the skirt, forget carrots and choose short or flakey as you please.

Large or small - I'll munch them all.

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