I place an online order with one of the old established London pie and mash shops a few weeks ago to inflict on an American visitor.
Absolute rubbish stuff, the pies (allegedly of good quality nowadays compared to the rat offal and sawdust of the old, traditional ones) were flavourless and short on filling, the parsley sauce "liquor" was flavourless wallpaper paste, the mash just flavourless goo (the chilli vinegar was what it said on the bottle).
Surprisingly the most acceptable part of the lot were the supermarket bought jellied eels.
The American victim survived the ordeal and said he liked the stuff (and the award for best actor goes to......) but it was absolute rubbish, Ye Olde English pie and mash shops of Ye Olde London Towne presumably find their market in tourists and Londoners determined to show that despite the penthouse and Jaaaaag they're dodgy geezers 'cos they had a cockerney grandad.
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