Of Mice And Menus

The Indestructible Pie

Whatever you might think or feel about the concept of hermetically sealed pastry and meat in a flat tin can, there is considerably more to it than first meets the eye. The Fray Bentos tinned pie is a profoundly paradoxical item in our national culinary consciousness: an engineering marvel that somehow manages the commercial wet sterilisation of protein and the preservation of raw pastry within a s…