{"id":3990,"date":"2010-11-22T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:26:05","slug":"a-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/a-quandary\/","title":{"rendered":"a quandary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mince-Pie.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3992\" style=\"margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;\" title=\"Mince Pie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mince-Pie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mince-Pie.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mince-Pie-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a>Briefly put, I find myself today at the centre of an unexpected  dilemma; having just begun my newest mince pie acquisitions from trusty  Marks and Spencer (old school, rather than the puff pastry version which  I will continue to view with suspicion until I am advised otherwise) I  find that whilst the rich, crisp and friable pastry is lovely and easily  has the edge on the hurriedly-bought Sainsburys ones from last time,  they are noticably lighter on filling and more than a little, well,  empty by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Short of carefully prying off the lids and  adding extra before warming (and if I was prepared to bugger about  like that I would have made my own in the first place, which no doubt I  will but not for a couple of weeks yet) the only course of action as far as I can see, at  least before I&#8217;ve had the chance to obtain the Tesco and (last year&#8217;s runaway favourite) Mr Kipling offerings is to buy another pack of the  Sainsbury&#8217;s ones and have one of each together at a time in the hope  that the combination of each others strengths will cancel out the  respective weaknesses and a calm and happy medium will be reached, preferably before I run out of Elmlea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or I  could just get some more 2 for \u00a34 Mini Bites. This is the most important  thing I intend to think about all da\ufeffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briefly put, I find myself today at the centre of an unexpected dilemma; having just begun my newest mince pie acquisitions from trusty Marks and Spencer (old school, rather than the puff pastry version which I will continue to view with suspicion until I am advised otherwise) I find that whilst the rich, crisp and friable pastry is lovely and easily has the edge on the hurriedly-bought Sainsburys ones from last time, they are noticably lighter on filling and more than a little, well, empty by comparison. Short of carefully prying off the lids and adding extra before warming (and if I was prepared to bugger about like that I would have made my own in the first place, which no doubt I will but not for a couple of weeks yet) the only course of action as far as I can see, at least before I&#8217;ve had the chance to obtain the Tesco and (last year&#8217;s runaway favourite) Mr Kipling offerings is to buy another pack of the Sainsbury&#8217;s ones and have one of each together at a time in the hope that the combination of each others strengths will cancel out the respective weaknesses and a calm and happy medium will be reached, preferably before I run out of Elmlea. Or I could just get some more 2 for \u00a34 Mini Bites. This is the most important thing I intend to think about all da\ufeffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}