Fray Bentos Just Chicken Pie - Weird Stuff in a Can # 173 (And Alternatives) 

Well Mr Brains, exceedingly good pork balls, hehe speaking as a "gay" woman! I know, why can't people just except each other without making tasty things into slurs..

I'm glad this is a pinned comment. My thoughts - as a gay person and huge Atomic Shrimp fan, I understand the disclaimer, but the disclaimer does not prevent the word from being the only thing I thought about for the rest of the video. I wasn't mad, so much as... preoccupied. I've had that word screamed in my face as a prelude to violence. It sounds like you're already reconsidering the choice you made here, but, yes. Imagine if a youtuber explained the N-word was a homonym for something in their regional dialect, and dropped about 12 N-bombs. Even if the viewer understands and forgives, none of the video is retained after that. The internet is a weird place with too much outrage. I want you to know that I am not outraged and still genuinely a huge fan. I would just really not like to feel that way watching a generally comforting and safe channel again.

I actually have a lot of good memories of the word and hearing it come up was a pleasant surprise that washed over me like a warm wave of nostalgia. Thank you for using that specific word unabashedly.

I am so sorry and annoyed that you feel you have to apologise and i can assure you as a single mom of two boys one who is gay no offense was taken on the name of a food that has been around long before the word was used in a different context. Please people get over yourselves.

I was always lead to believe that a f____ in the UK was a public school boy who does all the running for older public school boys. I laugh when I hear it being used to describe anything else - since the fool shouting as homophobic slur it is obviously thick as mince. And having undertaken 10 years of MMA,. I find the best way to deal with homophobic slur is with a punch to the snout. I'd advice every homosexual to go undertake some form of self defence, boxing or MMA. It's liberating. And you don't need to be maga fit nor full of muscle. A few simple moves can inflict great pain.

That's right up there with "cereal is a soup" and "a hotdog is a sandwich". Actually that last one isn't even wrong. What is wrong is the idea that "open sandwiches" exist. If it's open, it's not a sandwich. That's the one thing that makes a sandwich a sandwich.

@@PiousMoltar I grew up in Poland and open sandwiches are definitely a norm there. Nothing wrong with them either, I still prefer them.

​@@PiousMoltarsomebody watches Mythical Kitchen. It's you and me isn't it😀

In cultures where open-faced sandwiches are popular, there're not usually called "sandwiches", but there's no other word in English so English-speakers call them sandwiches and then complain that they're not really sandwiches. 😀

@@allesindwillkommen They were in Poland, whether they were open ones or not. Same word for them in Polish.

Those were sponsored tanks. 🤣

The best thing about British tanks is they all come equipped with a BV.

@@DeathMetalDerf Haha I never thought of that.

I always think of the "meat in a can" tanks when I hear Frey Bentos

I always assumed it was an affectionate name given to the tanks because of the can element and the connotations of home. I don't really think it was morbid, suggesting the crew were going to get cooked. Maybe i'm wrong

I really wanted Pie Another Day (because that's basically the second half of the video), but it wouldn't fit on the board

Don't forget Tomorrow Never Pies, The Pie Who Loved Me and For Your Pies Only...

Octopiesy o.o

Also I hate those pies. 🤣

Thank you for mentioning it. I do get people complaining sometimes that I don't need to describe everything that's right there in the video, but I am literally doing it on purpose, for you

@@AtomicShrimp sorted food is really good when it comes to vision impairment as well if anyone else is struggling with cooking videos. Barry Lewis and Ashens have great videos also.

Mmmm, soggy layer... 😀

Did you like Just copy paste this comment because it's so generic.

Fried spam is delicious. It's nice in a sandwich with pickle. It can be used on a Hawaii pizza 🍕.

@@Totalinternalreflection Weird comment in a can.

How was this posted one day ago?

Yes, canned food is a miracle in some situations. And depending on the canned product, it can actually be pretty delicious, nutritious and healthy. For example, some canned fish or vegetables.

And even as someone with a small freezer all to myself, I have much more shelf space at my disposal. About 2/3 of the freezer is taken up by stuff I've cooked half a dozen portions of and froze them (minus one that I had for lunch).

This has to be the main benefit - no energy needed to store. And it does seem unusual but there are still people in 2023 that only have the freezer section of a tiny fridge. Plus zombie apocalypse/covid stash?

@@amypeggs9606 What do you mean that it "does seem unusual in 2023"? Do you think it's going to get better with larger freezers in future? Actually, the tendency is in the opposite direction. I don't know the ratio, but I think most people on this planet already live in a quite small space with a small fridge and a tiny freezer. And our population keeps growing very rapidly so you can't probably expect more people to start living in large houses with lots of storage space and more energy consumption. It's actually the other way around.

@@allesindwillkommen I was referring to Shrimp's comment in the video that most people have freezer space in their homes now. He was probably not thinking of people living in smaller spaces but about a few decades ago when it was unusual to have freezer space at home.

Why are brits so proud of eating utter garbage.

hey it hits the spot for some people

If the weather is cold and wet, and you've had a rubbish day at work - one of any of Fray Bentos' pies, and a good strong cup of tea, will banish those thoughts. I've eaten thousands of these things in my 60 years on this planet, and the thought of one for my tea, as I cycle home in the wind and sleet, makes me very happy.

Weird statement. That can be said for every single thing in this planet. ​@@theorangeheadedfella

What meat?

Would love to see this on more weird stuff in a can ❤

As a student, my housemate eats these fairly regularly (like once a fortnight) and I personally cant stand them, so I wont even go in the kitchen if she's having one. They're very safe from me!

Pie²... 😋

It's like pizza, the cheap ones are good in their own way!

Me too!!

Me too, except I don't feel guilty.

@@blankfrankie3747 It's fine, this is a safe place.

I eat a large can of spam in one sitting

Are you sure that isn't just fresh salsa? 😂

Right before Pi Day, 3/14 as we mark dates in the US.

I also appreciated this 👏👏

Weird, stuffin' a cat

@@Schlups Weird Stuff in a Cat #1

@@Schlups Like Calvin did with Hobbes! He stuffed him with tuna sandwiches...

But does it smell like cat food?

@@jwalster9412 I'm not sure if a shrimp who lives with a dog knows the smell of cat food...🤔

And when I was a student (1970s), the 'kitchen' was the only place with normal sockets so baby belling, fridge and kettle were on free electricity! Now I'm less likely to put my oven on for a single item.😉

Great idea

I had to open a can of tuna with a knife before lol, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone bc its awfully annoying and difficult

Good idea- on a similar note- a Charlotte would work I think

A... hamper? In my country a hamper is a place for dirty clothing...

Parathas you mean? My friends love it with Nutella

@@AlissaSss23 lol oops spelled it wrong. Yum!!

I'm now wondering whether something like a can of creamed chicken, in a ramikin, with a slice of buttered supermarket bread cut to size and placed on top, followed by sticking the whole thing in the oven for 30 minutes, would make a workable insta-pie. I'll have to try it.

@@queencabbage3689 Don't do it!! Please.

@@hjalfi If your store has it just get all ready made puff pastry or a can of flaky biscuits to top it with. You can freeze what you don't for later.

Check Ocean State Job Lot sometime. They end up with weird things all the time. I found a 20lbs. Can of grape leaves in water there once.

Those tuna ones are awesome

I like the Banquet pies. They make being broke so much easier.

That's fantastic.

Haha nice!

😂❤

Next week "this can opener cost me$ 13 at good will!"

That's actually a bog standard one but hey, if you got fancy can openers you might as well show them off 😁

@@theclumsyprepper Why not? I’d do the same 🤣

@@lukeweeks3470 I would too, I love my kitchen utensils.

"Weird Can Opener On A Can"

But if the power goes out how are you going to heat it up?

If the power goes, how will you bake it? A charcoal barbecue maybe , with the pastry top cooked in a separate frying pan.

@@lashers in the rayburn :)

That begs the question, if you pinch the edges of a sandwich hard enough, does it become a pie?

​@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Anything's a pie if you put your mind to it

​@Skeets McGrew that's called a Charlotte

There is apparently a canned butter that is gourmet quality butter. And the can is like $20. What situation would a pound of butter lasting years on end be useful to 99% of people? Who knows. But by the same token, sometimes I think about it and want it lol

Back then people actually cooked, now most throw something in the microwave. Homemade steak pie though 😋 👍

@@scotland638 Yip, the business.. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mix and match: hummus and chips!

@@christopherellis2663 I do that one all the time! :)

I was wrong about how weird this one really was inside the can

Can you share a link to video?

Yeah, I have to admit the tin is the best bit. Useful for parts when disassembling something

Came for the scams, stayed for the cans

Four baked beans is four baked beans too many in my humble opinion. They make me vomit, they are in fact, the food of the Devil😂. Seriously, I remember back in my student days I pinched a fork full of left over fried breakfast off my mate’s plate because I was really peckish, and there was some baked beans hidden under the black pudding, as soon as I started to chew I had to leg it to the toilet, got there just in time. I actually wanted to get hypnotised so that I would like them as they were only 3p a tin at the time.

@@diogenesegarden5152 haha you're weird.. what the hell. :) I bet you don't like marmite too! :D

I think there's a double-whammy going on there. It's true that our younger selves had questionable taste, but it's also true that many of our old favorites have reduced in quality, or at least just changed recipes, over the years. They're literally not what we remember.

Yeah chef boyardee did a throwback release of their older recipe canned ravioli in the US. It was quite a lot different. The new stuff is sweeter, less meaty, less greasy compared to the old.

The quality of these have fallen significantly over the past 10 years or so. They used to be filled with actual chunks of meat.

There not made by the same company like the used to be. They are now made by a company called baxters food group.. its not a nice place to work in..

People eat and enjoy pasta and dumplings. It's not really that far away from those.

Yes their is. Misusing foods from other cultures comes in the form of using an item from that culture incorrectly and renaming it and claiming to invent it.

@@scurvymcdiggle2741 Can you give an example, please? It's okay if not I'm just intrigued where that's happened.

@@scurvymcdiggle2741 That's just how food evolves though - cultures borrow, adapt and change foods to suit their local ingredients and tastes. Curry didn't even exist in Japan until the 1800s and chillies didnt exist in India until the 1500s for example but both are fundamental to their respective country's cuisines.

@@HDScorpio nope

@@HDScorpio One of the most beloved of indigenous foods for Canadian First Nations is called "frybread" by Native Americans in the USA. But we call it "bannock" because it was introduced by the often Scottish fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. Basically, wheat flour, lard, salt, and baking powder fried in more lard (or nowadays vegetable oil). About as indigenous to the Americas as spaghetti primavera (noodles,tomatoes, bell peppers, black pepper, herbs,onions)is to Italy.

Guessing you're an ex-pat?

Saw

I like eating them with a vegetable curry or biriyani. They're tasty and easy to cook.

Oh yes! Another childhood treat I've never had since. Heinz Treacle Sponge! My mum's cousin used to work for Heinz and when we visited we'd get a boxful of battered tins that couldn't be sold. I always hoped there'd be treacle sponge in there.

That's school pudding in a can. I haven't had them since the '80s. Treacle pudding was my favourite.

I haven't seen one of those canned ones in years, I seem to remember something about them being discontinued. A shame because the ones that come in the little plastic pots just aren't the same

@@Drew-Dastardly Golden Syrup was my favorite one, Wonder if he can source one that's edible, there's nothing out there now to compare it with, eep! Have I blown someone's cover ha ha.

@@fullnuclearbreakfast Plastic pots? Never had one of those, got to be vastly inferior to the tinned puds and they failed. Bring back the Syrup tinned puds, bring back all of em. 🥰

They're really not worth AU$9 so you were right not to buy. Australia is a fellow pie eating nation like the UK so you'll definitely find a much better pie from elsewhere.

If you like these for exactly what they are, you'll get no judgment from me.

I like it too! The steak one, I bought it years ago in Poundland

@@AlissaSss23 Bet they were cheaper back then. How much was it?

I use an electric can opener for over 20 years. I'm now on my second one. They can be finicky, but once it clicks into place, it works a treat.

@@Gwenluvsmusic thanks 👍👍

By-Tor and the Snow Dog square for battle, let the fray begin!!

Brains faggots were my childhood favourite with mash.Still cheaply available now.

I'm taking a break from meat substitute videos - it was attracting a lot of weird anger from both extremes of opinion

@@AtomicShrimp Fair enough! People can be so strange.

Indeed - it's perplexing really. Nothing I do on this channel really matters in the grand scheme of things, but people get so worked up about it.

​@@AtomicShrimpnoooooooo! I was hoping you'd review the Waitrose Juicy Marbles plant based filet steaks!

I got so much hate for following the suggestion to bake the crust separately, in a previous video, I have resolved that I'm just going to unswervingly follow the instructions on the packaging in future

@@AtomicShrimp I seen that one LOL. Maybe you should try it though on a second pie, and if it works out, have a 10 second 'but wait' at the very end of your video and show off the perfection (hypothetically :-)

The fuel/electricity budget is a real concern. I've learned that if I bring rice to a boil and then let it sit it's fully cooked eventually, warm but not hot when it's ready. A tiny fraction of fuel compared to cooking for 20 minutes.

Works for pasta too. I tend to take off the heat and put it on a wooden board, then wrap the pot in a towel or something else insulating. Eventually I’ll collect enough stuff to make a hay box and use that, but I’m a way off. This will do for now.

Not so far. It's pretty far into the video - it's usually only if RU-vid finds something it considers problematic in the first minute or so

@@AtomicShrimp It would surprise me if they do anything. You quite elaborately explained what it was. Can't say RU-vid are the fairest with monetisation judgement mind you.

That's already better than the Auntie's spotted dick, a while back. Though I suppose that one was also in the thumbnail, so that may have had a part in it as well.