Woolworths' farm-style pies

Insint said:
Checkers is doing the same sort of thing.
I think there's just R45 or something.
I have never bothered to buy the overpriced pie.

I have tried overpriced pies in the past and was always disappointed.
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Checkers had pies at R12.99 per 100g. Can you fkn believe that kak.

This was about a year ago. I LMAOd and left
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
taking advantage of people wanting quality,
meanwhile the "standard" pies are the exact same thing, maybe a bit smaller to take advantage of the plebs.
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Na. The two pies are not the same. Woolworths regular pies are already pretty good, but they are a lot more flakey, and have a lot less meat in the filling compared to the farm style pies. The fsrmstyle pies are on par with Houwhoek or similar farm stall pies. Basically solid meat filling.

They are also made with Woolworths signature butter puff pastry, not the cheaper seed oil/margerine based pastry. The taste cannot be compared.

I am a pretty good home cook, and make a mean pie. But I have worked out the cost, and a similar quality homemade pie already costs me about R40.00 in ingredients alone. That is before adding in overhead. Expecting Woolworths to sell you that sort of pie, freshly baked and warm, with the convenience of getting it at a premium retail location, while you are doing your daily groceries, for anything less than R65.00, would simply mean they are selling it at a loss.

Instead of being offended by what WW charge for a premium pie (while their really good “regular” pies still cost R36.99), you should rather be asking why a Engen garage pie made from “meat” of unknown origin, and the cheapest, flakiest pastry, and not freshly baked, but rather just reheated on site, at R45-R50?
 
Curt889 said:
It's a old picture, once a year when I see family they bring me shamrock pies
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It's like a Gompo thing us ex Gomponites do just for the feel of the old days. Shamrock pies ,Windmill and Freesland icecreams
 
Zellephant said:
Na. The two pies are not the same. Woolworths regular pies are already pretty good, but they are a lot more flakey, and have a lot less meat in the filling compared to the farm style pies. The fsrmstyle pies are on par with Houwhoek or similar farm stall pies. Basically solid meat filling.

They are also made with Woolworths signature butter puff pastry, not the cheaper seed oil/margerine based pastry. The taste cannot be compared.

I am a pretty good home cook, and make a mean pie. But I have worked out the cost, and a similar quality homemade pie already costs me about R40.00 in ingredients alone. That is before adding in overhead. Expecting Woolworths to sell you that sort of pie, freshly baked and warm, with the convenience of getting it at a premium retail location, while you are doing your daily groceries, for anything less than R65.00, would simply mean they are selling it at a loss.

Instead of being offended by what WW charge for a premium pie (while their really good “regular” pies still cost R36.99), you should rather be asking why a Engen garage pie made from “meat” of unknown origin, and the cheapest, flakiest pastry, and not freshly baked, but rather just reheated on site, at R45-R50?
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I am asking that as well as why those WW pies are R70.
 
Bliksis said:
I am asking that as well as why those WW pies are R70.
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I thought it was pretty clear. If it would cost you upwards of R40.00 in ingredients alone to make a pie like that at home, how much do you think Woolworths, or anyone else for that matter should be charging once all the overheads have been added?
 
Zellephant said:
I thought it was pretty clear. If it would cost you upwards of R40.00 in ingredients alone to make a pie like that at home, how much do you think Woolworths, or anyone else for that matter should be charging once all the overheads have been added?
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Not for a single pie's ingredients LMAO.
 
Lupus said:
Yup indeed both not good
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Lol I would say there is very little convenience food, not out to kill you. Honestly I don't do fast food, over priced shrinking portions and cut corners for lower quality. Only time I do fast food is when I do my monthly shopping, then I usually get a pie at my last stop which is usually spar, after all the unpacking and stuff, last thing I want to do is cook.

I haven't seen the inside of a place like wimpy, steers, spur in well over a decade, just not the same quality like the 90's.
 
Zellephant said:
Na. The two pies are not the same. Woolworths regular pies are already pretty good, but they are a lot more flakey, and have a lot less meat in the filling compared to the farm style pies. The fsrmstyle pies are on par with Houwhoek or similar farm stall pies. Basically solid meat filling.

They are also made with Woolworths signature butter puff pastry, not the cheaper seed oil/margerine based pastry. The taste cannot be compared.

I am a pretty good home cook, and make a mean pie. But I have worked out the cost, and a similar quality homemade pie already costs me about R40.00 in ingredients alone. That is before adding in overhead. Expecting Woolworths to sell you that sort of pie, freshly baked and warm, with the convenience of getting it at a premium retail location, while you are doing your daily groceries, for anything less than R65.00, would simply mean they are selling it at a loss.

Instead of being offended by what WW charge for a premium pie (while their really good “regular” pies still cost R36.99), you should rather be asking why a Engen garage pie made from “meat” of unknown origin, and the cheapest, flakiest pastry, and not freshly baked, but rather just reheated on site, at R45-R50?
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economies of scale, if they made enough of them, and got the process down to an art form,
sure the price would be more reasonable, here they just taking advantage of peoples desire for quality, as you mention the cheaper pies use worse ingredients.

I mean for instance, what if they sold you the frozen pie? you could warm it yourself, either in a microwave or at home?
would people pay more for it? I dont think so,
 
SHL said:
People need to understand that the meat used in these 'farm-style' pies come from animals that were grass-fed in the Drakensberg highlands and were also drinking the finest spring water in the land.
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And pigs are serenaded with divine music by top notch musicians. All this adds to the cost. And CEO's need bread and butter via 200 mil bonus, needless to add.
 
wizardofid said:
I haven't seen the inside of a place like wimpy, steers, spur in well over a decade, just not the same quality like the 90's.
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this, quality has fallen over a cliff, Spur, wimpy and everything else is tasteless trash,
and this is just a marketing exercise, if they genuinely made quality pies, the price would be R100, and people would still buy it.
 
Bliksis said:
Not for a single pie's ingredients LMAO.
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Go and try make a similar pie at home and accurately track your input costs. Come back and talk again.

Remember these pies are not the same as the regular pies… there is probably at least 150-200grams of free range steak in there. Very little sauce (compared to a regular Woolies pie, much much less than what you will get in a garage pie/king pie pie). The pastry is proper butter pastry.
 
Zellephant said:
I am a pretty good home cook, and make a mean pie. But I have worked out the cost, and a similar quality homemade pie already costs me about R40.00 in ingredients alone.
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Surely, you can't be making ONE pie when you cook at home ? If you make 6, it should work out to be at least half the price of Woolies pie.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
taking advantage of people wanting quality,
meanwhile the "standard" pies are the exact same thing, maybe a bit smaller to take advantage of the plebs.
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You are a cheapskate, you will never buy that Farmstyle pie, so how do you know its the same thing?
I will bet you have never even bought a standard WW pie.
 
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