To whom this may concern.
I am writing concerning a meat pie that I bought from my local shop which your company produce.
I have bought your pies for a number of years and I have always found them very enjoyable until today.
As I sat down to enjoy my meal while watching corrie as Friday night is pie and corrie night, my three year old daughter held something out to me, taking it out of her dainty little hand I found myself holding a piece of wood around half inch square, when I asked her where she had got it from she said it was in her pie.
Now in all fairness everyone knows wood should not be in a pie. My daughter could have choked or broken her little milk teeth not to mention she could have spit it out onto my new rug.
So in the hope that this does not happen again, as I really do wish to continue to buy your pies I must stress very strongly that I do not mind eating the horse but I completely as do the rest of my family refuse to eat the stable, although if I was to be honest the wood does look to be of good quality but as stated above I still refuse to eat it.
Could you please get back to me in respect of this matter and the steps that you will be taking to avoid this objectionable thing from happening again I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
I really did send a letter similar to this 28 years ago but the letter I received back proved they didn’t share my sense of humour and I do continue to buy their pies
LOL, I did enjoy reading your letter and giggled to myself. Although this was quite a serious matter I probably would of avoided the humour! (But I enjoyed it! lol)
I used to work in a shop many moons ago and my then boss used to be a foreman for what was then Wrights pies in Stoke On Trent. I do remeber him telling me in all seriousness about when the meat used to arrive in frozen huge square blocks which used to be lifted by a crane and dumped on the car park (in fag ends, mud you name it) of course when it lifted back up off the car park, most of this crud was fixed to the underside of the meat!
He never told me the process for cleaning these blocks (If they did at all!) but wonder if the pie you ate 28 years ago… was a wrights pie? lol
Of course, non of us actually knows what happens to our food between farm and mouth.. in fact.. I don’t think I ever want to find out! :o)
Thanks for making me smile fella
Christopher Marson
Hi There
I worked for a very short period at a Wrights pie shop.I , to this day ! can not eat anything made by this firm. I Still have the mental image of customers being served and then, with out so much as the threat of soap & water, the same people would ram ingrediants into a bap or such like Their germ filled little hands mauling each ingredient. .Pies plonked on the floor. no covering above or underneath. in trays that get re-used and yet remain unwashed. Food kept out in the open to breed germs or kept warm in an under heated counter. My last ‘ meal’ at this shop resulted in a bad bout of diarrhea which was mentioned to the shop manager who responded by saying make sure you wash your hands!!! I probably infected half of Staffordshire!
Andrea