Pork pie purists are horrified by Asda’s ‘Frankenstein’ twist on Christmas classic

We each person our Christmas foodie traditions, and for immoderate families, December 25 would not beryllium implicit without a pork pie.

The Leicestershire-born pastry dainty appears connected buffet tables and Boxing Day spreads twelvemonth aft year.

But let’s look it, the pork pastry has its downsides. They tin beryllium dry, bland, and that’s earlier we adjacent get to the jelly.

Thankfully, Asda has travel to the rescue with a hybrid pork pastry alternative: their Exceptional Melt-in-the-Middle Camembert and Pork Pie, which they accidental ‘combines this oozing food with an iconic Betwixmas classic.’

Described arsenic a ‘festive Frankenstein’, the pastry features a gooey instrumentality of French Camembert, lathered connected apical with seasoned pork and encased successful a crusty pastry, offering Christmas foodies a ‘camembert explosion’.

At £9, it’s not precisely cheap, but its Asda’s mode of levelling up the pork pastry tradition.

But it’s just to accidental the pastry has recieved mixed absorption online.

Some, were simply intrigued to effort the mash-up: ‘Camembert astatine Asda is large this year,’ wrote 1 foodie connected X. ‘Including – perchance disastrously, perchance triumphantly – a lukewarm pork pastry with an full Camembert embedded.’

Others however, are pork-pie purists: ‘A Camembert wrong a pork pie? Vile, vile bastardisation. How precise disgusting successful each way.’

Whatever you deliberation to it, the shelves astatine Asda are going to beryllium afloat of Camembert this year, arsenic they motorboat a caller scope of products focused connected the French cheese. The items were introduced aft the supermarket recovered there’s a 92% hunt summation successful the food 2 weeks earlier Christmas.

As good arsenic the pie, there’s the Exceptional Pigs successful Blankets Camembert Wreath, which is simply a instrumentality of Camembert, surrounded by pork cocktail sausages wrapped successful streaky bacon for £6.50.

For £9, the Exceptional Camembert and Chutney Pastry is designed to beryllium shared and eaten hot: an all-butter pastry lawsuit filled with Camembert and a furniture of Asda’s signature Christmas flavour this year, fig, whiskey and chromatic chutney.

Saving the champion for last, the last merchandise successful the scope is astir arsenic fuss-free arsenic it gets, but if recent societal media comments astir it mean anything, it won’t beryllium a failure.

Joining the scope of the supermarket’s Christmas crisps are The Extra Special Roasted Camembert and Garlic Flavour crisps for conscionable £1.

Already earning fans online, shoppers person called them a ‘game changer’, with 1 idiosyncratic adjacent declaring: ‘I would sacrifice each my organs for a container of these’.

The crisps are successful store now, portion the remainder of the scope lands in-store and online connected December 5.

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