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My social media kept bugging me with sponsored posts about this shit, and when I saw them while out at the weekly shop I sighed a great exhalation of resignation and admitted it was past due time for me to meet the meat pie.
I don’t hate shapes, I have just kind of stopped eating them. I have always found the flavour to be in hopeless competition with the blandness of the cracker. I still believe that there is a place for Shapes in the world of snacks, but more often than not, I push the box out of the way on the supermarket shelf so I can reach something else.
After making the purchase -paywave not cash- tearing open the box and slashing the foil bag inside, the air became filled with the aroma of none other than meat pie. This might actually be some good shit.
Throwing a few into the ole mouth hatch, I was surprised – it actually did taste of what was printed on the box. Well done, Shapes. I would be complacent if I didn’t mention that the taste was subtle and this shit suffered the same fate as most Shapes – It was overpowered by the cracker.
It is hard to place my finger on what it was exactly that made this taste like a meat pie, I mean, how does one describe how a meat pie tastes as opposed to something like, beef mince on a cracker? It was a beefy flavour, like a gravy or beef stock, maybe the tiniest hint of tomato sauce, but I had to read the ingredients to get what I was tasting correct.
Onions, yes, that would be a given. Was it spice? Rosemary? Yeah a touch of that too, but there was another strong umami in there somewhere. At first I wanted to say it tasted of MSG, but squinting at the labelling I found mushroom. That was it, mushrooms are high in glutamates and will add a meaty umami flavour, next time something tastes like shit, throw in some mushrooms.
Got a nice close up in there as well so you could ‘see’ the flavour. I would rather have ‘tasted’ the flavour.
*Bonus fact: In Australia (and I think also, the UK) these were released as ‘Aussie Legends’ edition and the crackers are made in the shape of Australia and Tasmania.
Meet pie – 5/10
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