Seeing on the screens that the club were offering a 15% discount on pies after the game, I thought I'd save myself the hassle of cooking dinner and ordered a pie & pint in the North Stand bar following the final whistle. I paid using my smart card without paying too much attention to the price, only for the Large One to point out to me that I'd been charged £7.30 for them. Which struck me as slightly odd, seeing as the normal pie & pint price was £7.00, and these pies were supposed to be 15% off.
I queried this with the cashier, who responded with "that's because the discount has been applied".
"But I've paid more than I normally would for a pie and pint"
"Yes, that's because there's 15% off the price of the pie"
"How does that work: I normally pay seven quid for both, and you've just charged me £7.30 for them".
"Yes, that's because the pie has been reduced by 15%"
"You're not getting this, are you?"
"There's a discount on the pie price"
"Yes, so how come you've charged me MORE than you normally do?"
"I don't know"
"Well in that case don't bother with the 'discount' and give me the pie & pint for the normal price please".
"I can't do that, because it's 15% off".
At which point I gave up. Later on, two ladies from the kiosk came walking around the bar area, telling us brightly that there was "15% off pies". "Can you explain how I've just paid more for a discounted pie than I would normally then?" I asked them. "Oh, that's not right" said the one dressed in the chef's whites. "We'll go and find out what's gone on". They then disappeared back behind the bar, never to be seen again.
Tremendous work all round, I feel
Well I got the bad call, ordered a veggie, said veggie on the box, got a Chicken and Ham, when I returned it they said sorry if this one isn't veggie either!
Still the veggie one I got was the best yet, can't say Azure are getting it right if they are making errors like this.
I intend to email them, as soon as I can work out their email address, which doesn't appear to be on the website anywhere, and get my 30p back, possibly with another 15% on top by way of compensation 
...because eating a bit of meat will kill you?
...because eating a bit of meat will kill you?
I ordered a chicken and ham, got a steak one in the pie roulette. Was hotter than the sun and had to wait a good 15 minutes for it to cool down. Very nice though
I dare say much of the language surrounding football on an everyday basis, such as "this is a do or die game for Spurs" is no different. It's just an expression designed to add a bit of descriptive colour to the conversation
they make me nervous.
I think I get the pie I ask for about 90% of the time. I've only ever asked for chicken pie or a balti pie and I've tried every flavour, even one that looked remarkably like a cheeseburger.
If Piglets only made 150 chilli pies for Saturday then they seriously underestimate the volume of pies Albion fans can consume.
