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I mean, we at least deserve access to the spreadsheet!

Ascender wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:27 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:20 pm Sainsbury's in-store bakery. Solid starter pie, decent pastry texture and nice, albeit scant filling. 6.4

Back from London last night with a few boxes of Fortnum & Mason ones from t5. Perfection.

Price ? VFM is the goal.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:19 pm

Ascender wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:27 pm

Gavster wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:20 pm Sainsbury's in-store bakery. Solid starter pie, decent pastry texture and nice, albeit scant filling. 6.4

Back from London last night with a few boxes of Fortnum & Mason ones from t5. Perfection.

Price ? VFM is the goal.

£11 - £14* for 6 of the tasty little buggers.



* Had to Google it. I was just given a shopping list and didn't check prices until I got to the till. The Christmas Cake I was asked to get was £40

Matty wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 6:15 pm Gav do we all get a cut of your engagement fees ... feel like this one is a group effort:

Okay, I'll split the YouTube revenue with you all





To be fair it's done better on TikTok, up to about £30 revenue on there. Although that spreadsheet was genuinely from my own research, not harvested from here! I bought all of them, tasted all of them, made a YouTube video and never posted it. And then sent a care package of the leftovers (around 80 mince pies) to @Sundayjumper and his family

So you've made a loss on that one (I'm guessing the mince pies overall cost more then thirty quid), and you don't even have mince pies to gorge on to make you feel better?

Who'd do social media, eh?

Yep, I make a loss on most videos, as the short ones (60 - 90 second) take around 2 to 4 hours to make from ideation to posting, often include purchasing a prop, and most of those videos create less than £30 income, usually around £10 to £15.

Social media is surprisingly difficult to make strong AND consistent money, and to be successful you need to be doing something you love, because most of it will be at a loss, or for free. Only 25% of my income comes from making content.

The algorithm demands a sacrifice.

Or in this case, snackrifice.

Based on what we're most likely watching, I suggest you need to introduce some level of rust, dodgy electrics and metalworking to turn a profit. Not sure how that goes with cooking/food, but you're the creative one!

"I bought the cheapest cooker on ebay this morning, will it be able to cook a meal for eight tonight?"
"I bought the cheapest accident damaged tins of food in the country, can I get them in the shape of a meal back on the plate?"
"McVities want my broken biscuits back."
"Everything was going fine, lentil..."

You're not being dramatic enough in your titles.

"THIS is what BigMince© don't want YOU to know about the MINCE PIE industry!"
"Every mince pie RANKED! And I REACT to each BITE!"

I did have some red circles and pointy arrows on the thumbnails, but you are right, SHOCKINGly so.

Not sure if you lot will consider this genius or sacrilege, but I give you - mince pie cake.


Mixed spice sponge with a whole jar of mincemeat, layer of neat mince, cream cheese frosting with cinnamon and brandy, marzipan decoration.

Sacrilege!

Matty wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:33 pm You're not being dramatic enough in your titles.

"THIS is what BigMince© don't want YOU to know about the MINCE PIE industry!"
"Every mince pie RANKED! And I REACT to each BITE!"

Needs to include the words “REVEALED” and “ONE WEIRD TRICK”. That’s how you know it’s a quality article.

Nefarious wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 8:23 am Not sure if you lot will consider this genius or sacrilege, but I give you - mince pie cake.


Mixed spice sponge with a whole jar of mincemeat, layer of neat mince, cream cheese frosting with cinnamon and brandy, marzipan decoration.

Looks horrendous, sounds amazing

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 9:38 am

Matty wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:33 pm You're not being dramatic enough in your titles.

"THIS is what BigMince© don't want YOU to know about the MINCE PIE industry!"
"Every mince pie RANKED! And I REACT to each BITE!"

Needs to include the words “REVEALED” and “ONE WEIRD TRICK”. That’s how you know it’s a quality article.

Now we need Gav to BREAK HIS SILENCE on this topic.

mik wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:13 am

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 9:38 am

Matty wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:33 pm You're not being dramatic enough in your titles.

"THIS is what BigMince© don't want YOU to know about the MINCE PIE industry!"
"Every mince pie RANKED! And I REACT to each BITE!"

Needs to include the words “REVEALED” and “ONE WEIRD TRICK”. That’s how you know it’s a quality article.

Now we need Gav to BREAK HIS SILENCE on this topic.

With A THREE WORD response.

Matty wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 6:15 pm Gav do we all get a cut of your engagement fees ... feel like this one is a group effort:

Simple answer to that question is do you sign up to a club card, and the price is so high to make the club card process look worth signing up for one.

Not sure if it’s still the case but Tesco used to sell the data from sales through a club card to the government and to manufactures so they can see the purchase trends in Tesco, like to see if you buy more fabric conditioners if detergent is on offer and that sort of thing

I definitely could be more 'baity' in my titles, and by the time I've got around to posting I'm usually desperate to work out something vaguely interesting to put as a title. There's quite an art to choosing a title that's not too baity (obvious and therefore people won't click) but baity enough to generate intrigue.

Or I could go the whole ragebait route and start putting errors or complete fallacies into my content to get comments/engagement up lol

Couldn't resist buying a pack of 6 from Greggs yesterday. For a cheapo bakery, they're pretty good.