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Emma Gill

'I tried my first ever Yorkshire pudding wrap at Manchester Christmas Markets and it was a bit of a let down'

I've been to Manchester Christmas Markets lots of times, but I've never once sampled the promised delight of a Yorkshire pudding wrap.

For some reason, I'm always a bit late to the party with things like this. Like with halloumi fries, people were raving about them long before I ever tried them and now I'm obsessed.

I'd always wanted to try a Yorkie wrap, I always intended on getting one, but it never quite happened.

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Either the queue would be too big, or my children would want something from a different stall and, well, you get the picture.

So with a tiny group of around five people waiting at the stall in Cathedral Gardens on Thursday night I saw my chance and I took it.

The choices were chicken or beef for £8 each, minted lamb £9, or a mixture of meats for £10.

Excited to finally get my hands on a Yorkshire wrap (Manchester Family / MEN)

I opted for chicken with everything on it - potatoes, stuffing, seasonal veg and gravy. Perhaps that was my first mistake.

As it was passed to me there was gravy already dripping from the bottom. With a look that suggested I was in some way to blame for the resulting counter splashes, I was handed some foil to put underneath it.

But the problem was it was already so tightly wrapped in paper that I couldn't get to the thing to eat it properly.

It was like a tightly swaddled baby Jesus and every time I tried to gently free it from the wrapper, I ended up breaking off a soggy chunk of Yorkshire and was in danger of missing out on all the filling altogether.

It was like a tightly swaddled baby (Manchester Family / MEN)

What it needed was for me to sit down and open it up and try to put it back together in some way that I could actually get to it. But this is the markets, with little chance of a seat and not really anywhere you'd fancy plonking your food to start rearranging it.

It tasted good, but not as tasty as I expected. After years of drooling over them and listening to people bang on about how good they are, I was expecting something amazing.

In reality it was like someone had served me a rather average Sunday dinner and expected me to eat it with my arms behind my back. I think that would have been easier.

Did I eat it? Eventually, yes. But I won't be going back for another any time soon. Of course if someone throws in some pigs in blankets, I might just be tempted, but then that'd be even more of a challenge.

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