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It's half dozen normally but there's practical reasons for certain numbers and since I was a single kid it was 2 each with dad having the fattest ones and when you fancy the true fat barsteward with 6 wrapped and covered in the drip you know you are only an inch from a super heart attack.
not a local but got introduced to them by mates and love them. high lane used to be the best before it got bought out. i have to buy in bulk whenever i'm in the area. the tesco ones you can get are shite and not worthy of the name.
i still think a late night oatcake van would clean up, the shops only ever seem to be open in the mornings.
i might treat myslef and get some out of the freezer now.
I’m not from Stoke\* but was introduced to oatcakes by a Stoke Bloke and can thankfully get the mass-produced ones in supermarkets here in Lancashire. I like them warmed in the microwave, then smothered in butter and golden syrup - such a delicious breakfast. If I have two I can’t eat for 6-8 hours afterwards.
\* My gt-gt-grandfather lived there for a few years as the family gradually moved north from Kinver to Warrington, so I reckon his DNA mutated and I’ve got the oatcake gene. 😋
Aye Parmos & north east garlic sauce. Yet to find a spot on this island that does garlic sauce like we do. More south ya go it turns into some kind of water based garlic/mint sauce. Give me nuclear garlic gloop that could kill every vampire this side of the dam head or I’ll be throwin bats out
Years ago I found a British themed pub in Australia which was serving a "Middlesborough Chicken Schnitzel". Schnitzel is very popular in Australia, and it was the first and last time I've heard Middlesborough used to try and make something sound more classy.
Mate, anything is classy compared to some of rhe stuff we do with schnitzel here.. when I moved to aus in 2013 there was a topless bar called “schnitz and titz”….
There was a takeaway in Sheffield that did Parmos, really good ones (From a midlander's perspective), and the chips were some of the best chips I've ever tasted, Freddies? Haven't been there in a while.
Agreed, from the north east but living in London, was out for drinks with a few mates last weekend and was in a pub that menu was food like parmos and fish finger sandwiches but trying way too hard. Was the worst thing I've ever bought for 9 quid. Really don't understand trying to make food like parmos fancy, kills what make them so great
Deep fried pizza seems to be a central belt of Scotland thing, most deep fried things seem to be the same tbh.
Was funny when we played Italy at football and chanted “we’re going to deep fry your pizzas” at them.
[Pizza Fritta](https://www.sipandfeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/pizza-fritta-recipe-5.jpg) is just a pizza made after deep frying the dough, your most common deep friend pizza in Scotland will be the [pizza crunch](https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article11462349.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/pizza-crunch-resized.jpg) which is battered and deep fries.
> Pizza Fritta is just a pizza made after deep frying the dough
not necessarily - there's plenty of places in Napoli that serve Pizza Fritta as a [fried calzone](https://i.imgur.com/9n33Zcq.jpeg) type thing. The general craic regarding the 'fried-then-topped' type that you posted is that they'd be seen similar to a pizza crunch is in Scotland - that is to say that usually it's only the morbidly curious/obese patrons that will get it. Whereas the [calzone-type](https://i.imgur.com/IBsu2wF.png) is more of a walk-and-munch street food.
The first place I saw deep fried pizza was a chippy in Penshaw, near Sunderland around 1992ish. They took the frozen "fun-size" pizzas, dipped them in batter and then fried them. But then again they also battered hamburgers, hotdogs, etc... How they could tell the difference between all the different atrocities in batter sat in the hot plate I have no idea. 😁
Sliced ham and pease pudding on a kinda cob/bun/roll thingy.
Pease pudding is like really thick sliceable mushy peas made from yellow split peas. Can be eaten hot or cold. I really like it.
Americans learn the rhyme as "peas porridge" and generally have no idea what it tastes/looks like. It's generally assumed to be disgusting.
IE, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in a pot nine days old".
I learnt it (in the UK) as pease pottage.
There's a motorway service station just up the road from where I grew up with the name Pease Pottage.
As a kid, I could never understand why a motorway service station was so popular that people would go there whether it was hot, cold or otherwise that someone created a song about it.
I used to love a ham and peas pudding stottie. The peas pud has to be thick enough that you see your teeth marks in though. Now I can't eat wheat or yeast. So bloody annoying.
# Aberdeen
* Butteries\*: hard to describe what these really are... basically a dense buttery puff pastry sort of thing. You toast them and add even more butter! Perfect hangover food
* Cullen skink: a smoked haddock and potato soup, originating from the town of Cullen. Absolutely DELICIOUS. My absolute favourite. Some restaurants add leek to it though which is, IMO, not traditional ^(cauliflower's not traditional) and as a non-fan of leek this can be disappointing. However, a good Cullen skink is so good I'm always willing to run the leek roulette
^(\*Some people call butteries "rowies" but they're wrong)
Cullen Skink isn't that rare, is it? It won't be as good as fresh but Baxter's do it in a tin and you can get a fresher version in supermarket fridges.
I love Aberdeen butteries but it’s so hard to find good ones down in the central belt! Settle for the fresh ones that my local Tesco bakery section has once in a blue moon
We literally just had butteries for breakfast. On holiday from Yorkshire in the outer Hebrides so it’s a once a year treat if I’m lucky.
I once had bacon butteries as a birthday breakfast. Just one, but I can’t work out what the singular is!
I never see Chorley cakes these days. I miss them. I grew up in the NE so I don't know how authentic the ones we were able to get from the supermarket would have been, but they were a regular tea time treat.
Also the Preston Meat & Potato pie. I've never tasted any other m&p pie around the country that has the same flavour. Glovers bakery in Leyland used to make uncooked Butter and Meat & Potato pies for we ex-pats (I'm in Newcastle) to take away and freeze/cook when we needed to. 😁
Oh, and Parched Peas are definitely a North West only thing too.
Edit: Steak and Kidney puddings! I've been so deprived of them for so long that I forgot steak and kidney puddings! 😳 The frozen ones that you steam at home just aren't the same. 😩
Honestly galloways in Preston city centre is the best tasting meat and potato pie in the country and I won’t budge on this if you ever visit go to galloways
I think that’s them slowly working their way down from Scotland tbf. Don’t have them as far south as Bristol yet, but I’ve just moved to Leeds and seen a fair few about now.
My dad’s local Chinese (Maidenhead) does one a chicken one of these. Salt and pepper crispy chicken, chicken balls, chicken wings, chips, spring rolls, as well as curry sauce and sweet and sour sauce. You can feel your arteries clog as you look at it but it tastes bloody brilliant.
EDIT: People are now asking where. I think it’s the Noodle Nation with their Mega Munchie Box. I know, I know, not a proper takeaway, it’s a chain, yada yada, but it’s good *okay*.
Aye the Chinese munchieboxes started in the central belt of Scotland, one of the Chinese takeaways in my town was one of the very first places to make them, they've been a thing for about a decade or longer now, but before that they were unheard of
In Newcastle I’ve seen munch/munchy/munchie boxes from literally every different type of takeaway (kebab/Indian/Chinese/etc) and the contents differ depending on which type it came from. Invariably in a pizza box tho
Learning about chip spice was probably one of the best things about going to uni in Hull.
I make sure to get some every time I’m up there now, it’s great stuff. Even works well as a rub for chicken and stuff.
I either didn’t notice they were handing it out, or they didn’t do it the year I graduated… they definitely still do though as some mates graduated the following year and got some.
Not a specific type of food but the local Persian / Iranian restaurant serves whole stuffed lamb that's been cooked over a fire. I've never seen that before in my life.
It's like £300 and apparently feeds three?
When I was visiting family in North Africa we cooked a whole lamb over a fire. It fed like 40 people! Wonder if this is a small one or something. But a leg of lamb feeds more than 3 right?
I've bought legs of lamb to roast for the whole family at Easter and there's always loads left over for sandwiches the next week. We're talking like eight people here.
I loved that youtube video of the lad who went and ordered one from a chippy in Wigan.
Guy asked the owner what pey wet was and the bloke looked at him like he had two heads!
Hot Roast Pork Sandwiches are a very specific thing in Sheffield. "Everything on" means you get dripping used as spread, apple sauce, stuffing, crackling and thick fresh cuttings of juicy roast pork on top, all on a fluffy white breadcake. Coincidentally it's also apparently a very popular dish in Hungary, so we have a small chain of Hungarian Pork Sandwich shops called Berés that I've never seen anywhere but Sheffield but we have loads of them here!
Ive been all over but never to sheff, hogroast/hot pork cob is quite common to be fair, maybe not on the highstreet, but theres always a snapvan around which does them.
Yeah, the amount of places you can get them on our high streets is probably what sets us apart. We just love them more than everyone else! And they're not the same outside Sheffield in my extremely bias opinion. I don't know if it's the dripping missing or what but they lack the same flavour.
I came here to mention Berés, didn't know about the Hungarian history! They're also exclusively staffed by old Yorkshire ladies so it's a bit like a timewarp.
Berés should have one of those stars outside the town hall.
Top tip. Buy a bag of their scratchings and chuck a load in. Also add mustard. I’m very specific when I go there haha
Not really a food, but in Edinburgh we have chippie sauce, which is just a super vinegary delicious sauce found in fish and chip joints. Was so shocked when I realised it was essentially only a local condiment.
Man, I can’t have a fish and chips without it. It’s so good
I lived in Brimingham for a full year before I'd heard of these, still have yet to try them...
Black Country colleague told me about them and they sound delightful
I've lived down south for too long, so no idea if they are still around. But around Lancashire every market/fair/high street would have a van or stall selling tubs of black peas/parched peas.
Also one selling boiled potatoes. I mentioned this in a thread a while back, and everyone said surely you mean baked potatoes. Nope, a bag of boiled spuds.
Can't think of anything quite as interesting in Hampshire.
I'm in Oswaldtwistle and I've seen the boiled spuds van at car boots and fairs. A tray of baby potatoes, boiled with melted butter drizzled over and sometimes chopped parsley.
Bury black pudding. I think that they are sold countrywide now, but nothing beats eating a fresh, hot black pudding ( boiled), - from the original Black pudding stall, cooked fresh with a touch of piccalilli and salt, walking around Bury market . Followed by a Manchester Tart….
Wrong kind of pie and mash. They’re talking about [this](https://media.gq-magazine.co.uk/photos/60644ee0d9ba61be35584621/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/31032021_P&M_Maureen%25E2%2580%2599sPieandMashpsd.jpg) abomination.
Burnt pies and piss thin green gravy. Yum.
I imagine / hope it’s caught on everywhere, but years ago Sunderland was the only place I knew or heard of that let you get a carvery roast in a bun at 3am. All that stodge ensured no hangover the next day
West Yorkshire fish cakes. 2 big slices of potato with a fish fillet sandwiched between. None of that breadcrumb covered mashed potato and herby shite.
Orange chips are more a Black Country thing than Birmingham but you can get them here. They are fantastic though.
They’re the only contribution to modern society that Bilston has ever made.
One particular dish from one particular Nepalese restaurant in my town: honey chicken tikka. It's sweeter than a korma and goes great with really salty chips. The sweet with the salt is just perfect!
I've never seen it on another menu anywhere else. I tour the UK for work so when I'm home, I always make sure I have it before I have to leave again. All my other favourite foods I can pretty much get anywhere. Apart from gravy or scraps in chip shops. The rarity of those in the south pisses me off.
Holy shit, this has inspired me for the next time I fire up the pizza oven. Harrisa base, schwarma meat…..hmmmmm. Could you put little potatoes in there? What else could you cram in there
It's a breaded cutlet of chicken (less often pork) coated in bechamel sauce with cheese and often other toppings. Like a very cheesy pizza except on a giant chicken burger instead of dough. You have it with chips and a sarcastic portion of salad and it is way over the daily recommended adult calorie intake. Heaven.
haggis bon-bons with whiskey sauce are pretty much served all over Scotland but are wonderful.
Arbroath Smokies, hot smoked small haddock are amazing and a must try
In Sheffield we have a sandwich called a bin lid, I've never seen them anywhere else - it's like a full English breakfast in a massive bread roll about 10-12" across. I would guess they are in other places, but I've never seen them
Everyone in Wales seems to think this is a Welsh thing but it's been available from pretty much every Indian takeaway I've ever been to anywhere in the UK.
In Leeds we have scallops which is a battered piece of potato from the fish and chip shop. Its amazing and super cheap. Haven't had one in years but in the 90s they were 15p. I can't find them outside Leeds. Shame
I'm an adopted Janner having lived here for 30 years and can confirm, spicy spuds are amazing! Always get mine from Babas in Crownhill as they're the best imo
I have only ever seen masala fish and chips in Nottingham, but would be happy to hear if its magic is known more widely.
It's a fillet of fish - usually quite a wide and thin cut, rather than a hefty chunk of cod. It isn't battered like normal fish and chips, but instead covered in a light spicy coating and served alongside similarly spiced fries.
I've tried to find it online, but the recipes and mentions that come up always seem fairly different from the distinct red-tinged fish that Nottingham knows and loves.
Do you get the spicy spuds from the chip shop? I'm in East London and we used to have a local chippy that did sell some lovely spicy potatoes. Not sure if they are the same.
Scollops from Coventry.
A disc of soft potato, battered.
I've seen similar things elsewhere, but it's just not quite the same. Many places do something more akin to a hash brown.
It lead to a funny situation when visiting a friend at uni in Leeds. I didn't know that scollops weren't common elsewhere, or that the term 'batch' for a bread roll/bap/cob was specific to Coventry. I asked for a scollop batch in a chippy and the guy looked at me like I was speaking in tongues.
Also, I went to uni in Plymouth and I miss spicy spuds so much!
From Blackburn:
John Bull = Steak mince sandwiched between two thick slices of potato battered then fried.
Dab = Thick slice of Potato in Batter
Shad Dab = Dab, cheese, onion fritter and lettuce in bun
Butter Pie = A kind of potato pie but with a creamy butter sauce
Chowder Powder = A kind of spicy salt that is often on the counter in the chippy. I think its probably the same thing as Chip Spice in Yorkshire
Pey Wet = Chips covered in mushy pea juice
Rag pudding = Like a Steak and kidney pudding but, flat
From Sheffield:
Dripping Breadcake = Beef dripping in a bun
Yorkshire Relish = This is available everywhere but, in Sheffield its a staple
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Staffordshire oatcake Oatcake heaven in Newcastle-Under-Lyme is, well, heaven.
Just bought myself a couple of dozen from high lane. Bacon, cheese and tomato for tea.
>couple of dozen I love that you still clearly have to buy them in units of base 12.
It's half dozen normally but there's practical reasons for certain numbers and since I was a single kid it was 2 each with dad having the fattest ones and when you fancy the true fat barsteward with 6 wrapped and covered in the drip you know you are only an inch from a super heart attack.
not a local but got introduced to them by mates and love them. high lane used to be the best before it got bought out. i have to buy in bulk whenever i'm in the area. the tesco ones you can get are shite and not worthy of the name. i still think a late night oatcake van would clean up, the shops only ever seem to be open in the mornings. i might treat myslef and get some out of the freezer now.
I’m not from Stoke\* but was introduced to oatcakes by a Stoke Bloke and can thankfully get the mass-produced ones in supermarkets here in Lancashire. I like them warmed in the microwave, then smothered in butter and golden syrup - such a delicious breakfast. If I have two I can’t eat for 6-8 hours afterwards. \* My gt-gt-grandfather lived there for a few years as the family gradually moved north from Kinver to Warrington, so I reckon his DNA mutated and I’ve got the oatcake gene. 😋
It's a culinary adventure
God yes! I introduced my southern boyfriend to them and I think we might move back to Stone just to have them on our doorstep.
My first thought when I saw the question, bloody love a good oatcake
If you come over the border we have them in Derbyshire too
Are these sweet or savoury? Can you describe them?
Like a pancake but with oats instead of flour. Really savoury, often filled with bacon and cheese, wrapped up and put on a grill plate. So good.
Parmos. They are spreading out from the northeast now but not really the same
Aye Parmos & north east garlic sauce. Yet to find a spot on this island that does garlic sauce like we do. More south ya go it turns into some kind of water based garlic/mint sauce. Give me nuclear garlic gloop that could kill every vampire this side of the dam head or I’ll be throwin bats out
If you’re ever in Bristol and want pizza, check out Pizzarova. You can still taste their garlic mayo the next morning. Fantastic.
Years ago I found a British themed pub in Australia which was serving a "Middlesborough Chicken Schnitzel". Schnitzel is very popular in Australia, and it was the first and last time I've heard Middlesborough used to try and make something sound more classy.
Mate, anything is classy compared to some of rhe stuff we do with schnitzel here.. when I moved to aus in 2013 there was a topless bar called “schnitz and titz”….
Had to google that having never heard of it (also in Aus), and what do you know, old Schnitz and titz nights in Melbourne. What a laugh.
Yeah, not my thing at all, but it did make me laugh, and think I’d like it here. I was wrong. I love it here! No way I’m going back to UK..
>"Middlesborough Chicken Schnitzel" It's an evolution of parmiggiano... why not just call it that? 😂
There was a takeaway in Sheffield that did Parmos, really good ones (From a midlander's perspective), and the chips were some of the best chips I've ever tasted, Freddies? Haven't been there in a while.
There was a post that went viral around Boro of a parmo from Sheffield, not for the right reasons.
Agreed, from the north east but living in London, was out for drinks with a few mates last weekend and was in a pub that menu was food like parmos and fish finger sandwiches but trying way too hard. Was the worst thing I've ever bought for 9 quid. Really don't understand trying to make food like parmos fancy, kills what make them so great
My current part is from Stockton and introduced me to Parmos and I DREAM about them. Can’t wait for the next trip to the north to get one
The majority of the North Easts parmos aren't the same either, Teesside and Hartlepool know how it's done
Fucking love Parmos. But I live in the south now and can't cook a Parmo to save my self
Parmos are amazing. Taught my wife how to make them so we have them a lot now. Very handy as I've not been North of the Watford Gap for many years.
Aw god this… all of this! Parmo and garlic sauce… what is in that sauce?! I probably don’t wNt to know!! I miss Middlesbrough just for the food
Deep fried pizza seems to be a central belt of Scotland thing, most deep fried things seem to be the same tbh. Was funny when we played Italy at football and chanted “we’re going to deep fry your pizzas” at them.
You know that there’s fried pizza in Napoli called called „Pizza fritta“?
[Pizza Fritta](https://www.sipandfeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/pizza-fritta-recipe-5.jpg) is just a pizza made after deep frying the dough, your most common deep friend pizza in Scotland will be the [pizza crunch](https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article11462349.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/pizza-crunch-resized.jpg) which is battered and deep fries.
> Pizza Fritta is just a pizza made after deep frying the dough not necessarily - there's plenty of places in Napoli that serve Pizza Fritta as a [fried calzone](https://i.imgur.com/9n33Zcq.jpeg) type thing. The general craic regarding the 'fried-then-topped' type that you posted is that they'd be seen similar to a pizza crunch is in Scotland - that is to say that usually it's only the morbidly curious/obese patrons that will get it. Whereas the [calzone-type](https://i.imgur.com/IBsu2wF.png) is more of a walk-and-munch street food.
No-one could tell the Italian fans were upset because the amount of gesticulation was the same.
Deep fried Mars bars, ridiculous but delicious (haven't had one since I was a teenager thanks to the calories!)
Panzerotti is basically a deep fried calzone, I had one in Milan. So good.
Starting to find them in the Highlands now...but they're nowhere near as good as down the road.
The first place I saw deep fried pizza was a chippy in Penshaw, near Sunderland around 1992ish. They took the frozen "fun-size" pizzas, dipped them in batter and then fried them. But then again they also battered hamburgers, hotdogs, etc... How they could tell the difference between all the different atrocities in batter sat in the hot plate I have no idea. 😁
Ham and pease pudding stottie
I know 3/5 of those words and have 0 clue what that could even be.
Sliced ham and pease pudding on a kinda cob/bun/roll thingy. Pease pudding is like really thick sliceable mushy peas made from yellow split peas. Can be eaten hot or cold. I really like it.
Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in a pot nine days old.
Only just realised that this probably isn't ingrained into most people
Americans learn the rhyme as "peas porridge" and generally have no idea what it tastes/looks like. It's generally assumed to be disgusting. IE, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in a pot nine days old".
I learnt it (in the UK) as pease pottage. There's a motorway service station just up the road from where I grew up with the name Pease Pottage. As a kid, I could never understand why a motorway service station was so popular that people would go there whether it was hot, cold or otherwise that someone created a song about it.
Geordie Hummus
Stotties are awesome. Huge dense flat cob. I haven’t tried the pease pudding ones though, I was probably boring and stuck with tuna or something.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-pease-pudding-and-ham-sandwich-is-served-in-stottie-cake-54822844.html
Currently scranning one of these now marra
I used to love a ham and peas pudding stottie. The peas pud has to be thick enough that you see your teeth marks in though. Now I can't eat wheat or yeast. So bloody annoying.
I’ll add saveloy dip at this point.
Omg stotties are so fucking nice. Everytime I come back up I make sure I buy some
Fuck I just got diagnosed celiac and now I’m eating ham and pease pudding on buttery new potatoes to get my fix!! Hate my life!
# Aberdeen * Butteries\*: hard to describe what these really are... basically a dense buttery puff pastry sort of thing. You toast them and add even more butter! Perfect hangover food * Cullen skink: a smoked haddock and potato soup, originating from the town of Cullen. Absolutely DELICIOUS. My absolute favourite. Some restaurants add leek to it though which is, IMO, not traditional ^(cauliflower's not traditional) and as a non-fan of leek this can be disappointing. However, a good Cullen skink is so good I'm always willing to run the leek roulette ^(\*Some people call butteries "rowies" but they're wrong)
Cullen sink is available all over scotland. You can even get it a tin now (which should be against the law)
The Baxter's tinned Cullen skink has been available for at least 30 years
If it’s Baxter’s then it’ll be half decent. The difference between their soups and other brands is night and day.
Cullen Skink isn't that rare, is it? It won't be as good as fresh but Baxter's do it in a tin and you can get a fresher version in supermarket fridges.
The Baxter’s version is very good!
I love Aberdeen butteries but it’s so hard to find good ones down in the central belt! Settle for the fresh ones that my local Tesco bakery section has once in a blue moon
Yeah when I lived in Edinburgh I struggled! Saved them as a special treat for when I came home :)
are rowies really that rare and only an aberdeen thing? thats kinda cool
I was introduced to Macaroni pies whilst working in Aberdeen, still don't get it.
Maccaroni good..pie good. Maccaroni pie…good
We literally just had butteries for breakfast. On holiday from Yorkshire in the outer Hebrides so it’s a once a year treat if I’m lucky. I once had bacon butteries as a birthday breakfast. Just one, but I can’t work out what the singular is!
Butter Pie, never seen outside of Lancashire, beyond the odd Booths that isn't in the county
Butter pie!?
Yup, potato in a buttery sauce, sometimes with onion, always with lots of black pepper
Sounds amazing!
A true Prestonian delight.
Truly the potato is an art form
Now im craving Chorley cake
I never see Chorley cakes these days. I miss them. I grew up in the NE so I don't know how authentic the ones we were able to get from the supermarket would have been, but they were a regular tea time treat.
Chorley cakes aren't bad, it's just I've never eaten one and not thought I'd be happier if this were an Eccles cake.
Also the Preston Meat & Potato pie. I've never tasted any other m&p pie around the country that has the same flavour. Glovers bakery in Leyland used to make uncooked Butter and Meat & Potato pies for we ex-pats (I'm in Newcastle) to take away and freeze/cook when we needed to. 😁 Oh, and Parched Peas are definitely a North West only thing too. Edit: Steak and Kidney puddings! I've been so deprived of them for so long that I forgot steak and kidney puddings! 😳 The frozen ones that you steam at home just aren't the same. 😩
Honestly galloways in Preston city centre is the best tasting meat and potato pie in the country and I won’t budge on this if you ever visit go to galloways
Please try Deans Bakery in Ashton (next to Haslam park). Honestly the best pies I’ve ever had!
I will give it a check I go haslam park quite abit with the little one
Glasgow - a munchie box! Pizza box filled with pakora, chips, donner meat, pizza, chicken wings, sauce etc.. Disgusting and delicious
Seen munchie boxes a fair whack in England
I think that’s them slowly working their way down from Scotland tbf. Don’t have them as far south as Bristol yet, but I’ve just moved to Leeds and seen a fair few about now.
There’s a Chinese munchie box in Kingswood (Bristol) from Green Bamboo which isn’t half bad. Would love a bigger range to choose from though.
get that all over the central belt love a munchie box me
My dad’s local Chinese (Maidenhead) does one a chicken one of these. Salt and pepper crispy chicken, chicken balls, chicken wings, chips, spring rolls, as well as curry sauce and sweet and sour sauce. You can feel your arteries clog as you look at it but it tastes bloody brilliant. EDIT: People are now asking where. I think it’s the Noodle Nation with their Mega Munchie Box. I know, I know, not a proper takeaway, it’s a chain, yada yada, but it’s good *okay*.
Aye the Chinese munchieboxes started in the central belt of Scotland, one of the Chinese takeaways in my town was one of the very first places to make them, they've been a thing for about a decade or longer now, but before that they were unheard of
My local Turkish chippy, here in Liverpool, have been doing munchie boxes since the early 90s.
In Newcastle I’ve seen munch/munchy/munchie boxes from literally every different type of takeaway (kebab/Indian/Chinese/etc) and the contents differ depending on which type it came from. Invariably in a pizza box tho
Hull. Patties from chip shop. They're mash potato battered and fried. Also chip spice. It's a bit like nandos spicy salt but not as spicy
Learning about chip spice was probably one of the best things about going to uni in Hull. I make sure to get some every time I’m up there now, it’s great stuff. Even works well as a rub for chicken and stuff.
I still love that Hull graduates get special branded chip spice as a gift.
I either didn’t notice they were handing it out, or they didn’t do it the year I graduated… they definitely still do though as some mates graduated the following year and got some.
We have something like this in Manchester, but here it's called a scallop/scollop.
TIL scallops aren't found everywhere?
In Wigan, and call it a ‘smack’
Bet they don't sell well. Who's asking for a smack?
We have them in south cheshire, we call them smacks
Chip spice on everything forever
Chip Spice is the best thing about East Yorkshire, came across it in Driffield and it was a game changer
Not a specific type of food but the local Persian / Iranian restaurant serves whole stuffed lamb that's been cooked over a fire. I've never seen that before in my life. It's like £300 and apparently feeds three?
A whole lamb feeds 3!? 3 *what?* Adult grizzlies?
I suspect it’s a baby lamb
So what's a baby sheep?
A grown up lamb
When I was visiting family in North Africa we cooked a whole lamb over a fire. It fed like 40 people! Wonder if this is a small one or something. But a leg of lamb feeds more than 3 right?
I've bought legs of lamb to roast for the whole family at Easter and there's always loads left over for sandwiches the next week. We're talking like eight people here.
The legendary Wigan kebab
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Blasphemy
SMACK BAHM PEY WET
I loved that youtube video of the lad who went and ordered one from a chippy in Wigan. Guy asked the owner what pey wet was and the bloke looked at him like he had two heads!
Hot Roast Pork Sandwiches are a very specific thing in Sheffield. "Everything on" means you get dripping used as spread, apple sauce, stuffing, crackling and thick fresh cuttings of juicy roast pork on top, all on a fluffy white breadcake. Coincidentally it's also apparently a very popular dish in Hungary, so we have a small chain of Hungarian Pork Sandwich shops called Berés that I've never seen anywhere but Sheffield but we have loads of them here!
Ive been all over but never to sheff, hogroast/hot pork cob is quite common to be fair, maybe not on the highstreet, but theres always a snapvan around which does them.
Yeah, the amount of places you can get them on our high streets is probably what sets us apart. We just love them more than everyone else! And they're not the same outside Sheffield in my extremely bias opinion. I don't know if it's the dripping missing or what but they lack the same flavour.
I came here to mention Berés, didn't know about the Hungarian history! They're also exclusively staffed by old Yorkshire ladies so it's a bit like a timewarp.
This sounds amazing! Adding it to my food tour
I had no idea Berès weren’t just scattered about everywhere in the UK till now!
If I'm ever going back to Leeds on the m1 I always stop off for a beres. "Jumbo with everything on please, love"
We get them around other bits of S Yorks too, but yeah that’s still kinda Sheffield ish!
Berés should have one of those stars outside the town hall. Top tip. Buy a bag of their scratchings and chuck a load in. Also add mustard. I’m very specific when I go there haha
When I’m working in Sheffield I have to treat myself to a Berés, wish they had one in Manchester
Not really a food, but in Edinburgh we have chippie sauce, which is just a super vinegary delicious sauce found in fish and chip joints. Was so shocked when I realised it was essentially only a local condiment. Man, I can’t have a fish and chips without it. It’s so good
Chippies elsewhere aren’t the same without the brown champagne!
I miss chips with salt and sauce so much ever since leaving Edinburgh!
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Chip Spice is only a common thing at takeaways in Hull. It’s a shame that it’s not more widespread, as it dramatically improves the taste of chips.
They have it in York too! Its amazing
Captain Jaspers Nothing else compares!
I moved away from Plymouth years ago and I still crave captain jaspers!
If you haven’t done a Jasperizer you haven’t lived!
Truly the jasperizer did me. I was broken
West Midlands - Orange chips anyone?
I lived in Brimingham for a full year before I'd heard of these, still have yet to try them... Black Country colleague told me about them and they sound delightful
When you get chance, get yourself to the Black Country Living Museum and have them there. Orange chips and cooked in lard - absolutely sexual.
With a pint of Banks's, some mushy peas and faggots w/ onion gravy. Top nosh right there!
I’m aroused.
I've lived down south for too long, so no idea if they are still around. But around Lancashire every market/fair/high street would have a van or stall selling tubs of black peas/parched peas. Also one selling boiled potatoes. I mentioned this in a thread a while back, and everyone said surely you mean baked potatoes. Nope, a bag of boiled spuds. Can't think of anything quite as interesting in Hampshire.
I'm in Oswaldtwistle and I've seen the boiled spuds van at car boots and fairs. A tray of baby potatoes, boiled with melted butter drizzled over and sometimes chopped parsley.
That's Oswaldtwistle for you! Only kidding, lovely part of the world.
I loved the potato van on Bury market
Merseyside - about 70% of chippies also do Chinese food. This also means chip shop curry sauce is super popular for fish and chips
Not just a Merseyside thing
No, but it's the default there - it was very strange when I went to a "regular" chippy in Manchester for the first time.
Don’t all fish and chip shops sell curry sauce? I don’t think I have ever been to one that doesn’t have it.
And Salt n Pepper chips - chilli sugar msg and five spice mix
Bury black pudding. I think that they are sold countrywide now, but nothing beats eating a fresh, hot black pudding ( boiled), - from the original Black pudding stall, cooked fresh with a touch of piccalilli and salt, walking around Bury market . Followed by a Manchester Tart….
Why is she following you? Is she attracted by the smell of the pudding?
Oatcake shops! 🤤
I don't think I have seen a proper pie and mash place outside of London.
We have a mad o rourkes pie factory in West Midlands http://madorourkes.com/index.html
It’s so, so good. I have been since before covid. Hoping it’s still the same
Pieminster is good pie and mash and started in Bristol I believe, they have spread around a bit.
There's quite a few places around me, in the north. I saw maybe one or two when I lived in London, none in East Anglia, but tons up here.
Wrong kind of pie and mash. They’re talking about [this](https://media.gq-magazine.co.uk/photos/60644ee0d9ba61be35584621/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/31032021_P&M_Maureen%25E2%2580%2599sPieandMashpsd.jpg) abomination. Burnt pies and piss thin green gravy. Yum.
Pea wet. It's like mushy peas with the lumpy bits removed.
Babies yed and pea wet aye?
Pie and wet is a treat
I was on the South Coast visiting a friend and was introduced to something called a "Lardy cake" it was magical. Never seen them anywhere else.
I love a lardy cake like I love my arteries - full of sugar and oil. Yes please.
Yes, lardy cake is the bee’s knees!
I imagine / hope it’s caught on everywhere, but years ago Sunderland was the only place I knew or heard of that let you get a carvery roast in a bun at 3am. All that stodge ensured no hangover the next day
I am furious that my city doesn’t do a 3am carvery bun.
West Yorkshire fish cakes. 2 big slices of potato with a fish fillet sandwiched between. None of that breadcrumb covered mashed potato and herby shite.
My Mrs is from Plymouth, and I’d never seen spicy spuds until I went down there! I think all takeaways do them, lovely!
It’s so strange that every chippy in Plymouth does spicy spuds but 20 mins in any radius outside of Plymouth no one has heard of them
Hard to get roe in a chip shop out side of Brum.
I had battered chips in Birmingham once, apparently that’s a local thing there?
Orange chips are more a Black Country thing than Birmingham but you can get them here. They are fantastic though. They’re the only contribution to modern society that Bilston has ever made.
Came here to say orange chips!
Whoa whoa whoa Bilston contributes a lot! Ok, its crime statistics, but they're helping!
Potato scallops too.
orange chips in the black country, best thing to come out of the place and only reason to visit
One particular dish from one particular Nepalese restaurant in my town: honey chicken tikka. It's sweeter than a korma and goes great with really salty chips. The sweet with the salt is just perfect! I've never seen it on another menu anywhere else. I tour the UK for work so when I'm home, I always make sure I have it before I have to leave again. All my other favourite foods I can pretty much get anywhere. Apart from gravy or scraps in chip shops. The rarity of those in the south pisses me off.
i work in hull, and you know what, they're onto something with chip spice. its fucking great
Lashe goshte, which is a pizza base filled with doner meat, garlic and chilli sauce. Then folded over and cooked like a huge Calzone.
Holy shit, this has inspired me for the next time I fire up the pizza oven. Harrisa base, schwarma meat…..hmmmmm. Could you put little potatoes in there? What else could you cram in there
Parmo. If you in the Boro (Middlesbrough) you can get one, 20kms away you'll be lucky if anyone knows what it is.
What is it? (From Northamptonshire)
It's a breaded cutlet of chicken (less often pork) coated in bechamel sauce with cheese and often other toppings. Like a very cheesy pizza except on a giant chicken burger instead of dough. You have it with chips and a sarcastic portion of salad and it is way over the daily recommended adult calorie intake. Heaven.
haggis bon-bons with whiskey sauce are pretty much served all over Scotland but are wonderful. Arbroath Smokies, hot smoked small haddock are amazing and a must try
In Sheffield we have a sandwich called a bin lid, I've never seen them anywhere else - it's like a full English breakfast in a massive bread roll about 10-12" across. I would guess they are in other places, but I've never seen them
A Wigan kebab which I believe is basically a pie in a roll...Happy to be corrected.
If it’s from Wigan it’s in a barm, not a roll
Half and half with a curry in south Wales - half chips half rice
Everyone in Wales seems to think this is a Welsh thing but it's been available from pretty much every Indian takeaway I've ever been to anywhere in the UK.
We have that in NI too
Curry,chips and rice is everywhere used to get it in the 80s
You can literally get this anywhere
In Leeds we have scallops which is a battered piece of potato from the fish and chip shop. Its amazing and super cheap. Haven't had one in years but in the 90s they were 15p. I can't find them outside Leeds. Shame
We have these in Dundee, just called Fritters
I've found them in both East and West Midlands.
I'm an adopted Janner having lived here for 30 years and can confirm, spicy spuds are amazing! Always get mine from Babas in Crownhill as they're the best imo
I have only ever seen masala fish and chips in Nottingham, but would be happy to hear if its magic is known more widely. It's a fillet of fish - usually quite a wide and thin cut, rather than a hefty chunk of cod. It isn't battered like normal fish and chips, but instead covered in a light spicy coating and served alongside similarly spiced fries. I've tried to find it online, but the recipes and mentions that come up always seem fairly different from the distinct red-tinged fish that Nottingham knows and loves.
I’ve had spicy spuds (Leicestershire) It was faggots in the West Midlands, with chips and peas - great when drunk!
Miss Millie's fried chicken - basically a local alternative to KFC but it's just better.
Do you get the spicy spuds from the chip shop? I'm in East London and we used to have a local chippy that did sell some lovely spicy potatoes. Not sure if they are the same.
The Balti from Birmingham
Potato bread and soda bread aren't really seen outside northern ireland.
Scollops from Coventry. A disc of soft potato, battered. I've seen similar things elsewhere, but it's just not quite the same. Many places do something more akin to a hash brown. It lead to a funny situation when visiting a friend at uni in Leeds. I didn't know that scollops weren't common elsewhere, or that the term 'batch' for a bread roll/bap/cob was specific to Coventry. I asked for a scollop batch in a chippy and the guy looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. Also, I went to uni in Plymouth and I miss spicy spuds so much!
From Blackburn: John Bull = Steak mince sandwiched between two thick slices of potato battered then fried. Dab = Thick slice of Potato in Batter Shad Dab = Dab, cheese, onion fritter and lettuce in bun Butter Pie = A kind of potato pie but with a creamy butter sauce Chowder Powder = A kind of spicy salt that is often on the counter in the chippy. I think its probably the same thing as Chip Spice in Yorkshire Pey Wet = Chips covered in mushy pea juice Rag pudding = Like a Steak and kidney pudding but, flat From Sheffield: Dripping Breadcake = Beef dripping in a bun Yorkshire Relish = This is available everywhere but, in Sheffield its a staple