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Roadkill said:
Mmm, Henderson's Relish. :cool:

Miles better than Worcestershire Sauce ... but impossible to obtain outside Sheffield.

my missus is from sheff and keeps promising me this sauce :)

buts all lies :(

She wont let some one from outside have it :mad:

excuses like i forgot to get some :mad:
 
tangerinedream said:
Yes, I'd second that. I sometimes change trains at preston just so I can go to this stall. If you're ever in Preston, don't think of lunching anywhere else than on the square with peas or pototoes. :cool:
My boyfriend was thrilled to find a parched pea stall - he's from Middlesbrough and had been thinking that Prestonians were uncivilised. NB to Maidmarian - he calls them 'carlins' though.
 
Henderson's is fantastic; a kind of vegetarian Worcester Sauce, only better. Slap it on your pasties, pour it on your tomato soup...lovely!
 
belboid said:
naah, 30 years at the very least!

It is argued that barmcakes are slightly different to other bread rolls because of their exact method of manufacture. Summat to do with using froth off yeasty liquid before baking.
but i'm 27, and when i was small it was teacakes in all the bakeries round here - i only remember them starting being barm cakes when i was about 10.

now if you ask for a teacake they assume you want a fruit teacake...
 
Wigan has Chips and Pea Wet (have never tried it coz I don't fancy pea juice on my chips ta :D )

And I've never been anywhere outside Bolton/Wigan where you can get a pie or a pastie on a barmcake :D Weird, but it works you know.....
 
lizardqueen said:
And I've never been anywhere outside Bolton/Wigan where you can get a pie or a pastie on a barmcake :D Weird, but it works you know.....
nope, you can get a pie barmcake anywhere that sells pies, and barmcakes.

to my relief...
 
I live in Eccles, as in cakes. So another vote for them. :)

(Yes, we do eat Eccles Cakes.....aaaaallllll the fucking time)
 
there's the chorley cake - a bigger flatter version of the eccles cake, different kind of pastry. Remembering eating it as a kid, never seen it since,

and naturally enough vimto!
 
Maidmarian said:

I've seen the dried version sold as "Marple" peas, which cook up identical to the parched peas sold on the aforementioned Preston stall. But I haven't been able to get hold of any lately :( (although the local supermarket does stock Henderson's Relish :cool: )

And why, oh why, has the world (bar a 5-10 mile radius around Preston) refused to recognise the genius of the Butter pie? Once asked for one where I used to work near Haslingden, and the guy looked at me as though I was from another planet :D

And while I'm on the subject of pastries - was in Leeds the other day - the city is chock full of Gregg's shops - but not one sold veggie pasties. Is this a N.West thing?
 
Maybe, actually. You can only get cheese and onion and cornish round our way....yer actual veggie pasty is a bit Southern. :(
 
killer b said:
is vimto a northern thing? i never knew...

it's a manchester thing. There's a wooden statue (of a vimto bottle) dedicated to mr vimto outside umist (where i used to work). Like all soft drinks of its day it was advertised as a tonic/pick-me-up, for medicinal purposes only - & none of that fizzy stuff you get in cans now.

Here's a tip: vodka & vimto (neat from the bottles) it'll blow your socks off. Pisses all over vodka & red bull.

Or hot vimto. Magical.
 
montevideo said:
it's a manchester thing. There's a wooden statue (of a vimto bottle) dedicated to mr vimto outside umist (where i used to work). Like all soft drinks of its day it was advertised as a tonic/pick-me-up, for medicinal purposes only - & none of that fizzy stuff you get in cans now.

Here's a tip: vodka & vimto (neat from the bottles) it'll blow your socks off. Pisses all over vodka & red bull.

Or hot vimto. Magical.

I've never heard of vimto before. What does it taste like? Is it like Iron Bru?
 
sovietpop said:
I've never heard of vimto before. What does it taste like? Is it like Iron Bru?

Nooooo! It's thick & sickly sweet, like medicine but sicklier & sweeter (rots your teeth just looking at it). Deep red/purple colour. They do fizzy pop cans of it now but it doesn't compare.

This is what you need to look for in the shops

Vimto.JPG
 
montevideo said:
Nooooo! It's thick & sickly sweet, like medicine but sicklier & sweeter (rots your teeth just looking at it). Deep red/purple colour. They do fizzy pop cans of it now but it doesn't compare.

This is what you need to look for in the shops

kinda like buckfast for children?
 
Hi all,

Patties, battered fishcake without the fish. Just potato and parsley. Only in Hull?
Fish with the skin on, only between Hull and Scarborough?

Not quite the same - spice meaning sweets in Bradford / Huddersfield area?

Up The Tigers
 
Just seen on the news that they a firm in Burnley has starting making Veggie Black Puddings - apparently they taste just like the 'real' ones (only minus the blood and offal). Sounds good to me.
 
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