Foods unique to areas

[Herbert Read]

Mmm, Henderson's Relish.

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

excuses like i forgot to get some

 

[Roadkill]

oh but it is!

Across Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Glasgow, even Lancashire!

I'll have to look out for that. I've never seen it round here though.

 

[dormouse]

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.

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.

 

[belboid]

I'll have to look out for that. I've never seen it round here though.

Where to buy Hendersons

Good stuff!

 

[Error Gorilla]

Henderson's is fantastic; a kind of vegetarian Worcester Sauce, only better. Slap it on your pasties, pour it on your tomato soup...lovely!

 

[killer b]

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...

 

[Maidmarian]

Not sure about Carlins or about the religious turn to the dish, but I'd like to find out all the same.

There is two stalls in Preston town centre that sell parched peas, most excellent little stall in these pics


Yep, same thing ! See : http://www.carlinpeas.co.uk

 

[soulman]

"Odd one"? Chippies in the South don't do gravy. Even good ones. (I assume there's the occasional exception, but it's the rule.)

What!

No chips and onion gravy

 

[lizardqueen]

Wigan has Chips and Pea Wet (have never tried it coz I don't fancy pea juice on my chips ta )

And I've never been anywhere outside Bolton/Wigan where you can get a pie or a pastie on a barmcake Weird, but it works you know.....

 

[Herbert Read]

Maccaroni pie in scotland is well wrong is this local to heart clogged celts?

 

[killer b]

And I've never been anywhere outside Bolton/Wigan where you can get a pie or a pastie on a barmcake Weird, but it works you know.....

nope, you can get a pie barmcake anywhere that sells pies, and barmcakes.

to my relief...

 

[lizardqueen]

nope, you can get a pie barmcake anywhere that sells pies, and barmcakes.

to my relief...

But you'll get looked at a bit funny when you ask for it

 

[Wookey]

I live in Eccles, as in cakes. So another vote for them.

(Yes, we do eat Eccles Cakes.....aaaaallllll the fucking time)

 

[montevideo]

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!

 

[Calum McD]

Yep, same thing ! See : http://www.carlinpeas.co.uk

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 )

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

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?

 

[Wookey]

Maybe, actually. You can only get cheese and onion and cornish round our way....yer actual veggie pasty is a bit Southern.

 

[Funky_monks]

Meat pie.

Unkown really in the south, however, similar pies are available as 'Scotch Pie'.

And, of course, Vimto.

 

[killer b]

is vimto a northern thing? i never knew...

 

[montevideo]

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.

 

[sovietpop]

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?

 

[montevideo]

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

 

[sovietpop]

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?

 

[killer b]

it's a mixed fruit cordial. like ribena, but nicer.

 

[montevideo]

kinda like buckfast for children?

BINGO!

 

[vimto]

BINGO!

Oi!

vimto

 

[Herbert Read]

colts foot rock is pretty unique to yorkshire, it an aniseed rock that looks like a limp of clay

 

[oneflewover]

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

 

[articul8]

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.

 

[tangerinedream]

I had a veggie haggis once. It was minging.

 

[montevideo]

Hi all,

Patties, battered fishcake without the fish. Just potato and parsley.

Er, wouldn't that just be a potato cake?