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Local food and drink
What food and drinks do you have that are local to your area?
Butteries/rolls/rowies: go by either name, depending which town you are in. They are a bread roll, made with 25% butter and 25% lard. Nice with butter/cheese spread on them, hot or cold. Eat them for breakfast. Lush!!! Arbroath smokies: A whole haddock smoked slowly the old fashioned way. These are cooked in the kiln during the smoking process and can be eaten hot or cold. Again, lush!!! You can find these in most supermarkets. Cullen Skink: A fish soup made with milk, onions and smoked haddock. Really nice. You can get a nice version in a tin from your supermarkets by Baxters. Mince soup: Kinda like tattie soup, but made with mince and a lot thinner. Moray Cup: Fizzy soft drink, red in colour. Kinda like Red Kola. Gross. |
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Oh yeah, and sugary candy
Sweetened, condensed milk and sugar. Boiled. It then goes hard and sorta chalky. Tooth rottingly good. |
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Pasties, of course, which really are as ubiquitous as you might suspect. I couldn't count how many pasty outlets there are in this small town.
Saffron buns, clotted cream, hevva cake, stargazy pie |
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Grey Peas & Bacon and Faggots round here.
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potato and soda bread for me
i could eat potato bread by the packet
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The Bedfordshire clanger, a half sweet and half savoury pasty.
Although I have lived in Bedfordshire all my life and never seen or eaten one. Last edited by GlastoGirl : 14-07-2009 at 13:20. Reason: sp |
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Pasties, of course, which really are as ubiquitous as you might suspect. I couldn't count how many pasty outlets there are in this small town.
Saffron buns, clotted cream, hevva cake, stargazy pie I don't think Athens has any local specialities - the food here is just a mish mash of foods from the villages and islands. I've not been but everyone says Crete has the best food in Greece - lots of their own cheeses, raki, honey, rusks etc.. In Amorgos I ate various fruit hybrids they grow there - a cucumber/melon one was particularly nice. Volos does great Bougatsa also! |
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A few things from up here are
Stottie Cake - A oven bottom bread. Pan Haggerty - A fried potato and onion dish Pease Pudding - ummm.... a boiled pea spread??? |
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A few things from up here are
Stottie Cake - A oven bottom bread. Pan Haggerty - A fried potato and onion dish Pease Pudding - ummm.... a boiled pea spread??? lol |
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Warwickshire Cheese - made in Earlswood, Warks.
Cornish Yarg (spelling?!) And I must throw a beer in; Purity Brewing Co near Alcester - they make the beers known as Purity Gold and UBU. |
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They sound... erm... terrible.
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A few things from up here are
Stottie Cake - A oven bottom bread. Pan Haggerty - A fried potato and onion dish Pease Pudding - ummm.... a boiled pea spread??? You cannot go wrong with a layered potato and onion dish
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nowt wrong with the first two. A stottie is a variety of bun. It's a bit more sturdy than a regular bap.
You cannot go wrong with a layered potato and onion dish ![]()
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All depends. I haven't had it much in my life - I remember having it as a kid, but cannot remember the taste - and niether have I had hummus but apparently they are similar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_pudding |
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Pease pudding is vile!
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All depends. I haven't had it much in my life - I remember having it as a kid, but cannot remember the taste - and niether have I had hummus but apparently they are similar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease_pudding Pease pudding is more like fava which is made with the same pulse but primarily flavoured with onion and lemon. |
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Mm I love Cornish foods - calorifically dangerous, but a lovely treat!
I don't think Athens has any local specialities - the food here is just a mish mash of foods from the villages and islands. I've not been but everyone says Crete has the best food in Greece - lots of their own cheeses, raki, honey, rusks etc.. In Amorgos I ate various fruit hybrids they grow there - a cucumber/melon one was particularly nice. Volos does great Bougatsa also! I've had raki in Crete, from a monastery. I liked it then but wasn't so sure, when I tasted it at home! The cucumber/melon hybrid sounds lovely for a salad, with a salty cheese. |
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Pasties clotted cream and cider. bliss!
e2a: not all together, that'd be gross.
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Yes, even the word 'clotted' sounds bad!
I've had raki in Crete, from a monastery. I liked it then but wasn't so sure, when I tasted it at home! The cucumber/melon hybrid sounds lovely for a salad, with a salty cheese. I love raki but I have to be careful - it goes to your head as it's so strong! In winter I love it heated through with honey and a cinnamon stick but again, you can easily drink too much! |
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Nothing here in High Wycombe to my knowledge. Best local food for me is Oatcakes from Staffordshire.. yum!!
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The Bedfordshire clanger, a half sweet and half savoury pasty.
Although I have lived in Bedfordshire all my life and never seen or eaten one. Never seen Gypsy tart outside of Kent. |
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Kentish Cheese Pasties
Folkestone Pudding Pies (never seen it or eaten it) Hot Flead Cake Kentish Well Pudding Kentish Rabbit Pie Kentish Pudding Pie Oast Cakes Tunbridge Wells Cakes |
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Lancashire hotpot, Lancashire cheese, Blackpool tomatoes* and Blackpool rock are the first things that spring to mind.
My butcher sells Tangerine sausages. And yes, daft as it sounds, they've got actual tangerine in them. They're some sort of a gimmick in support of Blackpool FC, who wear a tangerine coloured strip. And do you know what? They're pretty good sossies. *These are spectacular. I don't think they get sold anywhere that's too far away from here, so they're a pretty well kept secret. But they're awesome. Such flavour. |
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Sandwiches!
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Um...Cheshire spuds and Cheshire cheese
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i could eat potato bread by the packet
