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― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
haven't had a pasty (West Cornwall co. or otherwise) for ages now, missing them (much better than patties imo)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, it's because we've all got bad teeth.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
This bread mushiness thing is nonsense, I've never had a problem finding nice bread in the UK.
Haha what is a bit of fun in the UK for Americans, going off subject for a second, is getting things that are readily available in the US but are completely different in the UK. Ex: sushi, ketchup, Coca-cola (for the record our sushi restaurants beat yours but your ketchup and coke is 10x more palatable)
― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
while its getting better in the UK, bread quality runs like this:
FRENCH BREAD>UK BREAD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>US BREAD
my friend aaron from LA cannot stand british coca-cola (and is a straight-edge musician often touring the UK), though to be honest most convenience stores now sell coke that's bottled all over the place (cheaply imported i guess). there was a time i could tell the difference between coke bottled in the uk and in eire.
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The lardy cake turned out amazing, regardless.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
And yeah, the things that contain copious amounts of high fructose corn syrup in the US tend not to in other countries, leading to a pretty noticable difference in taste.
― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
you're right, of course - i've had some delicious sourdough in the states before. but the difference is you can find ace bread in UK supermarkets, which i haven't seen in the US supermarkets i've been to (but the last i visited tbh would be austin 2004). american bread i've eaten from supermarkets has been insanely nasty, airy, weirdly-textured stuff.
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
my point for myself was maybe i failed to sufficiently appreciate the flavors of what i was eating because i was first experiencing it through a less-familiar textural lens. (and i shouldn't have passed up the epicerie at orrery.)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.blackfriarsbakery.co.uk/product_pics%5CFlapjacks.jpg
Not to be confused with the US pancake style flapjacks.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
bah xpost
― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost Ally, they sort of look like that, but they're way better. More cakey.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, that's the problem with flapjacks, you think "ooh, healthy oaty goodness!" and forget there's like 1000 calories in a bar. Think about it, they weigh about 500g each.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Read it here.
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
i remember no bread from my one trip to Berlin. only sausage. plenty, plenty sausage.
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
oooh yum
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
He found a basement space and called it Downunder, so props there.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
my two great chippies of last year were in milford on sea and sheerness. unsurprisingly being by the sea is an advantage
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
although actually saying that there's an incredible one in hackney central now, with superb vegan options too
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
yeah being by the sea is only an advantage if they have a clue what they are doing. And loads of by the sea are probably paying sky high rents and pushed to squeeze the business end harder rather than put out quality food.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Most of the chippies I went to in Newquay were shite tbh.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
milford on sea one was good because the place is pretty posh (albeit quiet and out of the way), sheerness one was good because it was in a fucking backstreet in a derelict industrial wasteland in one of england's least fashionable towns
both knew what they were doing but maybe the place either has to be eerily picture-perfect or long-destroyed for the magic to take hold
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
maybe lack of tourism either way is key
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
― steer karma (gyac), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Where’s the sheerness one?
― steer karma (gyac), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
tbh I haven't had a bad one in Hastings. but while I usually go to one that's near the fishing harbour, no idea if the fish actually come from there or if they just get them from a wholesaler somewhere else
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
been to that one (I think - bit posh, feels like a gastropub inside) and yes, it was very good
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
It's been 16 months since I left the UK and I'm over most of my cravings now but occasionally I'll see a picture of a bag of British chippy chips on Instagram or Twitter and I want it so bad I could die. Greasy, soggy, undercooked and soaked in vinegar but amazing.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Sheerness one is on Google Maps as Blue Town Fish Bar but it's actually Bluetown Fish & Chips, on the so-called High Street of Blue Town, which is basically a semi-abandoned dockland area at the tip of the island, not too far from the station. The guy who runs it is...Turkish, I think? Been doing fish and chips in the area for decades apparently. Anyway everything is freshly cooked to order and the chips are amazing. I thoroughly recommend a visit. Check out the ecstatic Google reviews if you're not sure!
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
Laughing Halibut - that takes me back - think I last went there in my schooldays.
Hackney one is Sutton & Son - v good
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
Ty, I will check out that one! Wasn’t impressed by Sutton & Sons when I lived in Hackney.
― steer karma (gyac), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
presumably new ownership - it seems very 'recent' idk
sheerness worth a visit regardless - a few v interesting places on the high st
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
im starvin now ye fuckeds me insides are touchin
― Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
I am still very sad I never got to try Guinness Marmite.
― Yerac, Friday, 24 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
I think our best meals on our summer vacation last year were in Newcastle. Considering that any family dining for us has to meet the preferences of A) the sensible pescatarian B) the sausage appetizer with a steak entree hardman C) the eight-year-old young lady who likes some fried things, some green things, and not much else
― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
WRT Australian Food being well grounded in British food, Australia takes the meat pie to new heights. I will rep for the steak pie from the Caltex servo in Penong, SA, (next to the windmill museum) as being one of the best in existence.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 24 January 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
My grandma was 100% australian, never been to England & still somehow cooked like a Brit expat every day of her life. Steamed puddings, trifles, kedgereee, every boiled vegetable known to man...
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 January 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
I am still very sad I never got to try Guinness Marmite.― Yerac, Friday, 24 January 2020 01:09 (twenty hours ago)
It didn't taste different in any way!
I often wonder what the US/whatever tourists in London really think when they have their shite fish and chips in a pub in a bland pub in zone 1. Poor sods. It really is true 90% of fish and chip shops are very ordinary.
― kraudive, Friday, 24 January 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
Yeah I think they did a champagne Marmite one time and that tasted just like regular Marmite, 😥
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Literally the worst thing about Hull is chippies don't do potato scallops
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
Muswell Hill (of course) has a gourmet fish n' chippy, bit out of the way for the average tourist though
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Marmite is still made in Burton-on-Trent, I think, having outlived the brewing industry it is a by-product of there. Yes, Guinness flavour Marmite was nothing special, but Marmite flavour Guinness is still widely available in corner shops.
― fetter, Friday, 24 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
There's still a humongous brewery in Burton, one of the multinationals iirc, and yeah they make Marmite there too. We used to go shopping there once a fortnight or so when I was a kid, the whole town stank of yeast
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Having just visited there at the weekend I can confirm that Edinburgh still smells of yeast too.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
hmmmm... supposedly trying to make homemade marmite is "dangerous and hard to control".
― Yerac, Friday, 24 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Just found a "recipe" that takes 10 days
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
I really miss the cheap fishcakes I used to get from the fish and chips shops in Liverpool as a kid.
― kraudive, Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
actually bought my first ever squeezy marmite yesterday, will report back on the consistency.― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:08 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:08 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
My report is that it's just regular marmite. The pot is good though, it dispenses the very thin stream which you need.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Cheesy chips at Cheltenham Town (@CTFCofficial) 💷 £3 pic.twitter.com/B3ACM7OCbP— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) December 26, 2021
― 龜, Saturday, 15 January 2022 01:59 (two years ago) link
This may be an appropriate thread for me to rediscover the enthusiasm expressed by ILX whenever DUMPLINGS! get mentioned.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
assuming it's the same one, somewhat impressed it's still going. there was a fancy fish & chips place there when I lived there 2003-6. I only went there a couple of times because the queues were ludicrous but it was pretty good (and didn't cost a fortune either, 17 years ago anyway)
― bovarism, Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
I had some very bland chips at Whaddon Road in 2003 with no not very melty cheese slices. My most notable memory of the day was the house right next to the football ground with a boarded up window where presumably a league two standard defensive hoof had smashed through it at some point.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
Pie, peas, gravy and a sausage roll at Barnoldswick Town (@barlickfc) 💷 £5.50 pic.twitter.com/21EWlCWcH6— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) December 1, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link