What regional foods are there in your area?

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Sweet or savoury. I'm fascinated by the different foods that are available in the U.K and Ireland(or elsewhere) and being a greedy guts I'm keen to sample them.

What delights are specific to your area?

Traybakes potato bread, soda bread, Barmbrack, Belfast baps.

Proper Bakewell Pudding, not the tart!

I started life in Yorkshire - stand pie - a pork pie large enough to feed 8 people, made with proper salt dough. Wensleydale cheese, preferably served on fruitcake.

Then Lancashire where I discovered the delights of pie and peas, chips with gravy and meat and potato pie butties. I was also exposed to Greggs when it was a local shop like Oddies.

I'm now in Wolverhampton so hot pork baps. If you ever visit you need to try one, pork and stuffing in a bap with gravy and cracklin.

I have worked as far south as Coventry where you get a batch not a sandwich/rolland as far north as Stoke-on-Trent where I discovered oatcakes.

I also like the way different foods have filtered through to the UK in a slightly different way eg a donner kebab here is pitta bread, salad and donner meat but in Lancashire it is likely to be chicken tikka with salad in a naan bread, if you want pita you get an 'Indian sandwich' which is pitta bread containing shami kebab.

Sussex Pond Pudding
Fresh crab, cockles, mackerel, samphire
Local venison, pork and lamb
All things lavender
Nyetimber and Tinwood wines

Homity pie
Devonshire splits
Will claim Plymouth gin off scaryteacher
Salcombe gin
Salcombe icecream
Pasties (Cornwall claims them but they’re wrong)
Torbay sole
Clotted cream

Wiltshire cured ham and bacon, cheeses and cider.

Forgot Chilgrove gin.

CherryPavlova don’t forget Chichester Harbour gin! (guessing we live in the same part of the world).

Chips and Gravy,Chips and curry sauce, Bury Black pudding, a pie barm.

Chip spice.

Patties, essentially mashed potato and herbs deep fried in batter. Patty butty, chips and scraps. Drool.

@Gluetap I’ve never had Chichester Harbour gin a season Chilgrove we get a locals discount but it’s now on my list. Chichester Marina crab toastie though......

Adding milk splits to scaryteacher's list.

Panhaggerty. ( this thread is making me so hungry)

Cumberland sausage, Kendal mint cake , sticky toffee pudding , rum nicky (sp) and obviously the aforementioned Grasmere gingerbread

Do you genuinely not get deep fried pizza in England?

My English family all say that Scottish chippys are 100% better than English ones. I certainly agree after getting a black pudding supper in London.

Also I got an Indian takeaway in stoke-on-trent once and it was disgusting. The naan bread was sweet?

I don't think England get morning rolls either? Or square sausage?

Anyway, deep fried pizza is immense. Preferably with loads of salt and vinegar.

Pie barm. Pasty barm. Wigan tapas (3 small pies). You get the drift.

OMG do you not get strawberry tarts outside Scotland either?

I'm never moving after reading this thread.

Wigan girl here, CliffordDanger, now living in Wiltshire. I'm homesick now. You forgot about "pea wet" though!

Weißwurst - a veal sausage that you eat for breakfast, preferably with a Breze 🥨 and washed down with a Weißbier.

Altbayerische Schnitzel - a Schnitzel which is daubed with sweet mustard and horseradish before being breaded and cooked. Lush beyond imagining.

Food here is very seasonal: in the spring we have Krapfen (jammy doughnuts) up to Shrove Tuesday, and then Starkbier during lent. Then comes the season for asparagus and strawberries so everyone scoffs as much as possible. We’re now into cherries and summer fruits, in autumn it will be mushrooms and pumpkins, and then we’ll be almost ready for Glühwein and Lebkuchen at the Christmas markets.

I'm Scottish but I'm sorry, deep fried pizza is an abomination.

Welsh cakes, can get these in Waitrose when I'm in London which is such a treat.

Rissoles
Dh went to local chippy not long after moving to London, asked for rissole and chips, they looked at him as if he had two heads. He had to explain what they were.

We have several good ice cream parlours, homemade they only offer vanilla. Absolutely gorgeous in any weather.

@pineappleseahorse whatttttt!

Pizza crunch is even better.

Bedfordshire clanger - a pasty type thing with meat in one end and jam in the other with a pastry wall separating the two. You can buy them in a couple of places

@SingingLily of course, pea wet!

Yards of pasties and chips cheese and gravy. Also queenies and kippers. Bondages which is a type of barm brack. I’ll have to NC now.