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Food associated with regions

139 replies

StealthPolarBear · 28/07/2019 15:43

Not a taat but inspired by a discussion on another thread about violence so I thought I'd start this one to chat.
The North East - famous for parmos and stotties
The North West -?
Yorkshire - the Yorkshire pudding. Stuff like jam?
The East Midlands - pork pie
The East Coast -?
The west Midlands -?
The South East -?
London - jellied eels??
South West - cornish pasty. Scones and cream.

Help me fill in my many gaps!

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 29/07/2019 07:35

Multiple seaside towns... Fish & Chips.

MrsMoastyToasty · 29/07/2019 07:42

Colston buns - Bristol
Cider (scrumpy) - Somerset

Kernowgal · 29/07/2019 07:46

Heavy/hevva cake
Stargazey pie
Saffron buns

Bluesheep8 · 29/07/2019 07:50

West Yorkshire - pie and peas (pork pie warmed in the oven and served with mushy peas and mint sauce)

lekkerkroketje · 29/07/2019 07:55

West midlands/black country/Staffordshire: orange chips, faggots, pikelets, Staffordshire oatcakes, yumyums and really hoppy beer.

30not13 · 29/07/2019 08:02

West Midlands - Teddy Grays Herbals

CitadelsofScience · 29/07/2019 08:16

Thanks to this thread I had a dream last night of happy memories as a child, sat in a cafe with my mother eating a London cheesecake. Something we did once a week Grin

BikeRunSki · 29/07/2019 08:28

Jesmond, Newcastle - Jesmona Mints
Scotland - Stovies
Essex coast - salt
Craster - Kippers
West wales/s Wales coast - lava bread
Wales - Welsh cakes

AdaColeman · 29/07/2019 08:30

Plymouth gin

Gingernaut · 29/07/2019 08:32

Black Country - (made up of part of West Midlands and Staffordshire) - Grey peas and faggots, oatcakes (pancakes made with oat flour) and orange chips.

EdithWeston · 29/07/2019 08:32

Ooh where are cheddar and stilron from? West mids?

Stilton is East Midlands. The village itself is in Cambridgeshire, not far from Peterborough.

Likethebattle · 29/07/2019 08:42

I think Glasgow gets credit for Chicken Tikka Masala.

Scotland has:
Clootie dumpling
Tablet
Oatcakes
Porridge
Ayrishire bacon
Ayrshire potatoes (new potatoes grown in seaweed)
Cranachan
Arbroath smokies
Stornoway black pudding
Butteries
Tablet
Square sausage (no Aldi you did not invent it we’ve had it forever)
Scottish plain bread (a normal loaf is pan bread and plain bread is different)
Scotch pies
Whisky
Irn bru
Potato scones
Highlander crisps
Haggis
Stornoway black pudding
Anything battered and fried
Black bun
Dundee cake
Scottish cheese....

Wombleish · 29/07/2019 08:44

We also have pie and Peas in the NE, meat pie of some description, plus tinned processed peas.

Likethebattle · 29/07/2019 08:46

Oh steak pie and Edinburgh chippy sauce.

sashh · 29/07/2019 08:48

My step daughter is going to have a Brexit celebration party and she’s been thinking about having a theme and one idea is traditional food from different regions.

That is too funny, the EU give the 'protected food' status.

OK

Scotland

Haggis, deep fried anything including pizza and burgers white pudding. Irn brew and tablet.

Kendal - mint cake

Lancashire hot pot, Hafner's and Hollands pies, served with peas and red cabbage. Cheese. Scouse. Meat and potato pie butties, made with barm cakes. Curry mile in Manchester.

Yorkshire - pudding (both for a roast and with golden syrup or breakfast), stand pie (big pork pie) fish and chips cooked in beef dripping (haddock without the skin). Wensleydale cheese eaten with fruit cake. Corned beef hash. Potato cakes served with a cooked breakfast.

Midlands (and the surrounds, from Staffordshire to Coventry) Oat cakes, batches, hot pork shops

This is also the border for fish without skin. Further south fish and chips becomes cod with the skin on.

Devon and Cornwall, pasties and cream teas, clotted cream and fab ice cream.

Likethebattle · 29/07/2019 08:48

Hot peas with vinegar aka a hoat pea special. If you go to the chippy in Scotland never say ‘and/with chips’ single is without chips and supper is with chips. Single fish, fish supper, single sausage (you usually get two lol super confusing) sausage supper....

Ivy40 · 29/07/2019 08:51

North West - Cumberland sausage with mash and onion gravy. Also, Morecambe Bay potted shrimps on toast.

Ivy40 · 29/07/2019 08:53

Northern in general is mushy peas or gravy with chips from the chippy. Could never find them when I lived in London.

Ivy40 · 29/07/2019 08:55

Pie and peas is northern in general I think. We have it in the north west too.

Babdoc · 29/07/2019 08:58

Likethebattle, you missed out Forfar bridies from your Scottish list!

Babdoc · 29/07/2019 08:59

And Finnan haddie, cockaleekie soup, and Cullen skink!

Ivy40 · 29/07/2019 09:22

Mmm, Cullen Skink is delicious.

DaisyStarburst · 29/07/2019 09:33

Berkshire - Gypsy Tart, Lardy Cake

Lindormilk · 29/07/2019 09:40

im in North Wales snd don’t know anyone who eats laverbread. Its a South Wales thing.

Welsh cakes
lobscouse (even though Scouse we eat a lot!)
Tatws pum munud (5 minute potatoes)
Bara brith
Sausage in batter
Chips with curry sauce (north west england thing too?)

AdaColeman · 29/07/2019 09:54

Everton mints