Foods you can only get in your region/city

[thequeenbeyondthewall]

I'm in Liverpool.

I have lived all over and you can only get Sui Mais here (that I have for nd anyway.)No one else outside of Liverpool seems to have heard of them.

They are pork and prawn dumplings but bigger and better and not won tons.

Recently went to Cardiff and I had a corned beef and mash thing from the chippy that was a welsh thing. It definitely began with R but it was regional to that area I think. It was fabulous.

What do you have that you don't see anywhere else?

@Sparklingbells @Northernmum100 ex Prestonian here. Came to say butter pie with peas, red cabbage and gravy. Not had one for years.

In St Helens you can ask for a split in the chippy and you'll get chips and peas.

Saffron buns from my home county...Lardy cake from my adopted one

knocksomesrnse I've got my grandmother's recipe for her green bean chutney...the mustard used to make your eyes water

@CatFaceCats sorry - bit late on the thread, but Aitkens is no more. It’s a sad tale, & Google can fill you in on the very sordid details...
But Murdoch Allan does a good one now 😁

Patties from Hull.

The only thing about Hull I miss....

...apart from Skelton's Chorley Cakes. Gods, they were good!

@dreamers, I know :(
Used to live near one in Torry, then may later year right beside one just off Charlotte street. Used to have 4 a day - surprised I wasn’t the size of a house!

Real, proper pasties ( I'm in Plymouth). Not Ginsters, they don't count down here!

I'm from Liverpool originally & yes, my mums scouse ( with red cabbage) is the best.

Also, you can't get decent meat and potato pies outside Wigan.

Has anybody mentioned the delicious Empire Biscuit?

Also, we have spicy spuds here that I've never seen anywhere else.

Anyone seem them elsewhere?

We used to get rissoles for school dinner. Flipping rank flat bits of meat cooked in greasy breadcrumbs. I live in Kent.

We used to get rissoles too (Hampshire), I didn't realise they were regional.

I've had Sui mais! In Glasgow and in Birmingham - lovely!

Regional to where I live now would be a Bedfordshire clanger.

@thequeenbeyondthewall you don't get Sui Mai in chippies outside of Liverpool, you have to go to a Chinese takeaway. Liverpool is really weird in that a chippy sells fish and chips and Chinese food. I used to live in London and chippys only sell fish and chips and burgers, if you want Chinese you go to a Chinese takeaway.

I love Staffordshire oat cakes, used to work with someone who'd bring them in if he'd been to visit his parents and we'd heat them up with cheese.

Has anybody mentioned the delicious Empire Biscuit

Where is that regional to? Were very popular in the bakery I used to work at in Shetland, and I'm pretty sure they aren't specific to here.

Rissoles are not flat bits of meat in Wales.

They are made from left over chips (ideally), onion, corned beef, dried herbs and salt and pepper, rolled into a ball, covered in breadcrumbs or batter and deep fried. (DH has made thousands).

Lots of chippys in Scotland sell spring rolls and my old local one used to sell the best Chinese ribs I've ever tasted.

Spring rolls from the chippy are amazing

Chip spice!

Seftalia and keftedes 🇻🇮

Pink slice

I really want a rissole now but the chip shop is shut .

Butter Pie and Rag Pudding.

Dream rings from Harry Gows bakery in the North of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it’s like an iced brioche type ring that’s split and filled with cream, except that’s it’s not a brioche, it’s a secret recipe that’s lighter.
Rowies in Aberdeen which in my opinion are horrible but definitely an Aberdeen thing.

Is fruit pudding a UK wide delicacy? It’s my favourite cooked breakfast option!

They sell Empire biscuits in my local Greggs in North Yorkshire.

I had a chicken Parmo last night for tea 😋