Regional food specialities

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What's your area famous for?
My sister has brought me some Eccles cakes, absolutely delicious!

What is your local speciality?

I bloody love these but know them as potato fritters.
Used to buy them for lunch for 10p from the chippy.
Not had them in years, would love one right now!

I’m in the East Midlands and we are known for brewing the best beer in Burton on Trent, making the best puddings in Bakewell, making the best pork pies in Melton Mowbray and, of course, making Stilton, the best cheese in the world.

Faggots and peas
Grey peas and bacon
Pork scratchings
Orange chips

Wee used to get potatoe Scallops at primary school, I had no idea there was another type until I was an adult 🤣🤣🤣

Lincolnshire sausages
Fish and chips
Haselet
Pizza platter (north east Lincs only)
Plum bread
Poacher cheese
Timothy Taylor ale

Cake without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze….said my mother.
personaly I love Christmas cake and cheese!

Chips and gravy 😋

I seem to be the only Geordie here so far….
stottie cakes (think of a big, round, flat bread bun!)
steak bakes…all over the news at the minute!
pease pudding
lindisfarne Mede (ok, so that’s Northumberland but Northumberland is only a step over the border from Tyneside)
Newkey broon…to always be served in a wet schooner glass!
Reading this I see we don’t have the healthiest of diets!

dough cake and cheese

stuffed chine

haslet

Lincolnshire

I get mine from Cooplands when in Yorkshire which I am right now.

I can't eat fruitcake without cheese.

Yes - this is a great one too! If you haven’t tried the Betty’s one, do give it a go. Expensive, but a lovely treat.

In our family, the Christmas cake is the accompaniment to the cheese 🤣 Don’t bother icing/marzipanning it. It’s all about the cheese 🧀

Potato bread
Soda bread
Wheaten bread

However the NI are famous for our amazing tray bakes (buns not savoury)!

Butter pie

Corned beef pie

Orange chips. Faggots and grey peas

What are orange chips?.

Sticky toffee pudding
Kendal mint cake (bleurgh!)

@Thevelvelletes when you go the chippy here you have to say if you don’t want orange chips. The chips are thrown in the batter mix ( that sometimes has a bit of turmeric or paprika in)- they come out fluorescent orange. Round here it’s hard to find a chippy that does ordinary chips.

Coventry God cakes from erm...Coventry 😁 triangular pockets of puff pastry with mincemeat inside with three slashes on top to represent the Holy Trinity. Another term that seems unique to Coventry is the word batch for a cob or roll. Chip batch anyone?

Cornwall - Saffron Cake and Cornish Pasty

I imagine it's,what I would call a chip Barm?

Gall10, every time I have to go and see a client in Durham I call into a nearby services on the way back JUST for stottie cakes. There's nothing like them!

Dorset Knobs
Scones / clotted cream and jame
Pasties
Fish and chips
Whippy Ice creams
Apple cake