Bubble & Squeak dispute - I'm right, surely?

[Caenea]

Friend popped round Monday, and as I was clattering about the kitchen she asked, as you do, what I was planning to cook for tea. As we'd had a roast on the Sunday, I explained that I was doing cold meat & a couple of sausages to pad it out (as there were about two slices of pork left), mashed potatoes and bubble and squeak. She then observed me chopping up left over veg/roast potatoes/stuffing/an onion and putting this into a frying pan, at which point she asked me what the devil I thought I was doing...

Apparently, Bubble and Squeak is not a fried off mix of the leftovers but should be a stew, made up with left over gravy/beef stock.

AIBU? She's wrong, surely - I've never heard of B&S being a stew!!

What is your friend on about? You're right.

I always thought it was mashed potato and cabbage it's all my mums fault

It's just left over potatoes and veg, mashed up and fried until it's just about black on both sides. Serve with cold cuts. If your cold cut is gammon, a fried or poached egg is compulsory.

I pity your friend if she has never experienced the wonderfulness of bubble and squeak

of course it is the left over veg and mash fried from the day before

crisped up and served with poach egg it is the perfect winter tea

grated cheese no no no

Yum fried up leftover veggies
Love bubble and squeak. So healthy too!

Could your friend be mixing it up with scouse?
I love bubble (ex cafe owner). I always have it if I have a cafe breakfast. But once I went to a cafe I hadn't been to before. My bubble had pie crust in it. I thought I was going to vomit as it made me think they'd scraped the leftovers from people's plates and fried that up.

She is so very wrong! But then again I once ordered bubble and squeak in a very fancy gastropub and got scrambled edges with onions in!

all the veg including mash, chucked in frying pan.

no idea what the hell with the stew!

@cherry - Scouse is a Liverpool dish isn't it? I don't think there's a link for her but there might be?

And that cafe story is horrific - you have to hope they made up pastry specially but logically you know it's unlikely. You didn't eat it did you??

Def not a northern thing leftovers all squished in to mash potatoes and fried off in burger size bits. We do sometimes make a stew thing of left overs and call it panadilty ( and I have no idea why).

You're both wrong although your friend is wronger!!! It's mashed up potato and sprouts, fried.

Or cabbage at a push, but non of these other odds and sods.

Bubble & squeak is fried (bubble) mashed potato, cabbage (squeak) and onion!
Your friend is nuts.t it mixed up with Stovies.
She's go

Your friend is bonkers - of course it isn't a stew, nor does it contain an egg nor cheese nor gravy nor made into patties. It's mashed up potato with ideally sprouts or cabbage, put in a pile in the frying pan to get crispy, turned over for more crispiness and onto plate - food of the gods. Boxing Day bubble is the meal of the year and I always cook more potatoes and veg when doing a roast. Yum

Left over roasties (doesn't happen very often in this house) and brussel sprouts all fried together. Food of the Gods. :)

I didn't notice the pastry until it was in my mouth but I spat it out as soon as I realised. Classy !

You are so right that I cannot fathom anyone thinking you can make a stew out of the veg. That's just a thick soup.

Fried up left-over veg, which IMO must have potato, carrots, and at least one member (hopefully more) of the brassica family. Fried with onion and garlic and served with a fried egg or two on top, and baked beans.

One year I did shed-loads of veg for Xmas dinner, as my boxing day diet is
Breakfast: left over trifle
Lunch: Bubble and squeak
Dinner: Cold cuts and pickles with a jacket potato.

Bastard in-laws were aghast at the volume of vegetables I cooked up, complained that even with bubble&squeak I'd done way too much, and then ate every single bit. I was peeling and boiling more sprouts etc on Christmas evening.

they will not be coming back...

OMG elfycat no court in the land would have found you guilty of murder had you done away with your PILs for eating all the Christmas Day veg

RortyCrankle You sound like you understand the true meaning of Christmas (Boxing day dining) to me

Oh I do elfycat I do. Next year (if they are still alive) time to ration them to 2 roasties and 2 sprouts each (leaving you with a fridge full of leftovers for the next day

Bubble and squeak from Christmas dinner leftovers would be my death row meal. ItMs the sprouts that make it drooool

Eggs over not on. Runny. Mmm.

My Dad would let it almost burn, get a lovely crust on them mix that in. And repeat. Take him 40 minutes to make. Super amazing with pulled cock in.

And brown sauce and salt and vulnerable. Mmmm.

Pork!! Pulled pork!! Sorry typing with one hand as ds is asleep on me.

She's wrong. You're right.

Love a bit of 'pulled cock' and 'salt and vulnerable' on my bubble and squeak bummy

I didn't even see the salt and vulnerable lol.