To ask about your regional food that tastes delicious

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Am just watching an old Masterchef episode and one of the contestants is doing Greek food that I’ve never heard of.
It also got me thinking about when a friend cooked me something called pinacculty (if that’s how it’s spelled)?

Tell me about your lesser known local food specialities.

NZ whitebait patties, crayfish, and marinaded mussels. . .

@LST

Staffordshire oatcakes Lobby

Staffordshire oatcakes!!! Hell yeah! I always thought that oatcakes were biscuits that taste like cork coasters until I stayed at the splendid 'Dog and Doublet' Inn in Staffordshire. Oh , how I was wrong! They were the finest of pancakes (and healthy too but for my cheese and bacon additions) and I miss them muchly. I've tried to recreate them but have failed miserably. Food of the Gods.

Lardy cake

@RedCatBlueCat

I vote lemon tops. DH would say parmo.

I love Redcar 😊 you can smell the parmos when you get off the train 😁

Balti for us. And chicken balti pie at the football.

There are so many!

Roll and square slice and tattie scone
Tablet
Macaroon bar
Empire biscuits
Porridge with salt
Haggis, neeps and tats

And drink

Irn Bru

@newtb

Confit de canard Foie gras Tortu(e) just like Staffordshire oatcakes Tourte fromagère (like à cheesecake, with curd cheese and blackened but not burnt top) Cabecou - disc of rinded goat cheese Clafoutis Walnuts 'flat' peaches and nectarines Stuffed duck necks Duck/chicken gizzards (lovely and tender when they've been stewed in duck fat)

Not much else!

Yes please to that list😍

Butter pie!

Ham and pease pudding stottie.
Stottie in general - buttered stottie dipped in soup or stew is pure stodgy comfort.
Pan Haggerty.
Singing Hinnies.
Saveloy dip.

Basically carbs and lard and lots of it

Yorkshire pud with onion gravy.

Curd tart is from hell, though.

Rowies. How I miss them now I don’t live in Aberdeen.

Crumbly Cheshire cheese on a Jacobs cracker with salted Cheshire butter

@superram

Ham and pease pudding stottie.

Ah the memories of the 6 months I spent working in Teeside! Discovering the never before (or since) heard of sandwich fillings such as ham and pease pudding or cheese savoury was an unexpected bonus.

However, I feel I must mention another local delicacy as the true highlight of my secondment..... PARMO 🤪

Cumberland sausage
Sticky toffee pudding

@Calic0 yes she’s also from Middlesbrough!

@RedCatBlueCat I'm with your dh... But still yet to introduce my very Southern offspring to lemon tops 😁

@TheGoatIsHere lardy cake is amazing.
However Bacon Pudding is my number 1. Suet pastry rolled out and layered with onion, bacon and sage. Rolled up like a Roly Poly and boiled in a muslin for a couple of hours. Served with loads of creamy onion sauce.

Frantically googling some of these! I’ve never had a Parmo - but really do want to try one - sounds so up my street!

There is a cheesemaker nearby who makes some local cheeses that I love - Waterloo, Wigmore, Spenwood and Barkham Blue.

Don't know if that counts as a local speciality but they're from here and they're delicious!!

oh I forgot Bridies.

Scotch Pies - I'm not a fan

Nothing regional is 'lesser known' where I come from anymore.

But it’s still a pasty for me, cheese and onion at the moment please.

Does England really do regional dishes? sure a few types of cake or sausage (usually widely available) but its hardly France/Italy

Regional Cheeses definately..

Yy to lahamacun! With zaatar and cheese

This thread is basically a list of regional dishes.

@RubixCubix it's Teesside
I miss it sometimes. But not often!
I've sussed out my own home made parmos now. Kids are very happy.

Scottish white pudding (just oatmeal, onion and lard), stovies, tablet, haggis, rowies, smokies. Starving now.