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To ask about your regional food that tastes delicious

305 replies

agododopushpineapple · 01/09/2020 20:55

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.

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agododopushpineapple · 01/09/2020 21:55

@thecatsatonthewall based on this thread I’d say yes. As a born and bred Londoner I don’t know a lot of these.
My family are Italian and yes you get a lot of variance across the country but I think you do here too - it just seems less exotic to us.

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fightingirish · 01/09/2020 21:58

A massive bowl of scouse and crusty bread! Nearest thing to Irish stew this side of the Irish Sea!

saturdaynightgin · 01/09/2020 22:00

Welsh cakes. The proper ones, not the supermarket ones.

nocoolnamesleft · 01/09/2020 22:00

I merely observe that it is possible to order Staffordshire oatcakes online for delivery...

Bananalanacake · 01/09/2020 22:03

Currywurst.

Heartlake · 01/09/2020 22:03

Scouse with pickled red cabbage

Potato bread, soda bread, Veda

Cheshire cheese

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

AriesTheRam · 01/09/2020 22:04

Yorkshire puddings!

yevans · 01/09/2020 22:04

Macaroni pies!!

Heartlake · 01/09/2020 22:05

I once had a flatmate who made pernacalty.

Tin of corned beef, tin of potatoes, tin of peas, all sort of mashed together with gravy? Is that right?

CasaLuna · 01/09/2020 22:07

Loving all the Teesside replies! Grin Lived in London for 10 years and still enjoy a parmo or panacalty from home.

enjoyingscience · 01/09/2020 22:07

Definitely pease pudding. It deserves to be a national treasure - northern hummus, but better. Love it.

BluntAndToThePoint80 · 01/09/2020 22:08

@RubixCubix

Is cheese savoury not a thing everywhere then ?

I’d second (or third) the parmo and lemon tops !

trebleclef101 · 01/09/2020 22:09

Aberdeen butteries with lashings of butter. I really want one now!

MadameMeursault · 01/09/2020 22:12

I came on this thread to say oatcakes and am delighted to see how many PPs have excellent taste!

RevolutionRadio · 01/09/2020 22:12

Love lemon tops, I like good parmos from a pub, not the ones from pizza shop!

Sewsosew · 01/09/2020 22:13

I don’t know if this link will work but it has Ryan Reynolds trying pease pudding

www.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/2704699276445399/?vh=e&extid=5zgVscAg17dNIdQy

(Lemon tops rule btw)

agododopushpineapple · 01/09/2020 22:19

@Heartlake yep that was it - but didn’t have peas. Am guessing it’s one of those things where people make their own versions. Gravy was also involved

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nbee84 · 01/09/2020 22:19

My grandparents were originally from Middlesborough and my grandfather would often make pinacculty - in fact it was the only dish he ever cooked as the kitchen was my Nanna's domain Grin I'm sure there's different ways to cook it but his was sliced corned beef, sliced onions, sliced potato, beef oxo cubes and plenty of pepper. It was delicious Smile

SilverOtter · 01/09/2020 22:29

Patties and chip spice (not together obvsGrin)

MyPersona · 01/09/2020 22:29

@TheQueef

Sheffield Fishcakes.
Ooh yes, in a breadcake with mushy peas. Those were the days👩‍🎓
Mandalalorianna · 01/09/2020 22:32

@nbee84... It's Middlesbrough, no 2nd 'o' Grin.
I'm also loving the Teesside replies tonight. Many exiles Flowers

DarkMintChocolate · 01/09/2020 22:38

Tripe
Pigs trotters
Cow heel
Derbyshire oatcakes
Fruit cake with a bit of cheese

RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 01/09/2020 22:41

@vanillandhoney Tue 01-Sep-20 21:40:54
Sticky toffee pudding

My son loves sticky toffee pudding. I found a fabulous recipe online for sticky toffee pudding cake which I made him for his birthday (He's 40+ and doesn't live here)
He loved it (and I loved the offcuts)

Graphista · 01/09/2020 22:45

I think you might be meaning panackelty which is a north east variation on scouse/stovies etc made with corned beef.

A Sunderland native friend of mine makes this.

I’m a weegie (Glaswegian) so we’ve TONS and no it’s not all deep fried/unhealthy - oh who am I kidding? The best are unhealthy!

Off the top of my head working from breakfast on:

Glasgow fry - fry up but with square sausage, tattie scones, black and white pudding, preferably served with a good strong mug of scottish blend builders tea

Hot rolls - a morning roll (crusty top, soft bottom and inside, preferably Morton’s) filled with your own personal favourite fried breakfast items, mine is a good fried egg (cooked white runny yolk - yes it gets messy!) and 2 tattie scones with a squirt of brown sauce - sauces optional and own choice but tend to be ketchup, brown or mustard

Scotch pancakes - thicker and smaller than English pancakes

Scotch broth - of course, every family has their own recipe, but in my experience most households have a favoured soup recipe of some description. A meal in themselves especially when served with rolls or pan bread and butter

Tablet - a fudge like confection but with TONS more sugar so it’s harder and crumbly, similar texture to the inside of Kendall mint cake? Various companies have tried to create commercial varieties but its NEVER as good as home made and most corner shops/independent sweet shops sell home made tablet.

Macaroon - NOT to be confused with macaron. Also a confection made from mashed potato (yes really!) and icing sugar coated in chocolate and toasted desiccated coconut. Again home made is the best.

Strawberry tarts - a short pastry base, filled with a version of creme pat type filling I’ve never had anywhere else, a large fresh hulled and cleaned strawberry upside down and a diabetes inducing strawberry syrup smothered over the top so an unctuous pyramid of delight is created. Again very messy to eat but soooooo good! The best in my opinion are from aulds bakers

Irn bru to wash it down

Stovies - again every family has their own version but basically a meat and veg stew, I do my family’s version using meat substitutes and it’s still pretty good

Haggis - again veggie haggis pretty damn good too

Macaroni cheese pie - exactly as described, a hot water crust pastry (my favourite part) pie shell filled with macaroni cheese, topped either simply with grated cheese or mashed potato (Cos why have 2 carbs when you can have 3?) and grated cheese - usually good strong scottish cheddar.

Pizza crunch - battered and deep fried pizza, NOT greasy and gross but done well is light and crunchy and very tasty

I’m also an army brat and lived all over Uk and find this post:

Does England really do regional dishes? an unnecessarily negative comment!

There are loads of stews/casseroles, pies, tarts, cakes, biscuits, drinks etc that are particular to various regions.

I am a basic baker myself and there are loads of breads, rolls and cakes i remember from places I’ve lived and I’d love to be able to get here but aren’t available to me.

QueenPaws · 01/09/2020 22:49

Grasmere gingerbread
Pasty barm (has to be meat and potato pasty, buttered barm and brown sauce)
Hotpot with pickled red cabbage, brown sauce and crusty bread
Fruit cake and cheese
Butter pie
Parkin
Chorley cakes
Parched peas
Lancashire bomb cheese

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