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.

No one has said a faggot and pea batch yet. I absolutely loved one of these when I was a kid. This was a typical Saturday lunch or grabbed after going to watch a footy match.

I lived in Stoke On Trent for a while and fell in love with oat cakes - best served smothered in cheese and brown sauce with crispy bacon.

This thread is making me so hungry!

@Graphista thanks for the info, might be worth seeing if I can get any via the post.

And creamola foam souonds very interesting.....

Multicolour

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We have had Scotch pies and Square sausage through the post!

Oooh, I feel some Googling is in order

Creamola foam is so hard to describe! It's sort of a sherbet concoction a powder that you added water to and it made a soda type drink that was its intended use but many also just ate it as it was like you would a sherbet dip? Or even as a cake topping.

The most fun we had though was mixing in a little space dust, making up the drink and serving to someone unsuspecting

I’d forgotten about Cremona foam. It used to come in a tin and you had to prize the lid off with a teaspoon. If I drank it too quickly it’s foaminess would come down my nose.

Creamola ffs

White pudding supper especially if eaten in front of a roaring fire whilst it’s blowing a gale and horizontal rain outside.

@Deux

White pudding supper especially if eaten in front of a roaring fire whilst it’s blowing a gale and horizontal rain outside.

I think you could say the same about a lot of comfort foods, when you eat them in front of the fire and it's miserable outside

Stovies

Some other specialties I remembered:

• breaded chicken liver and heart, deep fried
• stollen - xmas bread with loads of marzipan
• norwegian apple pie - way more sugar than needed on the top and slightly caramelized
• strudel

Oh, and hot butteries. With more butter.

Gypsy tart 🤤

@BitOfANameChange It's a rite of passage at school in Melton to learn to make a pork pie! I have to say I'm not a lover of Stilton on its own either. Love it as a sauce on steak though.

and en eglish favourite: brandy butter. wish we had it all year round :)

Shropshire fidget pie 🥧
Lobby, love that my nan taught us the recipe and i still use it .

@thenaughtyone

Pork pies and Stilton cheese!

I've a wedding to go to next year in Melton and hoping beyond hope they do a pork pie and stilton wedding cake!!

Yorkies with gravy.
Curd tarts.
Parkin with Wensleydale ( though any slightly acidic crumbly cheese is good).
I'd have said fat rascals until Betty's appropriated and patented them: bastards!
Fruit cake with cheese.

From my DM family further north: leek pudding.

[quote thenaughtyone]@BitOfANameChange It's a rite of passage at school in Melton to learn to make a pork pie! I have to say I'm not a lover of Stilton on its own either. Love it as a sauce on steak though.[/quote]
DS made a pork pie for his Food Tech GCSE. It was actually quite good.

The best Stilton sauce I had was at the Black Horse in Grimston.

Oh, I forgot about haslet!

There used to be chitterlings and brawn - I remember seeing them in the shops, but I never ate them!

Where I'm from, pea fritters, potato scallops with pea wet or black pudding.

Where I live, chicken and mealie pie and another vote for butteries.

Can't have any of the above due to gallstones and it's killing me to read this thread.

Stilton & proper Melton Mowbray pork pies. Leicestershire has the best regional food .

Parkin

Pies, pies, pies.
My hometown inhabitants are known as pie eaters.
Builders vans have stickers on saying "no pies are left in this vehicle overnight".
Also Uncle Joe's mint balls.
Lobbies.
Wigan kebabs (pies in a barm cake).

Right Yorkshire folk, polony.

I remember getting it as a child but I have not seen any for ages (I was 9 when I was dragged kicking and screaming to the wrong side of the pennines).

Oh and stand pie - basically a pork pie that would feed a family of 8.