Brian Dixon
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23 October 2009
16:3331311yep i remember stuffed hearts,liver and bacon etc.my mother when she was alive used to make the most wonderfull steak and kidney pudding,the suet crust was an inch thick,tasty.now getting hungery.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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23 October 2009
17:3231313Does anyone remember Tripe? My mother, the poor misguided soul, had the nerve to dish this stuff up to my brother and myself when we were about 10 or 12. She said...it was once a well known dish...with the wily guise of a salesman. Even then the stuff was history, but with a culinary non - skill unheralded in her time, she dished this white stuff up...we both looked at her with a disbelief that had to be seen to be believed. Even the dogs didnt want it. The very prospect of such a substance fills me with the urge to reach, even to this day. We shudda sued her for mental cruelty !!
But some foods clearly go way out of fashion. I remembner when I came to London first the place was teeming with these white tiled Pie and Eel Shops, we didnt know what they were ,as the delights of Pie and Eel shops had failed to migrate outside of Englands borders. I went in once...but just the once. The food was no longer required by a modern populace. I was part of a modern populace once, hard as it is to beleive. The shops all closed down one by one. There are now, at a guess, none left at all and they wont be coming back. The nation has turned to Chicken Korma instead. A wise move!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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23 October 2009
17:4931314Actually PaulB what you are talking about are the Pie and Mash shops and there are plenty left in London. Alison (and her family) rave about Pie and Mash, her dad sometimes goes back to France, taking orders back to ex-pats. The last time I was in London with her family we went to one on these establishments and, yes, it was all very while tile and very old fashioned, but it was packed out while we had our, double, double, double....
I have not really got the taste of it myself, I suppose not being an eastender, but they just love it. The green eel gravy puts me off a bit.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 October 2009
20:4131324there is a great pie and mash shop in dymchurch open all year round.
barry
the green stuff is "parsley sauce", try it, quite delicious.
paul
forget the jellied eels, only the very elderly still eat them, geat source of nourishment.
i cannot look at them without wanting to throw up.
DT1- Location: Dover
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23 October 2009
20:5931325Paul, why do these things, that are clearly delicious, have to rely of fashion? I know know these things can fall to trends however I find that almost repulsive in itself.
And in actual fact pie and mash is still very popular (and tasty!) along with pie and mash shops. If anthing by present comparision it would be the chicken korma that is more passé.
As for stuffed hearts, remember them...I had them last week. Jellied eels, they're OK but I'm more of a whelk lover on a seafood stall and my son prefers winkles. Like I say personal taste is one thing but being wasteful or worrying about fashion is just decadent.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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23 October 2009
21:4031327So does no one like chicken lips then?
I thought someone would have responded.
Come on you lot, wakey wakey.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
23 October 2009
21:4531329Chicken lips served with pigs eyelids: a classic sausage dish....................
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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23 October 2009
21:4931332Now there is a lady who has lived.
You have been spoilt Bern. And some thought that Caviar was the ultimate.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
07:0931348I saw your posting about chicken-lips Ian and thought you were referring to a poster !!
Roger
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24 October 2009
08:0031351lol! I dunno some strange dishes there. aaaarrrgh!
But yes speaking of fashion DT, yes Im afraid some stuff does go out of fashion and jeez there isnt any regrets from me. Another gem from the past that we dont see any more, yet we used to have it when we were young or youngish...Tapioca. Anyone remember that bowl of particular misery? A dessert it was, there was another one too called Sago if my memory serves me well. I cant remember now what the difference between the two was but Im glad to confine those non-gems into the annals of culinary history.
I was watching a western movie on Film 4 recently and knock me down with a feather but the guys in a travelling sideshow, really spies for the Confederacy, started singing a song called Tapioca...I couldnt belive it. I thought it was some henius plot by HMG to torture me through the airways. Gawd Im starting to get nightmares...if I start dreaming about Tapioca Im doooomed!
My daughter wouldnt touch any of this kind of stuff with a bargepole...come to think of it neither would I !
Nowadays dessert wise everyone is on yogurts of various refinement.
The song from the movie went like this
" Tapioca, Tapioca, all we ever got was Tapioca!"
there we are, my mother has a lot to answer for !!
24 October 2009
08:5631355Milk puddings!! Fabulous. The smell always reminds me of the convent. That and the smell of cheap soap. Probably why I always by Bronnelys............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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24 October 2009
11:0731367tapioca and semolina, both the stuff of nightmares.
rice pudding was not that much more attractive either.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
11:4631369I remember at 'school dinners' we mixed jam in our semolina to take the taste away, tapioca! yeuch! Talking about vanishing dishes you don't see many 'salt beef sarnie' shops in London anymore. There was one I used to frequent in Windmill Street where the waiters were at least a 100 years old! I remember the yellowing black & white pictures of Tommy Steel & Brian London on the walls. The Sarnies, Dills & Lahtka's (sic) were scrumptious
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
12:3231373School dinners....worst I ever had was a spam fritter followed by chocolate semolina pudding (they used to save the choc sauce and leftover semolina and mix it !).
After this meal we went on a trip up to the National Gallery, I was promptly and spectacularly sick on the No.137 after being sent home alone for hurling on the steps of the gallery.
There was a great late night place close to Brick Lane where the did salt beef bagels and smoked salmon too, wonder if it's still there.
Bermondsey had a great pie and mash shop too, but like you say the sause was really off-putting.
I used to love the frozen snails from Lidl too (defrosted and cooked of course).
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
12:5031375Spam Fritters - the Devils food, the only time I was ever sick at school was after 2 of those evil things accompanied with mash & beans. The old 137, I used to get the 154/157 from Wallington to Crystal Palace then the 137 to Kings Road, on to the 19 to Grays Inn for 8.00am to start work, tell that to the kids today they would never believe you
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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24 October 2009
13:1331377Mention of Wallington takes me back to a bit of graffiti I read on the wall of the Gents in a pub there and which has stuck in my mind all these years:
To Do Is To Be - Socrates
To Be Is To Do - Sartre
Doo Be Doo Be Doo Be Doo - Sinatra
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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24 October 2009
13:2231378Paul. My father always ate tripe. I never fancied it, and he also ate chickling?(anyone know that one, or if it`s spelt right?). He always referred to some programmes on the tv as tripe! Like your humour Ed.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
16:0831386Salt-beef sandwiches at Stamford Hill - wonderful; thicker salt-beef than the bread and that was thick.
A very Hassick Jewish area, so full of life - well it used to be a few years ago now.
Roger
DT1- Location: Dover
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24 October 2009
17:2431389Excellent Ed!
Although in this thread we can't forget the René Descartes quote: I think therefore I spam.
24 October 2009
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