English Cuisine

Along_the_Wire To be fair, massively povvy kids from the estate whose parents don’t feed them properly or give them pocket money, so they go and ask for ‘scraps’ (as they’re called round here) from the chippy because they’re free.

What Zackster is talking about here is basically the UK equivalent of people from that movie ‘Gummo’.

Along_the_Wire Grits. Isn’t that what they feed humanoids in sci-fi movies? You can tell this shit started off in the end of a bucket and some starving bastard called Tom happened upon them one day in 1855, the rest is history.

I thought ‘scraps’ only got fed to people in the North?

Clearly not.

@zackster thoughts, please, on the Butter Pie, favoured by the fine citizens of Preston, England (has significant Irish population which may explain the spuds…)

The filling is just potatoes and butter (and sometimes chopped onions)

That looks marvellous tbf.

I was part right about the spuds. It seems the Irish Catholics wanted a meat-free pie they could eat on Fridays, and the local bakers obliged.

Butter was added after a while, because just potatoes and onions was ‘too dry’.

Is that real, dave?

-si- Is that real, dave?

100% though I never cottoned on to it being because of the Papists.

Butters pies? The mind boggles.

bosstrabs it’s a heart attack waiting to happen

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dripping_cake

zackster I think you should make some of these recipes Zackster. Start a TikTok about it - you and your bird making, eating and then critiquing this stuff. It’s the kind of thing that gets a million views.

The absolute fury from British viewers is what would make it hilarious/unmissable. You’d have James Corden special guest within weeks.

The name of the show?

Fishes and chipses.

Chips Butty

French fry sandwich.