What did you all eat as kids on Bonfire Night?

We had the usual treacle toffee, but we also had proper parkin and black peas – talking to people at work today it seems even Mancunians haven’t heard of parkin and black peas.

Eeeeeeeeeh lad.

Black peas………….

Parkin with Blue Riband margerine………….

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh lad………..

😀

Butter! You don’t spread marg on parkin!!!

I’d love some parkin, you can’t get it the sarf.

Proper Jacket spuds made with a real fire.

We never had butter, we had margerine. 😥

My gran always used Blue Riband marg, never did like it 🙁

In our street, lots of mums cooked different things. My mum used to make stovies.

The bonfire was always at the same house as they had a big drive.

I can remember going looking for the burnt fireworks after they’d landed!

Groaty Dick

Groaty pudding (also known as Groaty Dick) is a traditional dish from the Black Country in England. It is made from soaked groats, beef, leeks, onion and beef stock which are baked together at a moderate temperature of approximately 150 °C (302 °F) for up to 16 hours. In the Black Country it is traditional to eat groaty pudding on Guy Fawkes Night.

. . . looks like porridge with meat in it . . .

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with bread

I caught groaty dick once, I’ve not been right since.

Black peas and half a bottle of sarsons.

Eeeee lad. That takes mi back.

As a kid it as treacle toffee and toffee apples.

No Parkin in the south

Toffee apples other than that I can’t recall us having anything different.

I grew up between Leeds & Wakefield. Typical bonfire night fare was pretty much this:

parkin – with or without butter. hmm. I wonder if the co-op has any parkin…
hot dogs with fried onions & red/brown/yellow sauces of your choice (red for me)
bonfire toffee
some people had pie’n’peas. That’s warm pork pie with warm mushy peas & mint sauce – an abomination in my eye but it takes all kinds
jacket potatoes
toffee apples

Whathaveisaidnow

Groaty pud is eaten all year round by the yam yam’s.