Never heard of this delicacy until I was on a course with a load of Geordie NDT techs this week. They were raving about it, is it as good as they say?….

It’s a Teeside delicacy it’s a bit like Hunters chicken.

I was gleefully informed by a vendor – “It looks like sick but its delicious”

so wrong but so right, I was introduced to a parmo and a lemon top in the same day, it was a hell of a good day.

What’s a lemon top ?

Ice cream with a … lemon topping …

Yeeeeesss. Someone else has heard of it.

The smoggies won’t be happy that you’ve been introduced to it by Geordies, though.

One ‘review’ I read in the guardian made me guffaw out loud when it described the accompanying salad as ” the most sarcastic portion of salad I have ever received”!

Here is that article
Parmo

The ‘Meat Feast Parmo’ I ordered for £6.50 consisted of a chicken escalope marginally smaller than a satellite dish, deep fried in breadcrumbs, covered in béchamel sauce and melted cheddar cheese, and then topped with pepperoni, bacon, more cheese, and ladles of creamy garlic sauce. The one bit of protein the parmo does not seem to contain is parmesan.
This extraordinary beast of a late-night ‘snack’ is served with a mountain of chips and the most sarcastic portion of salad you’ve ever seen in your life. As you can see, it filled the 12″ pizza box it was served in. I ate a third of it with gusto, paused, came up for air, and suddenly felt quite ill. But I’d buy one again in a shot, however many placards my colon might wave in protest at this idea.

I’d rather eat that than some ‘work of art on a plate’ that has been arranged by some borderline psychopath with tweezers and beads of sweat dripping off his coke-addled nose. Much rather.

Campaign to give Parmo protected Status

Parmos are absolutely brilliant.

They’re the second best discovery I made whilst living on Teesside (1st best was Mrs Wombat) 8)

Parmo’s…Oh my God. Best thing to come out of Teeside. Apart from the A177.*

Chicago’s in Stockton FTW maybe?

*& Chris Rea obs.

Chicago’s in Stockton – ha ha ha ha, Doubled over thinking of the flack they used to get on a Friday/Saturday/Sunday night!!

First parmo shop I remember was “Steve’s parmesan house” in Stockton in 1994 (over the road from chicagos).. those were the days, that flashback brings back memories of far more than parmos 🙂

You cant beat a nice parmo hotshot. The perfect way to refuel if you need to take on a couple of thousand calories 😆

Nah – the ones from Bitz n Pizza in Whitby are just nasty. Or perhaps that is just when the goths are in town.

The ones I have had in Oz were actually rather tasty….

Pizza Station in Saltburn is the place to go.

And Pacittos on Redcar sea front for your Lemon Tops..

Pacitto’s lemon top 99 – heaven as a kid, haven’t had one for ages.

Someone’s nicked your flake.

It’s a long time since Ive had a lemon top. I can remember it well because after buying it I turned away from the serving hatch and the lemon bit fell off and landed in someone’s handbag 😳

Parmo! Imagine a really nice pizza, but instead of the bread base it’s really good crumbed chicken breast… add your pizza topping of choice and, well, ’nuff said. It’s a rare treat at Chez Nous but when we do have it my OH cooks it himself. Awesome.

See also- Chicken Parm in Melbourne.

The weird thing is you can go into a posh* restaurant and order a “Chicken Parmesan”, it’s like going into Pizza Express** and odreing a Donner Kebab***.

*relative, it’s still Middlebrough

**Still posher than anything in Middlebrough

***I bloody love a kebab

Breakfast of Champions, Drac. 🙂

I didn’t have you down as the sort of guy who instagram’s their meals

Hahaha!

I don’t like them they’re bloody awful.

And no I don’t instagram my food I Tweet it.

Wikipedia

In 2007, North Yorkshire Trading Standards conducted a survey of 25 fast food dishes. A large parmo with chips and salad they tested contained about 2600 calories and 150g of fat.

🙂

Cheese overload, I think even I would struggle with that. Sober.

^^^^^ Drac’s picture looks cracking! Blooming hungry now.

In 2007, North Yorkshire Trading Standards conducted a survey of 25 fast food dishes. A large parmo with chips and salad they tested contained about 2600 calories and 150g of fat.

That’s why you need to get a parmo hotshot. The extra pepperoni ups the calories to an acceptable level. 😆

Drac n’ Essel – it’s TeeSSide with 2 esses, please.

To my shame, I’ve never had a Parmo, as I left Stockton in the 70s before they were invented. One day, perhaps. This thread is making me hungry.

Ooops! I knew that.

There are all sorts of “delicacies” we enjoy when leathered. That doesn’t make them good food. But then, so what?