There is the Bedfordshire clanger – a suet crust dumpling that has meat filling at one end and a jam filling at the other so main course and dessert in one item.
Lyburn is indeed very good! Did you have any when they did the tasting at Waitrose in Salisbury? The Old Winchester was superb. Bought a lump and it got demolished over lunch!
No, I did 3 photo-documentaries last year on local food producers, and went to photograph the Lyburn cheesemaker doing his stuff, so I tried the Old Winchester there. Good for Waitrose for supporting local producers.
Butteries, also known as rowies or aberedeen rolls.
Brew dog beer, particularly their stout, Rip Tide. It is a little lethal at 8%. Balvenie though that is less local than iit used to be.
When I lived in Lancaster there was a Farmer’s Market in town every Saturday and usually a weekday as well. One of the stalls there sold lamb raised on the local salt marshes which was lovely. 🙂
Salt Marsh Lamb was one of the ‘famous’ local delicacies, I suppose drink wise it would be a pint of Lancaster Bomber (which personally I couldn’t stand…) Nice plane, shame about the beer.
Here in Ayrshire it the Killie Pie I’d guess. One time winner of the best pie in football. Unbelievable uproar in Kilmarnock when the crown was taken off them by a pie made in Yeovil, first reaction being ‘where the **** is Yeovil’ followed by ‘and its a chicken pie FFS!, its doesn’t even have any meat in it!’
And as for Glasgow, wake up everyone! its Mortons Rolls (or McGees now they’ve been bought up)
Charlie Wells brews used to hail from Bedfordshire.
Here it has to be Orford smokehouse fish/oysters and St Peter Ales. The local veg from Newbourne isn’t too shonky either,
Lancaster Bomber isn’t made in Lancaster any more, since Mitchell’s closed. I do quite like Bomber though. This place still brews beer in Lancaster and has some very nice beers – http://www.lancasterbrewery.co.uk/thebeer.htm
Can I say the garlic and broad beans from my back garden? The beans were one of the tastiest things I’ve ever eaten and there’s so much garlic I eat it all year round (and it’s nicer than farmed).
Otherwise, I got some lovely goats cheese from a woman with a herd near St Albans once. And the baklava and pide bread from the local Turkish shop is incredible.
stuartlangwilson – Glasgow’s greatest delicacy is Tunnocks teacakes surely?