My family come from a small village in Surrey and there seems to be 2 meals which are found nowhere else.
First off is mince on toast.
Toast and minced meat with gravy on top of it , boiled potatoes and veg.
Then spotty dog which everyone else calls spotted dick but we have it with butter and sugar on top rather than custard.
We were out for dinner with friends last night and I requested that my spotty dog came Tandridge style. Our Hampshire friends remarked that their friend had it the same way and it transpires that she was from my village.
We also call wood louse cheese bugs.
Anyone else eat those meals?
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Cheesey bugs?
Mince on toast sounds bad, never heard of it, even in the brief period I resided in Surrey.
Pilchards on toast is ace though.
From Kent, and we also call cheesey bugs "cheesey bugs".
Being from Kent, the local delicacy there is Gypsy Tart. The only constituent of school dinners that was nice.
Bolognaise on toast is nice.
Mrs njee20 calls them cheesy bugs too, she is from a village in Surrey, but not one in Tandridge!
I've had mince on toast many times - East Central Scotland.
not cheesey bugs, but cheeselogs (born and brought up in Reading)
And not mince on toast but mince with crusty bread dipped in it to scoop it up.
Mince on toast 😯 thats just doesn't sound right.
Mince on toast is food of the gods. Fife reared but possibly lenzie or liverpudlian derived as my parents did the cooking obviously.
See also bolognaise or chilli on toast.
Mince on toast sounds bad
I knew some Australians who were quite fond of it. If you put enough cheese on top and grill it, it's quite palatable.
Curry on toast is a favourite in my house. Just a way of using up leftovers.
Woodlouse are called "Slaters" and they would never eat mince on toast never mind spotted dick without custard. Central Scotland*
*A place chock full of excellent food ideas, and bugs.
Chocolate toothpaste https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2087637/chocolate-toothpaste-
Bedfordshire Clanger.
Mince sandwiches. Yesterdays mince, white bread, bit of mustard. Grand.
2 slices of thick untoasted bread and mince + gravy on top was a favourite apres school tea.
Yum.
Chips, cheese and curry sauce (from the chippy obviously)
yeh, Teesside. Also a slice of bread & butter to mop up gravy after, well, anything reallymince on toast
Spotted dick without custard though - criminal
Wall fish
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New Zealander, mince on toast was a staple growing up. Preferably with worcester sauce on top.
Had loads of stuff (home cooked, not necessarily commercial) that I've never seen in the UK.
Bread to mop up the gravy was standard in Darlington too, which is like Teesside but posher.
We have Pease pudding in ham sandwiches. Pease pudding is made by boiling split peas until they form a mush; often with the water from boiling a ham added.
My gran use to serve mince on toast, she was from the NE coal towns.
Dunno about the food but woodlice = cheesy bobs round 'ere (southampton)
Bolognaise on toast is nice.
This is going to sound odd, but add a fried egg on top.
Had this in South Africa. Basically a beef ragu on toast topped with a fried egg. Mrs g-d was not convinced when I ordered it. I thought it was very tasty.
Unlike the roiboos latte she ordered. Yes that's rooibos tea in place of the coffee with steamed milk. This should not be a thing.
Woodlice = chuckypigs around my part of North Wilts.
Dunno about mince on toast, but chili on toast sounds pretty damned good, with a nice strong cheese on top.
Never thought of it before, going to have to give it a try now!
Why have all you weirdos got so many names for woodlice? They already have a name...
Yes , cheese bugs.
Hmmm, mince on toast. Not had it, but I can see the attraction.
My wife (north Devon lass) calls woodlice 'chiggy pigs'. I just call them woodlice.
Chuckie pigs here in Bristol 😀
For 2.5 million years, humans wandered and hunted and gathered. Only 10k years ago we started to stay put and grow food in quantities and turned wheat into the most successful plant ever.
My point being, gluten and wheat intolerances...
Makes you think about mince on toast in a whole new light. Have a lovely day 😀
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From South Australia the Pie Floater
Used to have pie floaters in Oldfield's cafe in Barnsley indoor market back in the '80s.
Woodlice are indeed slaters (Ayrshire as a kid).
joshvegas - Member
Mince on toast is food of the gods. Fife reared but possibly lenzie or liverpudlian derived as my parents did the cooking obviously.
I'm in Lenzie now, and I'm sure I heard the helpers mention mince on toast whilst scrubbing the marble staircase.
Fried mushroom sandwich.
Oh slaters.
Chuckie pigs here in Bristol
A chuckie is a term used for a stone (Ayrshire again) - i wonder if there is a link there....
I married a Norfolk girl and live in rural North Norfolk, still have no idea what her dad talking about some of the time and i'm sure he does it to wind me up (always reminded i'm an interloper and that i married in to the Peoples Republic of Norfolk)
Ladybird - bishy-barney-bee
Woodlouse - sowpigs
Dodmans - snails
We also call wood louse cheese bugs
Known as 'Pill bugs' in Trumpland.
Toast-Peanut Butter-Mayonaise-Marmite-Toast
Stoner Sandwich.. It was very nice. 😉
Cosmic Yogurts on the other hand are ****ing disgusting! 😆
Wood lice in cannock although I do have vague memories of pig based names for them. But I don't use them.
No weird food locally for us either AFIAK - Staffs oatcakes aren't weird, they're the food of the gods.
Used to be partial to a Ketchup sandwich as a kid, along with banana and brown sugar sandwich.
Didn't/don't eat a lot of gravy
Ladybird - bishy-barney-bee
Woodlouse - sowpigs
Dodmans - snails
There's some stuff like that on the IoW.
Obvious ones here are [i]caulkhead[/i] (someone born here), [i]ov'rner[/i] (someone that's moved here, but is generally accepted) and [i]grockle[/i] (holiday maker). There's also [i]DFLs[/i] (Down From Londons - not a compliment).
My favourite is [i]WAFI[/i] - wind assisted effing idiot - which usually refers to rich sailers that can't sail for toffee. Quite prevalent during Cowes Week, often identified by their bright red lower trouser plumage.
Staffs oatcakes aren't weird, they're the food of the gods.
Not at all weird - but very much local to there. Its surprising they haven't travelled more widely as they are properly lovely, and convenient, and versatile. It seems mad really that they're not on sale everywhere.
Not so much a local dish but a comestible that I didn't realise was 'local' until I left the area.... Growing up in St Helens you could buy 'Dundee Biscuits' - really big shortbread biscuits coated in chocolate on one side - so big that a packet only had about 5 biscuits in it. Having moved to Scotland since I assumed 'Dundee Biscuits' would be a thing here - but they're not even a thing in Dundee. It seems they were made and sold pretty much only in the Northwest of England and called 'Dundee' for no real reason at all.
And on the small scurrying animals front - while most people would say that 'Moggy' is a cat - in Wigan a Moggy is a mouse and in St Helens a Moggy is a spider (or anything wingless and scurrying with an exoskeleton so potentially woodlice/slaters too)
We always used to call them parsons pigs. No idea why.
Not a fan of mince other than in bolognaise really. .. fekkkin love toast tho!
