[Closed] Local/Regional delicacies

Marag dubh

Isle Of Man = Kippers and Queenies 🙂

Scouse....

Manx kippers - yup!

stovies - tatties stewed in lard with corned beef and onions
smokies - smoked haddock

Leeds, best fish and chips in the UK.

CHB - Member
Leeds, best fish and chips in the UK.

Yes, I can almost smell that Leeds sea breeze now 😉

not quite local to me but i had it recently - north ronaldsay mutton. on north ronaldsay, the sheep live on the cliffs and beaches and eat seaweed. interesting taste

Laverbread, bacon and cockles...for breakfast

bravohotel, I share your puzzlement, but honestly fish and chips in Leeds are better than on the east coast (scarbourough, whitby etc). I think its because they have a steady stream of customers throughout the year, lots of competition, and are only 1 hour from the coast so freshness isn't a problem.
Faves of mine are Coes in Crossgates and Skyliner. Though Bryans in headingley is lovely too.

A classic from Teesside... The Parmo, a filet of pork or chicken flattened until it's about the size of a large plate, coated in breadcrumbs, deep fried then topped with bechemel sauce & cheese and put in a pizza oven until the cheese is melted. Can be turned into a Hot Parmo by the addition of pepperoni and chillis.

Served with chips and garlic sauce. 😀
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Faggots and Peas - Black Country grub.

Muddydwarf, i've never come across black peas, but grey peas are pretty popular down here.

Not heard of grey peas, maybe they're the same thing?

Bakewell pie, well from Bakewell.

They have mushy peas & mint sauce in Nottingham

Staffordshire Oatcakes.

Always detour off the M6 on the way back from Scotland or The Lakes and buy a shelf full for the freezer 🙂

Stotties back home in Newcastle.

It probably something from Waitrose where we live in Surrey 😆

yorkshire puddings...........but i wish i was from bury....
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Butter pies!

Like meat and potato, but with onions and butter and herbs instead of the meat. Nommy.

Came from some religious twaddle about not eating meat on Fridays or some such. Wholly Lancashire grub, never seen them anywhere else.

cadburys chocolate.....what? you've all got that?? well i never!

Like grahamh above I love Bakewell pudding. In fact all pudding.

Morton's Rolls. Proper, crispy and slightly burned on the outside, chewy on the inside morning rolls that you get in Glasgow.

Pisses all over the floury bap, the cotton-wool-and-sawdust abomination that you get dahn sarf.

MMM black pudding...

Also, Eccles & Chorley Cakes. Proper parkin made with black treacle not that effeminate golden syrup they use in Yorkshire! 😛

Scottish favs

butteries
macaroni pies
yum yums
Tenants
Ignis beer
Whisky

Welsh

Welsh rarebit
barra brith
laverbread
Felinfoel
Brains SA
Penderyn Whisky

English

Yorkshire pudding

Irish

Rye bread
guiness
Jameson

"Rag pudding" seems to be another Rochdale delicacy
Available at the [url= http://www.rosenbowl.co.uk/barmenu.htm ]Rose'n'Bowl[/url] just down the road from Lee Quarry

kelham island beer

abbeydale beer

bradfield beer

hmmm, sheffield.

(and yorkshire crisps, and hendersons relish)

Melton Mowbray pork pies

tideswell pudding

Fruit cake and cheese - popular in Yorkshire and the reason christmas was invented.

pease pudding

Curd pie, which I'd assumed was available everywhere, until recently in the cafe at Hope and it was labelled 'Yorkshire Curd Pie'.

+1 Fruit cake, butter and cheese, definately a northern delicacy.

I live in That London's famous London, and therefore have access to a far greater range of delicacies than are avalilable anywhere else in Britain! 🙂

The quality of regional delicacies really depends on the place selling it, rather than the region itself. I'm sure Leeds has plenty of shite chippies. As for freshness; nowhere in Britain is more than 70 miles from the sea or something like that.

I dined last night on the finest kebabs available in the UK. In Dalston, Hackney. 😀

I used to work in Rossendale, some of their "delicacies" include:

Hollands Pies*
Pie* in soup
Pie* in a barm

seriously, a meat & potato pie made by Hollands* and served in either a bowl of soup - usually tomato - or a barmcake**

** bread roll to everybody else

meanwhile, Mrs_drummer is from Whitley Bay, some of their delicacies include ham stottie with pease pudding (as above) and something called "pan haggelty" (I may be wrong but I think it's a kind of bubble & squeak with corned beef)

Pease pudding
Pan hagerty / Panackelty

wow, spooky

Scotch pies. Mmmm

BTW I'm starving now - thanks very much 👿

Albert Hirst's pork pie,in a bowl of mushy peas,with salt and vinegar,no poncy mint sauce on Barnsley market.
Ian

Another scouse favourite, the wet nelly.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihari ]Nihari[/url],
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preferably from Al Faisal or This 'n' That in 'that Manchester's' Northern Quarter. Can't get the sheep's brain with it any more (damn you scrapie!) but still the Sunday morning meal of choice anyone of ****stani origin and hungover Mancunians the world over.

Recipe: Get a sheep. Chase it around a bit until it's completely shagged out. Shave it. Wipe it's arse and shove it in a huge clay pot on a Friday night, with some onions and all the spices you can muster. Cook 'till Sunday morning. Separate the meat, gravy, bone marrow and brains into separate containers. Serve a bit of each with a nice nan bread and a glass of lassi. Go back to bed with the papers, The Archers and the love of your life 'till Moto GP starts.

Panhaggarty/Scouse/Hotpot = take whatever your mam had left at the end of the week. It if wasn't green to start with, cut the green bits off and chuck it in a pan. If it was green to start with, cut the brown bits off and chuck that in as well. Add some spuds and water. Add barley if you've got it. If you've got any other veg, add that. Boil the shit out of it until semi-solid. Serve with love and beetroot.

Cumberland sausage - preferably from Richard Woodall's in Waberthwaite. MMMMMMmmmmmmmmm.....

Marag dubh

You live on Lewis druidh? That's where the best stuff comes from. 🙂

Theres not much I miss about London, but I'd be a happy man if I could get a Jamaican patty once in a while.

Aberdeen butteries/rowies/rolls (Whatever you choose to call them).

Aitkens make the only decent ones now as far as I can tell (crispy and greasy on the outside and nice and chewy inside).

Yum.

No Scots going to mention lorne sausage and dumpling?

Stotties are what I miss most being away from Newcastle. As for fish and chips in Leeds - fresh is when the chippy is on the fish quay, not an hour away!

Selkirk Bannock

From places I have lived,

Lardy cake from the west country
Baltis from Brum
Stotties from Newcastle
Agouti (bush rat) from W Africa
Stovies from Aberdeenshire
Aussie meat pies

We have something called Crunchy Nut Cornflakes at our house.

Apparently, Kellogs don't make them for anybody else.

homity pie. preferably the smoked ham variant.

a meat & potato pie ... served in a barmcake

What you've got there is a Wigan Kebab.

Pasties.

Oh, I've just thought of another.

The pizza shops(*) round here all sell 'tomato garlic bread' - essentially a cheese and tomato pizza without the cheese. Great for me as I'm allergic to cheese. I always thought this was standard fare amongst scabby takeaways, but whenever I've tried to order one from anywhere else I get looks of bafflement.

I remember once trying to explain to a shop in Wales what I wanted - basically a regular garlic bread (of the pizza base variety rather than a baguette), with the tomato purée from a pizza, but no cheese. "A garlic pizza?" they asked. Yeah, guess so.

When the delivery arrived, that's what I'd got. A tomato garlic bread, with full slices of garlic -covering- the top of the pizza. God knows what they were thinking, "the mad Englishman must really like his garlic!" They must have used a full garlic bulb at least, maybe more. It was inedible as it stood, I ended up scraping off the slices and then eating it and it was still the most garlicky thing I've ever eaten.

The moral of this story is, don't try to get your regional delicacies when you're away from home...

(* - of the asian kebabbery 'ham is actually turkey painted pink' variety, mostly)

I'm a Brummie, so I'll go with a Meat and Mushroom Balti, a quarter of Pakora and a Shiek Kebab to start, all soaked up with a Garlic Naan bread. Oh and not forgetting the Popadoms.

If ever you're in Brum I'll let you know the best curry houses, most of them cater for tourists these days!

Cheers

Clive

Ah yes, Aberdeen butteries. They're butter and lard, baked, aren't they? They are great though.

Cornish or Devon clotted cream.

Up here in the fish and chip shops they ask you if you would like "salt and sauce" on your chips not "salt and vinegar".

I have never tried it, but it looks to be some kind of brown sauce.

Lardy cakes
Make-you-sweat pie.

Can't seem to get decent black or brown pudding down south for love nor money either 🙁

Saffron cake or as my Granddad used to call it dough cake

Lovely stuff, particularly with clotted cream on it, but I can not find it for sale up here in Scotland, but it is quite common down in Devon/Cornwall.

Selkirk Battle of Bannock Bun.

Really heavy fruity bread, and will be my new fuel at 24 hour races.

I think it gets it's name as the Jacobites threw them at the Government troops in 1845.

Stottie Cake, the best bread ever, from Newcastle.

Ham and pease pudding in a stottie, champion man.

Amplebrew's right historically - the Manx national dish truly is chips, cheese and gravy (or beans if you are feeling posh...). As served @ The Rovers pub most lunchtimes. Good for carbo loading for the End2ENd. in fact as 401st finisher this year i can think of 400 people to recommend it to starting with Nick Craig...

Barnsley chop

Local hotel menu

32oz Barnsley Chop
Served with field mushroom, grilled tomato and chunky
homemade chips
£35.00

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Hendersons relish

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Tracey

fruit cake served with a chunk of cheese. perfect combo.

Wiltshire lardy cake. Sounds horrible but it's a sweet gooey cake with caramalised sugar, currents and raisins, plus lard of course.

Burnt crispy roll, lorne sausage, broon sauce and a tattie scone.

That my sirs is surely a Masterchef semi-finalist dish right there.

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Does this count as a delicacy?

Otherwise,
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As featured at the top of the climb at this year's 24/12.

Glad several people have mentioned our local delicacy the Lardy Cake. Not the bastardised nanny-state healthy option served up nowadays but the dark, sticky version my dad used to devour. Never liked it myself, 'cos I don't like dried fruit like raisins and sultanas, but a friend of mine was asked if she knew how to make it by a TV programme researcher for [i]Escape To The Country[/i]. What she [i]thought[/i] was the right way to make it turned out to need four times as much lard and sugar to do it properly. Nicky, the presenter on that particular show, liked it very, very much indeed. Just watching a rough video of the shoot I could feel my arteries hardening.

Cider
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Cheddar (this one is aged in Wookey Hole Caves)
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Faggots (be careful when you google this one)
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Cider Brandy
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Priddy Wallfish (Sadly, you cannot get these locally now)
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Aitkens make the only decent ones now as far as I can tell

the condit cafe in bervie used to (and might still) do the very, very best butteries. excellent as is, but left to go a bit stale then toasted - mmmmmmagic. that was the point of them, fishermen took them to sea, fine fresh, then self-buttering toast when a bit stale.

All of the above are brilliant. And I'd like to add Cornish pasties, from the shop on the square, Cawsand, Cornwall. Like what I was eating last Saturday. Washed down with some St Austel Ale. Nom nom nom. 🙂 Life is good.

I see your cornish pastie and raise you with a Greggs Sausage and Bean Melt from the Geordie bakery emporium.

+ 1 for the Teesside Parmo, awesome.
+ 1 for the Ham & Pease Pudding Stottie.
- 1 for whoever said summink about Leeds & fish & chips. That should be North or South Shields, or Whitby, end of.

Leeds has got.........F.A.

Couple more Scottish delicacies:

Doughballs - dumplings that sit on top of the mince for mince'n'tatties while it cooks, absorbing a load of its juice, steam and flavour.

Fruit pudding in a fry-up.

Skwerr sausage. Who needs burgers?

Forfar Bridies. Even a plain old Greggs bridie will do at a pinch.

Skwerr sausage. Who needs burgers?

Square sausage with Lewis black pudding stuffed in the middle of it available from a place in Aberfoyle - YES!

Forfar Bridies.

ahhh, the Sadler's "special" - the stuff of legend
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Henderson's Relish

Aberdeen butteries/rowies/rolls

I have a standing order for 4 dozen when I visit my folks. These days I go for the 'healthy' veggie option if available or Costco do them cheap but they don't have that crusty/salty/buttery taste which seems to be quite rare these days.

Lorne sausage used to be a favourite but last lot I had virtually flooded the bottom of the grill with fat - scary 😯

Forgot to add - Lemon Cheese from Honey Hill Bee farm, St Cyrus - heaven when spread on a toasted rowie.

Lardy Cake, just so good.

Milton Keynes...so bugger all except tesco's 🙁