[Closed] Local/Regional delicacies

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 🙁