The British Food for ed Thread

[asthmatic camel]

Perfect!!!

[ed]

Ahhh ... West Country Faggots ... simply the best.

[Hotarubi]

No one need ask ever again why we in the South East live longer.

[asthmatic camel]

Spiced pickled eggs in beet vinegar. Will be perfect by Christmas.

[ed]

Yummy. Just yummy.

[asthmatic camel]

Pickled mussels in chopped jalapeño and thyme vinegar. Just the job for Boxing Day hangovers.

[Giz]

No one need ask ever again why we in the South East live longer.

Perhaps, lacking the exhilarating taster of Mr Brains, it just seems longer

[asthmatic camel]

I bought a pack of these as a stocking-filler for my old Mum...

[asthmatic camel]

Now, seeing as Hotarubi appears to think that South Eastern food is a healthy option, may I present one of De_Bunk's favourite delicacies? Jellied Eels. These could well be the main reason I have yet to visit him.

[Hotarubi]

Yes. I've just got back from the Roux Brothers' establishment in Cleethorpes.

[asthmatic camel]

Snigger. DB's far to the South and East than Cleethorpes. I believe his love of jellied eels derived from his younger days in the East End of London.

[Hotarubi]

Its London AND the South East my boy.

[asthmatic camel]

Its London AND the South East my boy.

It's about as South East as Stockport is South West. Unless North Lincolnshire has moved since the last time I visited.

Dear boy.

[asthmatic camel]

I digress.

Here, I give you Opies Pickled Walnuts, a seasonal delicacy which are hard to track down and thusly hoarded when I can find them.

[ed]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

[Hotarubi]

Its London AND the South East my boy.

It's about as South East as Stockport is South West. Unless North Lincolnshire has moved since the last time I visited.

Dear boy.

Thats what I mean, London is not (god forbid) the "South East."

We have standards. Why do you think Cilla "Liverpool is the greatest place in the world" Black lived in Buckinghamshire for 30 years.

[asthmatic camel]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

They're delicious, (I shit you not), one of the finest pickles money can buy. Perfect on their own or sliced, a delightful addition to any meat sandwich. Opies vinegar is so good that I save it for reuse.

Charles Dickens mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens in his book The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. In chapter 49 he writes,

However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say, many a time, that the man said who picked him up that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation, were his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer.

Mind you, looking at the price you'd be paying, they'd better be some good friends you're buying for. Over here I can get them for around £2.50 a jar.

[asthmatic camel]

A slight digression, (unless one regards whisky as food), Christmas presents for my grumpy, deeply fragrant brother.

[shemp]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

They're delicious, (I shit you not), one of the finest pickles money can buy. Perfect on their own or sliced, a delightful addition to any meat sandwich. Opies vinegar is so good that I save it for reuse.

Charles Dickens mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens in his book The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. In chapter 49 he writes,

However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say, many a time, that the man said who picked him up that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation, were his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer.

Mind you, looking at the price you'd be paying, they'd better be some good friends you're buying for. Over here I can get them for around £2.50 a jar.

Cheap bastard ed can get them for $8.94 here. I don't know what the shipping and handling charge is but I hope it bankrupt him. Walmart has them for $21.63 but with free shipping.

Or cheap bastard ed can make his own.

[asthmatic camel]

Shemp, these delicacies are loved only by gourmands like yours truly and not generally purchased by the hoi polloi. If I'm lucky, the supermarkets have plenty of unsold stock after Christmas and flog them off for about a pound. I still have two jars left from last year's bulk purchase.

[Hotarubi]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

They're delicious, (I shit you not), one of the finest pickles money can buy. Perfect on their own or sliced, a delightful addition to any meat sandwich. Opies vinegar is so good that I save it for reuse.

Charles Dickens mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens in his book The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. In chapter 49 he writes,

However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say, many a time, that the man said who picked him up that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation, were his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer.

Mind you, looking at the price you'd be paying, they'd better be some good friends you're buying for. Over here I can get them for around £2.50 a jar.

Yup ed, they're good. And you're paying over the odds. However , I would suggest you take your nuts with a mean gorgonzola and a robust port.

I'll be ordering from Fortnum and Mason. Quality for quality.

[asthmatic camel]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

They're delicious, (I shit you not), one of the finest pickles money can buy. Perfect on their own or sliced, a delightful addition to any meat sandwich. Opies vinegar is so good that I save it for reuse.

Charles Dickens mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens in his book The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. In chapter 49 he writes,

However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say, many a time, that the man said who picked him up that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation, were his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer.

Mind you, looking at the price you'd be paying, they'd better be some good friends you're buying for. Over here I can get them for around £2.50 a jar.

Yup ed, they're good. And you're paying over the odds. However , I would suggest you take your nuts with a mean gorgonzola and a robust port.

I'll be ordering from Fortnum and Mason. Quality for quality.

Oh Hell yes! My sadly deceased father used to buy a full round of the sweatiest mature stilton he could find at Christmas, dig a whole in the middle and soak it with Cockburn's Vintage port. Most excellent served on Ritz Crackers with a slice of pickled walnut and/or a pickled jalapeño. Probably why he never had any money for decent Christmas presents and may well be the reason I became an alcoholic.

[asthmatic camel]

You know, Hotarubi, I recently dug over my garden as Mrs. C. fancied a kitchen garden. (A back-breaking task for a bloke with a slipped disk: left me unable to walk for three weeks but she-who-must-be-obeyed must be obeyed.) I've looked into purchasing a walnut tree and it seems that they'd grow well here. Trouble is they take five years to start producing nuts and I'm not sure I could be arsed picking and pickling them by the time I'm 60, (If I'm still capable), even though I'm far more tight-fisted than ed.

[shemp]

Shemp, these delicacies are loved only by gourmands like yours truly and not generally purchased by the hoi polloi. If I'm lucky, the supermarkets have plenty of unsold stock after Christmas and flog them off for about a pound. I still have two jars left from last year's bulk purchase.

I'm sure their exquisite flavor and texture would be lost on my pedestrian taste buds like pearls before swine.

[asthmatic camel]

Yeah, I'm sure something like this would suit your plebeian taste buds.

[Hotarubi]

Yeah, I'm sure something like this would suit your plebeian taste buds.

He's never out of Denny's.

[asthmatic camel]

I had to Google Denny's but was dismayed to find they operate in my picturesque area, although, thankfully not in Stockport. Blech.

[Hotarubi]

Yup. In the UK Denny's exists up North and guess where?

You got it.

Wales.

You cannot, cannot sum up Denny's better than that.

[asthmatic camel]

You dare to insult the land of my fathers, boyo?

We'll soon sort you out...

[asthmatic camel]

Here, have a proper Welsh breakfast: Bacon, sausage, cockles and laverbread. (It takes a real warrior to stomach laverbread.)

[Witness]

Ah! The "Welsh caviar".

[Hotarubi]

Looks like a burnt turd after a rotten kebab.

[Anaxagoras]

Here, have a proper Welsh breakfast: Bacon, sausage, cockles and laverbread. (It takes a real warrior to stomach laverbread.)

Laver is seaweed, right?

I don't know whether it's the same variety but Japanese nori is apparently a kind of laver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori

If you ever had rolled sushi, or onigiri it was probably rolled in nori.

[asthmatic camel]

Looks like a burnt turd after a rotten kebab.

It's an acquired taste, that's true. Boiled seaweed is for the brave man.

[Hotarubi]

Looks like a burnt turd after a rotten kebab.

It's an acquired taste, that's true. Boiled seaweed is for the brave man.

Tried it. It tastes like it looks.

[asthmatic camel]

Looks like a burnt turd after a rotten kebab.

It's an acquired taste, that's true. Boiled seaweed is for the brave man.

Tried it. It tastes like it looks.

Tastes like a manky minge but it's highly nutritious.

[asthmatic camel]

Here's the real version of Men of Harlech. And, if ed doesn't fancy Charlotte Church, he's the biggest faggot on SC. (Not, of course...)

[ed]

Here's the real version of Men of Harlech. And, if ed doesn't fancy Charlotte Church, he's the biggest faggot on SC. (Not, of course...)

she is a definitive cutie and does a great job. Liked that song since


Now these are real men, AC, so don't get too excited ... not that etc etc

[asthmatic camel]

You just couldn't allow me a little fun could you, you miserable colonist?

Here, stuff a white pudding right where it belongs. Faggotass.

[Witness]

Flies’ Cemetery

In parts of the UK, because of their appearance, fruit pastry slices with dried fruit inside, are referred to as a Flies’ Cemetery.

[Hotarubi]

We used to call spotted dick that as well.

[asthmatic camel]

Flies’ Cemetery

In parts of the UK, because of their appearance, fruit pastry slices with dried fruit inside, are referred to as a Flies’ Cemetery.

A cellarman's dread, Witness. The EU Health & Safety people used to insist that they were wiped out professionally by the likes of Rentokil. Institutional and governmental blackmail. Hot water, bleach and fly spray did the job for a fraction of the cost.

[Witness]

fly spy

[Hotarubi]

Fly spray.

[asthmatic camel]

Fly spray.

I stand corrected. TWVM

[Witness]

£8.40 / 500 g

And they mock the French for eating snails! (Who eat the bigorneaux too, BTW.)

[asthmatic camel]

FFS, is that a whelk? Even I can't stomach those rubbery fuckers.

I am, however, rather partial to Escargots.

[Witness]

FFS, is that a whelk? Even I can't stomach those rubbery fuckers.

I think not, whelk is (as per the Internet) Buccinum sp. while the picture is of a (peri)winkle, Littorina. But one never knows with common names…

I am, however, rather partial to Escargots.

Hera! Hear!

But I'm not a fan.

[asthmatic camel]

Ah, winkles are a different matter. Delicious with a honey and mustard dip.

[ed]

what are they like? I might get some as a bonus gift for some folks here.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pickled+waln ... _sb_noss_1

They're delicious, (I shit you not), one of the finest pickles money can buy. Perfect on their own or sliced, a delightful addition to any meat sandwich. Opies vinegar is so good that I save it for reuse.

Charles Dickens mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens in his book The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. In chapter 49 he writes,

However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say, many a time, that the man said who picked him up that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation, were his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer.

Mind you, looking at the price you'd be paying, they'd better be some good friends you're buying for. Over here I can get them for around £2.50 a jar.

Yup ed, they're good. And you're paying over the odds. However , I would suggest you take your nuts with a mean gorgonzola and a robust port.

I'll be ordering from Fortnum and Mason. Quality for quality.

Gave a jar to my wife. I am lucky I'm not divorced. Holy shit, it's like eating ... dunno ... horrid horrid.

Jesus Christ, what the fuck are you lot trying to do to me?

OMG, I almost puked <--first time I ever used that word on the interwebs

You should be ashamed.

I am informed that these things should be eaten with Stilton which is one of my favorite things in the iuniverse. I will re-assess tomorrow.
But I am watching you.

BTW ... where are the goddamn walnuts? These things look like pig balls. In that sense they are nuts I suppose.