English regional fast food specialities

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

So, on the Sir Keith thread there was a tangential comment about Kelly Rowland visiting Teesside and eating a parmo. Thanks to ursus I now know who KR is. And thanks to the internet I've managed to find out what a parmo is. Takes its name from chicken parmigiana apparently, though its sauce is apparently cheddar-based with no actual parmesan.

I'd always vaguely assumed that popular fast food in England would be pretty much the same around the whole country, but evidently not.

Any other regional favourites I ought to know about?

[ad hoc]

There's a "Sheffield Fishcake" which is fish, sandwiched between two slices of potato, battered and fried. (then usually eaten inside a breadcake - that's a roll to most people)

[Patrick Thistle]

I don't eat fish but if I was going to eat fish again I'd want to eat a Sheffield Fishcake.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

We may have done this recently (or the way time moves these days it could have been years ago). The parmo has spread out from Teesside in recent years - we've been able to get them here for the last decade or so, and a lot of places in Newcastle do them (and many other places in the North East, I expect).

Anyway Cumbria's contribution to this is the patty/pattie - a ball of usually either mince, onion & potato (meat pattie) or cheese, onion & potato (cheese pattie) coated in batter and deep fried.

I knew this term long before I first encountered the term "hamburger patty" so imagine my confusion and disappointment etc.

[Stumpy Pepys]

You may ask what is Bolton's contribution to world cuisine? Ladies and genetlemen, I give you the pasty barm.

[Stumpy Pepys]

So, on the Sir Keith thread there was a tangential comment about Kelly Rowland visiting Teesside and eating a parmo.

As an aside, last time I visited Teeside, I got food poisoning.

[Sporting]

We may have done this recently (or the way time moves these days it could have been years ago).

https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...-regional-food

[Guy Profumo]

As an aside, last time I visited Teeside, I got food poisoning.

Oo. Oo. Miss! Miss!

[Duncan Gardner]

Faggots and peas (pronounced 'pays') endures in the Black Country. 'Faggots' are something I think of my Granny buying in the 1960s, before hamburgers hit Ireland

[ad hoc]

As an aside, last time I visited Teeside, I got food poisoning.

Travellers always need to ease into the local cuisine when visiting exotic locales

[Guy Profumo]

There's a "Sheffield Fishcake" which is fish, sandwiched between two slices of potato, battered and fried. (then usually eaten inside a breadcake - that's a roll to most people)

Bollocks.

They're bread buns.

(Only soft southern shandy drinking bastads call them rolls.)

[Capybara]

When I was little and growing up in Yorkshire you could tell a 'proper' fish and chip shop by what you got if you ordered a fishcake. If you got one of the orange breadcrumby things then you weren't in a 'proper' fish and chip shop and you could probably expect to be able to buy other things such as a sausage, or a pie and, ffs, gravy. If you were in a 'proper' fish and chip shop then your fishcake would be as described in ad hoc's post but without the 'Sheffield' bit. It was known simply as a 'fishcake'.

[treibeis]

You may ask what is Bolton's contribution to world cuisine? Ladies and genetlemen, I give you the pasty barm.

Daniel Dann used to go on about the best breakfast food in his birthplace (Skopje). It was called simit pogacha or something, and was like your pasty barm, only the pasty didn't have any filling. So it was a pasty-crust sandwich, I suppose.

[Guy Profumo]

When I was little and growing up in Yorkshire you could tell a 'proper' fish and chip shop by what you got if you ordered a fishcake. If you got one of the orange breadcrumby things then you weren't in a 'proper' fish and chip shop and you could probably expect to be able to buy other things such as a sausage, or a pie and, ffs, gravy. If you were in a 'proper' fish and chip shop then your fish cake would be as described in ad hoc's post but without the 'Sheffield' bit. It was known simply as a 'fishcake'.

Donny they were the orange breadcrumby things.

But moving to Sheffield I discovered this new foodstuff called "chips and fish"


As I've said previously, in Leeds fish and chips is haddock and chips, and also in Scarborough as the local vendors cater to the tourist trade.

[ursus arctos]

Burek in a bun

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/s...bread-sandwich

[Moonlight Shadow]

The best local thing for me and it is delicious too, hot or cold.
https://www.lifeofpies.co.uk/buy/one...-of-st-helens/

[Guy Profumo]

The best local thing for me and it is delicious too, hot or cold.
https://www.lifeofpies.co.uk/buy/one...-of-st-helens/

Any list of pie shops that doesn't include Taylor's shouldn't be considered

https://www.taylorsbutchers.com/prod...ies/pork-pies/

[treibeis]

Burek in a bun

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/s...bread-sandwich

Yes, that seems to be it.

Daniel used to eat like a horse. Before he clocked on between one and two, he'd have had his pastry sandwich for breakfast and his lunch (which, he said, was usually a packet of 15 fish fingers and a jar of those awful sweetened pumpkin slices that people seem to like).

At three o'clock, he'd then unpack a box of sandwiches that weighed more than he did.

Then there was the barbecued meat and the cake that party-goers in the park gave him as a thank-you gesture for his having told them to fuck off.

And at knocking-off time, he'd go to the Greek restaurant near his gaff and eat half a farmyard and a field of potatoes.

[Capybara]

Donny they were the orange breadcrumby things.
But moving to Sheffield I discovered this new foodstuff called "chips and fish"
As I've said previously, in Leeds fish and chips is haddock and chips, and also in Scarborough as the local vendors cater to the tourist trade.

Ah yes. I usually forget that some people have fish other than haddock.

[Giggler]

A hot black pudding off Chadwick’s (not the Bury Black Pudding Company interlopers) on the market on a winter’s day is a thing of beauty.

[Nefertiti2]

This on regional chippies is good

[San Bernardhinault]

I'm 99.9% sure that Oxford has absolutely nothing to offer here. I could offer a huge number of regional and local fast food specialities in the US. Can I do that here, or does it need its own thread, or have I done it often enough already?

[NHH]

There's a "Sheffield Fishcake" which is fish, sandwiched between two slices of potato, battered and fried. (then usually eaten inside a breadcake - that's a roll to most people)

So, that's a protein inside some carbs, sandwiched between some carbs, sandwiched between some carbs.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Faggots and peas (pronounced 'pays') endures in the Black Country. 'Faggots' are something I think of my Granny buying in the 1960s, before hamburgers hit Ireland

Is roast pork a big thing as fast food in the Black Country? When I was making my way to the Hawthorns a few years ago, roast pork vendors seemed to be everywhere.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

So, that's a protein inside some carbs, sandwiched between some carbs, sandwiched between some carbs.

And with chips perhaps.