# British dopers, tell me about your meals **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976 "2008-02-10T00:25:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/81 "2008-02-11T18:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=elbows] I came in here hoping to hear what you’ll be having for dinner tonight? [/QUOTE] Geordie soul food: mince and tatties with suet dumplings, leeks and carrots. I’d have made leek puddings for preference, but they need to steam for two hours, and I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/82 "2008-02-11T19:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] When I was a lad, I went to school and in the middle of the day I had School Dinner, which I paid for with my Dinner Money. Then I would go home and in the evening I would eat my tea. Then before bedtime I’d have my supper. [/QUOTE] Presumably you rode your bike down hilly streets filled with cobbles? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/83 "2008-02-11T19:29:25Z")
No, and I don’t like brown bread. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/84 "2008-02-11T19:39:45Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] I have never tried it that way, only with bacon fat or lard. I don’t even remember using butter to fry bread. Anyone-else have thoughts on this? [/QUOTE] Extra virgin olive oil works because it imparts a lot of flavour. Get it as hot as possible to ensure crispiness, and lots of it so it soaks in. Tastes a bit Italian though. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/85 "2008-02-11T20:22:17Z")
[QUOTE=glee] You are probably huddled near your coal fire in your string vest, gazing at a row of ducks on the wall, wondering who nicked your car. [/quote] I’m afraid not. Lighting a fire will burn down my mudhut. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/86 "2008-02-12T08:15:28Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Gadzooks! The “transport cafe” is a real thing? I’ve long believed it to be merely another example of Ian Anderson’s distaste for expressing ideas in a clear and concise manner. Is a “transport cafe” like a “truck stop” in the US? A roadside diner near or in a petroleum dispensing location that’s historically frequented by truck drivers and motorcycle riding types [/QUOTE] Yep, Transport cafe, Truck stop are one and the same. Sometimes a petrol station is close by but not always and you don’t get many bikers at transports FYI: They have an annual award for the best transport cafe in the UK, winner get a ginormous silver cup to hold for a year and as a matter of fact I ate in one place in North wales that had won the trophy for the 2nd time., I forget the name or even the exact location. They had a system whereby truckers could call ahead to order and when they arrived they simply went to the front of the queue and picked up their grub. * * * **Dominic** : You have mud huts in Wigan now?..we still live in caves and eat our sprogs when times are hard. Guess you’ll be getting running water and electricity in a decade or so, you jammy buggers ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/87 "2008-02-12T09:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] It’s a slice of ordinary white bread fried (preferably) in bacon fat until it’s nice and crisp on both side. [/QUOTE] More properly, the bread is used to absorb the fat left from cooking all the other ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/88 "2008-02-12T12:02:04Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] No fruit or juice with breakfast? [/QUOTE] We Brits tend not to mix sweet and savoury stuff in the same course in the same way as is common in the US. In one thread a doper mentioned how she prepared dinner for her English relatives and was dismayed when they all ignored the fruit salad she put on the table - they all assumed it was for dessert. Having said that, juice at breakfast would be quite common. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/89 "2008-02-12T12:33:35Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] We Brits tend not to mix sweet and savoury stuff in the same course in the same way as is common in the US. [/QUOTE] Exceptions to this would be things like apple sauce with roast pork, cranberry jelly or cumberland sauce with turkey or other roast meats… But you’re right - a dessert-style sweet side dish with a main course would be unusual on most British tables. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/90 "2008-02-12T12:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Oh, I thought they were the same thing. Am I wrong? [/QUOTE] I just meant that no one calls it blood pudding. It’s always called that in The Simpsons or other American spoofs of British cuisine but I’ve never heard it called that. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/91 "2008-02-12T12:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] I didn’t realise potato bread was a food peculiar to Northern Ireland, I suppose we’re not such a cultural empire that we can push things on the rest of the country. My sister and her b/f boogled a waitress in a Liverpool cafe who was stunned to hear of “bread made from potatoes” 🙂 [/QUOTE] Well most of my family’s from Norn Iron so we’d have it the odd time but I don’t think it’s nearly as common down here in Mexico. I think it’s the potato farls that only Ormo does, my sis buys them when she’s up north. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/92 "2008-02-12T12:55:45Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The [official list](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/food/gallery1.shtml) of daily British meals is: Breakfast Brunch Elevenses Lunch Twelvses St Matthew’s Meal Apres Lunch Tea Dinner Supper Midnight Feast 2AM Snack [/QUOTE] 4AM drunken kebab/curry? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/93 "2008-02-12T13:02:50Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I think it’s the potato farls that only Ormo does, my sis buys them when she’s up north. [/QUOTE] My sister has requested we pop a few packages of such in our luggage if we ever visit her in Liverpool. There was a time IIRC that black pudding could only be obtained across the border, or perhaps that’s just my imagination. Sometime around the BSE crisis? ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/94 "2008-02-12T13:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Exceptions to this would be things like apple sauce with roast pork, cranberry jelly or cumberland sauce with turkey or other roast meats… But you’re right - a dessert-style sweet side dish with a main course would be unusual on most British tables. [/QUOTE] As would jam with fried eggs on toast (jam on the toast, egg on top of the jam), or in a sausage biscuit (two things that my American wife does). For Brits unfamiliar with this style of “biscuit”, just think of whether you would put strawberry jam in a sausage sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/95 "2008-02-12T13:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] As would jam with fried eggs on toast (jam on the toast, egg on top of the jam), or in a sausage biscuit (two things that my American wife does). For Brits unfamiliar with this style of “biscuit”, just think of whether you would put strawberry jam in a sausage sandwich. [/QUOTE] I like marmalade with sausages. A sour jam (plum or blackcurrant maybe) might work… ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/96 "2008-02-12T13:24:35Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I like marmalade with sausages. A sour jam (plum or blackcurrant maybe) might work… [/QUOTE] Are you absolutely certain you’re British, 100%. Marmalade with sausage?..you pervert 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/97 "2008-02-12T13:32:48Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] think of whether you would put strawberry jam in a sausage sandwich. [/QUOTE] ah! a lightbulb moment. Is THIS why MacDonald’s sells pancakes with sausage and maple syrup together? One of my favourite kid meals was fishfingers on toast, covered in melted cheese, with a scoop of blackcurrant jam on top. That was yummy, plus - all the major food groups! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/98 "2008-02-12T13:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=Charley] ah! a lightbulb moment. Is THIS why MacDonald’s sells pancakes with sausage and maple syrup together? [/quote] When I resort to a McDonald’s breakfast, I buy Pancakes & sausage plus a hash brown, and eat it as two separate courses. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/99 "2008-02-12T15:25:31Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Yep, Transport cafe, Truck stop are one and the same. Sometimes a petrol station is close by but not always and you don’t get many bikers at transports [/QUOTE] Most everything I know about British culture I’ve learned from Jethro Tull songs. The Old Rocker with his Harley Davidson and Triumph Bonneville. Bangers and mash. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976/100 "2008-02-12T15:34:21Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Bangers and mash. Mmmmm. [/QUOTE] With lashings of onion gravy 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-dopers-tell-me-about-your-meals/436976.md?page=6)