[QUOTE=elbows]
I came in here hoping to hear what you’ll be having for dinner tonight?
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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.
[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.
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Presumably you rode your bike down hilly streets filled with cobbles? 
No, and I don’t like brown bread.
[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?
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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.
[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.
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I’m afraid not. Lighting a fire will burn down my mudhut. 
[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
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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
[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.
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More properly, the bread is used to absorb the fat left from cooking all the other ingredients.
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
No fruit or juice with breakfast?
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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.
[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.
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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=Usram]
Oh, I thought they were the same thing. Am I wrong?
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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.
[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”
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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.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
The official list of daily British meals is:
Breakfast
Brunch
Elevenses
Lunch
Twelvses
St Matthew’s Meal
Apres Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight Feast
2AM Snack
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4AM drunken kebab/curry?
[QUOTE=An Gadaí]
I think it’s the potato farls that only Ormo does, my sis buys them when she’s up north.
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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?
[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.
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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=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.
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I like marmalade with sausages. A sour jam (plum or blackcurrant maybe) might work…
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I like marmalade with sausages. A sour jam (plum or blackcurrant maybe) might work…
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Are you absolutely certain you’re British, 100%.
Marmalade with sausage?..you pervert
[QUOTE=amarone]
think of whether you would put strawberry jam in a sausage sandwich.
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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!
[QUOTE=Charley]
ah! a lightbulb moment. Is THIS why MacDonald’s sells pancakes with sausage and maple syrup together?
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When I resort to a McDonald’s breakfast, I buy Pancakes & sausage plus a hash brown, and eat it as two separate courses.
[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
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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.
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
Bangers and mash. Mmmmm.
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With lashings of onion gravy 