Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:21 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Nothing like a good pork pie is there...

True.
When I was apprenticed, I spent 12 weeks in the Heat Treatment Dept and 12 more in Metallurgy.
Both these departments gave me access to the annealing furnaces, especially the one where the lid could be lifted to put a growler from the trolley into the "wire mesh for small items" just inside the lid, to warm it up.
As I recall the temperature was well over 200 deg.C and it used to crisp-up the pastry in no time and you didn't have a great deal of leeway on the timing ... but a re-crisped pie takes some beating.

Even later on, when I was a trainee in IT (or EDP as we called it back then) nearby, I'd occasionally detour slightly on my way to fetch something from the front offices and one of the blokes would put my pie in the furnace for me to pick up on my way back.

Can't even imagine H&S allowing that now.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:00 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Can't even imagine H&S allowing that now.

I know for a fact that welders rod ovens are used as pie warmers.

[Durham Giant]

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:03 am  

Keith wrote:

Greggs has yet to catch on?

I meant if Greggs started selling Parmos in a bun.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:04 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

I meant if Greggs started selling Parmos in a stottie.

Slight revision...

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:58 pm  

The best Pork Pies I've ever had are from Birchalls Butchers in St. Helens. Still hot and the jelly dribbles down your chin.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:16 pm  

Euclid wrote:

Proud to score 95% despite living in that London for over 30 years

I got 95% too, and my wife thought she'd civilised me after ten years.

[Wanderer]

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:48 pm  

57% ... Must try harder

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:49 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I know for a fact that welders rod ovens are used as pie warmers.

Best. Euphemism. Ever.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:00 pm  

Centre-right northerner moi.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:01 pm  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

The best Pork Pies I've ever had are from Birchalls Butchers in St. Helens. Still hot and the jelly dribbles down your chin.

...and all those worms and other toxins killin ya.