Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:54 am  

Stand-Offish wrote:

Rightly or wrongly, we used to call that a scallop when I was a lad.

Rightly.

EDIT
No, I need to change that to "wrongly".
A scallop is a slice of potato (no fish), battered and fried.
Or fried without even the batter.

What you describe is a fishcake.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:00 am  

The fact that there are chip shops out there seeking and often achieving, on a heroically daily basis, the pinnacle of batter success in producing a light, deep golden, crunchy and crispy batter ... that philistines then want made into a soggy mess by curry or gravy is, to a man of my delicate sensibilities, sadly dispiriting.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:24 am  

Puddings seem to be Northern, I can't get any down here, chips without pudding is just disgraceful, it's just as big a scandal as no gravy.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:26 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

I tried a chicken one at an away game at Griffin Park.
It was oblong and a bit wobbly.
I bit off the corner and drank the contents.
Bloody awful ... but needs must when you're absolutely ravenous.

I had one at a City game a couple of years ago: never again.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:27 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

The fact that there are chip shops out there seeking and often achieving, on a heroically daily basis, the pinnacle of batter success in producing a light, deep golden, crunchy and crispy batter ... that philistines then want made into a soggy mess by curry or gravy is, to a man of my delicate sensibilities, sadly dispiriting.

This!

Oh, and scallops are potato in batter - nowt else.

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:30 am  

Of pies...Morrisons have a counter with loads of flavours. Garlic Chicken pies mmmmmmm

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:04 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I'm aware of that but it is no recommendation or excuse.
It merely serves to reinforce the view that, apart from Rugby League, there is no reason to visit Leigh unless you really, really have to.

This really is becoming intolerable, firstly you embarrass yourself and insult us regarding a dish of immense historical value to us Leythers, the pie barm (only equalled by Lobby, the epitome of haut cuisine). You then go on to make a sarcastic remark that that our rugby team is worth watching when we know and you know it is not the case.
The dishes pie barm, chips n gravy and lobby can be found in Leythrousse Gastronomique

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:25 pm  

Do I get extra Northern points if I note that I do make a mean meat and potato pie. With homemade pastry – using lard?

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:37 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Do I get extra Northern points if I note that I do make a mean meat and potato pie. With homemade pastry – using lard?

Of course.
But then there's the inverse, the West-of-Pennines potato and meat pie.
And the no-meat-at-all version that I had in Preston, known as a butter pie which I sadly confess was nowhere near as bad as I expected.

[Durham Giant]

Re: How much of a Northerner are you? : Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:45 pm  

100% and it said i was somewhere from near Newcastle. !!!