Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Chris doesn't know what tripe actually is.

In years gone by the only processed food people ate was something like Spam or corned beef, mostly it was fresh stuff from a butcher and it was possible to see exactly what you were eating. If you buy processed food you have no idea what actually you are eating.

cynic your post above is good reading and fact .

Isn't it time for the pub Tanker?

this is very scary ..... what is MrT after that he suddenly agrees with something i post?

How our MEPs voted

ah - a PPB on behalf of UKIP ..... as with all things of this nature, it is probably not the entire truth ...... had this info been from an apolitical source with balanced attaching comment, then it would have carried more weight and i would have read it, rather than discarding it for the propaganda that it blatantly is

Cynic,

He understand you at last and showing sympathy to you in his own way.

May be Mr. T likes your new cook thread cynic!!!!

perhaps he'ld like to add some recipes!

Fish and chips and mushy peas may be, washed down with gallons of tea!! Good we can have a laugh and a few spelling mistakes along the way.

3m.

No.

He just reminds him of a poor man's Andouillette.

A little course fred.

Coarse - sorry.

mushy peas - unfortunately, most restaurants, though probably not north of manchester, now serve mushy peas made from frozen petits pois or similar, rather than from dried marrowfat peas ..... same difference as a "just steamed or boiled" crab and one of those tasteless pre-dressed things that are now almost universal

Went to Romford town shopping on the weekend. Saw a pie and mash shop near the
main market. Something I have never tried.

Superb fast food DC - although not so cheap any more.

if that is parsley sauce, did they serve hot stewed eels too, for that is the traditional accompaniment ...... when i worked in brick lane (blooms was still going strong then), certainly tubby isaacs still had his mobile stall selling whelks, jellied eels + the more usual stuff, and i recollect a couple of pie and mash shops still operating around whitechapel

ahem! ..... why are you guys not putting this food/recipe related stuff on my NEW COOK thread?

Yes it is - historically you could have stewed eels with the sauce or jellied eels.

On edit - one of my son-in-laws eats it with gravy - I have pointed out that this makes him a philistine - but to no avail!!!

The shop was all white tiled skinny. What does that liquer taste like ? It did feel strange walking round Romford, almost like you was abroad.