Weird meals

[saxonborg]

My dad used to have for his breakfast a couple of slices of black pudding smeared liberally with golden syrup. Sounds weird but it's ok.

 

[delicagirl]

I have eaten rat, snake, chickens eyes, ducks feet and fish heads (not all at same time) but I have never even thought of four pies on a stick.

I chickened out of a deep fried Marsbar.

Richard

local kids in my village bring mars bars into the chipshop and the owner deep fries them for them........ that IS WEIRD

 

[yorkslass]

My mum's favourite was crisp sandwiches, and when she was younger, condensed milk on bread.

 

[delicagirl]

My mum's favourite was crisp sandwiches, and when she was younger, condensed milk on bread.

i used to like crisp butties - mum used to enjoy sugar butties.......

 

[delicagirl]

I have eaten rat, snake, chickens eyes, ducks feet and fish heads (not all at same time) but I have never even thought of four pies on a stick.

I chickened out of a deep fried Marsbar.

Richard

pigs trotters are tasty but glutinous and not easy to eat in a civilised manner ......

Brains are gorgeous..... the texture of scambled eggs, sweet, and delicate, and packed with protein.... but since CJD (?) we are not allowed to sell/eat it any more

 

[mid4did]

tomorrow its going to be todays leftover roast chicken.Spuds and veg and greens mashed up fried in the frying pan,usually eat this with brown sauce and if there's not much add a fried egg.My mum came from liverpool and had a curious way of cooking to say the least but we never went hungry.
One of her leftover meals was rissoles which was similar to faggots but much tastier.

 

[rockape]

Eating pie butties ? or being as big as a bus ??? lol

I meant eating the pie's, I don't throw stones. As big as a bus, there has to be a cut off point.

 

[delicagirl]

I meant eating the pie's, I don't throw stones. As big as a bus, there has to be a cut off point.

2 buses ?

 

[rockape]

AH PORK pies - that's different - i could eat those anyday !!!!!! (probably that was why i ended up big as a bus !!!!)

And there was me imaging you as a slender little thing, don't spoil the illusion.

 

[yorkieowl]

We've had for tea, mushy peas with mince and onions mixed in as we had no pork pies left, was very tasty, quick to make, and just like pie and peas without the pastry. Cold korma and chupattis for brekkie, yum. :tongue:

 

[delicagirl]

And there was me imaging you as a slender little thing, don't spoil the illusion.

i WAS as big as a bus - i lost half my body weight 4 years ago... but still have to monitor my food intake/exercise on a daily basis.....


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this was me in Scotland this summer

 

[rockape]

Still looking good, I can only admire your willpower.
I am still the same size and weight as I was yesterday.
Keep at it.

 

[Auld Pharrrt]

I have eaten rat, snake, chickens eyes, ducks feet and fish heads (not all at same time) but I have never even thought of four pies on a stick.

I chickened out of a deep fried Marsbar.

Richard

Ditto on the fish heads ... one of our staples when I was a kid was fish head soup ... I loved the eyeballs, when cooked they turn into a small white balls and are as tough as nails, taste kinda chalky, but I always fished (no pun intended) them out of the pot before anyone else could get to them, many, many years later, one of my sisters had boiled up some fish for the cats and I fished out the eyeballs, much to the horror of her kids ... from that day hence I was known on the CB as Fisheye.

My ultimate favourite food is fried brains, something that is impossible to buy these days, but if I get the odd roadkill sheep or deer I will still do it, simply fried with a shake of salt and pepper is the best way IMHO and they also make a superb sandwich spread.

I've eaten squirrel, but it was disgusting (or very badly cooked.) Goat is nice if the fat is trimmed off before cooking.

 

[Auld Pharrrt]

pigs trotters are tasty but glutinous and not easy to eat in a civilised manner ......

Brains are gorgeous..... the texture of scambled eggs, sweet, and delicate, and packed with protein.... but since CJD (?) we are not allowed to sell/eat it any more

Woohoo another brainy one! Ditto on the PT's. You're the first person (apart from my mother and I) that I've ever heard of eating brains. You don't happen to come from a Slavonic background do you?

 

[delicagirl]

Woohoo another brainy one! Ditto on the PT's. You're the first person (apart from my mother and I) that I've ever heard of eating brains. You don't happen to come from a Slavonic background do you?

I' am half English and half Irish and ate them in lancashire as a child - but i also ate them in Saudi Arabia in the 1970's - i taught the local arab sandwich bar entrepreneurs to say "muck buttie" (muck being the arabic work for brains).

 

[Auld Pharrrt]

I' am half English and half Irish and ate them in lancashire as a child - but i also ate them in Saudi Arabia in the 1970's - i taught the local arab sandwich bar entrepreneurs to say "muck buttie" (muck being the arabic work for brains).

I'm ¼ irish (father) ½ Scottish (father & mother) and ¼ Lithuanian (mother's parents) extremely adventurous when it comes to food but will never eat tripe again ... didn't mind the taste but hated the texture with a vengeance for some reason.

Escargot and frogs legs I have also eaten, I get them from a chinese supermarket in Dundee.

 

[delicagirl]

Ditto on the fish heads ... one of our staples when I was a kid was fish head soup ... I loved the eyeball, when cooked they turn into a small white ball and are as tough as nails, taste kinda chalky, but I always fished (no pun intended) them out of the pot before anyone else could get to them, many, many years later, one of my sisters had boiled up some fish for the cats and I fished out the eyeballs, much to the horror of her kids ... from that day hence I was known on the CB as Fisheye.

My ultimate favourite food is fried brains, something that is impossible to buy these days, but if I get the odd roadkill sheep or deer I will still do it, simply fried with a shake of salt and pepper is the best way IMHO and they also make a superb sandwich spread.

I've eaten squirrel, but it was disgusting (or very badly cooked.) Goat is nice if the fat is trimmed off before cooking.

Fish eyes - one of the most powerful pieces of writing i will always remember is an episode in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch" . It is autobiographical, based on his incarceration in a prison camp in Siberia simply because he was a writer. On this one day he was given a bowl of fish "stew" - normally its just flavoured water with maybe a centimeter of onion occassionally. On this day it contains a fish eye. His repulsion at eating this, yet his knowledge that it contains a lot of protein, his desperation to feed his body, his fear of eating this monstrosity is written in such a vivid and graphic way, i wanted to throw up as i read it......

 

[delicagirl]

I'm ¼ irish (father) ½ Scottish (father & mother) and ¼ Lithuanian (mother's parents) extremely adventurous when it comes to food but will never eat tripe again ... didn't mind the taste but hated the texture with a vengeance for some reason.

Escargo and frogs legs I have also eaten, I get them from a chinese supermarket in Dundee.

My mum cooked tripe and i enjoyed it as a child. But had some recently and hated the texture, as you say.

In lancashire in the 1970's there were still a few shops left from the UCP franchise (United Cow Products). They were early "delis" and sold all sorts of cooked meats from various parts of the cow - tripe, elder, brains, and all sorts of other delicacies. The Manchester one had a cafe upstairs and sold wonderfully nutritious and cheap meals.

I have enjoyed frogs legs and escargot many a time and enjoy both.

 

[Auld Pharrrt]

Fish eyes - one of the most powerful pieces of writing i will always remember is an episode in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch" . It is autobiographical, based on his incarceration in a prison camp in Siberia simply because he was a writer. On this one day he was given a bowl of fish "stew" - normally its just flavoured water with maybe a centimeter of onion occassionally. On this day it contains a fish eye. His repulsion at eating this, yet his knowledge that it contains a lot of protein, his desperation to feed his body, his fear of eating this monstrosity is written in such a vivid and graphic way, i wanted to throw up as i read it......

I don't know why he felt that way, I love 'em ... the "fish stew" sounds just like my mum's fish soup ... that's maybe where she got it from as her parents were "Lithuanian" but a fairly recent attempt to trace our family's history, one of my sisters was convinced that when our grandparents arrived in Britain during WW2 they had in fact escaped Russia via Lithuania with Lithuanian papers.

 

[delicagirl]

i think his life in a prison camp in the wilds of Siberia in which many of the inmates died, and who had no specific sentence, so they had no hope. It must have been such an appalling way to live that we cannot ever imagine what their thought processes were.

have you found a way to research more of your family tree ?