Name of place + foodstuff = good?

[Arch]

Melton Mowbray pork pies ... Edinburgh rock ... Herefordshire cider (if you're including drinks; I know I would) ... sounds like a great tour.

Hmmm. Now, you see, I'd have to have rules, and the pies and the rock make it, but the cider is a bit like the cheese question. Because I could easily choose Somerset cider instead. (I suppose the pork pies are a bit like that too, dammit, but you don't get 'Worksop Pork Pies' do you...?).

Newcastle Brown Ale, that would be fine. Whiskey (and whisky), again, that's a cheese issue. Do you see what I'm getting at? It's a rod for my own back.

 

[Bayerd]

I have noticed Magners Irish Cider suddenly appeared. Strangely I have never seen an irish apple in the shops though. I really dont fancy cider with ice in it (or even too cold) as they have on the ads so stick to scrumpy jack if I fancy a can of the stuff.

Magners had been a poor performer in Ireland for years, until a marketing bright spark had the idea of pouring over ice during a hot spell about 5 years ago. The rest as they say......

Fnaar, does Bury Black Pudding make the list?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Hmmm. Now, you see, I'd have to have rules, and the pies and the rock make it, but the cider is a bit like the cheese question. Because I could easily choose Somerset cider instead. (I suppose the pork pies are a bit like that too, dammit, but you don't get 'Worksop Pork Pies' do you...?).

Newcastle Brown Ale, that would be fine. Whiskey (and whisky), again, that's a cheese issue. Do you see what I'm getting at? It's a rod for my own back.

I see what you mean, but if it was me I'd just make up the rules to suit myself as I went along. If I fancied going to Herefordshire to try the cider, I would. And Somerset. But I do take your point: I didn't include "Yorkshire bitter" in the list above, even though I was tempted to. Parkin, now ...

 

[davidg]

Nobby's nuts?

 

[Fnaar]

Fnaar, does Bury Black Pudding make the list?

Dunno, is it real or fake?

 

[rich p]

Dunno, is it real or fake?

IMO they should bury black pudding

 

[g00se]

That's just the kind of thing I mean, g00se. Or shoukd that be Norfolk G00se?

If that were the case, it would be turk3y

 

[Fab Foodie]

Dunno, is it real or fake?

What about... Faken-Ham?

 

[mangaman]

I don't want to cheat - but in other countries this is treated very seriously.

I have a particular affinity with Spain and a small fishing village I know there has 2 signigture dishes invented there and not really available anywhere else - just because they have the best ingredients

I live 6 miles from the sea and can't get relaible, fresh fish locally that's been caught that day, even if I go to the fishing villages, That's pathetic I think, as is the fish in the supermarkets which is all pre-frozen.

I haven't shopped in a supermarket for over 3 years now and I know all the local veg / meat people I buy from personally. Fish, bizarelly, seems impossible to locally source, even if you live by the sea.

 

[rich p]

I don't want to cheat - but in other countries this is treated very seriously.

I have a particular affinity with Spain and a small fishing village I know there has 2 signigture dishes invented there and not really available anywhere else - just because they have the best ingredients

I live 6 miles from the sea and can't get relaible, fresh fish locally that's been caught that day, even if I go to the fishing villages, That's pathetic I think, as is the fish in the supermarkets which is all pre-frozen.

I haven't shopped in a supermarket for over 3 years now and I know all the local veg / meat people I buy from personally. Fish, bizarelly, seems impossible to locally source, even if you live by the sea.

There are several outlets between Brighton and Shoreham where you can buy fresh caught local fish.
Bream, mackerel, occasional brill and turbot. I had local grey mullet a few weeks back - lovely,under-rated fish just because it feeds near the sewage outfall

 

[Spinney]

Among the many book ideas perambulating around my head, is one where I cycle the length of the country visiting places with food name associations, and writing about the food - From Cornish Pasty to Arbroath Smokie. I've already decided that for the sake of principle, cheeses will not be included, since it wold be too easy to just go from one county cheese to another, and I'd end up having a dairy induced heart attack. Except perhaps Stilton, which would be included as ironic, as it doesn't come from Stilton at all.

I've thought of Eccles Cakes, and Pontefract cakes, Bath buns... Cromer crabs, that's another.

Bakewell tart, Manchester tart, Chorley cakes, Cumberland sausage...

 

[Fnaar]

Bakewell tart, Manchester tart, Chorley cakes, Cumberland sausage...

... but these have the benefit of tradition and familiarity, and are therefore accepted by 'Johnny Public' as being bona fide. It's the "use of name + foddstuff" (as in the "Suffolk Bacon" example given by g00se earlier) that gets my Northumberland Goat.

I've been developing this rant to myself whilst walking the dog this morning. There's also a fad for "part-of-body/cooking implement + how collected or cooked +place name +foodstuff = good" equation.

So, we have "hand-picked Berkshire blueberries" or "pan-fried Wolverhampton prawns".

I'm going out later to find some "eye-sourced Newcastle sandwiches"

 

[Apeman]

Well done Mangaman! Support the small local business and get the best quality. Supermarkets offer bland food--I know because I work in the big Green one!

 

[Campfire]

Bakewell tart, Manchester tart, Chorley cakes, Cumberland sausage...

Ah well, Arch, if you came to taste the Eccles cakes (they ARE actually made in Eccles) you could always come over to me for a bite to eat - am not actually sure whether where I live is renowned for anything other than:

Persil, Vodka, Greenall Whitley, Tetley Walker Warburton's cakes but I know tat Tetley Walker has gone, most of Greenall Whitley has gone but the grand Lever Bros, whatever banner it goes under nowadays, is still there.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I like to support local companies and as I live in north Oxfordshire I'd be reasonably happy to eat nothing but Banbury cakes and only drink Hook Norton ales.