Do you eat jellied eels?

[PaoloSanchez]

I'm from London but I've never had them and they don't appeal to me at all. However I do know somebody friend and ex colleague "Well 'Ard" who was quite keen on them and used to go on about some Tubby Isaacs fella.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I'm from London but I've never had them and they don't appeal to me at all. However I do know somebody friend and ex colleague "Well 'Ard" who was quite keen on them and used to go on about some Tubby Isaacs fella.

ska invita likes to talk about ol' Tubby too!

 

[weltweit]

White meat, a cross between fish and chicken, I have caught and eaten freshwater eels before, and they were lush, don't know if I would like them jellied though.

Are these eels that go to the Sargasso sea, by any chance?

 

[PaoloSanchez]

ska invita likes to talk about ol' Tubby too!

I'm wondering if he's related to Gregory.

 

[RubyToogood]

I am from London and voted C as the nearest option but actually have never tried them. I'm not put off by the idea of the jelly as I quite like the jelly in pork pies (when not being veggie).

 

[Spymaster]

... I quite like the jelly in pork pies ...

It's nothing like that.

Think the kind of watery jelly that you'd expect to suck out of a cold slug. Much closer.

 

[NoXion]

Never had them and I'm not eager to try them either. By all accounts they sound utterly rank.

 

[PaoloSanchez]

By all accounts they sound utterly rank.

They don't sound very appealing to me. A bit like pork scratchings, another food item with a a non-appetizing name

 

[ska invita]

Tubby Isaac's stall seems to have gone from it's Aldgate pitch, but I think I saw it on the Suffolk coast last month....i forget where now....

ETA:
So Long, Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eel Stall | Spitalfields Life

 

[PaoloSanchez]

Tubby Isaac's stall seems to have gone from it's Aldgate pitch, but I think I saw it on the Suffolk coast last month....i forget where now....

Myself and "Well 'Ard" used to play darts in "The City Darts" pub on Commercial St just around the corner from Mr Isaac's stall.

 

[peterkro]

NZ actually exports eels for jellied eels ( I'm not entirely sure whether they are jellied in NZ or Britain ) they are not actually endangered in NZ but the population is dropping. Long fin eels big bastards up to 1.75 metres long lifespan as well.Not much is known about their breeding habits but they fuck off somewhere in Pacific to give birth.

 

[NoXion]

They don't sound very appealing to me. A bit like pork scratchings, another food item with a a non-appetizing name

Pork scratchings are lush though. Salty crunchy porky goodness.

 

[blossie33]

I tried some Jellied Eel once years ago back in Birmingham - my boss brought some in from somewhere as he liked them, I wasn't very keen myself!
I've never tried the jellied variety since living in London but I do like eel sushi - it's not cheap though.

 

[editor]

If they were good enough for Ian Dury

... they still taste fucking disgusting.

 

[Treacle Toes]

If they were good enough for Ian Dury

... they still taste fucking disgusting.

He clearly wants to be sick.

 

[Maggot]

He clearly wants to be sick.

All over the Bay City Rollers.

 

[PaoloSanchez]

Pork scratchings are lush though. Salty crunchy porky goodness.

Hmmm, deffo not getting my taste buds flowing. "Pork scratchings, chicken itchings, donkey's scabs...".
I'll pass on those thanks.

 

[NoXion]

Hmmm, deffo not getting my taste buds flowing. "Pork scratchings, chicken itchings, donkey's scabs...".
I'll pass on those thanks.

Take it you don't like chocolate shavings either?

 

[weltweit]

Goes off to start a thread on Jugged Hare ...

 

[kittyP]

They're a joke food that Cockney's made up to disgust tourists with.

Nope!!

 

[Pickman's model]

no one eats jellied eels.

they endure them.

 

[Pickman's model]

My Kiwi boyfriend reckons everyone in Britain eats jellied eels but I maintain that nobody does and if there is anyone that does, they are exclusively from the East End of London. Who's right?

it should be a publick poll

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm not from London, although I've lived here most of my life. I eat jellied eels most weeks. I love them.

ETA:

This is me, aged about 15, not in London, at the fish stall I managed.

View attachment 103096

you should have this jolly fellow

as your avatar

 

[EastEnder]

it should be a publick poll

Damn straight!

Who are the eight abominations who've voted for liking this filth?!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't eat jellied eels because I have standards. Low, granted, but standards nonetheless.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Damn straight!

Who are the eight abominations who've voted for liking this filth?!

All fishfinger's alternative accounts.

 

[friedaweed]

I tried'em when I lived in Bethnal Green. Just the once

 

[EastEnder]

I tried'em when I lived in Bethnal Green. Just the once

No one wants to live in Bethnal Green twice...

 

[DotCommunist]

poverty food that has inexplicably survived to the modern day. You don't see us semi-rural folk making sorrel and nettle stew and passing it off as a beloved old cultural foodstuff

 

[bimble]

Many moons ago i did a little thing about jellied eels, made a very short probably crap film about the demise of the jellied eel market in London, closed eel and pie shops etc. So I got to see them being chopped up in Billingsgate market, slithering energetically till the last. Also talked to a few old geezers who love them and one of them sticks in my mind, he was saying how they're a lot better than the McDonalds filth which young people eat these days and how he wouldn't touch that with a bargepole etc.
Only had one plate of them myself and couldn't finish it.