Do you eat jellied eels?

[dessiato]

I love eating angulas, (elvers) This is my favourite recipe
Elvers (Angulas)

If you've not had them, you should try them.

 

[ska invita]

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

.... its over. less than ten places you can get them in london i reckon (could be wrong - but the point stands)

although according to this
They're not just for cockneys! Sales of jellied EELS booming outside London for the first time as shoppers cut costs | Daily Mail Online
theyre selling in supermarkets across the uk...because theyre poverty food ...sad shit

 

[spanglechick]

Are eels related to lampreys?

 

[EastEnder]

Are eels related to lampreys?

Second cousins.

 

[kittyP]

.... its over. less than ten places you can get them in london i reckon (could be wrong - but the point stands)

although according to this
They're not just for cockneys! Sales of jellied EELS booming outside London for the first time as shoppers cut costs | Daily Mail Online
theyre selling in supermarkets across the uk...because theyre poverty food ...sad shit

Possibly as for the best part of the last century WC people have been leaving London in their droves as they can't afford to live here any more.
The last time I had jellied eels was last autumn on the SE coast.

 

[BigMoaner]

My nan used to love them. Arments

 

[ViolentPanda]

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?

I'm South London born and bred, and like to eat jellied eels occasionally. Given the choice I'd much rather eat smoked eel or eel pie though, as jellied eels are well fucking boring.

 

[fishfinger]

you should have this jolly fellow
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as your avatar

I don't think I could manage to live up to that level of chirpiness

 

[xenon]

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.

TBF McDonald's is fucking shit as well. I would rather have a banana. And I don't like bananas.

Just sticking to the cockney theme.

 

[Spymaster]

TBF McDonald's is fucking shit as well. I would rather have a banana. And I don't like bananas.

Just sticking to the cockney theme.

Fack all wrong with bananas.

You caaant

 

[xenon]

Fack all wrong with bananas.

You caaant

They is shit. And apparently could go extinct. Good. Have a proper fruit, like an orange. You slag!

 

[Celyn]

Bananas are easier to unwrap.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Damn straight!

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

How do I change that? Don't often post polls so am clearly shit at it

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Looks like I'm broadly right though. Pretty much nobody likes or chooses to eat jellied eels.

Is the jellying an old method of preserving them? Or just a sick way of cooking them?

 

[twentythreedom]

Re OP - No

 

[Celyn]

They produce their own jelly when cooked, and I think the preserving aspect was useful too.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

They produce their own jelly when cooked, and I think the preserving aspect was useful too.

Yum
Not

 

[EastEnder]

How do I change that? Don't often post polls so am clearly shit at it

I think you're not allowed to - presumably to stop you posting a private poll such as "Who secretly dresses up as a mouse & masturbates in front of the cat?", then subsequently changing it to public for the lolz.

We will instead have to rely on the honesty of posters to out themselves in this instance. They must be implored to do this, so that we may judge them and subject them to the public derision that they so dearly deserve.