Boiled bacon is amazing but only with decent mash and parsley sauce
Well not only with that, it's delicious all the time, but the deliciousness is diminished by bad accompaniments.
Parsley sauce with mustard.
Do you like mustard?
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Parsley sauce with mustard.
weltweit
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We just waded along a river lifting up large rocks releasing the eels beneath them and then skewered them on our spears (my mums splayed fork tied onto a stick)
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Boiled bacon is amazing but only with decent mash and parsley sauce
Well not only with that, it's delicious all the time, but the deliciousness is diminished by bad accompaniments.
Good boiled bacon is fantastic but there you go again with the parsley sauce weirdness. I'm one of the least fussy eaters I know of, but one thing guaranteed to upset me is the inclusion of piss-stinking parsley on anything!
Of course he can, he's a leg'
kittyP
Pluviophile
Oh yes.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I generally don't eat/make it but with pie and mash and boiled bacon it is the rules (well in my parents house anyway).
Johnny Canuck3
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first the Mr. Rogers thing, now this? I'm surprised you made it through.
I try to hide the scars.
kittyP
Pluviophile
So I am not a total freak then?
Not at all, it was a favourite in our family.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I just stole some wholegrain mustard from my sexy Oirish housemate's fridge shelf for a midnight toastie.
It was grand.
It was grand.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
These english people will boil literally everything, and call it food.
Eels In A Blanket: eels wrapped in boiled bacon. Yum.
What's it called when you boil up some eels and bacon, and then stuff it into a sheep's stomach? Gaggis?
kittyP
Pluviophile
Haggis is mainly grain and it is delicious.
That is the domain of the Scott's though, not the whole of Britain.
We mainly cook Italian, French and Mexican food in this house though.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Nah. I doubt we disagree on much besides parsley and jellied eels.
Strange that the colonials find boiled bacon odd though. It's often the best way to cook a joint especially if it's particularly salty.
They'll be slagging off black pudding next.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm not sure who these English people are, if you'd care to check out the What's For Tea? thread
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
We also have pease pudding, which is somewhat more sinister looking and delicious traditionally served with bacon and English mustard.
Has to be boiled bacon, though, and the pease pudding has to be made in the same pot at the same time as the bacon is cooking, otherwise it doesn't taste "proper".
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I am the only person I know that likes Jellied Eels
Well, other than my dad and my nan, I mean nobody of my age group.
I too like jellied eels, although I don't like the cost, frankly!
harpo
Listening to Radio Jackie
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
In this country, if someone mentioned having grey poupon on their wiener, they'd be labeled as one of them there gay homosexualists.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I've had fish and chips. I like it; but it's one of those foods that after, you feel like a python trying to digest a basketball: because it's a totally brown food drenched in cooking oil.
If it's drenched in oil, it hasn't been cooked properly, old chap. A lot of establishments make the mistake of having the oil at too low a temperature, but it has to be at smoking point to be hot enough to seal the batter almost instantly, so that it acts as an envelope for the fish to steam in.
And anyone who serves soggy chips needs a slow death!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Halifax. That explains a lot. Most of them northerners lose all their teeth by their teenage years, so they've got no choice but to boild their food into glop.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
i never eat all the batter, just a few of the crispiest bits (always getting the fish wrapped separately is the key to keeping it crisp) and share a portion of chips, so with plenty of mushy peas and ketchup it's never seemed like a greasy meal to me
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Different cuts. Hams are usually cuts from the haunch of the animal. Bacon is from the back, belly (streaky), and sides.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I try. I try. :humble face:
I am also not a proper Cock-en-ey because I don't spit the Jellied Eel boans on the floor
Proper Cockneys aren't usually stupid enough to let eel bones (which can be razor-sharp) anywhere near their north and south. You're supposed to pick the flash off of the bones, not try to tattoo your lip with an eel spine!
fractionMan
Custom Title
Pease pudding, watery potatoes and shitty boiled ham/bacon was my least favourite thing when growing up. Even worse than liver and onions imo. BARF.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Non-cured ham is often boiled, then stuck in a press to give it back the original shape. It's just a cooking method. All "boiled bacon" is, is a cut of flank or back, rolled and tied, and then poached until cooked, either in plain water, or with celery, carrots and black peppercorns, to add an extra element to the resulting stock. If you're a traditionalists, you also put a cup of pre-soaked yellow split peas (lentils) into a muslin wrap, tie the top with string, and drop it in too, so that you've got pease pudding to go with your boiled bacon.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
One of the finest meals in the world is smoked eel served with boiled new potatoes and fresh peas.
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