Pilchards are great - anyone who doesn't like them is a proper wrong 'un

[kebabking]

I’d be intrigued to try pilchard puff.

I'd be intrigued to get Ebola.

 

[Elpenor]

I'd be intrigued to get Ebola.

Pilchard puff is the antidote for it

 

[ouirdeaux]

Wrong way round.

 

[RubyToogood]

I’d be intrigued to try pilchard puff.

There is absolutely nothing stopping you from trying this.

Do report back.

Dear god, this reminds me of an open mic I was at recently. They unfortunately started letting poets onto the mic and someone did an interminable poem about pilchards.

 

[Sue]

Dear god, this reminds me of an open mic I was at recently. They unfortunately started letting poets onto the mic and someone did an interminable poem about pilchards.

Was this in...Glasgow by any chance...?,

 

[RubyToogood]

Was this in...Glasgow by any chance...?,

No. It was in landlocked South London.

 

[tep]

No. It was in landlocked South London.

well then it should have been about sardines.

 

[8ball]

There is absolutely nothing stopping you from trying this.

Aside from the lack of a recipe.

 

[danny la rouge]

Aside from the lack of a recipe.

Pilchard Puff

Do this, but instead of sausages use tinned pilchards: Traditional toad in the hole recipe

 

[8ball]

Gravy and mash?

 

[WouldBe]

Sounds like you can pilchardify pretty much anything.
Pilchard pie (instead of apples use tinned pilchards) and custard.
Pilchard pizza (instead of tomato sauce use mashed tinned pilchards)
Pilchard risotto (mash up tinned pilchards in some medium grain rice)
etc etc

Pilchard ice cream.

 

[kittyP]

I don't think I've ever eaten something labeled as pilchards but I love tinned sardines on toast and I think pilchards and sardines are pretty much the same beast so...

 

[Epona]

Pilchard ice cream.

That's a deeply worrying thought to have knocking about in your noggin.

 

[Lancman]

Used to do a lot of dinghy racing in Newquay Bay down in Cornwall while the safety boat crew jigged for pilchard if it was a quiet day. We’d take the day’s catch in the evening down to an isolated beach called Polly Joke, dig a hole in the sand and light a charcoal fire. Wrap the fish in tinfoil, put them on the fire and cover them over with sand. Sit back and drink a little home-brewed beer of variable quality. Wonderful memories of those soft, dark Cornish nights.

Has anybody here tried starry gazey pie? A fish pie with the pilchard’s heads sticking up through the centre of the pastry or mashed potato topping?

 

[quiet guy]

Isn't pilchard puff just another version of the Cornish Stargazy Pie?

 

[WouldBe]

That's a deeply worrying thought to have knocking about in your noggin.

Pilchard trife then?

 

[StoneRoad]

When my niece was quite small - a bit more than a toddler - she used to be looked after by her grandparents [my parents-in-law],
One of "grandas" favourite foods for lunch was pilchards on toast.
Now, little niece was at the age when she picked up words and repeated new ones, quite a common thing, as you know.
So, one day someone - not me - managed "bugger it" in her hearing, which resulted in her running around yelling "bugger" quite a lot.
To stop the embarrassment she was told that "Pilchards" was an even worse word, one that she must never say [you know where this is going ?]

Result was granda was having "bugger on toast" for the next few months ... and we were able to face the other people in the local restaurant for meals out.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Poll is missing the obligatory third humorous/other option.

Poll amended.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Poll amended.

What if I neither like nor dislike pilchards, because I don't know, because I've never tried them? They're like a culinary Schrödinger's cat, simultaneously liked and disliked.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What if I neither like nor dislike pilchards, because I don't know, because I've never tried them? They're like a culinary Schrödinger's cat, simultaneously liked and disliked.

You have to pick a side - no fence sitting allowed.

No harm in you trying them - they're cheap so you're not going to lose much cash if you don't like them.

 

[Epona]

I used to eat a lot of sardines/pilchards on toast when I was little, my mum used to mash up the fish in the tomato sauce before putting it on my toast.
One time my dad made it for me and he just took the fish out of the tin and laid them whole on my toast.
This resulted in me in floods of tears, wailing "but I didn't know they were fish, they should be swimming"

 

[moochedit]

Pilchards are great

^
More wrongness to add to your file

Pilchards

 

[RoyReed]

Isn't pilchard puff just another version of the Cornish Stargazy Pie?

Stargazy pie is traditionally made with shortcrust pastry, not puff, for the festival of Tom Bawcock's Eve (23 December in Mousehole) to celebrate his heroic catch during a very stormy winter.

Tom Bawcock's Eve - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Epona]

I've put some batter in the fridge to chill, I want to assure everyone that I will NOT be making pilchard puff with it!
Yorkshire puds to go with my roast dinner later.

 

[RoyReed]

I've put some batter in the fridge to chill, I want to assure everyone that I will NOT be making pilchard puff with it!
Yorkshire puds to do with my roast dinner later.

So no 'sprat in the hole' for you tonight.

 

[Epona]

So no 'sprat in the hole' for you tonight.

Thank fuck

 

[Sue]

I've put some batter in the fridge to chill, I want to assure everyone that I will NOT be making pilchard puff with it!
Yorkshire puds to go with my roast dinner later.

Feels like a missed opportunity tbh.

 

[Fairweather]

Pilchard omelette and chips with brown sauce or tomato ketchup is surprisingly good.

 

[Epona]

Nothing can quite beat fresh ones split and grilled/barbecued, with a bit of salad and some crusty bread and butter.
But when going for tinned I prefer the in tomato sauce version with those same accompaniments, makes a lovely light lunch or tea. Also like mackerel (fresh or tinned) the same way.
The idea of in batter like a toad is just not doing it for me

 

[hitmouse]

I thought capers were fish for ages, and I reckon if you told me that pilchards are actually whatever kind of a plant capers are, I'd probably think "hmm, that sounds plausible I suppose". Although not now that I've read this thread, I'm now fairly confident that pilchards are fish. I could definitely tell the difference between capers and pilchards if you showed me some, though.