What are you cooking now?

[Beef Oven!]

pickled egg with that?

(is it only in London that people order a pickled egg in a bag of Salt and Vinegar crisps? )

Stop all this and listen to the Bruckner on R3!!!

[BBMmk2]

Only one ?

Lightweight

Working tomorrow! :(

[Beef Oven!]

Working tomorrow! :(

He meant the pork pie!

[Nick Armstrong]

Stop all this and listen to the Bruckner on R3!!!

Hope everyone did! See my comment on thread - astonishing!

(is it only in London that people order a pickled egg in a bag of Salt and Vinegar crisps? )

No! I think that was only on the occasion when you witnessed it being done by people who were taking the **** out of you!

[teamsaint]

Hope everyone did! See my comment on thread - astonishing!


No! I think that was only on the occasion when you witnessed it being done by people who were taking the **** out of you!

St Johns Wood matey, night after night they used to buy them. That pub down the bottom end of the high st, on the left going south I think.
And I can't make sense of your sentence. (as the barrister said to the judge when I did jury service !!)

Edit: take the ****?!.....as if.......

[french frank]

St Johns Wood matey, night after night they used to buy them.

So not sctually 'London', then: a pub in St John's Wood.

"Get ready, lads, he's just coming in now ... oh, barman, a pickled egg in a bag of salt and vinegar crisps, please," "Make that two, please, barman." "And a third!" "And for me." And so on ...

[teamsaint]

Well, posh it may be, (you can tell by the cuisine), but NW8 is London any way you slice it.

pretty sure I saw the savoury snack served elsewhere, although my time living up there was 30 years ago.

Perhaps I should rephrase the question.

" Is it only in St Johns Wood that Londoners play feeble pub food centred jokes on non locals, or does it happen elsewhere in the capital? or is it just a cunning (and probably much needed) marketing campaign by the pickled egg companies?"

Edit: This evening. Seattle Salmon.

with pickled eggs a la mode.

And Rubbra SQs.
Yum.

[french frank]

Okay - your game, team. May not just be London, though ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47500cdb/sets/72157633814707719/

[teamsaint]

top research FF.
And there i was thinking it was a little metropolitan secret !

Here is another sensible forum discussing this issue.

http://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index.php/topic/101506-pickled-onions/

[Flosshilde]

Pickled wallnuts anyone?

[french frank]

Pickled wallnuts anyone?

Yep. Just thrown out a jar of them that I'd had for several years. I think I bought them originally for some Chinese(-style) recipe.

[HighlandDougie]

The French neighbours are coming round for an apéro and, as they would look seriously askance if one produced nothing but a bowl of crisps and some peanuts, it's pissaladière: stew 1kg of coarsely chopped white onions with a small slug of olive oil and a teaspoon of finely chopped thyme for about 2 hours until they begin to caramelise but woe betide you if they go brown; make some pizza dough with 200g flour; roll it thinly; spread the onions - into which you've put a cook's cheat of a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar as it improves the taste - and then decorate with anchovies and black olives - and they must be black (I once used green olives which were met with looks of horror - the French are nothing if not wedded to the principle of 'comme il faut'). And, as they have healthy appetites, arancini (the left-over broad bean and pancetta risotto), blinis and smoked salmon, frittata ....... And then there's the problem of how to get rid of them after they have consumed all the wine and have got stuck into the whisky. Go to bed and leave them to it I suppose.

[BBMmk2]

Had a lovely chicken with mangoes, for lunch today.

[MrGongGong]

Had a lovely chicken with mangoes, for lunch today.

Yeah yeah yeah but what BEER did you have with it ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Yeah yeah yeah but what BEER did you have with it ?