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Traditional Brummie Food

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Think I've mentioned before,my favorite are pigs tails.Last week I had them from our local Butcher he had saved me 8 all for the princly sum of £1:48.That will make 4 lovely stews.The good lady has boiled them and I have cut them into 1 inch pieces and are in 4 bags in the freezer.Roll on next week
 
LOZELLIAN said:
Hi Wendylee,

how on earth could you eat that stuff it's awful ha ha? It reminds me somewhat of my grandparents diet; brains on toast, chitlins, brawn, pigs feet, neck of lamb, oxtail, tripe & onions etc thanks but no thanks.

Lozellian.
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put them on the tap,and wash them out first, before eating, loverly
 
Sugar said:
My dad use to love eating the neck of the Turkey. I dont know whether they still do them now as we only have Turkey crowns now.
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I remember my mum used to boil all the neck and innards that were packed in the end of a chicken when you bought one and then used to use the water for the gravy! Do they still put the innards and necks in the chickens now? They had to make use of everything didnt they?
 
Wendy ,Very similar taste but more meat on them.The good lady has just put them on to boil then it's into the stew for an hour this afternoon.YUM YUM
 
I remember seeing tripe in the window of the butcher's shop as a child and it never looked edible to me or something I would try, then I found out what it was !!.

Strangely it is a breakfast food eaten by the Latino population, as a cure for a hangover

My folks would eat pigs trotters, I always took a pass never liked the look of them in the pot getting boiled.

I am sure they taste good after all boiled ham works on some nice bread and butter.

The thing I remember about pigs trotters was all the bones and the work it took to get the meat, another favorite of the Latino population they even sell them out of a jar pickled.
 
Robert Ensor (bob) said:
I remember seeing tripe in the window of the butcher's shop as a child and it never looked edible to me or something I would try, then I found out what it was !!.

Strangely it is a breakfast food eaten by the Latino population, as a cure for a hangover

My folks would eat pigs trotters, I always took a pass never liked the look of them in the pot getting boiled.

I am sure they taste good after all boiled ham works on some nice bread and butter.

The thing I remember about pigs trotters was all the bones and the work it took to get the meat, another favorite of the Latino population they even sell them out of a jar pickled.
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pigs feet mixed with peas they make a great soup... few!. tripe.for breakfast.no ta. i think i will stay drunk
 
Edifi said:
About 6 years ago my wife made my 2 S/in laws a bread pudding.They had never tasted it before (Well living in Kent you'd expect it).Since then she has to make them one each every so often.
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i love bread pudding, i bought it from a shop opp the baths in stechford..... wish they sold it here..or if anyone wants to send me some,please do.:laughing::laughing:
 
Wow what I would do and give to walk in the house tonight and see bread getting soaked ready for my mum to make a roasting pan size bread pudding.
It's been over 40 years since I ate my mum's bread pudding funny the pudding and her chips still the best I ever ate.

My wife will buy a pudding from the store once in a while but it just not the same I think they soak the bread in milk my mum soaked it in water.
 
sospiri said:
Had a couple of young Greek ladies sitting next to our table the other night eating mussels. Yuck! Poor man's oysters I guess.

Maurice :cool:
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That's what I ate for tea on Sunday. Made a couple of hot dog buns with mussels on them.

Mussels on a Saturday night on some real bread with pepper and vinegar while watching match of the day

Saturday afternoon trip to the fish market with pop he always got jellied eels I got cockells pick up a crab for Sunday tea and mussels for Saturday night.

Pop still goes down the market for a crab and eels but tells me both are now expensive, and the eels are getting harder to find
 
Edifi said:
mwOnjm.Had a kilo from Tesco yesterday.had some last night on B&B.Rest in a jar in the fridge
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loverly. they are down the beach here.you can just pic them up.at low tide, but the best come from the menai or conway.
morrisons have them,but you nead a magnifer glass to see them they are too small.
When i lived in brum,sat we would go to the fish market.and buy 2 pound of them and 2 pound of whelks
 
A lot of sea food mentioned here, considering Brum is in the centre of the country and landlocked. ;) Is it traditional Brum food? I doubt it was before the railways came.
 
Alan,

In the days of the old Fish Market we had crabs & shrimps of a weekend when I was a kid. We couldn't afford lobster and the price is through the roof now, wherever you go and especially on this Mediterranean island. Both large crabs and lobsters were available and affordable into the early 1960s, but not since. As for the rest - oysters, cockles, whelks, mussels - you're welcome to them. For many years now it has been difficult to find large crabs - they just don't seem to reach maturity any longer, probably due to over-fishing.

Later on this afternnon we have heavy rain forecast for a couple of days. That will bring out the snails, to which you are very welcome, but not me thanks. Then for the next couple of days I will be busy knocking them off the walls of the house with a broom!

Maurice :cool:
 
sospiri said:
Alan,

In the days of the old Fish Market we had crabs & shrimps of a weekend when I was a kid. We couldn't afford lobster and the price is through the roof now, wherever you go and especially on this Mediterranean island. Both large crabs and lobsters were available and affordable into the early 1960s, but not since. As for the rest - oysters, cockles, whelks, mussels - you're welcome to them. For many years now it has been difficult to find large crabs - they just don't seem to reach maturity any longer, probably due to over-fishing.

Later on this afternnon we have heavy rain forecast for a couple of days. That will bring out the snails, to which you are very welcome, but not me thanks. Then for the next couple of days I will be busy knocking them off the walls of the house with a broom!

Maurice :cool:
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true maurice. every day the boats go out sea food fishing here. tons a day are brought ashore.sea snails..perry winks & whelks.....As for (land snails) no way would i eat them things. there are lots when it gets dark here, i wonder were they all come from. they carry lungworm parasite,so the animals have to be dosed against the filthy things.
Slugs and snails are the bane in many gardener’s lives, but get up close to these little gastropods and you will soon realised that they are a valuable asset to the British landscape. It is believed that the average British garden contains over 20,000 slugs and snails, with a cubic metre alone housing a population of around 200 slugs.
Slugs and snails are the bane in many gardener’s lives, but get up close to these little gastropods and you will soon realised that they are a valuable asset to the British landscape. It is believed that the average British garden contains over 20,000 slugs and snails, with a cubic metre alone housing a population of around 200 slugs.
 

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My post was about Birmingham, not anywhere else boys, that is what the thread is about - although a lot of posts, including mine, are wide of the mark. I bet over 50% are off topic. I guess it was river and canal fish that Brummies mainly ate - and many probably still do, after all it cost little. Freshwater fishing is still very popular.
We have major fishing ports in the South West, and those were the lads who discovered the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and those off the east coast of England. But sea fish caught before the railways would principally have been salted such as cod but fresh fish did not travel that far from its port.
 
Radiorails said:
A lot of sea food mentioned here, considering Brum is in the centre of the country and landlocked. ;) Is it traditional Brum food? I doubt it was before the railways came.
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items were transported to brum before the railway. arrived. there such were things as canals and roads.they could have been transported by them, prob packed in salt ....who knows. the market had to get them from some were .some how.

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