One of the worst things about living darn sarf...

There are quite a few, but one of the big ones is you can’t get a good pork pie. Anywhere, ever. They don’t understand what a proper pork pie is. The very best southern pork pie would get chucked in a bin in tarn.

I miss pork pies.

 

Awful, innit? Rotten Melton Mowbray pies pass as ‘artisan’ down here.

Percy Turners needs to sell on Amazon Prime.

 

Come back and stock up once lockdown s over!

 

I'd say its the fish and chips. I only have them about 3 or 4 times a year but they just don't get close to northern ones (though i wonder if general changes of cooking oils is a big factor). Though the best ones I've had were in Whitstable.

 

The worst sh*ts I've had were in Whitstable. Bloody southern oysters!

 

Haha. Just be thankful you didn't vom it back up ;-)

 

Open a branch of Farm Stores good pork pies Imho

 

Get some posted down.

 

but not from Rob Royd's though, they'll charge for Steak n Ale pies lol

 

from my time in London I noticed a shorty supply of good fish and chips. and also a curious absence of Chinese takeaways that were also chippies.

 

and i miss going into a chippy/chinese and being able to see into the owners living room if they left the door open. I don't imagine those type of places exist anymore.

 

other things that didn't translate or make it south were...Parkin, Vimto (i know its everywhere but always felt like a northern drink to me), a bag of bits from the chippy, treacle toffee, mischief night, seabrook crisps.

 

Waitrose dele counter do a good pie. Agree about fish and chips, hard to find a good one, but I remember some bad ones in Wombwell along with some brilliant ones.
Guide Post, Summer Lane, Metcalf’s Pendlebury’s.

 

i used to have regular reunions with a few fellow army "vets" before this madness, we used to meet up in each others areas all over the country and it was my job to supply the pork pies for 4 of us that were old drinking mates ( sadly 3 now) and we've come to the conclusion that to make a good/great growler you need an old fashioned name.......... Albert hirst, Percy turner, Hector ellis

 

Yes that's the best I've found. Still not the real deal though....

 

I regularly get parkin sent down (in batches usually!). I usually give some (just a few crumbs) to a friend/neighbour as they havent a clue what it is. As for Seabrook crisps: see Asda! They have a wide variety in mine. Agree about scraps from the chippy too

 

First year in ages that I've not made parkin for bonfire night. Daughter got some whoopsed for 5p in Newcastle Morrisons though and her housemates were converted.

 

Get some made, bobbies job
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....le/2017/nov/02/how-to-make-the-perfect-parkin

 

its such a long way back to Yorkshire?

 

“Tell you what love, I could just do a proper pork pie.”

“Well go and get one then.”

7 hours later after a round trip of 350 miles and £40 worth of petrol I’d be back.

Reight.