Just a query. Upthread you mentioned you can buy frozen Manx kippers. Is that a separate source from these Scottish kippers?
I misremembered. Thanks for pointing that out.
No worries. Manx kippers are probably the most readily available across the UK. That said, there’s a tradition of producing kippers in the areas along the eastern side of the UK, where herring fishing used to go on in great numbers.
For example, the village of Craster is near where we’ve often stayed in Northumberland (northeast England) and is famous for its kippers. You might like to try this idea
By the by, the Jolly Fisherman Inn, in Craster, does the most fantastic crab sandwich
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I hope I can visit the UK in 2024 or 2025. So many places I would like to visit.
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Isn’t black pudding supposed to be part of a Full English? Seems like there’s a disconnect with a crap tier item being part of the Full English (top tier) . Does that mean that most people just ignore the black pudding in their Full English?
As someone who recently spent time in Ireland, I found the pudding to be a tasty part of the breakfast. I prefer black to white. I realize that what I was eating was technically a Full Irish.
I ask restaurants to hold the Black Pudding because I don’t enjoy it, I don’t need calories from foods I don’t enjoy, less waste and more for somebody who enjoys it.
I don’t eat things I don’t like to be authentic. I like the rest of the English breakfast.
Also, vegetarian Full English breakfasts are found all over the place in the UK, and they never have black pudding. I don’t think it’s necessary for a breakfast to have Black Pudding for it to be called an a Full English breakfast just because it’s traditionally part of one.
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More so in the northern half of the country, thankfully. But then we northerners do miss out on the London staple of “bubble & squeak” with their Full English.
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One of the producers of the Bury black pudding also makes a vegetarian version. I don’t know what they use to replace the pigs blood but it works. They used to sell at a local farmers market and the owner once told me that the blood and pork fat are the only things they take out for the vegetarian version. All the main flavourings remain the same
This local vegetarian restaurant often has it on the menu. Currently amongst the nibbles, served with a mustard mayo dip.
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Dishoom has a vegetarian version on offer (and it’s very nice). And a natural foods shop near me carries a vegan version that I love to have on hand. Blood sausage and black pudding were the things I missed most of not eating pig so these were welcome discoveries.
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The one I mentioned from the company in Bury is actually vegan. And available in Asda. Meanwhile Sainsbury stocks a vegan product made in Perthshire.
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I didn’t know the Church of England banned Hot Cross Buns for a short period of history! https://www.ravenhook.com/bread-blog/hot-cross-buns
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Oh, Yorkshire curd tart is just fab. And, I’m sorry to say, the county also produces the country’s best fish & chips, IMO. I think it’s because many place still use beef dripping for the frying
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I wish I had fish & chips on my only visit to Yorkshire.
My best & most memorable UK fish & chips experience was in a small old-fashioned spot in Budleigh Salterton in Devon. http://www.budleighfishandchips.co.uk/
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Ah, now you have gone too far! LOL!
I love fish and chips served the English/British way, and the mushy peas that frequently are offered with them are a rather good side, if done reasonably well.
Britain has some of the best cheeses in the world, their beef is world class and when served close to rare it can be a delight. A plowmans may be simple but it is a fine lunch. Both duck and goose can be expected to be prepared pretty well and lamb can be expected to be done JUST RIGHT.
There is no better breakfast in the world than an English Breakfast, in part due to the fact that the sausage, mushrooms and streaky bacon are better than in most other places. Charcuterie… May be better in France or Italy, but England does a pretty good job.
A Sunday Roast, a Shepard’s Pie, a Cornish Pasty, a Bacon Butty, Scones…
If you have not eaten well in the UK, you are doing it wrong.
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Big British and Irish Breakfasts
Absolutely agree, one can eat exceptionally well in the UK.
One of the most underrated countries for food. I’d say the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia get a bad rap. Lots of delicious and interesting food to be found.
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Your Budleigh Salteron place looks good. A sound committment to local produce which is always a good sign.
Next time you get back to Yorkshire, head for Whitby for some of the best fish & chips you’re likely to come across.
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Will do.
I hope my next trip will include Scotland, so I might fly into Newcastle or Manchester, the travel around the North of England, Edinburgh and some smaller scenic regions I haven’t visited in Scotland.
I visited Whitby, but it was part of a day trip while I was based in York. Both our evening meals were in York. We also visited a nice historic tea room in York. I regret only posting the photos to Chowhound, rather than posting some here as well.
This is one place where I enjoyed dinner in York. http://bennettscafeandbistro.weebly.com/
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Why do you refrigerate your HP sauce?
Way back in the 1990’s I decided I was going to walk across the UK and I picked the paths going from St. Margarets Bay to Penzance. The Coast Paths and South Downs Way, mostly. I split it into 3 Christmas breaks, doing a third of the trip each year.
One afternoon on the second year I visited a pub in Dorchester, splashed in mud and obviously a bit worn out. One of the regulars asked where I had come from and I told him I had come from Poole that day but I had started the walk in Lewes 8 or 9 days before. The regular looked at his friends, nodded, and said something along the lines of, “That is a bloody long walk! Lewes! They all talk like frogs there!” Now it was a long walk for me, probably 130 miles or so, but does the accent really change that much in such a short distance? In the South? I thought the regional accents were more of a Northern thing?
But supposedly there is a big difference between Dorchester and Lewes. Or the bar crowd was messing with my mind, which is a distinct possibility.
The clearest memory of those walks, though, is the day I walked past the Long Man without noticing it. I think I was on a path just to the north of the figure, but when I got to Alfriston I made the mistake of admitting that I had somehow missed the Long Man in all its glory, 235 foot of chalk and I did not notice it. The pub crowd loved it. I did get a free pint out of the embarrassing experience, at least.
Sorry for the threadjack…
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