h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

in Sheffield it's common for people to eat fishcake and chips. Proper fishcakes: layer of potato, layer of fish, layer of potato, battered and fried*. Yum. But now I'm homesick.

*yes, I'm aware that the heathen-hordes in the suburbs-of-Yorkshire** call that a scallop, or pattie...

**aka The Rest Of The World

Ah, Sheffield. Even i know about this. I've heard the 'chip butty song'.

Ah. Now in Liverpool (and other parts, it seems) scallops are just battered potato rounds.

My local chippy used to serve cheese and onion cakes - mashed potato with chaddar and onion, battered. With chips.

Never understood the concept of pickled eggs or gherkins in a chip shop

Macaroni cheese was always eaten with mashed potato when I was at home

I don't get the problem with having potato served two different ways. It doesn't necessarily mean you eat twice as much of it, if that's what the objection is - just that it doesn't all have to be done the same way. What's wrong with that? Should all our food be bland and uniform?

'What's the blandest thing on the menu?'

I would never have spaghetti bolognese and chips. But if I have lasagne, I want chips (and salad) with it. It's too many carbs but I don't care, it just feels so right.

About once a year I have a chip butty. Also wrong but soooo right.

Mol

, Bonobo..."feedback, please."...the medical term is "regurgitate",
And the national superdish in my county is the Pickert - a potato pancake with raisins, if you can afford to, you eat it with liverwurst and and strawberra jam.

Health? Food? Scotland? Healthy food? Eh? http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r166/swl_album/mice.jpg

NSFW cos it has a rude word.

LMAO.

"if you lived here would *you* want to live forever?" [Edward the Bonobo]

That seems to have been my ancestors' philosophy, but they carried it out in a different way: they departed for North America at the earliest opportunity.

And braved horrible winters and argued with the Penobscot to do it, too.

I believe they were forced to live on beans and codfish...

Well, commoners who could read and write weren´t taste of the week back then. Hereditary profession in your case?

Some us *still* live on those. The casserole I just ate for supper ocntained fish and beans.

My ancestors seem to have always had their eyes on the nearest exit. When one colonial village began filling up with settlers, they were twenty-odd miles away setting up *new* villages. Over ten generations, they followed the sun from the Massachusetts coast to sunny California.

And in the meantime, stopped giving their kids names like 'Smite the Ungodly Jones' and 'Flee Fornication Smith'? <ruN.

When I hear about manifest destiny and the push to the west, I have to try hard to stop myself shouting "Stop running after it lads, it will rise in the east tomorrow"

Dmitry, the nonfornicating Smith clan is pretty extinct.

Ed that lasagne sounds absolutely fab! I'm a recent convert to green lentils, so new ways of cooking it are a delight.

Will report back!

Good point about the non-fornicating Smiths.

"Finish with a layer of sauce." [Edward the Bonobo]

In your recipe for lentil/mushroom lasagna you don't mention tomato sauce, so I'm going to use that between layers as well.

I made a sized vegetarian lasagne earlier today, it took three of us to eat half of it, and I didn't finish my portion!

No i did not serve it with chips, I just gave everyone a generous slab of lasagne.

mini