peggy wrote:
As you appear to have very little understanding (and taste) on the subject of food might I ask you refrain from posting in future on "The Food Thread"?
Suitably chastened .. sorry to have mentioned such foibles.
In my defence, I did live in London for most of the 1990's so would ask to be cut some slack as I possibly did go native to a degree.
Maybe if we called them Pain au Tarte et Frites avec jus, my sensibilities might be dulled into gullibility.
cod'ead wrote:
I agree about the pie barm but what do you have with pie, chips and mushy peas if not gravy?
I'd suggest possibly a dab of Sauce de HP, its soupçon of tangy tamarind can enliven even the flabbiest of Accrington's pale and uninteresting products that are so brazenly smuggled across the border here into Calderdale and sold as "Pie's" (*).
But only on the pie, not mixed-in.
And NO mint sauce on it, a sacrilege that I have dispiritedly witnessed at Headingley, from there it's a slippery slope to a babby's yed with pay wet (**).
Anyway, I interpreted the question in the quiz as being about chips and gravy, i.e. solo ... not pie, chips, mushy peas and gravy.
Mintball wrote:
Salt and malt vinegar.
And if you're me, mayo on the side for the chips (after all, it's only like egg 'n' chips).
Mayo, ubiquitous filthy foreign muck that it is, along with the world's most pointless vegetable (the courgette) will cease to exist when I am supreme ruler.
Don't even try to tell me it's only like egg, because it's not, it's actually like mucked-about-and-ruined egg.
(*) I was impressed by the honesty displayed by the chip shop that sells Holland's "Pie's", in putting the word Pies between quotation marks. My respect was, however, diminished by the apostrophe between the E and the S.
(**) No, me neither.
