Branston Pickle, PG tips, what next?
 

One of our local mega marts has a small "ethnic" section that includes UK items. I scored some Branston Pickle and some PG Tips. Apart from Ploughman's Lunch what else can I do with the Branston pickle apart from eating it out of the jar with a spoon?

nothing. it's disgusting.

Cheese and pickle sandwich.

Serve with grilled cheese. Slice of toast, spoon of branston, top with sliced cheese. broil.

Bring out the Branston. that used to be the slogan.

It's disgusting? Now you tell me.
What else should I avoid from the UK?

Marmite.

monster!

;)

Jimmy Saville.

they have colored toilet roll in the UK. At least they used to. And patterned.

...or did i mean african-british toilet paper?

Both owned by unilver.

We used to have colored, um, er...paper of color, too...but everyone was saying there was some paper of color disease running around, and they quit making paper of color. I remember that in HS. We thought it was hilarious, but you don't find much paper of color around here anymore.

bring out the Hellmans doesn't exactly trip off the tongue in the same way does it? And what is the point of cholesterol-free mayonnaise? My grandad used to serve Imaginary mayonnaise alongside the Hellmans real mayonnaise.

yeah, there was a rumor you could get ass-cancer from it. But we poo-pooed that.

Bring out yer dead.

I don't know if I'm just that slow or I'm really missing those posts, but I saw my error immediately. :bonk:

hee hee

bah! you do seem to have some sort of delay going on

speaking of delay, i REALLY need to quit procrastinating.

:unsure:

Or we'll start calling you Tom...

WHAAAAA?
We kicked the Monstar out because she failed a Britshishnesses test by not liking Branston.

Branston Pickle is best eaten on Jacobs Cream Crackers, with what I think you call a sharp cheddar. I have no idea whether you have proper crackers (Southerner comments please desist) but I have no faith in Monstarry to translate as she is obviously anti-pickle and therefore suspect.

Branston is also served with cold meats, as part of a plated meal. Each meat does have its own condiment, but served cold it's more fluid (not literally) and the pickle is there to accompany the cheese anyway.

So you'll have a serving of sliced ham, beef, chicken etc and many people will put pickle on the side as opposed to mustard, horseradish et al.

Things to avoid?
Liquorice Allsorts
Loose Women (TV show, not generally)
Prawn Cocktail, Smokey Bacon and Cheese & Onion Crisps
Pork Pies
Scotch Eggs

And anything with fennel.
Not that this is a list of personal abhorrence or anything...

Devon Clotted Cream, footer... use it like a butter-ish spread if you want clogged arteries

Liquorice allsorts are yummy.

Since when did anything british ever have fennel in it? Scotch Eggs, couldn't agree more. Ditto pork pies.

Avoid hobnobs -especially ones with creamy gloop in them, but all other biscuits should be sampled.

I had to look up 'broil'. I always assumed it was in some way related to boiling...

How about broasting?

We have HobNobs that are like a sweet oatmeal shortbread-ish cookie. I like them. Never saw any other type of hobnob with goop.

it's grill to you!

grill here means BBQ

I can't stand broasting. Walkin' around, toutin' all your accomplishments. hmmph, pretty self-centered, don't you think? :angel:

not if you're practically perfect in every way....

God Monster, I can't believe you'd be such a bitch!



:p

Trust me - you can't even sniff a fish recipe these days without seeing fennel.
I kinda worked that out myself, but then what is a grilled cheese sandwich?
My best guess is that it's fried, as people in novels seem to get out a skillet to prepare it.

Spank me and call my Trevor if I'm wrong.

you're not wrong, lass, although I can tell you're dying to be spanked and called Trevor. They fry them.

That's 'loud-mouthed ranting dyke' to you! :kisspink:

I think we decided on cunt-felcher over the weekend, actually

it has a ring to it.....

:eek:

Hmmm, Pork Pies (even if I do know how they are made)
http://www.imadedinner.net/wp-conten...er-simpson.jpg

Haggis! with neeps and tatties!

I was occasionally a bit outre over the weekend.
But then I saw Dana & Limey's busters. Cut a girl a break, right?

Busters?

no idea....

Bustiers?

busters is kid slang for tits :)

can't believe you didnt have that one ... oh hang on, you were from the posh end of manc :p

Also, I really must tell you about my nun experience on the way back from Glasgae...

:D

I want to take over Greenland and keep just the best parts of American and British cuisines, along with a hearty helping of other ethnic foods.

Gimme biscuits, scones, Eton mess, kinder hippos, all the wonderful British confectionery, and Nandos. Nandos above all. *drool*

http://www.nandos.com/index1.html

This is a very funny website. I don't usually care for animated webpages, but this one is clever.

What's wrong with scotch eggs? What's more lovely than a hardboiled egg coated in sausage, breaded and deep fried? Sort of a proto-Egg McMuffin, without the muffin. And tasting better.

Bleurgh.
Egg McMuffin every time.

Cold sausagemeat?
I think there is a whole level of hell where that's all you get to eat.

Cold sausages are DIVINE and don't let anyone tell you any different. I'll have yours, SG!

Cold sausages and cold sausagemeat are different.
I'm even still ambivilant about cold sausages.
And it took me a long time to stomach cold hardboiled eggs.

I do think Scotch Eggs are a taste I'd be better off not acquiring though.
Like pork pies or deep fried Mars bars.

What is the difference between Branston pickle and Heinz relish?

I thought Cadbury Flake was pretty nice. Actually any chocolate made by Cadbury in England beats the American-branded version (which is really just upscale Hershey's).

How you hold your pinky.

Remember that SG is that odd girl who dislikes [long pause] bananas. Of all things, bananas.

Makes me glad I have a normal palate, really. Burritos al pastor, well sauced; Vegemite; most kinds of chutney; omelettes that include garlic and herbes de Provence w/'shrooms, pizza even unto vegetable with anchovies added, malt Scotch.

Hey! I eat all of the above mentioned. I am quite normal.
I just can't eat bananas because of my religion.

From the Ten Commandments of Jeremoth, in the Appendix to the Apocrypha:
"And the Lord said unto the children of Bedinibot, `Neither shalt thou eat the fruit of the tree that is known as the Banana Tree'

RichLevy - I've never had Heinz Relish so I can't tell you, except that to me, relish sounds smoother. Branston Pickle (oringinal) is a slightly runny sauce, with large chunks of pickled vegetables in it. You wouldn't be able to buy it in a bottle for example, it comes in a jar and is forked or spooned out.

What an eatdant.

Oh posh posh tally ho, I'd like some prickly pear wtih reduced putney sauce riddled with a modicum of ivy seeds (at just the right ripeness, can't have it overdone, no no tsk tsk) basted in a fine declarative sauce and pierced with the stem of a rare grape found only in the underground vineyards of Tuscany.

;)

You would love to read "Cooking with Fernet Branca"

You always have the best book suggestions! Thanks! :)

For someone who attempts to pass themselves off as an educated gastronome, you totally fucked up here. Burritos al pastor are definitely not British. We eat our vicars with clotted cream, and it's the French who eat donkeys. You're welcome.