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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 36,063 Forumite
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    Has to be HP brown sauce for me.
  • missbiggles1
    missbiggles1 Posts: 17,481 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    Has to be HP brown sauce for me.

    I only possess brown sauce to put in the occasional bacon sarnie just as I only have tomato sauce to use in making barbecue sauces.

    However, I do have at least 4 different types of mustard and 5 different types of chutney which I use fairly regularly.
  • Pollycat
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    My Christmas day breakfast:
    tomato sausage, black pudding - has to be a slice of the 'big' pudding rather than the 'sausage ring' type IYKWIM - both grilled and put in a granary roll and topped with brown sauce.
  • missbiggles1
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    My Christmas day breakfast:
    tomato sausage, black pudding - has to be a slice of the 'big' pudding rather than the 'sausage ring' type IYKWIM - both grilled and put in a granary roll and topped with brown sauce.

    I usually have Bucks Fizz and smoked salmon sandwiches.:o
  • BarryBlue
    BarryBlue Posts: 4,179 Forumite
    I I don't 'get' vinegar on fish though.
    Vinegar is for chips. A squeeze of lemon is better on the fish.
    Pollycat wrote: »
    Do you still get the tablet to add to the dried peas?

    My OH who moved here from the South had never seen mushy peas.
    Or black pudding.
    Or tomato sausage.
    I think you do still get the tablet with dried peas. I actually often use frozen mushy peas for convenience, they are just pre-soaked before freezing but still have that authentic (non-tinned) taste when cooked. They take about half an hour, and have a mushier texture if you add some bicarbonate of soda to them.

    I love black pudding. Although it is regarded as a northern delicacy, it is from many places. Ulster and Orkney black pudding is rather good too. Also, I was in Spain in January and in a local restaurant had the Murcian platter, which was various regional sausages, including a local morcilla, their black pudding.

    We use a local butcher who makes all his own sausages, sometimes including a very good tomato sausage. Wife isn't keen though.
    :dance:We're gonna be alright, dancin' on a Saturday night:dance:
  • Pollycat
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    I usually have Bucks Fizz and smoked salmon sandwiches.:o

    But you're more posh than me. :D
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 36,893 Forumite
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    Tomato ketchup. On chips with salt and vinegar. Still eaten with the fingers.:)
    Only time I have sauce.

    (Mustard ranks with sprouts as the devil's food.)
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • missbiggles1
    missbiggles1 Posts: 17,481 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    But you're more posh than me. :D

    I very much doubt it - common as muck me!
  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    elsien wrote: »
    (Mustard ranks with sprouts as the devil's food.)

    Totally agree about mustard! But sprouts, I could eat a whole plate full of them!
  • Pollycat
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    I very much doubt it - common as muck me!

    Really? You think so?
    We may have to resort to handbags at dawn to resolve this. :D
    Are you up for it? ;)
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