Snack Attack!!!!

Lurkio

Hullo :wave:


DS2's school is having a thing at school next week where he needs to bring a snack

It being called 'International Snack Attack', I'm guessing that the snack should be representative of his nationality, so I need to make something typically British/English and I am assuming savoury (else I'd make Twink's hobnobs :drool:)

Having dismissed the first thing I thought of (sausage rolls), I am struggling to think of anything else , apart from mini cornish pasties.

Does anyone have any ideas for a great british snack that I could send him off to school with?

Gingernutmeg

Mini toad in the hole, made with cocktail sausages? A little pork pie? Or little kebabs with bits of sausage and pieces of English apple? Different bits of British cheeses, like Cheddar, Wensleydale etc, made into little kebabs with apple/grapes/celery etc?

missminnie_2

Scones, pork pies, mini pasties.

sammy_kaye18

what about scotch eggs??? you could make one and cut it into 4 so they have a slice each (well quarter......)

cheese on toast? lol

Lurkio

Gingernutmeg wrote: »

Different bits of British cheeses, like Cheddar, Wensleydale etc, made into little kebabs with apple/grapes/celery etc?

:T :T :T :T :T

What a fab idea!

sammy_kaye18 wrote:

what about scotch eggs???

good one!

Stephen_Leak

British snacks. We must have them, but it's not like the Spanish and their tapas, for example. If you do a Google search, you come up with Pepperami, pork scratchings, Pot Noodle and Twiglets (Don't mention Twiglets to Martin)!

Yes, I'd go with the good old British pork pie (I want one now!) and the Cornish pasty (NB. the crust has to be along the edge - the ones that look like a Klingon's forehead aren't Cornish).

Our regional cheeses are as good as any of the fancy foreign ones. Little cubes of English cheese and English apple. Little portions of cheese on toast = [strike]Cardiff virgin[/strike] Welsh rarebit.

As for Scotch eggs, why not do your own little ones, not filled with chopped up eggy bits, but little quail's eggs (Very (the old) Delia).
Meditate on this, I shall, mmm.

missminnie_2

I hate seeing pasties with the crust along the top. Fills me with rage being a Westcountryer.

road_angel

Mr Leak,haven,t laughed so much in ages,imagining a Klingon wandering about in cyberspace with a cornish pasty stuck to his fore head!:rotfl:

Stephen_Leak

missminnie wrote: »

I hate seeing pasties with the crust along the top. Fills me with rage being a Westcountryer.

They shouldn't even be called pasties - they are "turnovers".

For those who don't know, the thick crust was for the miners to hold them, without getting any more of the poisonous metal ores (including arsenic!) into their systems. Coming up to the surface to eat was not really an option, as the workface of the mine could be two miles from the shaft, and they didn't get paid for walking to and from it at the beginning and end of the day. The crust that they threw away into the darkness also appeased the "knockers", the capricious spirits that lived in the mines and who might otherwise endanger them.

Stephen_Leak

road_angel wrote: »

Mr Leak,haven,t laughed so much in ages,imagining a Klingon wandering about in cyberspace with a cornish pasty stuck to his fore head!:rotfl:

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam. Qapla!

I never really got on with Klingon cuisine. Not only isn't there a great tradition of cooking the ingredients, they don't even kill some of them.

missminnie_2

And they were filled half with savoury and half with something sweet.

I need a pasty now. Unfortunately Bristol is too far north (!) for decent ones.