Snack Attack!!!!

mini_mad_dad

hey what a task,could have a look here tho (kids would love this)

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/simple.php

my little girls nursery pick a colour for eack week and the kids bring in something to match the color of the week, i normally send in color related foods.

Stephen_Leak

missminnie wrote: »

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.

Even Bodmin Moor seems to be too far north. The worst pasty I've ever had (obviously mass produced and frozen, small, the wrong shape and with pastry that could have disabled a T-72 tank) was at Jamaica Inn. And what made it worse was that I'd been looking forward to it after a very long day on the road. Up at 5am, Exmouth by 9am, then Exeter, Plymouth, St. Austell, Truro and finally Penzance by 5pm. Then back home, with a stop for dinner. I disguised it as best I could with tomato ketchup and ate it, but it was little more than refuelling.

Cornishpixie_2

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

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.

I have Cornish friend who lives half the year in Portugal. Anyway one of local pubs starts advertising "PROPER" Cornish pasties. So she asks to speak to chief, told on day off ,come back next day. She returns looks him up and down and says what part of Cornwall are you from? He says I'm from "Newkia"
:rotfl: :rotfl:

Cornishpixie_2

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

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).

I have Cornish friend who lives half the year in Portugal. Anyway one of local pubs starts advertising "PROPER" Cornish pasties. So she asks to speak to chief, told on day off come back next day. She looks him up and down says so where in Cornwall do you live "Newkia" he says.:rotfl: :rotfl:

Lurkio

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

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.

The story I heard :rolleyes: was that the Klingon's head ones were the 'pukka' ones, as the sweet(er) pastry crust would be like a dessert after they'd eaten the meat & veg.

I bow to your obvious greater wisdom on the matter, however and thanks!


As we're on a sci-fi theme......


"I tried wookie meat once"

"How was it?"

"Chewy" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: