by Stephen Morgan » Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:15 am
I know someone who grows, processes and smokes his own tobacco. And he knows someone who makes his own illicit diesel.
Now, sorbet, bok choy, chili, vego pasta and chicken kiev are just some of the things in this thread I've never encountered.
Having ate again since starting this thread my most recent meal is now fish and chips, £4.90, fried in lard, I think, judging by the taste, whereas a lot use beef tallow nowadays, or at least hydrogenated vegetable oil flavoured like beef tallow. Salt, malt vinegar, two pints of milk to wash it all down with. Full now. Haddock, incidentally, not cod. Or Plaice. Never had plaice.
Every chippy is unique, of course. Some do fish cakes with string in 'em, some do battered fish cakes, so do saveloy, some do pineapple fritters. My favourite does at least four types of fritter, potato, pineapple, spam and banana. The local, however, does lots of non-traditional stuff like kebabs and chicken and burgers, and their chips taste like beef tallow.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia