From a Brit living in the US, you nailed it in both directions. Mexican and BBQ; Full English, Fish & Chips and Curry. And don't skimp on the beans or there'll be trouble.
@@LADYRAEUK I think they still use newspaper to wrap your fish and chips in, but it's not been printed on, because printing ink gives off slightly toxic fumes, so chip shops had to stop using old newspapers. So they use "virgin" newspaper, partly out of tradition, but also because it's a good insulator, keeps the food warm. 😋🐟🍟
I remember the days of Fish & Chips in newspaper and I am still convinced that it was the newspaper that made it taste so good. Geez, I can even remember my nan (grandmother) making chips at home for myself and my friends to take to the local playpark, wrapped in newspaper. Salt & vinegar is a must - because as I was told recently by the local chippy on the corner, the 'vinegar' they use is not the same as we use at home; oh no, it is something secret, apparently.
@@LADYRAEUK at 60 not only do I well remember eating fish and chips out of packages wrapped in newspaper (around plain white paper,of a kind NEVER used anywhere else!) I can ALSO remember them being cooked in beef dripping. That's what gave fish and chips the REAL flavoursome -ness that made them our National Dish in the first plaice(!)
@@LADYRAEUK i just had to say as i cant keep it in anymore,its beaten me im sorry but your husband is a VERY lucky man!!! The words perfect and beautiful are two words that are not strong enough to describe just how much i think you are the number ONE , EVER. except my opoliges as it is bery upfront but i had to say it
@@ChrisNation667 The term “shepherd’s pie” goes back only to about 1854; “cottage pie” is recorded in the 18th Century; in any case, they can’t go back before potatoes were imported. Pastry is ancient, and in mediaeval times it wasn’t even eaten: it was just a cheap & convenient way to serve/store/carry the filling (eating the pastry is a modern conceit, the result of refinements in pastry-cooking). Frankly, my point is that we don’t use the term “pie” only to refer to pastry dishes, for whatever historical reasons. As well as the obvious shepherd’s and cottage pie, there’s fish pie (topped with potato), Cumberland pie (topped with cheese and breadcrumbs), and the modern banofee pie. Give the Yanks a break.
@@ChrisNation667 with all due respect, you didn’t explain why they are called pies, you made a suggestion (which was a perfectly good one) as to why, but it could equally have been because tatties were easier, or simply abundant, or because they couldn’t think of a better name (which is presumably what happened with banofee pie, chocolate-mud pie, etc). BTW, on a different note, this is a genuine Sun crossword puzzle clue: “meat filling, surrounded by pastry crust, easy as (three letters).” ;-)
Amanda, being an ex (retired) fish and chip shop owner let me clear this up, yes we did wrap fish and chips in old newspapers and yes I do believe they did taste better but they were not wrapped in the newspaper only, there was still a layer of greaseproof and plain white catering grade quality paper, that kept them separate, the newspapers were a cheap way of keeping them hot in most/many cases as you rushed home to eat them, then along came the health and hygiene people who banned the use of newspapers saying the ink used was dangerous, I never heard of thousands of people becoming ill and dropping like flies before this time, and so an era came to an end, or so you might think, as the clever fish and chip shop suppliers of packaging products produced a lookalike newspaper wrap, printed on one side only and on catering quality paper that was legal, this was more of a gimmick to me than anything else and quite expensive to buy so I never used it, just like cardboard cartons for fish, polystyrene box's for chips, all of these things meant an increase in costs which was then passed onto the customer, I preferred not to do that so again did not use them, the only thing I did have was polythene carrier bags if the customer wanted one, bit I always explained to the customer that they made the fish and chips sweat inside them, which degraded the product (soggy mess) and the end taste, I was very proud of my reputation of serving quality fish and chips which bore out true as customers travelled from far and wide to my shop often passing other fish and chip shops. Oh and by the way there is only one medium to fry fish and chips in and that’s purified Beef Dripping (Quite expensive) but nothing else compares, that alone is the sign of a good Fish and Chip shop, it worked for Me.
WOW!!! I really wish I could have tried your Fish and Chips. I live in the USA, in Michigan (Grew up in Pennsylvania like Amanda) and the best fish and chips I've ever had was at an Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips. Unfortunately, it closed and haven't found the equivalent since. That was 4 decades ago. I would love to try the Fish and Chips in Great Britain. Barry, I wish more restaurant owners were as motivated to produce the best food as you were. Thank you for your insight!
The vinegar and the ink made a distinctive smell as you know people eat with their sense of smell as well that’s why it always taste better Also smells bring back memories
Mountain Pie, just a toastie in reality, we used to make these back in the 70's in our kitchen, no hiking, mountains or big camp fires just an electric sandwich maker.
As a youngster, long before I became a fish and chip shop owner myself, I had a boggie (Geordie term for a wheeled cart) made from an old pram which I used each week to go round houses to collect the old newspapers, then take them to my local chippy for a free bag of chips, sometimes if I had a real good round I got fish and chips, "memories"
As a young Brit visiting Pensylvania I recall a local asking if we still had "crumpet" in England? She really did not understand why two of us were then literally rolling on floor in hysterics.
The Mountain Pie is definitely a toastie - only ours were round rather than square, and heated on a stove-top gas ring. I can remember having toasties 60 years ago as a kid and I'm 71 now! Baked beans, eggs and canned cherry pie filling were favourites. Like a lot of things they went out of fashion - I wonder if I could find one now?
Yep, no beans on my breakfast, I'll throw it at them! And news paper wrapped fish and chips, mmmmmmmm! That was real! Still remember the smell of the vinegar soaked into the paper, wow great memories, cheers
I kinda agree on the chips in newspaper issue, but on learning that newsprint at the time was made of a mixture of old oil and soot make me wonder about my taste buds. One popular chippy around where I live started supplying chips in a polystyrene tray and I remember drinking the left over "vinegar" out of the bottom of the tray... Ah the taste of cheap non brewed condiment with salt!
Yes, way back when, before my time, fish & chips were served in actual printed newspapers, when I was growing up, it was always served in "newsprint" (not printed, the print makes your hands filthy). When I come home now though it's served in boxes, but I always request paper, something about the smell when you open the package and the salt and vinegar permeates your nostrils and you salivate. Ok, I'm salivating.
In the olden days the chip shops would put a greaseproof sheet onto a newspaper open at the middle page. Down went fish, down went bag of chips, on went salt and vinegar to taste. Roll 2 sheets of newspaper round one way, then two more the other way and off you would go with your cocoon of gloriousness. Eat outside? Poke a hole in the cocoon large enough to get at the chips. Inside? The newspaper is a wonderful insulator so the meal was piping hot when you got home.
Another fun video. As an expat Brit now living on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey I do miss a few things! Of course there is very little Pork of any kind to be had. There is a little more than a few years back, but not a lot and it tends to be in specialised import shops (very expensive). There is one restaurant 16 miles away that does Fish and Chips (yes, they used to taste better when wrapped in newspaper) and do them quite well. The same applies for curry, except Turkish Curry powder is rubbish! On your side, in my day there were no hash browns in a traditional fry up, it was fried bread!
@@LADYRAEUK Yes, really good out here. People are friendly although money grabbing at every opportunity, but once you know what to expect it's not a problem. Things are cheap compared to the UK, so you can have a good or very good standard of living if, like many of us out here, you are on a fixed income. The biggest 'problem' as such is the bureaucracy which the Government at all levels seem to love!
I was knee high and vaguely remember fish n chips in news papers but it is true, I'm living in the South now in NC, BBQ is something different down here
You got to have beans with a full English breakfast, If you relay want a good English breakfast tou should go to a road side cafe ie where lorry drivers go.
Yes newspaper wrapping for fish and chips was the thing before food cartons etc. It's like the newspaper drew out any grease/oil etc and made them always taste awesome lol
Beans only started being added to a fry up in the late 60s Bubble & Squeak , and a fried slice were far more common. Even black pudding was more common up north then
As a real southerner from Essex I first had black pudding in Stirling in Scotland - it was unknown 'daan Sarf'. I do like it though now I know what it is. We also didn't eat tripe down here.
Bacon can be wet or dry cured. Most supermarkets sell dry cured bacon these days and, while it may be a bit more expensive, it doesn't have the water content of wet cured so you get more bacon after you've cooked it and no watery mess in the pan. Also cheap bacon in supermarkets has more water added than necessary so you are paying for water.
Amanda Girl, get yourself to your nearest Iceland store! They sell Greggs sausage rolls, pasties etc, for you to cook at home! No more disappointment!☺️♥️
@@LADYRAEUK Bless your hearts, you're welcome! Oh, you asked me on another video comment, where I'd been in the US? From Georgia, right up to Massachusetts. I have friends mainly on the East Coast. So just about every state from there. Stayed mostly in Virginia, Georgia and New York. But my British friend drives, so we go on big old road trips. I love it! Saw the Amish in PA! Actually waiting for a McDonald's, with their horses and carts outside. We were most amused at that!😆 And I was in N.Y during the early 2000's blackout and couldn't get a hotel until Connecticut. That's how full they were. Great memories!☺️♥️
I now live in Hampshire and miss a proper pasty shop. Grew up 10 miles from Okehampton and also miss Dartmoor. Used to visit Ivor Dewdeny to get a cheese and onion pasty (Don't like beef).
@@rachelpenny5165 Ah, Ivor Dewdney is an institution in Plymouth. I prefer Friary Mill myself though. I can show you how to make a proper pasty if it helps? The chant 'oggy oggy oggy, oi oi oi' comes from pasty sellers at the Devonport dockyard gates here in Plymouth. An 'oggy' being a pasty, the sellers would turn up at the dockyard at lunchtime and yell out 'oggy oggy oggy', and any hungry workers who wanted a pasty lunch would yell back 'oi oi oi'. Of course the navy got hold of the chant and passed it around the world.
@@LADYRAEUK .......Have you tried a 'Proper' Cornish Pasty:; Delicious. Fish & Chips, i'm with You on Mushy Peas, also Newspaper definitely tastes better!. The Whole South West could be a subject for future VIdeos, it has a fabulous Scenery! :-)
Hiya. As kids we used to keep/collect the newspapers and take them to the Chippy on a Friday. We'd get 6 old pennies a bundle. Friday was Fish (& Chips) Day. You're too young to remember when the eating of meat on Fridays was disallowed by the Catholic Church. Only for Catholics, obviously. Fish retail took a massive hit when that rule was rescinded. Btw, do you have a nice, big pickled onion or a 'Wally' (pickled gherkin) with your fish 'n' chips? Stay safe. All the best to you.
Fish and Chips with mushy peas and scraps.....scraps are the little extra bits of batter that fall off the fish and you could get a serving of them all wrapped in yesterdays newspaper
But who needs meat balls at a BBQ?! Like there's not enough meat there already; "let's just ball some of that up so I can have some meat on the side of my meat plate!" smh 😂
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and all of the special bits, like roast potatoes, and cauliflower cheese. But you can take your choice on the extras, because some people love sweet peas, cabbage, baby carrots, and ALWAYS lashings of gravy. As a US expat, I would miss this more than anything if I moved back home.
Well, Greggs supplies saturated grease, the cheapest puff pastry available, and 'meat' which is the dregs of whatever is left of an animal. What's not to love?
I saw this on TV recently: Greggs prepare their sausage rolls in lots of small batches; this often means they have temporarily run out, but they do it that way so that the rolls are still warm. Why don't they just use a warmer in the shop? Apparently this is so they can avoid the tax on hot food, which is part of the reason they are such good value!
Also we have two award winning Fish and Chip shops here on Anglesey, they are classed as the best in the UK as of this year. One is the Golden Fry in Benlech (don't worry, I still have trouble pronouncing Welsh names) and the other is Chippy Chip in Holyhead.
@@LADYRAEUK Ok, this is a hard one! You would call someone a Philistine as an amusing, sarcastic or slightly derogatory term if they do not do something that you would think of as normal, or cultural. Barbarian might be another word for it, though we don't use barbarian in that sense at all as far as I know. Also, you gotta have curry sauce with your pie and chips ;-)
Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper is definitely a real thing they are wrapped in white paper which is the "inner layer"of paper the the "outer layer is newspaper and if seals in the salt and vinegar flavour amazing
I’m 56 and lived in the UK my whole life. Now this may come as a surprise but I only had my first visit to a Greggs in the past few weeks. Mostly snobbery on my part. I can confirm the Sausage Roll was the nicest sausage roll I’ve ever had. It was so nice I went back for a second one.
There is a Greggs at my local football stadium. Must be making a fortune on match day although they are open all week and all the local office staff queque to buy their lunch there.
If you are based in London, there are a couple of places not to be missed, both in East London, not far from the City. The first is Lahore Kebab House for an excellent curry and the second is the Brick Lane Beigel shop for out of this world salt beef Beigel and (so I'm told as I do not eat seafood) salmon and cream cheese Beigel.
Wow most American's i watch in videos like this don't like our baked beans, so would probably happily substitute them flor some crappy tomatoes :) and i guess it depends on your definition of real pork in a sausage roll, as it's probably only 50% maximum of actual pork meat in there :D
@@jimattrill8933 yes way back in the day until around 1928. They're now made here, in Wigan we have one of the biggest baked beans factories in the world
yes totally agree, u have to have beans on a fry up, plus u get to have a BUBBLE bath about 2 hours later, its the gift that keeps on giving, cheers amanda
Don't know whether they have it in the US but definitely recommend HP sauce. I eat with virtually everything ,even add it to gravy for extra flavour. Fantastic on cheese sandwiches, oat cakes with cheese, cheese toasties, virtually anything with cheese, sausage rolls, quarter pounders, bacon sandwiches or full English. Must be keeping the factory in business! Also love chip shop curry on mushy peas from your local chip shop and hot chilli sauce on my meat feast pizza's. Black pepper sauce on steak. Healthy diet I doubt.
You do have a loverly voice. I listen to the radio a lot and can imagine you on a programme. I grew up in the 70s and the food options were very limited so I appreciate the world of food we all seem to have. Great choices. I think I would genuinely miss marmite even though I rarely eat it. Thank you for your pleasant videos, your husband and kids are lucky humans.
Marmite is also made here in SA but with the banning of alcohol sales (now over) the supply of yeast dried up. We now have 'Marmageddon' until supplies increase!
Get your old man to take you & family to a traditional pie & mash shop. There is a number of them in the East End, one is in Hoxton market where I grew up! Double pie & mash is adult-sized, don't forget the parsley liquor (herbs not alcohol). Season with malt vinegar & pepper You can also try stewed eels, a hot version of jellied eels! Enjoy, I promise you will go back regularly!
Full english breakfast must have as many different items as they can possibly include. Kidneys?black puddings? Tomato? Beans? Mushroom? Fried bread? Scrambled egg?hash browns? Fried egg? Bacon? Sausage? Yes please.
@@LADYRAEUK Nothing like walking home from the pub with a pack a fish and chips (or a sausage in batter) on a frosty night dipping in through a hole ripped in the top of the newpaper... I'll swear the ink add an extra dimension to the taste
The newspapers would be from unsold leftovers from shops and news distributors, what these days would be called recycling or even 'up-cycling'. Chips were covered in half a ton of salt then loads of sharp vinegar on top to spread the salt through the pile, which meant that you were holding hot soggy paper with the vinegar dissolving the ink on to the chips. But like everyone old enough I swear they tasted nicer that way.
@@LADYRAEUK haha, try it, there will be no turning back. Just like when first tried peanut butter and jam (jelly in the states) on toast, now I can't have one without the other.
A great tip for crumpets is to freeze them until needed, then put them in the toaster for twice as long as usual. Crispy on the outside and moist and fluffy on the inside.
The reason fish and chips taste better served the old way in daily newspapers was for a couple of reasons.. Newspaper seems to absorb the flavour better the flavour of the vinegar especially as its more absorbant than the modern white paper used.. And the other reason and the reason it's not used today is because the printing ink also soaks into the food when soaked in vinegar.. And adds to the taste
Glad to see pikelets have got as far as Birmingham and Sheffield! We have pikelets in Wales, and it's originally a Welsh word: "bara pyglid". This became "barrapyclid" and "barra-picklet" in 17th-18th Century English, was later shortened to "picklet" and eventually the word "pikelet" was born :) It's a small world!
When lockdown is properly finished, you might like to try Bodean's in London. There are only about 5 of their restaurants, but they're probably the closest that you will find to a US style BBQ restaurant.
@@LADYRAEUK Ketchup on chips is acceptable but on fried eggs, sausages, bacon and mushrooms it's got to be the brown sauce. My goodness, if King Henry V111 was still alive you'd lose your head. Lol.
Yes, Fish and chips used to be served in Newspapers. These days though they wrap it in that white clean paper. Many a day you sit on the seafront with fish and chips in the newspaper with a pot of curry sauce to dip your chips.
A true Brit here and a Londoner to boot. Nowhere on planet Earth other than London can you get Pie & Mash with green liquor (parsley, not alcoholic) If you're brave, and I very much doubt it, jellied eels. Aa for beer 99.9% of yanks drink that awful crap lager, I wouldn't wash my car with that crap, get a true British Bitter, Pale Ale or stout.Try Bishops Finger. Below a link to LONDON PIE & MASH, bloody lovely. Been having it since 1966 and now make it myself as I am now in Yorkshire and they don't have a Bakerloo. ua-cam.com/video/kFFP-1UAIXk/v-deo.html
Jellied eels? I’m not sure about that lol As for beer I’ve never tried bishops finger, if we’re ever aloud to go and socialise again I’ll give it a try lol
@@LADYRAEUK You must try this........ ua-cam.com/video/RMkNNEOS96s/v-deo.html or this ........ ua-cam.com/video/8isaLJx0htU/v-deo.html Any beer from Wychwood is lovely.
Chippies in the UK used to sell their fish and chips in leftover newspapers that remained unsold from the previous day. This practice was put a stop to by the EU when we belonged to that, so we might be able to start doing it again some day and you could decide for yourself if it makes your meal taste better.
I know this silly but when you mentioned the crumpets or crumpys it brought a tear to my eye,and your hubby is massively correct chish n fips takes a whole lot better in newspaper,side note in Scotland u don't ask for fish n chips u ask for a fish supper
AMANDA RAE pikelets and crumpets are similar but different ( crumpets have yeast, pikelets don’t) although some people will use the words interchangeably. Growing up in the Black Country they were all pikelets to us and we didn’t normally use the word crumpet ( which I only knew for it’s slang use for an attractive woman). Roughly speaking it was crumpets in the South of England and pikelets in the Midlands, Wales and the North.
Coming from the same town as your hubby and having lived in the States previously most of your videos I can really relate to but this one hit the nail on the head! Curry or gravy with fish & chips? Neither, just mushy peas, scraps and salt & vinegar and yes wrap them in newspaper like the good old days...If you've ever been to Grimsby/Cleethorpes I hope he took you to Steel's for a jumbo Haddock?
Problem with Greggs is they won’t reheat sausage rolls, so why don’t they have a hot plate to keep them warm ? In my opinion sausage rolls should ALWAYS be eaten warm/ hot, as the taste is much enhanced through warming .
Chances are if your memory goes back to fish and chips in printed newspaper, then the food was cooked in fat not oil - that made a big difference to the flavour! Newsprint had to be replaced when the change was made from letterpress to litho printing , generally in the late 1970s, and the 'new' ink was considered unsuitable for food wrapping.
total falacy , where you get them is irrelavent although i'm from lancashire the north yorkshire seaside areas have the best beyond any doubt as many fry in dripping , known as yorkshire fish and chips , you have to search out chippys in lancashire that fry in dripping as nearly all fry in oil which cannot give the traditional taste ,, we have a dripping fryer relatively close by but none in my local town so you have to travel to find them in lancashire one of the 3 close to me is over the border in hebden bridge ( yorkshire ) nearly 30 miles away
Have you tried a Doner kebab with chilli and garlic sauce? If you have then try just the Doner kebab meat with curry sauce on top. Im sure your husband will love it too
Beans are relatively new to a full english, you can mix and match your breakfast according to your taste. Mine is two eggs two rashers two sausages tomatoes and mushrooms plus two slices.
@Amanda Rae - Fish and Chips used to be wrapped in newspaper - until they changed the law in the late 1980's/early 1990's due to "Health and Safety" issues because some of the print ended up on the food, especially chips 🍟 The best chip shops fry their food in Sunflower Oil. Next best chip shops, fry with Vegetable Oil.
Back in the 70s I served with the British army in Germany. We heard stand up routines by Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby. Cosby did one routine in ahich he craved Hershey bars, now we didn't know what that was ( it was before they were on sale widely). We got an opportunity when we had to do duties and stayed in a USARMY base. We went to the PX and bought Hershey bars once we had converted Deutschmarks to US dollars, They are a chocolate bar and tasted really cat. We were used to Cadburys and these were nowhere near. We were told by a Vietnam vet that USARMY (on their uniform patches) stood foe Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet, they were conscripts and drafted to serve in the war. This was around the time of the end of that war.
If you read the history of Hersheys you will find that they started by using rotten milk to make their chocolate. That is where the taste (?) comes from. Non-Americans find it disgusting.
Yes they used to serve Fish and Chips in Newspapers but now it is more just blank paper. Probably because not as many people buy newspapers now due to the news online. Fish and Chips is what I would miss as well if I moved abroad.
My friends from the USA thought it incredibly strange that we had beans for breakfast. I guessing it isn’t the same all over the states then? Hoping you and your family not moving back. Loved your vlog again as always. Stay safe .
Love a curry. Where’s the best? Not sure, maybe in the north - Birmingham known for baltis, Manchester has its curry mile, Leeds has naan breads the size of dustbin lids.
If you like sausage rolls you should also try a Cornish Pasty if you havn't already. The best are made locally here in Cornwall but you can buy them anywhere in UK now, including London. To qualify for the name Cornish though they have to be made in Cornwall.
Best Mexican food in USA are in California and Texas - no doubt about that. London has a few good Mexican restaurants but no way near the standard of what you get in LA, San Diego, and parts of Texas. Fish and Chips in newspaper was the best way but they scrapped that now. In terms of curries, I know all about this being UK born and bred of Pakistani heritage - we eat curries almost daily at home. So my recommendations for good curries are: Balti Triangle in Birmingham especially on Ladypool Road, there are some good ones there (restaurants like Shababs, Adils, Al-Frash, Imran's, Lahore Village and a few others). Coventry Road in Small Heath and Alum Rock Road (both in Birmingham) have decent curries but opt for Balti Triangle instead. While in Birmingham, there are good restaurants like Asha's in the centre, Akbar's on Hagley Road and Tipoo Sultans Curry Mile in Manchester was good and I normally go to MyLahore and Sanam's but while in Manchester I do sometimes go to Nawab's. Bradford is known as the curry capital of the UK and you will find plenty of awesome curry houses - it is close to Leeds. Leicester Golden Mile serves up Indian vegetarian (Gujarati mainly) and South Indian food. London has quite a few curry miles: Brick Lane is the most well known but I don't rate it that much. Southall Broadway has plenty of Indian and Pakistani places and some open street stalls. Ealing Road in Wembley serves Indian Gujarati food and some open street stalls, Ilford Lane in Ilford serves Pakistani food, a few in East Ham on High Street (North and South). But there are many towns and cities that serves good Indian/Pakistani curries. Hope that helps Amanda
I’m going to screenshot this comment for future reference! Thanks so much for taking the time to share that with me😊 Have you been to the states often?
@@LADYRAEUK Hey Amanda. I have been to the States a few times. I have a uncle out there in Cali living around Santa Monica - that's why I know about authentic Mexican food out there around LA. Yes you can definitely screenshot my comment for sure. I know my Indian/Pakistani food because I have it almost on a daily basis...and I cook it too
@@LADYRAEUK Hope you do. Cali is good especially San Francisco and even parts of Orange County is good too as well as Palm Springs. LA is OK especially where the beaches are
Fish n Chips Wrapped up in a Newspaper , with a Carton of Mushy Peas on the side you cant beat that , it is better than a Chinese any day of the week Amanda
I've been living in Canada now for over 13 years. The main thing I miss is a Cornish Pastie. Especially the ones you can buy at the train stations!! You say you live in Essex? I am originally from Essex, Braintree area. 😁
Yes, Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas. Curry sauce is good with the chips, so if you had sausage (with or without batter - I prefer without!) and chips, curry sauce is pretty good. Fish shop gravy is.... not good. It isn't terrible, but if you've made your own gravy for a Sunday lunch, it doesn't hold a candle to it. Then again, if somebody mangled my order and I ended up with gravy, I don't think I'd complain.....much!
The only problem with a full English breakfast is that three or four days later, you are hungry again.
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naw next day you would go for another...and i am thin as a rake
@@nathancarr3916 clearly you have no idea what sarcasm is.
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😂😂. Yeah with black pudding and fried bread 😂
From a Brit living in the US, you nailed it in both directions. Mexican and BBQ; Full English, Fish & Chips and Curry. And don't skimp on the beans or there'll be trouble.
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Fish n Chips wrapped in yesterdays newspaper, those were the days.
You agree with my husband then, do you think they tasted better?
YES
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I think they still use newspaper to wrap your fish and chips in, but it's not been printed on, because printing ink gives off slightly toxic fumes, so chip shops had to stop using old newspapers. So they use "virgin" newspaper, partly out of tradition, but also because it's a good insulator, keeps the food warm. 😋🐟🍟
So the only thing I really missed out on is the toxic fumes! 🤣🤣
I loveeee fish and chips
@@LADYRAEUK Yeah the ink and some of the paper gets mixed up with the chips big gives a unique taste. It's very nostalgic 🙃
I remember the days of Fish & Chips in newspaper and I am still convinced that it was the newspaper that made it taste so good. Geez, I can even remember my nan (grandmother) making chips at home for myself and my friends to take to the local playpark, wrapped in newspaper. Salt & vinegar is a must - because as I was told recently by the local chippy on the corner, the 'vinegar' they use is not the same as we use at home; oh no, it is something secret, apparently.
I think I'm getting addicted to these videos. It's so nice to hear an American that isn't loud and crass haha, a backhanded compliment for you there.
Lol a bit 🤣
@@LADYRAEUK at 60 not only do I well remember eating fish and chips out of packages wrapped in newspaper (around plain white paper,of a kind NEVER used anywhere else!) I can ALSO remember them being cooked in beef dripping. That's what gave fish and chips the REAL flavoursome -ness that made them our National Dish in the first plaice(!)
@@LADYRAEUK i just had to say as i cant keep it in anymore,its beaten me im sorry but your husband is a VERY lucky man!!! The words perfect and beautiful are two words that are not strong enough to describe just how much i think you are the number ONE , EVER. except my opoliges as it is bery upfront but i had to say it
@@mdvs6714 plaice 😋👍 nice pun
@@mdvs6714 some parts of the UK still use dripping
Mountain pie? There's no pastry. That is a toasted sandwich (toastie).
There’s no pastry in cottage pie or shepherds pie either…
@@ElSasser2007 Correct.
@@10thdoctor15 should not be called a pie if it’s not pastry... US also call pizzas a pie also... nooo just no
@@ChrisNation667 The term “shepherd’s pie” goes back only to about 1854; “cottage pie” is recorded in the 18th Century; in any case, they can’t go back before potatoes were imported. Pastry is ancient, and in mediaeval times it wasn’t even eaten: it was just a cheap & convenient way to serve/store/carry the filling (eating the pastry is a modern conceit, the result of refinements in pastry-cooking).
Frankly, my point is that we don’t use the term “pie” only to refer to pastry dishes, for whatever historical reasons. As well as the obvious shepherd’s and cottage pie, there’s fish pie (topped with potato), Cumberland pie (topped with cheese and breadcrumbs), and the modern banofee pie.
Give the Yanks a break.
@@ChrisNation667 with all due respect, you didn’t explain why they are called pies, you made a suggestion (which was a perfectly good one) as to why, but it could equally have been because tatties were easier, or simply abundant, or because they couldn’t think of a better name (which is presumably what happened with banofee pie, chocolate-mud pie, etc).
BTW, on a different note, this is a genuine Sun crossword puzzle clue: “meat filling, surrounded by pastry crust, easy as (three letters).”
;-)
Amanda, being an ex (retired) fish and chip shop owner let me clear this up, yes we did wrap fish and chips in old newspapers and yes I do believe they did taste better but they were not wrapped in the newspaper only, there was still a layer of greaseproof and plain white catering grade quality paper, that kept them separate, the newspapers were a cheap way of keeping them hot in most/many cases as you rushed home to eat them, then along came the health and hygiene people who banned the use of newspapers saying the ink used was dangerous, I never heard of thousands of people becoming ill and dropping like flies before this time, and so an era came to an end, or so you might think, as the clever fish and chip shop suppliers of packaging products produced a lookalike newspaper wrap, printed on one side only and on catering quality paper that was legal, this was more of a gimmick to me than anything else and quite expensive to buy so I never used it, just like cardboard cartons for fish, polystyrene box's for chips, all of these things meant an increase in costs which was then passed onto the customer, I preferred not to do that so again did not use them, the only thing I did have was polythene carrier bags if the customer wanted one, bit I always explained to the customer that they made the fish and chips sweat inside them, which degraded the product (soggy mess) and the end taste, I was very proud of my reputation of serving quality fish and chips which bore out true as customers travelled from far and wide to my shop often passing other fish and chip shops.
Oh and by the way there is only one medium to fry fish and chips in and that’s purified Beef Dripping (Quite expensive) but nothing else compares, that alone is the sign of a good Fish and Chip shop, it worked for Me.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share that with me 😊 I hope you’re having a lovely weekend
Barry, have you ever considered coming out of retirement and setting up shop within walking distance to me in America ?
WOW!!! I really wish I could have tried your Fish and Chips. I live in the USA, in Michigan (Grew up in Pennsylvania like Amanda) and the best fish and chips I've ever had was at an Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips. Unfortunately, it closed and haven't found the equivalent since. That was 4 decades ago. I would love to try the Fish and Chips in Great Britain. Barry, I wish more restaurant owners were as motivated to produce the best food as you were. Thank you for your insight!
I miss , 1) fish & chips, 2) pork pies, 3) Cornish pasties, and a kabab shop when I lived in Luton
The vinegar and the ink made a distinctive smell as you know people eat with their sense of smell as well that’s why it always taste better
Also smells bring back memories
Amanda is one of our own now we’re calming her as British , another great video mate
fish and chips in a news paper was great when i was young. we took the old papers to the chippy and he gave us the batter left overs for the papers
Mountain Pie, just a toastie in reality, we used to make these back in the 70's in our kitchen, no hiking, mountains or big camp fires just an electric sandwich maker.
You can buy a toastie machine for less than 20 pounds . Cheese and ham toasties or even with a spoon full of beans 😋
I bought a Breville a few weeks ago lol
As a youngster, long before I became a fish and chip shop owner myself, I had a boggie (Geordie term for a wheeled cart) made from an old pram which I used each week to go round houses to collect the old newspapers, then take them to my local chippy for a free bag of chips, sometimes if I had a real good round I got fish and chips, "memories"
That's Bogie or Bogy mate :) Boggie is pronounced bog-ee.
Bonus points to your husband. My first thought when you described the mountain pie was "so... a toastie".
As a young Brit visiting Pensylvania I recall a local asking if we still had "crumpet" in England? She really did not understand why two of us were then literally rolling on floor in hysterics.
"Eeeeh I like a nice bit of crumpet!" 😂😂
@@chindleymuffin Beat me to it lol!
That sounds like a Carry On moment waiting to happen. 😂
Mountain Pie IS a toastie. A pie is made with pastry not bread.
Exactly what I was thinking!
@@sim5361 shut ya gob
🤣😝
The Mountain Pie is definitely a toastie - only ours were round rather than square, and heated on a stove-top gas ring. I can remember having toasties 60 years ago as a kid and I'm 71 now! Baked beans, eggs and canned cherry pie filling were favourites. Like a lot of things they went out of fashion - I wonder if I could find one now?
Baked beans and eggs sounds so yummy!
Yep, no beans on my breakfast, I'll throw it at them! And news paper wrapped fish and chips, mmmmmmmm! That was real! Still remember the smell of the vinegar soaked into the paper, wow great memories, cheers
I kinda agree on the chips in newspaper issue, but on learning that newsprint at the time was made of a mixture of old oil and soot make me wonder about my taste buds. One popular chippy around where I live started supplying chips in a polystyrene tray and I remember drinking the left over "vinegar" out of the bottom of the tray... Ah the taste of cheap non brewed condiment with salt!
haha I can't say I've ever drank the vinegar 😂
Yes, way back when, before my time, fish & chips were served in actual printed newspapers, when I was growing up, it was always served in "newsprint" (not printed, the print makes your hands filthy). When I come home now though it's served in boxes, but I always request paper, something about the smell when you open the package and the salt and vinegar permeates your nostrils and you salivate. Ok, I'm salivating.
Haha there’s nothing like chippy chips !
Love the Intro montage ! Thanks for another great video . Some real 'food for thought' !
Lol 🤣😊
" not that margerine crap"
Absolutely hilarious and SO true.
margarine
In the olden days the chip shops would put a greaseproof sheet onto a newspaper open at the middle page. Down went fish, down went bag of chips, on went salt and vinegar to taste. Roll 2 sheets of newspaper round one way, then two more the other way and off you would go with your cocoon of gloriousness. Eat outside? Poke a hole in the cocoon large enough to get at the chips. Inside? The newspaper is a wonderful insulator so the meal was piping hot when you got home.
That sounds great!
Hi Amanda, if you haven't tried them yet, I suggest Cornish pasties - the traditional ones are the best
They’re delicious! 👍🏻
get them from philps in hayle
Another fun video. As an expat Brit now living on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey I do miss a few things! Of course there is very little Pork of any kind to be had. There is a little more than a few years back, but not a lot and it tends to be in specialised import shops (very expensive). There is one restaurant 16 miles away that does Fish and Chips (yes, they used to taste better when wrapped in newspaper) and do them quite well. The same applies for curry, except Turkish Curry powder is rubbish! On your side, in my day there were no hash browns in a traditional fry up, it was fried bread!
I think no matter where you go, you’ll always miss things about home. Do you enjoy living in Turkey?
@@LADYRAEUK Yes, really good out here. People are friendly although money grabbing at every opportunity, but once you know what to expect it's not a problem. Things are cheap compared to the UK, so you can have a good or very good standard of living if, like many of us out here, you are on a fixed income. The biggest 'problem' as such is the bureaucracy which the Government at all levels seem to love!
We used to keep our newspapers for a month then give them to the local chippy.
I was knee high and vaguely remember fish n chips in news papers but it is true, I'm living in the South now in NC, BBQ is something different down here
You got to have beans with a full English breakfast, If you relay want a good English breakfast tou should go to a road side cafe ie where lorry drivers go.
My relatives used to run one on the A13. It had the spoon on a chain just like in the Giles cartoons which did those cafes so well.
Yes newspaper wrapping for fish and chips was the thing before food cartons etc. It's like the newspaper drew out any grease/oil etc and made them always taste awesome lol
Amanda you are definitely picking up an English accent!
So I’m told! I never hear it haha
I noticed that to
Yep you’ve started dropping the ‘t’ at the end of ‘get’... proper English!
@@LADYRAEUK I love your toned down American accent.
I can hear it
You are sooo right about beans. I was offered sweet corn last week in Bristol at 9.30 am. Hello!!!
What?!?! Lol
"let's prepare only a handful of our best selling product" 🤣 so true! 🤣
lol right?!😂
Beans only started being added to a fry up in the late 60s
Bubble & Squeak , and a fried slice were far more common.
Even black pudding was more common up north then
I do love bubble and squeak 👍🏻
As a real southerner from Essex I first had black pudding in Stirling in Scotland - it was unknown 'daan Sarf'. I do like it though now I know what it is. We also didn't eat tripe down here.
I just enjoy watching and listening to Amanda...
Thank you! 😊
Agreed, it’s great that Amanda has embraced Britishness, well done Amanda.
Bacon can be wet or dry cured. Most supermarkets sell dry cured bacon these days and, while it may be a bit more expensive, it doesn't have the water content of wet cured so you get more bacon after you've cooked it and no watery mess in the pan. Also cheap bacon in supermarkets has more water added than necessary so you are paying for water.
Amanda Girl, get yourself to your nearest Iceland store! They sell Greggs sausage rolls, pasties etc, for you to cook at home! No more disappointment!☺️♥️
Thank you love!! 😊👍🏻 my girls will be over the moon!
@@LADYRAEUK Bless your hearts, you're welcome! Oh, you asked me on another video comment, where I'd been in the US? From Georgia, right up to Massachusetts. I have friends mainly on the East Coast. So just about every state from there. Stayed mostly in Virginia, Georgia and New York. But my British friend drives, so we go on big old road trips. I love it! Saw the Amish in PA! Actually waiting for a McDonald's, with their horses and carts outside. We were most amused at that!😆 And I was in N.Y during the early 2000's blackout and couldn't get a hotel until Connecticut. That's how full they were. Great memories!☺️♥️
Steak slice!
What do you make of our Supermarkets vs US ones? Specifically the Bread, and cheese etc.
I think in a lot of ways they’re very similar but I’ll have to say the bread here is so much better
Omg how good was chips wrapped in newspaper 🤤
Greggs don't do very well here in Devon and Cornwall. We're already full of many different pasty shop bakeries.
That’s definitely not a bad thing! Lol
I now live in Hampshire and miss a proper pasty shop. Grew up 10 miles from Okehampton and also miss Dartmoor. Used to visit Ivor Dewdeny to get a cheese and onion pasty (Don't like beef).
@@rachelpenny5165 Ah, Ivor Dewdney is an institution in Plymouth. I prefer Friary Mill myself though. I can show you how to make a proper pasty if it helps?
The chant 'oggy oggy oggy, oi oi oi' comes from pasty sellers at the Devonport dockyard gates here in Plymouth. An 'oggy' being a pasty, the sellers would turn up at the dockyard at lunchtime and yell out 'oggy oggy oggy', and any hungry workers who wanted a pasty lunch would yell back 'oi oi oi'. Of course the navy got hold of the chant and passed it around the world.
@@LADYRAEUK .......Have you tried a 'Proper' Cornish Pasty:; Delicious. Fish & Chips, i'm with You on Mushy Peas, also Newspaper definitely tastes better!. The Whole South West could be a subject for future VIdeos, it has a fabulous Scenery! :-)
@@TheMarrification......I'm with you there, Dewdneys are nice, but Friary Mills are Fab. Tiddy Oggie!
There used to be a saying in England that today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper.
Haha brilliant!
Hiya. As kids we used to keep/collect the newspapers and take them to the Chippy on a Friday. We'd get 6 old pennies a bundle. Friday was Fish (& Chips) Day. You're too young to remember when the eating of meat on Fridays was disallowed by the Catholic Church. Only for Catholics, obviously. Fish retail took a massive hit when that rule was rescinded. Btw, do you have a nice, big pickled onion or a 'Wally' (pickled gherkin) with your fish 'n' chips? Stay safe. All the best to you.
I love pickles! I’ve never had one with fish and chips though!
Curry sauce and mushy peas, and hell yes, fish and chips was better in a newspaper, not just taste, but the traditional experience.
I didn't like the taste of the newspaper especially the Daily Mirror
Fish and Chips with mushy peas and scraps.....scraps are the little extra bits of batter that fall off the fish and you could get a serving of them all wrapped in yesterdays newspaper
Yummy!
I would love to try an American bbq, what you described with the whole hog and everything sounds amazing 👌😁
It’s absolutely delicious! My family usually have one every time I go home 😊
Yeah it really does sound amazing I would love to visit America.
But who needs meat balls at a BBQ?! Like there's not enough meat there already; "let's just ball some of that up so I can have some meat on the side of my meat plate!" smh 😂
When the present restrictions are over, come up to Derbyshire, where many villages have a hog roast as part of their well-dressing celebrations.
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and all of the special bits, like roast potatoes, and cauliflower cheese. But you can take your choice on the extras, because some people love sweet peas, cabbage, baby carrots, and ALWAYS lashings of gravy.
As a US expat, I would miss this more than anything if I moved back home.
Greggs sausage rolls are sublime! The greatest takeaway food ever!
Their coffee isn't bad either
Well, Greggs supplies saturated grease, the cheapest puff pastry available, and 'meat' which is the dregs of whatever is left of an animal. What's not to love?
I saw this on TV recently: Greggs prepare their sausage rolls in lots of small batches; this often means they have temporarily run out, but they do it that way so that the rolls are still warm. Why don't they just use a warmer in the shop? Apparently this is so they can avoid the tax on hot food, which is part of the reason they are such good value!
Ah I had no idea! I genuinely always wondered why they wouldn’t just make more instead of running out haha
Thanks so much!
I had to eat at a SUDS Mexican fast food restaurant quite a few years ago in Miami. Blotting paper had more taste.
Also we have two award winning Fish and Chip shops here on Anglesey, they are classed as the best in the UK as of this year. One is the Golden Fry in Benlech (don't worry, I still have trouble pronouncing Welsh names) and the other is Chippy Chip in Holyhead.
I remember going to London in the 80's and asking for Fish n Chips and curry sauce (nope), well gravy then (nope), mushy Peas? Nope. Philistines ! 😁
What are philistines? Lol
As Peter Key said as thou got nowt moist ?
And a Can of Dandelion & Burdoch...
@@LADYRAEUK Ok, this is a hard one! You would call someone a Philistine as an amusing, sarcastic or slightly derogatory term if they do not do something that you would think of as normal, or cultural. Barbarian might be another word for it, though we don't use barbarian in that sense at all as far as I know.
Also, you gotta have curry sauce with your pie and chips ;-)
Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper is definitely a real thing they are wrapped in white paper which is the "inner layer"of paper the the "outer layer is newspaper and if seals in the salt and vinegar flavour amazing
Full breakfast with black pudding and a good helping of brown sauce
Red sauce! Haha
Nah, bacon sandwich with fried ripe banana and brown sauce!
My grandfather always liked black pudding for his breakfast but I always stuck with my cornflakes and the oat cakes he used to make for us.
I’m 56 and lived in the UK my whole life. Now this may come as a surprise but I only had my first visit to a Greggs in the past few weeks. Mostly snobbery on my part. I can confirm the Sausage Roll was the nicest sausage roll I’ve ever had. It was so nice I went back for a second one.
Oh my! They’re so good! Haha
There is a Greggs at my local football stadium. Must be making a fortune on match day although they are open all week and all the local office staff queque to buy their lunch there.
Brown or Red sauce? BOTH! Baked beans ALWAYS! You are turning into a real BRIT! GREGGS! AWESOME!🇬🇧
If you are based in London, there are a couple of places not to be missed, both in East London, not far from the City. The first is Lahore Kebab House for an excellent curry and the second is the Brick Lane Beigel shop for out of this world salt beef Beigel and (so I'm told as I do not eat seafood) salmon and cream cheese Beigel.
Ah brilliant, thanks 😊
For an American you do talk very nice, gugonya 👌
4:10 This is exactly what I was thinking when you described what they were as well.
yep fish and chips in newspaper was the done thing
I can get crumpets here in Michigan from Value Centre (sorry center), cost $4:50 a pack though
Wow! At least you can get them though! Do they taste the same? 😊
4.50 a pack? Wow, 35p for 8 here.
@@LADYRAEUK Pretty much yeah, I was so excited when I first saw them
@@Trident22 Send me some!!!!
I bet! They may be a bit pricey but it’s great you can get them 😊
Wow most American's i watch in videos like this don't like our baked beans, so would probably happily substitute them flor some crappy tomatoes :) and i guess it depends on your definition of real pork in a sausage roll, as it's probably only 50% maximum of actual pork meat in there :D
No way, that’s crazy talk! Lol
Is it really only 50% ?! 🤣
@@LADYRAEUK Just done a quick search, seems it's minimum of 42% so will depend on the brand i guess :)
By the way, the special beans used in UK baked beans are imported ..... from the US!
@@jimattrill8933 yes way back in the day until around 1928. They're now made here, in Wigan we have one of the biggest baked beans factories in the world
Try Waberthwaite bacon from Richard Woodall's in Cumbria.... I think they do postal deliveries.
My God that BBQ pig looked good!!
yes totally agree, u have to have beans on a fry up, plus u get to have a BUBBLE bath about 2 hours later, its the gift that keeps on giving, cheers amanda
Haha! 🤣 hope you’re well
Fish and chips definitely tasted better in old newspapers 💕💕
That’s what everyone tells me! 😊
No, you don’t know what you’re talking about hippy
@@krumble104 ...lol...millennial
Don't know whether they have it in the US but definitely recommend HP sauce. I eat with virtually everything ,even add it to gravy for extra flavour. Fantastic on cheese sandwiches, oat cakes with cheese, cheese toasties, virtually anything with cheese, sausage rolls, quarter pounders, bacon sandwiches or full English. Must be keeping the factory in business! Also love chip shop curry on mushy peas from your local chip shop and hot chilli sauce on my meat feast pizza's. Black pepper sauce on steak. Healthy diet I doubt.
Ive bought HP sauce, I just haven’t tried it yet 🙈🤣
@@LADYRAEUK Just try it you won't regret it. Macdonalds should put some in their restaurants,their sales would double!
You do have a loverly voice. I listen to the radio a lot and can imagine you on a programme. I grew up in the 70s and the food options were very limited so I appreciate the world of food we all seem to have. Great choices. I think I would genuinely miss marmite even though I rarely eat it. Thank you for your pleasant videos, your husband and kids are lucky humans.
Thank you very much 😊
I hope you’re well !
Marmite is also made here in SA but with the banning of alcohol sales (now over) the supply of yeast dried up. We now have 'Marmageddon' until supplies increase!
Get your old man to take you & family to a traditional pie & mash shop. There is a number of them in the East End, one is in Hoxton market where I grew up! Double pie & mash is adult-sized, don't forget the parsley liquor (herbs not alcohol). Season with malt vinegar & pepper You can also try stewed eels, a hot version of jellied eels! Enjoy, I promise you will go back regularly!
Full english breakfast must have as many different items as they can possibly include. Kidneys?black puddings? Tomato? Beans? Mushroom? Fried bread? Scrambled egg?hash browns? Fried egg? Bacon? Sausage? Yes please.
Oh god yes breakfast without black pudding and mushrooms is a crime
Yep, fish n chips used to be wrapped in newspaper. It had to be stopped due to the ink that would get onto the food.
Btw your husband wasn’t winding you up about the newspaper wrapping
sometimes the print showed up on the fish
Tasty! 🤣😛
@@LADYRAEUK Nothing like walking home from the pub with a pack a fish and chips (or a sausage in batter) on a frosty night dipping in through a hole ripped in the top of the newpaper... I'll swear the ink add an extra dimension to the taste
Haha! My husband says the exact same thing
The newspapers would be from unsold leftovers from shops and news distributors, what these days would be called recycling or even 'up-cycling'. Chips were covered in half a ton of salt then loads of sharp vinegar on top to spread the salt through the pile, which meant that you were holding hot soggy paper with the vinegar dissolving the ink on to the chips. But like everyone old enough I swear they tasted nicer that way.
Crumpets with lashings of butter and Marmite.
Mmmm, Marmite, you either love or hate it.
I love it. Have you ever tried it Amanda? It's lush!
Haha I’ve tried it on toast.. I wouldn’t dare ruin my crumpets with it! Haha 🤣
@@LADYRAEUK haha, try it, there will be no turning back.
Just like when first tried peanut butter and jam (jelly in the states) on toast, now I can't have one without the other.
It’s so good isn’t it?! There’s nothing like Jif peanut butter 😍
A great tip for crumpets is to freeze them until needed, then put them in the toaster for twice as long as usual.
Crispy on the outside and moist and fluffy on the inside.
They now do Marmite peanut butter which is very nice. Even the dog loves it.
Best place for a curry on Earth the curry triangle Birmingham 😜👍
I need to try it next time I'm there! 🙂Anywhere in particular you would recommend?
@@LADYRAEUK when this lockdown crap is over i will let you know 👍❤
Thank you! 😊
The Curry Mile in Manchester might give it a run for its money :)
The best place for a curry is my house.
The reason fish and chips taste better served the old way in daily newspapers was for a couple of reasons.. Newspaper seems to absorb the flavour better the flavour of the vinegar especially as its more absorbant than the modern white paper used.. And the other reason and the reason it's not used today is because the printing ink also soaks into the food when soaked in vinegar.. And adds to the taste
Any other Brummies out there that know “crumpets” as ‘pikelet’s’ ? 😳
Iam from sheffield always know them as pikelets
Yes
Glad to see pikelets have got as far as Birmingham and Sheffield! We have pikelets in Wales, and it's originally a Welsh word: "bara pyglid". This became "barrapyclid" and "barra-picklet" in 17th-18th Century English, was later shortened to "picklet" and eventually the word "pikelet" was born :)
It's a small world!
@@petew5289 Me too!
Crumpets are deep pikelets are thin, they're two different things...
When lockdown is properly finished, you might like to try Bodean's in London. There are only about 5 of their restaurants, but they're probably the closest that you will find to a US style BBQ restaurant.
Thank you! I will definitely try it out, fingers crossed it’s soon 🤞
It’s should be a criminal offence to put red sauce on a full English it’s sacrilege.
No way! I love it !
Brown sauce is a must.
@@LADYRAEUK You need locking up lol
Hahaha ! You crack me up!
@@LADYRAEUK Ketchup on chips is acceptable but on fried eggs, sausages, bacon and mushrooms it's got to be the brown sauce.
My goodness, if King Henry V111 was still alive you'd lose your head. Lol.
Yes, Fish and chips used to be served in Newspapers. These days though they wrap it in that white clean paper. Many a day you sit on the seafront with fish and chips in the newspaper with a pot of curry sauce to dip your chips.
My husband said it was the best!
A true Brit here and a Londoner to boot. Nowhere on planet Earth other than London can you get Pie & Mash with green liquor (parsley, not alcoholic) If you're brave, and I very much doubt it, jellied eels. Aa for beer 99.9% of yanks drink that awful crap lager, I wouldn't wash my car with that crap, get a true British Bitter, Pale Ale or stout.Try Bishops Finger. Below a link to LONDON PIE & MASH, bloody lovely. Been having it since 1966 and now make it myself as I am now in Yorkshire and they don't have a Bakerloo.
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Jellied eels? I’m not sure about that lol
As for beer I’ve never tried bishops finger, if we’re ever aloud to go and socialise again I’ll give it a try lol
Lol wouldn't wash my car in it, best tin bath I've had in a while.
@@LADYRAEUK You must try this........ ua-cam.com/video/RMkNNEOS96s/v-deo.html
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Any beer from Wychwood is lovely.
Blimey, that takes me back, My Dad used to take me to Manzies Pie and Mash Shop. All gone now i think. Those were the days.
Chippies in the UK used to sell their fish and chips in leftover newspapers that remained unsold from the previous day.
This practice was put a stop to by the EU when we belonged to that, so we might be able to start doing it again some day and you could decide for yourself if it makes your meal taste better.
Birmingham do the best currys highly reccomend ❤
I know this silly but when you mentioned the crumpets or crumpys it brought a tear to my eye,and your hubby is massively correct chish n fips takes a whole lot better in newspaper,side note in Scotland u don't ask for fish n chips u ask for a fish supper
I’ll have to remember that 👍🏻👍🏻
Crumpet is also an old fashioned word for good looking woman. For instance “ she a tasty bit of crumpet “
Never heard that one ! 👍🏻
Crumpets are called Pikelets in some parts of the UK.
Someone else mentioned the same thing, do you know why they’re called that?
@@jacketrussell aren't pikelets very thin crumpets?
AMANDA RAE pikelets and crumpets are similar but different ( crumpets have yeast, pikelets don’t) although some people will use the words interchangeably. Growing up in the Black Country they were all pikelets to us and we didn’t normally use the word crumpet ( which I only knew for it’s slang use for an attractive woman). Roughly speaking it was crumpets in the South of England and pikelets in the Midlands, Wales and the North.
Totally agree about the Gregg's thing. I know there are waste issues but there are also certain items they're very unlikely to run out of.
Or even, waist issues.
UK is a lovely country.
😊👍🏻
Coming from the same town as your hubby and having lived in the States previously most of your videos I can really relate to but this one hit the nail on the head! Curry or gravy with fish & chips? Neither, just mushy peas, scraps and salt & vinegar and yes wrap them in newspaper like the good old days...If you've ever been to Grimsby/Cleethorpes I hope he took you to Steel's for a jumbo Haddock?
I've actually never been! someday! haha
"I'll probably get slated for including Greggs..."
Erm. Why? Greggs=Ambrosia
Sayers is better.
Problem with Greggs is they won’t reheat sausage rolls, so why don’t they have a hot plate to keep them warm ? In my opinion sausage rolls should ALWAYS be eaten warm/ hot, as the taste is much enhanced through warming .
I agree 😊👍🏻
Chances are if your memory goes back to fish and chips in printed newspaper, then the food was cooked in fat not oil - that made a big difference to the flavour! Newsprint had to be replaced when the change was made from letterpress to litho printing , generally in the late 1970s, and the 'new' ink was considered unsuitable for food wrapping.
In Lancashire you'll get the best chips, peas and gravy. Also try some lobby and a pie barm 😋
total falacy , where you get them is irrelavent although i'm from lancashire the north yorkshire seaside areas have the best beyond any doubt as many fry in dripping , known as yorkshire fish and chips , you have to search out chippys in lancashire that fry in dripping as nearly all fry in oil which cannot give the traditional taste ,, we have a dripping fryer relatively close by but none in my local town so you have to travel to find them in lancashire one of the 3 close to me is over the border in hebden bridge ( yorkshire ) nearly 30 miles away
Have you tried a Doner kebab with chilli and garlic sauce? If you have then try just the Doner kebab meat with curry sauce on top. Im sure your husband will love it too
I’ll definitely give it a go ! 😊👍
Beans are relatively new to a full english, you can mix and match your breakfast according to your taste. Mine is two eggs two rashers two sausages tomatoes and mushrooms plus two slices.
I love a full English!
@Amanda Rae - Fish and Chips used to be wrapped in newspaper - until they changed the law in the late 1980's/early 1990's due to "Health and Safety" issues because some of the print ended up on the food, especially chips 🍟
The best chip shops fry their food in Sunflower Oil. Next best chip shops, fry with Vegetable Oil.
Now I’m hungry for fish and chips lol
Back in the 70s I served with the British army in Germany. We heard stand up routines by Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby. Cosby did one routine in ahich he craved Hershey bars, now we didn't know what that was ( it was before they were on sale widely). We got an opportunity when we had to do duties and stayed in a USARMY base. We went to the PX and bought Hershey bars once we had converted Deutschmarks to US dollars, They are a chocolate bar and tasted really cat. We were used to Cadburys and these were nowhere near. We were told by a Vietnam vet that USARMY (on their uniform patches) stood foe Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet, they were conscripts and drafted to serve in the war. This was around the time of the end of that war.
It seems the only people that like Hershey’s are American lol
@@LADYRAEUK I'm sure by now you have tasted Cadburys and experienced the difference?
Yes I have .. I love it 😊
If you read the history of Hersheys you will find that they started by using rotten milk to make their chocolate. That is where the taste (?) comes from. Non-Americans find it disgusting.
Yes they used to serve Fish and Chips in Newspapers but now it is more just blank paper. Probably because not as many people buy newspapers now due to the news online. Fish and Chips is what I would miss as well if I moved abroad.
My friends from the USA thought it incredibly strange that we had beans for breakfast. I guessing it isn’t the same all over the states then? Hoping you and your family not moving back. Loved your vlog again as always. Stay safe .
I’ve never had beans for breakfast until I moved here, my family think it’s so weird!! Lol
Thanks so much, I hope you’re well 😊
I dont think the beans are quite the same
The baked beans in the US have a much stronger flavour, they’re sooooo yummy but wouldn’t go with breakfast lol
Remember the ad 'Beanz meanz Fartz' !
Love a curry. Where’s the best? Not sure, maybe in the north - Birmingham known for baltis, Manchester has its curry mile, Leeds has naan breads the size of dustbin lids.
If you like sausage rolls you should also try a Cornish Pasty if you havn't already. The best are made locally here in Cornwall but you can buy them anywhere in UK now, including London. To qualify for the name Cornish though they have to be made in Cornwall.
They’re delicious! 👍🏻👍🏻
Best Mexican food in USA are in California and Texas - no doubt about that. London has a few good Mexican restaurants but no way near the standard of what you get in LA, San Diego, and parts of Texas. Fish and Chips in newspaper was the best way but they scrapped that now. In terms of curries, I know all about this being UK born and bred of Pakistani heritage - we eat curries almost daily at home. So my recommendations for good curries are:
Balti Triangle in Birmingham especially on Ladypool Road, there are some good ones there (restaurants like Shababs, Adils, Al-Frash, Imran's, Lahore Village and a few others).
Coventry Road in Small Heath and Alum Rock Road (both in Birmingham) have decent curries but opt for Balti Triangle instead. While in Birmingham, there are good restaurants like Asha's in the centre, Akbar's on Hagley Road and Tipoo Sultans
Curry Mile in Manchester was good and I normally go to MyLahore and Sanam's but while in Manchester I do sometimes go to Nawab's.
Bradford is known as the curry capital of the UK and you will find plenty of awesome curry houses - it is close to Leeds.
Leicester Golden Mile serves up Indian vegetarian (Gujarati mainly) and South Indian food.
London has quite a few curry miles: Brick Lane is the most well known but I don't rate it that much. Southall Broadway has plenty of Indian and Pakistani places and some open street stalls. Ealing Road in Wembley serves Indian Gujarati food and some open street stalls, Ilford Lane in Ilford serves Pakistani food, a few in East Ham on High Street (North and South). But there are many towns and cities that serves good Indian/Pakistani curries. Hope that helps Amanda
I’m going to screenshot this comment for future reference! Thanks so much for taking the time to share that with me😊
Have you been to the states often?
@@LADYRAEUK Hey Amanda. I have been to the States a few times. I have a uncle out there in Cali living around Santa Monica - that's why I know about authentic Mexican food out there around LA. Yes you can definitely screenshot my comment for sure. I know my Indian/Pakistani food because I have it almost on a daily basis...and I cook it too
Oh that’s brilliant! I’d love to visit Cali someday 😊
@@LADYRAEUK Hope you do. Cali is good especially San Francisco and even parts of Orange County is good too as well as Palm Springs. LA is OK especially where the beaches are
Fish n Chips Wrapped up in a Newspaper , with a Carton of Mushy Peas on the side you cant beat that , it is better than a Chinese any day of the week Amanda
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Wow I'm definitely buying a mountain pie cooking thingy!
You can get them on Amazon 😊👍🏻
I've been living in Canada now for over 13 years. The main thing I miss is a Cornish Pastie. Especially the ones you can buy at the train stations!! You say you live in Essex? I am originally from Essex, Braintree area. 😁
Small world! Haha
What took you to Canada, if you don’t mind me asking
@@LADYRAEUK My marriage broke up. I came here for a new start 🙂
Good on you! That’s a huge jump 😊 hope all is well!
My parents lived there for years. I also have relatives in Chelmsford. I lived at Gosfield for a while.
@@jimattrill8933 My ex-mother-in-law used to live on the mobile home park in Gosfield.
Yes, Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas. Curry sauce is good with the chips, so if you had sausage (with or without batter - I prefer without!) and chips, curry sauce is pretty good. Fish shop gravy is.... not good. It isn't terrible, but if you've made your own gravy for a Sunday lunch, it doesn't hold a candle to it. Then again, if somebody mangled my order and I ended up with gravy, I don't think I'd complain.....much!