Another pointless thread

Is Forfar in Fife ? .. I dinna think so .. ..( I thought Fife was south of the Tay and Forfar is North of Dundee or it was when I lived up there in the dim and distant 70s) ....jeff ... oh the rain the rain..... and the Forfar bridies yum yum...

Oh I just rememberd what Morarji Desai was famous for apart from being PM wee dram .... jeff... we had a teacher at school did the same ...

(It's close enough!)

I loved Arbroath Smokies is Abroath still producing them?

Who or what is a Moraji Desai? Just Googled it. Don't think I'll gargle it

If every Chinese has a lamb roast on Sunday the sheep will be extinct before they become expensive. Lamb mince makes superb Shephard's Pie

Peanut butter and Honey sandwiches mmmmmmm

Regards

It's time to go into mint sauce production.

At the risk of being argumentative(!), what else could you make shepherds pie with?

Cheap beef mince but then you would be infinging the Trades Description Act unless you renamed it Cottage Pie

Wonder what vegan shephards eat?

Regards

Well done, you're the first one to get it - I think.

G

Yes, you can get them in Whitby

Yes they still make Arbroath smokies in Arbroath. They also produce all sorts of smoked fish for M&S.

I was born in Arbroath so I am a "Red lichtie".

In fact, Arbroath Smokies are made only in Arbroath (or thereabouts). It's an EU-registered designation. For the pedantically minded, both Arbroath and Forfar are in Angus. An equally pedantic observer might wonder if an earlier post referred to Tom Waite the dog trainer or Tom Waits the gravelled-voiced singer. We may never know.

Al

So is Irish Stew is only made in Ireland

Regards

It depends on whether the Irish were quick enough to register it as a designation. If so, you could still sell the same recipe outside Ireland but you would need to call it "Irish-style stew". Obviously this makes no difference whatsoever to home cookery.

British regional delicacies have, on the whole, been rather slow to pounce on this bit of legislation. I know Cheddar didn't manage to get it. That said, the horrors which are passed off as British bread and cheese in French supermarkets always seem to be a cunning plot by their permanently grumpy farmers to discredit our produce!

You've seen British bread in a French supermarket? Good grief.

Whilst I would fight to the death to try and convince a Frenchman that Stilton beats all their 3,000 cheeses into a cocked hat, I wouldn't lift a solitary finger in defence of British bread. Ugh.

Mind you, Waitrose Continental-Style Wholemeal is great. The clue is in the name.

G

Small village in Portugal - we were just arriving at the campsite there with our trailer tent some many years ago and an elderly couple rushed up to tell us that the 'super'market at the other end of the village had real bread and tea - yup - British Sliced bread and Liptons tea.

Just at the entrance to the campsite was the village bakery - fresh bread and gorgeous rolls, every couple of hours throughout the day . Next door to that was the local food shop - everything we needed within 2 mins.