Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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As Alan Partridge would say "...one of the new breed of Cockney chefs who like NICE food'
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[Food] Fake street food coming to you real soon!
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As Alan Partridge would say "...one of the new breed of Cockney chefs who like NICE food'
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
its sad that generally pub beer has become overpriced.
travelling 50 miles to an office job is not really the working class.
When I lived in Taiwan I played for an ex-pat football team and our manager was Glasweigan. His contract was coming to an end on the railways but he was married to a local girl and didn't want to leave. He therefore came up with a scheme to open a genuine Scottish chippy in the middle of Taipei.
He imported a fryer at great expense and included things like chippy sauce and deep fried mars bars on the menu.
Needless to say it was less than a resounding success and folded after about a year. In that time, however, in the chippy's back bar I watched our game against Palace at Withdean (the 3-2 loss) with a Palace fan who also played for our team and was present when my fellow centre back demolished an entire crate of Guinness on a six nations game day.
When I lived in Taiwan I played for an ex-pat football team and our manager was Glasweigan. His contract was coming to an end on the railways but he was married to a local girl and didn't want to leave. He therefore came up with a scheme to open a genuine Scottish chippy in the middle of Taipei.
He imported a fryer at great expense and included things like chippy sauce and deep fried mars bars on the menu.
Needless to say it was less than a resounding success and folded after about a year. In that time, however, in the chippy's back bar I watched our game against Palace at Withdean (the 3-2 loss) with a Palace fan who also played for our team and was present when my fellow centre back demolished an entire crate of Guinness on a six nations game day.
Taipei is one of my favourite work trips. Always seem to have the best intentions to not end up at Carnegie's, yet always seem to end up at Carnegie's after eating my body weight in dumplings and stinky tofu.
With apologies to everyone else on the thread for the slight derail, the team I played for was the Carnegie's Taipei pub team!! Many a night dancing on the bar at stupid o'clock. Our private parties in there were something else.....
lost in london
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Leather Lane and Whitecross Street markets are great places for food stalls - lots of small businesses having a go and by the look of it doing huge trade to office workers at lunchtimes. They have evolved from markets selling normal market stuff into mostly food stalls.
When I lived in Taiwan I played for an ex-pat football team and our manager was Glasweigan. His contract was coming to an end on the railways but he was married to a local girl and didn't want to leave. He therefore came up with a scheme to open a genuine Scottish chippy in the middle of Taipei.
He imported a fryer at great expense and included things like chippy sauce and deep fried mars bars on the menu.
Needless to say it was less than a resounding success and folded after about a year. In that time, however, in the chippy's back bar I watched our game against Palace at Withdean (the 3-2 loss) with a Palace fan who also played for our team and was present when my fellow centre back demolished an entire crate of Guinness on a six nations game day.
Back when lived in Hanoi a guy opened a chippie. Just googled and it seems it's still going but now has some competition. Judging by the photos on google, it's popular with locals and foreigners alike. It does look very good tbf.
Working class people eat baked beans on toast
I’m eating a plate now, total cost probably 80p, now that’s value ffs
I’m eating a plate now, total cost probably 80p, now that’s value ffs
Cheap white sliced, I hope. And with marge not butter.
The same could be said about anyone selling street food out of a retro fitted Citroen H van, *****!
The bread is so shit it will still be fresh in a week and stork
The night market 10ish minutes walk from there is real street food.
There aren't many examples of British inspired street food, that pass the International taste test, with the obvious exception of the sandwich. One thing I have seen offered as street food is rosemary roast potatoes. British inspired for sure, but not something you would eat here on the streets. Given the current weather eating outside, it;s not really an enticing prospect, so a lot of street food will surely be heading back to the office, or the white van to be consumed.
If people want to eat beans or toast or the occasional MacDonalds, I don't have a problem with that. The inverted snobbery that comes with it is laughable. It is almost as if when Sky invented football, they also created the working class. The first Macdonalds opened in the UK in 1974 and baked beans didn't arrive until around 1900. I don't hear anyone championing eating more oysters!
I'm always pro more oysters.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,873
I’m not one for hills to die on, but the Troll consistently produces the best tasting burgers in Brighton. The attention to detail, the care and attention applied at every stage in the supply chain; his control-freak insistence on doing it all himself. They are spectacular in every way.
I remember his mission statement from back in the day (maybe I read it first via here? It was certainly NSC who introduced me to him) and despite his passion for quality shining through a lot of what he wrote was obviously a load of old guff. But then I remember my first bite into a smokey mountain at the old recycled woodyard and it was sheer bliss and it didn’t matter that he was obsessing about trying to end capitalism.
Anyway, yesterday I had a burger from the stall at Churchill square outside the Prince of Wales. £3 (THREE QUID) for a perfectly good, tasty bit of gristle with soft onions and a floury bap. Now THAT, for me better exemplifies British street food.
I remember his mission statement from back in the day (maybe I read it first via here? It was certainly NSC who introduced me to him) and despite his passion for quality shining through a lot of what he wrote was obviously a load of old guff. But then I remember my first bite into a smokey mountain at the old recycled woodyard and it was sheer bliss and it didn’t matter that he was obsessing about trying to end capitalism.
Anyway, yesterday I had a burger from the stall at Churchill square outside the Prince of Wales. £3 (THREE QUID) for a perfectly good, tasty bit of gristle with soft onions and a floury bap. Now THAT, for me better exemplifies British street food.
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I’m very pro oysters as well.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
Sounds like Victoria Market opposite the station in London. Anyone thinking about it, don't both. I spent £8 on a salt beef sandwich, for size comparison it was smaller than an iPhone (non plus size) and was mostly fat. Gave the whole place a swerve after that. Over priced, over hyped crap. Maybe they've never been to the hawkers in Asia and sampled real street food. Place probably owned by some marketing *******
And they are suitable for vegans!