Championing Proper British Food and Drink

Another one of OH's favourites is a Welsh Rarebit but with added Marmite. Unfortunately my Marmite days are over. Used to enjoy just as a hot drink in winter, much better than Bovril.

TDA's relish. It's a new one to me but I see Morrisons stock it. 

It’s an institution around South Yorks, very like Worcester Sauce, but tastier. Urban myth has it written into every film contract Sean Bean signs up to😂 

Growing up, Sheffield featured heavily in our lives, shopping days out, night clubs, theatres, cinemas. Sometimes when you got off the bus in the city centre, the smell from the big breweries, Wards, Stones, Whitbread, literally took your breath away. You breathed in pure hops. Other days it was the turn of the big Sweet factories, Bassets in particular on liquorice day.😂 Sadly, all gone now.

Another institution, this time from the Midlands, beloved of that half time snack at football grounds, Pukka Pies. Still British....

https://www.pukkapies.co.uk/our-story/

Proper British food? Chicken Tikka Masala - invented in Britain, cooked in Britain, and eaten at Shababs Balti restaurant in the Ladypool road, Birmingham .

You forgot to mention Thos Wards amongst the smells of Sheffield

Ps pucker pies now do a microwave version

night clubs? ciu working mens clubs for us

Not as well recognised as it should be, but we make some amazing cheese in the UK. If we didn’t see another block of cheese from beyond our shores, we wouldn’t be missing out much on taste, variety and quality. Traditional favourites like Cheddar, Stilton, Cheshire, Wensleydale etc made properly (mature) never disappoint, and beyond that there’s a whole world of regional/craft cheese that would rival anything you’ll find in a great cheese nation like France. 

Check again JV, I think you might find I mentioned Wards first!😉

Agree with you about the cheese Bill. Up and down the country, UK makes some lovely cheeses. Are you familiar with the Cheese Shop in the Pannier Market area in Tavistock? We usually spend quite a bit in there. Did find a dripping hunk of Stinking Bishop a bit of a trial driving home one searingly hot Summer though😬

 Thos Wards a brewery? plenty of the hard stuff if it was

Agree about British Cheese, we make some of the best hard cheeses in the world. Although overall I think the French do beat us on the soft variety and a nice 24 month mature Compte, is up there with some of our best hard cheeses. It would be a shame if the prices of European varieties became prohibitive in a tit for tat trade war, but I think we could survive very nicely on our own produce. Unfortunately at my recent health check cholesterol was up again. So it looks as though cheese is off the menu, except for special occasions.☹️