If it's a potato sandwich you're craving, I'd advise you to visit Fez, Morocco, and to order a maakouda batata at some likely stand in the medina.

http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/sal...tato_cakes.htm

Wetherspoons do Fish Friday [and a pint] deals. Pretty good, and should be the same wherever you are in the country.

I am not going to Fez to get a potato sandwich. I am looking for a chip butty and thanks to this thread, I have some excellent leads.

"I like bread and I like chips but not together. "

Clearly you've never tried doing so.

A parmo is a piece of chicken, deep fried and covered in a cheese sauce. For those who think deep fried Mars Bars are a bit lightweight.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...al-snack-foods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmo

It's never really caught on outside of Teeside; I wonder why?

If you fancy making your own the Telegraph even did a recipe for it without a hint of irony.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...mo-recipe.html

Nice. I will add it to my "must try" list.

Definitely Sir, sparky. And why is there no outcry from the Chorley Cake afficionados? Like a larger Eccles cake but a softer pastry, available certainly in our Sainsbury's.

Agreed on the curry sauce Smeagol. All our chippies offer it, along with mushy peas, baked beans (yes the Heinz type) and of course, gravy. There are those I know, (not me), who have gravy on their chips when served as fish and chips, or curry sauce on the fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorley_cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacake

The coworker that sits beside me brought in for me a egg and back pudding barm. That was tasty.

Have I proclaimed my love for mushy peas yet?

>>Have I proclaimed my love for mushy peas yet?<<

The love that should not speak its name.....

Let's hear it, BTW, for the Staffordshire oatcake. Simple to make, and deeply virtuous in itself (until it's filled)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_oatcake

"Let's hear it, BTW, for the Staffordshire oatcake."

Well.. Ish.

Usually available at most big branches of Sainsbury's, and all very excellent in their way.

But their Derbyshire cousin is far chunkier. Indeed, almost uniquely among the overpriced delicacies sold by Britain's ennobled artisan grocers, the Derbyshire oatcakes introduced by Debbo to the food shop at Chatsworth are practically worth their obscene markup.

Only Lady Bamford's labneh at Daylesford rivals them for value.

Although it pains me, the best chippies are over in Yorkshire but in Lancashire there are a few that are often mentioned:

Tonys in Longridge near Preston;
Seniors over on the Fylde Coast;
C Fresh in Blackpool.

There is a rather odd entry in a book called "Where the Chefs Eat" which mentions a chippy in Rishton or Great Harwood but cant remember the name - which makes this a rather useless thing to even bother writing.... but someone might know it.

Oh and in York you ask for one of each if you want fish and chips.

Very helpful, stevelyon.

You have mushy peas because when you eat with the tins of you fork upside down the normal pea rolls off.

I'm an American -- we eat our peas with a spoon.

I eat my peas with honey:
I've done it all my life;
Some people think it's funny -
But it keeps them on the knife.

No wonder you guys lost your empire.

Mushy peas make you Trump.

<I am not going to Fez to get a potato sandwich. >
We should have a Post of the Week, and I nominate this deathless sentence.

Best place to get Welsh cakes in Cardiff is the Central Market where you can watch them being made.
I have friends that make a weekly pilgrimage :)
http://gourmetgorro.blogspot.com/201...lsh-cakes.html

I agree with stevelyon that Yorkshire has better chippies than the northwest.
I was very fond of a weekend jaunt to a chippy in Scarborough and one in Bridlington when I lived in York. Nothing quite like the blustery Yorkshire coast as the backdrop when you're scarfing down your chip butty.

NewbE :D

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.

(Sorry Patrick)

I come late to this thread but it's a good'un.

I'd like to add Cornish pasties of course, and in the cake line, saffron loaf and heava cake.

The former is self explanatory, the latter a bit like a cross between a lardy cake ( anyone remember them?) and an Eccles cake.

Talking of chip butties, we had fish and chips for supper and DH had mushy peas too all washed down with mugs of tea.

It's a rare discussion about food that doesn't make me want some. This one rises to the challenge.

Tried pickled eggs last time I was in UK - yuk.
Do love pickled onion with my fishn chips though - which we have in Oz too.
Enjoy Eccles cakes - hard to find here though.
Black pudding - every Sunday with my
Eggs and bacon .

Two rounds of toasted fish-finger sarnies for breakfast.

I'm surprised a discussion about tripe hasn't surfaced.

I'll start a tripe thread when I go to Mexico, Texas, or California and want a good menudo.

Pickled eggs? Also yuk! Tripe is an acquired taste, but does anyone remember the UCP shops? Probably the biggest purveyor of tripe in the North. It stood for United Cattle Products and sold tripe, cowheel, haslett and other stuff like oxtail (although I do like oxtail when properly cooked).

http://www.unitedcattleproducts.co.uk/

Rubicund, I want you to take me on a regional food tour of Manchester.

That's funny Rubicund, I nearly mentioned UCP. My Mum worked for them, and for my birthday she treated me and my friends to a party there (workers discount, methinks) and guess what we all had .... egg and chips. Afterwards, we went to the Empire Cinema to watch Jeffery Hunt in King of Kings.

Is that the one where John Wayne dresses up in a skirt and looks up and says in his best Davy Crocket drawl "Surely he must be the Son of God"?

Lest we forget, Tripe is revered in Spain (and maybe France).

Much alike Steve. My late MIL used to work for them in the shop in the fifties. She also worked for Prices in Bridge St and Kendal's cafe on Deansgate. Prices was next to George Best's Boutique and he often went in for a sandwich.

sparky, most of the old fashioned food shops -if not all-have gone now and the City is inundated with American chain "eateries" -hate that word-and some very good restaurants offering cuisine from all over the world across the price range. I'm not a fan of offal except for liver and never had it when I was taken into the UCP on Market Street in Manchester. http://www.unitedcattleproducts.co.u...manchester.php

I'd love to eat around the city with you, but my wife isn't too well at the moment. Love to once she's bouncing around again.

steve, that film was "The Greatest Story Ever Told", not King of Kings, with Max Von Sydow.

This thread worked up an appetite. I'm going out to get some spuds right now.

Lest we forget, Tripe is revered in Spain (and maybe France).>>

and in Florence - they have tripe stalls like we have burger bars.

for those of youse who never heard of a chip butty like moi:

https://www.google.com/search?q=chip...HScZBiUQsAQIGw

Have no idea what anyone is talking about. It's like reading another language. I'm enjoying the post and descriptions immensely though.

Now those pictures are burned into my retinas and I will never be able to unsee them.

Chip Butty looks like Stonehenge on bad bread.

Well, I am back from my day trip. I went to Rock and Sole Plaice for my butty.

The verdict: not too bad. In fact, this thing tastes way better than it should.

You can't go wrong for £2.