Yorkshire Pudding question
 

Greetings! I just found this board today, and can tell I have a lot of reading to do!

My best friend and I are planning our first trip to England. She's doing most of the planning, but I have one question regarding the food.

I like to try new things, and I know Yorkshire Pudding is a traditional English food, but I want to make sure the place I go buys its supplies from a reputable place. I know there are ways to make sure you can buy a fur coat, for instance, and know they only buy from places that farm the animals humanely.

Is there a way to tell if the Yorkies they put in the pudding were farmed humanely? I don't want to support a cruel industry, but I'm not a tree-hugging lefty, either. I just want to try the local delicacy without encouraging cruelty. Is there a list somewhere that I can look up on 'safe' restaurants?

Thanks for your help!

It's Yorkshire Pudding, as in, I suppose, originating in the county of Yorkshire
It's not Yorkshire Terrier pudding
For that, yu have to go to Korea

Yorkshire pudding is served with roast beef (and IMO needs some horsradish as well).

The pudding is made from eggs, milk, flour, beef dripping and a some salt and pepper.

What part of the pudding concerns you?

Is it free range eggs?
Organic Beef?
or
Organic milk?

I think your biggest problem will be finding a resaurant that serves a good yourkshire pudding.

For me - my mum's is the best I have ever tasted!!

I actually laughed out loud when I read this note!

Funny and elaine , you are even funnier!

I just kept thinking about Emily Litella: "What's all this about yorkies in the pudding?? oh. It's yorkshire pudding. Never mind."

(and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you missed the best years of Saturday Night Live...)

Perhaps he is a 'DogLover' because he has BEEN to Korea already, and really enjoyed the cuisine???

So what happens when they order Baked Alaskan Malamute?

DogLover, today was really feeling like one of those Back-to-the-Grind gloomy kind of Mondays, and then I read your post. Thanks for the big laugh! That was so cute. :-d

Watch out for that German Shepherd's Pie too! :-)

Patti

excellent, Patti

Outside every truckstop in Britain there used to be a Soil Association-accredited organic Yorkie farm. As you saw from the ads, no self respecting lorry driver would allow himself to be seen without tucking into a Yorkie. Traditionally, most British lorry cabins had special fridges, so the Yorkie stayed really nice and cold till the driver bit into it.

And yes, in parts of Northern England, Yorkies were substituted for Mars Bars, deep fried in chip shops and sold as instant puddings. Scrumptious.

Sadly, Rowntrees, who used to get all our Yorkies ready for eating, sold out ten years or so ago to Nestle, a Swiss corporation with little respect for our heritage. They've now changed the ingredients from proper Yorkies to cheap flour and water.

So the puddings are really now pretty anaemic. But if you make Toad in the Hole from pretty much the same ingredients, it's still normal to ensure the toad was humanely killed, and it's quite acceptable to ask your host or restaurant to show the slaughterer's certificate.

You should know that to most English people a Yorkie is - nowadays - yet another chocolate bar. Just to confuse us all.

Don't forget to try our famous faggots - with Spotted Dick to follow.

If you're worried about the origins of your Yorkshire pudding, I would pass on the steak & kidney pie. :)

Yippie little things, aren't they? Didn't you wonder why there's a slight meat essence in "bubble and SQUEAK," named for the sound of those live-cooked.... (Decided not to continue, becaue it's just too horrible to contemplate....)

Not to worry, DogLover. These Yorkies are farm raised with no forced eating and do not livein too cramped cages.
They also have an AC rating.
The only warning is if you eat too much of this specialty, you may start jumping on laps.

Or nipping at someones heels..Ah yes, Emily Litella...loved her..love this post!!!!

As long as it is not a Yorkshire Poodle! ((&)) With Chip Butties!

Just be sure they are pure bred. There's been quite an uproar with cross breeding terriers these days and they can REALLY mess up a good recipe...
Bull Terrier + Shitzu
Bullshitz, a gregarious but unreliable breed and not too tasty
Deerhound + Terrier
Derriere, a dog that's true to the end, too spicy for a pud
Terrier + Bulldog
Terribull, need I say more.

We also make queens pudding. It's best that you don't ask too many questions about that.

I've joined an organizations called
FRYS Free-Range Yorkies Saved
We rescue all the Yorkies who are able to escape from the farms, and place them in vegan homes.

Speaking of which, did anyone besides me love the animated film of a few years ago called "Chicken Run"?
Every time a chicken met her demise,
her optimistic fellow British hens would say, "She's just on holiday."

elaine, yes, I loved that film LOL

Where do I go to sign up as a member of FRYS?

Save the Yorkie**==Save the Yorkie**==
(that was the only flag I had)

So what's the difference between German Shepherd Pie and Australian Shepherd Pie? Is the Australian one more brain food? Or do policemen typically eat the German Shepherd Pie on break?

The German Shepherd Pie comes with poodle-strudel for dessert.

Isn't Poodle Strudel a typically Austrian dish, served after the opera? I seem to recall it was quite popular after Mozart comedies...

I don't even want to know how humanely and how the main ingredient in Spotted Dick is, um, handled.

What do they do to it to get it spotted?

PS -- the first time I visited England, I had never heard of Spotted Dick. My DH and I were in the Safeway, giggling at a lot of things we never see in the States. We were jetlagged and giddy. We came across a box of Spotted Dick, and burst out laughing. Not only were we laughing at the name, but the box was faded and the picture was... green. Yes, it was a green spotted dick!!!

I remember a friend in Manhattan with a reeeally old Yorkie that bubbled and squeaked all the time 8|

In the interrests of transatlantic understanding - can someone explain "Weiner Dog?"

Green Dragon - yuck! Too funny!!

Hi
A while back 'Spotted Dick' apparently offended some Tesco's customers and the company renamed it Spotted Richard. Honest!

So no one has told me what they do to the poor little free-range Yorkies to make them spotted. Do they have acne? Are they infected with chicken pox? Neither seems very appetizing to me, personally... but then again, every culture has its haggis!

Greendragon, they stick dried fruit in it and boil it for an hour.

Doesn't it hurt the puppies when they stick in the dried fruit? Perhaps they should stick in hush puppies instead!

Collie-flower and cheese sauce?

Sealyham and cheese?

A Great Danish with coffee?

I heard for snacks, a bag of LabraDoodles is good, you know, the salty cheesy ones!

A Great Danish with coffee?
Too sweet.
Here in New York, with our coffee, we have beagles. Cream cheese optional.

Ahh elaine, it is impossible to get a good beagle in Florida ~

Scarlett, my sister says the same thing about Atlanta. What she prefers in the morning is a slice of Sara Lee
hound cake.

Sounds good elaine.
Here a quick lunch could be a nice Weimaraner with some Chow Chow on top.((&))

I much prefer to have a Great Danish, usually cheese or boysenberry. However, I've enjoyed Span-iel omelettes, with the tomotoes and onions, perhaps some corgi-ettes.

I also love getting a boxer of doughnuts for the office occasionally.

But my favorite after-dinner snack is a maltese milk shake!