DogLover99

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!

elaine

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

cambe

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!!

SusanInToronto

I actually laughed out loud when I read this note!

jody

Funny and elaine , you are even funnier!

china_cat

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...)

GreenDragon

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?

mermaid_

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.

Patti

Watch out for that German Shepherd's Pie too!

Patti

elaine

excellent, Patti

flanneruk

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.

PatrickLondon

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.

Kayb95

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

cmt

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....)

cigalechanta

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.

crefloors

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

Scarlett

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

mousireid

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.

david_west

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

elaine

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."