love a pork pie with a beer as well, though I took a load down the Oak for the boys once last season, and they just all looked at me as if I some kind of weirdo (not an unusual reaction I will admit)
I went into a pub in Stalybridge many years ago, which had pork pies in a glass cabinet on the bar. Not having eaten for ages I ordered one, to be met with the response "Would you like it heated up?" I thought that sounded weird (meaning weird) but gave it a go anyway.
Big mistake. Turned what might have been a half decent pie into a sludgy mush of grease and wilting pastry, with spots of boiling jelly hotter than the surface of the sun.
But a proper crisp pie and some brown sauce with a pint - perfect.
When was the last time anyone saw a jar of pickled eggs behind the jump?
This June at The Red Lion in Snargate, Romney Marsh. Fantastic pub that has been run by the same family since WW2. I think my pickled egg had been in its jar on the bar since then. It was vile.
Does anywhere do snuff still? My old local used to do most of what has been mentioned including snuff which is weird to say the least
Picked eggs (fucking horrible), picked onions, chilli's, and fish (maybe herrings), welks, cockles, pretty much anything you could think of that's been pickled or could be pickled they did along with packets of the usual fare. Crisps, pork scratchings with hair on, scampi fries, all manner of nuts and they also had a vending 'tube' for tins of all sorts of nuts. Place looked like a parrots cage on a Sunday. Roast spuds are a funny one though. I always appreciate anything free which is consumable put on a bar but if you get them hot they are embarrassingly hot and cold they are disgusting. And them cold ones 100% will have been fingered by Simon the nonce before they cooled down. And Simon never washed his paws
love a pork pie with a beer as well, though I took a load down the Oak for the boys once last season, and they just all looked at me as if I some kind of weirdo (not an unusual reaction I will admit)
When was the last time anyone saw a jar of pickled eggs behind the jump?
This June at The Red Lion in Snargate, Romney Marsh. Fantastic pub that has been run by the same family since WW2. I think my pickled egg had been in its jar on the bar since then. It was vile.
As an aside, if you go in the church opposite you can see some 15c graffiti.
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Not having eaten for ages I ordered one, to be met with the response "Would you like it heated up?"
I thought that sounded weird (meaning weird) but gave it a go anyway.
Big mistake. Turned what might have been a half decent pie into a sludgy mush of grease and wilting pastry, with spots of boiling jelly hotter than the surface of the sun.
But a proper crisp pie and some brown sauce with a pint - perfect.
And I'm not talking about Mehmet's jokes
I think my pickled egg had been in its jar on the bar since then.
It was vile.
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Picked eggs (fucking horrible), picked onions, chilli's, and fish (maybe herrings), welks, cockles, pretty much anything you could think of that's been pickled or could be pickled they did along with packets of the usual fare. Crisps, pork scratchings with hair on, scampi fries, all manner of nuts and they also had a vending 'tube' for tins of all sorts of nuts. Place looked like a parrots cage on a Sunday. Roast spuds are a funny one though. I always appreciate anything free which is consumable put on a bar but if you get them hot they are embarrassingly hot and cold they are disgusting. And them cold ones 100% will have been fingered by Simon the nonce before they cooled down. And Simon never washed his paws
But what did the pie taste like?
I have no idea what they are called but those slightly chilli flavour mixed biscuity things are quite nice.
Pub I used to go in on a Sunday used to put the left over roasties on the bar, big fan of that.
Used to have half a pint of prawns off the fish guy in a pub over Chiswick way.
Home made pork scratchings definitely my favourite.
#dependant on the establishments urinal freshener of choice.
Roast spuds is best though of the free snacks.
Paying it's got to be crisps or nuts.