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What do jellied eels taste like?
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Fucking jank. For people that lie to themselves about how good they taste, just cos they’re proper London.And remember, just like pie and mash, you have to tell everyone you’ve ever met that you’ve just eaten it as well.14
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Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?1 -
ValleyGary said:Fucking jank. For people that lie to themselves about how good they taste, just cos they’re proper London.And remember, just like pie and mash, you have to tell everyone you’ve ever met that you’ve just eaten it as well.
Who usually turns out to be some 27 year old yuppie from Bournemouth renting a room in a Hoxton house share for a grand a month who never went home after Uni.
Jellied eels, nah
Pie and Mash, sure (lets just not act like its some sort of fine cuisine sent down on a plate from the heavens above)1 -
I couldn't even bring myself to try them. A bit of jelly on ham or corn beef makes me gag. A snake like fish covered in jelly. Fck that. I'm happy to go through life never knowing how they taste.8
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There are plenty. Most have sprang up in trendy places in London suchAthletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?Portobello Rd and Tower Bridge but there are some old school ones in places such as Peckham and Leytonstone but the best I've been to in recent years is The Eastenders Pie & mash shop in the East India Dock Rd.
Still won't eat Jellied eels though!1 -
Sounds like the consensus of opinion is leave well alone...
I tried them once and it was such a long time ago, but really wouldn't have them again...😫0 -
The perfect recipe would obviously be jellied eels with a Marmite reduction (he said, throwing a random word in to make it look like he had some kind of idea what proper culinary terms might be) then?lordromford said:I think they’re alright. Not great, but alright. I’d eat them again, but it wouldn’t bother me if I never have them again.Funny how everyone else seems to love them or hate them.
I wonder if the algae bloom in Lough Neagh is having much effect on prices (there is/was a significant eel fishery there).0 -
My wife says her lot used to eat pie, stewed eels and liquor. Then again they are a weird lot from Bermondsey.0
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Tried them once and could not finish them. I can safely say I would rather eat my own head , then try them again.1
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Goddards in Greenwich?Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?
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Had some eels there last year. Not great but not quite as awful as I remember. The texture is very unpleasant....aliwibble said:
Goddards in Greenwich?Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?0 -
Growing up in Bethnal Green, used to have pie & mash ever week down Bethnal Green Road.
Nothing could ever persuade me to try jellied eels, particularly seeing them wriggling around in a bowl of water out the front of the shop !!1 -
Truly rancid.
Along with the hallowed 'Pie Mash & Liqor', nothing more than a pose imo!0 -
Not quite old fashioned but there’s one in Blackfen that’s good, although not been there since it recently changed handsAthletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?1 -
Glowing endorsement, they would probably include it in their ads!hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
Had some eels there last year. Not great but not quite as awful as I remember. The texture is very unpleasant....aliwibble said:
Goddards in Greenwich?Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?1 -
Next up in this on-going CL series...
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Well…..I had to try pie and mash I suppose, about 50/60 years ago I’d say.boggzy said:Truly rancid.
Along with the hallowed 'Pie Mash & Liqor', nothing more than a pose imo!
Not exactly unpleasant but very bland, never had the slightest interest in having it again having been very disappointed.Highly overrated…….IMHO….🙁
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The title of the post reminds me of the Monty Python’s Albatross sketch…0
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Depends where you are, there is absolutely nothing with Miller’s in BelvedereAthletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?0 -
Plenty of pie and mash in there on a Friday nightcafcdave123 said:
Depends where you are, there is absolutely nothing with Miller’s in BexleyAthletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?2 - Sponsored links:
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the one in cotmandene in St Paul's Cray Scott's is the bollox
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Manzies Tower Bridge Road. Original decor and menu:-Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?
1 pie 1 mash
1 pie 2 mash
2 pie 1 mash
2 pie 2 mash
etc etc.
pie and mash itself is good decent food - nothing spectacular but solid.To really enjoy it though, you’ve got to be pwopper London.1 -
My uncle used to take us boys eel fishing at the Royal Docks just to get us away from mum and dad rowing. We would catch them on bait lines and he would stick them in covered buckets under the van for the night. I remember, me and my brother could hear them wriggling under the van, we just curled up tighter in our sleeping bags. Then we had the pleasure of seeing him gut them and chop them up, "watch out for em boys, they play possum!" and getting bombed by gulls as we chucked their innards away... Never ever tasted them, and never want to.
He also introduced me to Charlton as well, which today i guess all this would involve social workers!3 -
Eels just taste mildly fishy.
Ain't the taste that put me off so much as the mix of textures. Weird gelatinous flesh, like extra soft tripe but with the vertebrae as a spiky crunchy surprise.
Having jellied eels with pie'n'mash was doubly weird cos the eels were served cold with hot everything else.
I'd sooner eat eels than actually starve and they're much less unpleasant than some of that rancid vom inducing goo our European cousins claim are varieties of "cheese"1 -
Revolting stuff, but what I really hate is the dumbed down inverted snobbery of the "cockney geezers" who sing it's praises, like you're not awfentic if you don't like it.
Did used to be fascinated with the tray of live eels in Manzies, Woolwich New Road back in the day.
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This thread reminds me of the fish shop that was in The Broadway, Bexleyheath when I was a child. It had a large tank of eels swimming around. It used to fascinate me, but I could never have eaten them.0
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what no Spam!SporadicAddick said:
Manzies Tower Bridge Road. Original decor and menu:-Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?
1 pie 1 mash
1 pie 2 mash
2 pie 1 mash
2 pie 2 mash
etc etc.
pie and mash itself is good decent food - nothing spectacular but solid.To really enjoy it though, you’ve got to be pwopper London.
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Cold, slimy, chewy with a bone to navigate too. Had them once - never again! Probably the worst thing I have ever eaten. Disgusting!0
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never had any food at the Valley then?thetomahawkkid said:Cold, slimy, chewy with a bone to navigate too. Had them once - never again! Probably the worst thing I have ever eaten. Disgusting!2 -
SporadicAddick said:
Manzies Tower Bridge Road. Original decor and menu:-Athletico Charlton said:Hal1x said:
I remember going to Manzies in Woolwich and seeing them dispatching the poor live Eels in the window, before skinning their still wriggling headless bodies and it was like a horror show - it didn't seem to put off the patrons- absolutely disgusting- but I suppose they never had colour telly or iPads in those days, and had to make their own entertainment.
Never been but I believe the one in Deptford has just closed permanently.
Does anyone know of a good old fashioned pie and mash place still open?
1 pie 1 mash
1 pie 2 mash
2 pie 1 mash
2 pie 2 mash
etc etc.
pie and mash itself is good decent food - nothing spectacular but solid.To really enjoy it though, you’ve got to be pwopper London.
Ta. Will give it a go sometime. Never been to a pie and mash shop but my wife grew up on it!0
