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Post by finsobruce on Dec 24, 2015 12:29:01 GMT
On a largely unrelated note, my family has a tradition of Christmas breakfast being a large pork pie with pickle. I've yet to meet anybody else who does this (well, partner's father seems to have enthusiastically adopted it, but that doesn't really count), so I'm wondering where we got the custom from. My best guess is that it's a Black Country thing, but does anybody have a better idea? A quick trawl of the internet finds people saying this was a tradition in their families in : Shropshire, Leicestershire, Notts and Lincolnshire. I'm suspecting Melton Mowbray as the nerve centre of the pork pie based Christmas breakfast tradition. |
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Post by Khunanup on Dec 24, 2015 12:55:17 GMT
On a largely unrelated note, my family has a tradition of Christmas breakfast being a large pork pie with pickle. I've yet to meet anybody else who does this (well, partner's father seems to have enthusiastically adopted it, but that doesn't really count), so I'm wondering where we got the custom from. My best guess is that it's a Black Country thing, but does anybody have a better idea? We do pork pie and pickle for breakfast on Christmas Day. It's a family tradition on my mum's paternal side. She's from rural Kesteven in Lincolnshire and the family goes back generations there. The best pork pie is from Curtis of Lincoln which is where we order from every year! |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 24, 2015 12:55:54 GMT
On a largely unrelated note, my family has a tradition of Christmas breakfast being a large pork pie with pickle. I've yet to meet anybody else who does this (well, partner's father seems to have enthusiastically adopted it, but that doesn't really count), so I'm wondering where we got the custom from. My best guess is that it's a Black Country thing, but does anybody have a better idea? Yes. Day of big meals so something lighter and more palate cleansing, such as Bucks Fizz with Gravalax, Melba Toast, Sorel and Rocket. But a good pork pie has its place over the season. Sounds a pleasing comfort stop EAL. Enjoy it. |
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Post by Khunanup on Dec 24, 2015 12:57:59 GMT
On a largely unrelated note, my family has a tradition of Christmas breakfast being a large pork pie with pickle. I've yet to meet anybody else who does this (well, partner's father seems to have enthusiastically adopted it, but that doesn't really count), so I'm wondering where we got the custom from. My best guess is that it's a Black Country thing, but does anybody have a better idea? A quick trawl of the internet finds people saying this was a tradition in their families in : Shropshire, Leicestershire, Notts and Lincolnshire. I'm suspecting Melton Mowbray as the nerve centre of the pork pie based Christmas breakfast tradition. All centres of pig farming I presume. I know Lincolnshire is... |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 24, 2015 13:02:14 GMT
On a largely unrelated note, my family has a tradition of Christmas breakfast being a large pork pie with pickle. I've yet to meet anybody else who does this (well, partner's father seems to have enthusiastically adopted it, but that doesn't really count), so I'm wondering where we got the custom from. My best guess is that it's a Black Country thing, but does anybody have a better idea? We do pork pie and pickle for breakfast on Christmas Day. It's a family tradition on my mum's paternal side. She's from rural Kesteven in Lincolnshire and the family goes back generations there. The best pork pie is from Curtis of Lincoln which is where we order from every year! ah, I'm always on the look out for a good pork pie. Thanks for the tip. The cheese looks good too. As does the chicken and ham pie .... |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 24, 2015 13:09:01 GMT
Traditionally Christmas means a fry-up with cava at my family's.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 24, 2015 13:09:52 GMT
We do pork pie and pickle for breakfast on Christmas Day. It's a family tradition on my mum's paternal side. She's from rural Kesteven in Lincolnshire and the family goes back generations there. The best pork pie is from Curtis of Lincoln which is where we order from every year! ah, I'm always on the look out for a good pork pie. Thanks for the tip. The cheese looks good too. As does the chicken and ham pie .... If you're ever down in Hampshire, Uptons of Bassett make excellent pork pies. |
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Post by Khunanup on Dec 24, 2015 13:10:40 GMT
We do pork pie and pickle for breakfast on Christmas Day. It's a family tradition on my mum's paternal side. She's from rural Kesteven in Lincolnshire and the family goes back generations there. The best pork pie is from Curtis of Lincoln which is where we order from every year! ah, I'm always on the look out for a good pork pie. Thanks for the tip. The cheese looks good too. As does the chicken and ham pie .... I got the cheese as well in my Christmas order together with haslet and bacon. The cheese is very strong and nice! |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 24, 2015 13:50:13 GMT
ah, I'm always on the look out for a good pork pie. Thanks for the tip. The cheese looks good too. As does the chicken and ham pie .... I got the cheese as well in my Christmas order together with haslet and bacon. The cheese is very strong and nice! Haslet is marvellous. Unfortunately Asda do a vile one. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 24, 2015 14:31:22 GMT
ah, I'm always on the look out for a good pork pie. Thanks for the tip. The cheese looks good too. As does the chicken and ham pie .... If you're ever down in Hampshire, Uptons of Bassett make excellent pork pies. well, as previously announced I will be popping down at some point to support @sharon in her re-election attempt. I will pick up a pork pie at the same time.  |
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Post by Sharon on Dec 24, 2015 16:06:50 GMT
If you're ever down in Hampshire, Uptons of Bassett make excellent pork pies. well, as previously announced I will be popping down at some point to support @sharon in her re-election attempt. I will pick up a pork pie at the same time. It's less than a mile from Chez Moi, otherwise known as "Outside the Asylum" |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Dec 24, 2015 17:00:34 GMT
That's funny Labour did even put in a showing.....The Local Lib Dem Candidate was the only candidate that lived in the ward, he is very well know, that's why it's a 25% increase. He went on holiday on Saturday. And that's barely literate. Your lot (UKIP) tried a damn fool trick and got hammered for it. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 24, 2015 18:53:07 GMT
Seeing as UKIP are barmy enough to have called this election on 23rd December, I am decided I am barmy enough to go to visit the ward on 24th December.  There were one or two villages I hadn't been to before. Grendon Underwood is rather an unexceptional straggle down in flat Aylesbury Vale and, Arthur Figgis, the pub was closed). However I did like Ludgershall, with green spaces lining the road as it rose towards the hills. And Brill, which I knew already, is just ... 'brill', really, with the real feeling of an upland community and views for miles even in the dusk. I don't think Long Crendon, where the new Canadian councillor lives, is in yesterday's ward, but it is the site of one of my many greatest ever one-sided cricketing disasters, when I was (oddly) playing for the Oxford Nuclear Physics Department against the village. I think they got 228-0 and we were all out for about 28. By the way, if anyone remembers Clive Payne (of the Curtice, Payne and Waller analyses of May local election results in the 1980s), he lived in Brill and was on one occasion (1987) a paper Labour candidate in Aylesbury Vale. He spent the day with John Curtice and I, not campaigning; and I think he got about as many votes as the NPL scored runs. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 24, 2015 22:06:09 GMT
I got the cheese as well in my Christmas order together with haslet and bacon. The cheese is very strong and nice! Haslet is marvellous. Unfortunately Asda do a vile one. It is. But where to get a good one? Apart from Lincoln that is.... |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 24, 2015 22:17:57 GMT
There were one or two villages I hadn't been to before. Grendon Underwood is rather an unexceptional straggle down in flat Aylesbury Vale and, Arthur Figgis, the pub was closed). However I did like Ludgershall, with green spaces lining the road as it rose towards the hills. And Brill, which I knew already, is just ... 'brill', really, with the real feeling of an upland community and views for miles even in the dusk. I've been to the pub in Grendon Underwood- the food was quite good, though the beer range was fairly uneventful. I hope you didn't wait for a train at Brill, it's been 80 years waiting so far. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 0:56:00 GMT
That's funny Labour did even put in a showing.....The Local Lib Dem Candidate was the only candidate that lived in the ward, he is very well know, that's why it's a 25% increase. He went on holiday on Saturday. And even when on holiday, as you keep saying, I notice that he got more votes than you. |
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