I think I seen it here about a hunting trip in Scotland. I tried it yesterday. Dang it is good. I used some local hickory smoked sausage, caramelized white onions, and cheated on the onion gravy with a pack of each brown gravy and onion gravy. Real mashed spuds with lumps. It comes in equal with meat loaf and mashed. Although you can't make a excellent cold meat loaf sandwich with it.

Anyone have a good recipe that you could share?

No, no, no. Hickory smoked sausage won't do. It has to be bland English grocery store sausage. Caramelized white onions? Fancy schmancy!! Far too much going on there for it to be English food. You are supposed to just have plain, bangers, mash and plenty of ketchup.












BTW, I'm English.

And to think, I was starting to believe you were a true English gentleman. So Sad

Steve-

I've seen the term "bangers and mash" in books. What is it, really, sausages and onions? I've been curious.

Mashed tatties & little sausages, AKA "bangers."


You can add mashed turnips & carrots.

I have been to England, have eaten the food, won't be going back!!!

bob

As long as we're down this road, how about a little bubble and squeak?

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Not food related, but seeing as how we are getting into odd British "slang", does anybody have a set of Pip, Squeak & Wilfred? (No, not the cartoon strip.) I could use a set for a display I want to make.... (Then all I will need is an MC)

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Now ya gotta try Haggis!

What's Haggis , you ask?


Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach and simmered for approximately three hours.



Doesn't that just sound yummy-yummy?

Och aye, Jimmay!

I had a darts team once called the "Haggis Bashers." When asked what a haggis was I told people it was a small animal from the highlands of Sco'land. It lived in the hills and could only go one direction so the legs on one side were shorter than the other. A "haggis basher" was a stick used to hunt the tasty little buggers!

Couldn't find any bland sausages in the grocery store. I might have to try adding some turnips and/or carrots to my mashed. Sounds tasty.

Googled bubble & squeak. Of course I will try it but will have to add a little USA spices.

Sounds like it should be the official critter of NASCAR!

Bubbles & squeak?

That's what happens in the bathtub after eating Haggis!

Let's just say there weren't many silver spoons around where I was born. Up the Hammers!! (If you look that up you will see roughly where I come from)

My ancestors were from Norway. We used to have Rumagrout for dinner on Christmas Eve.
Rumagrout is essentially wall paper paste eaten warm with milk, sugar butter and cinnamon floating around on top. Might even be better than Lutefisk and boiled potatoes!

Best,
Rick

I'm a Scot and the there are only two things from there that I will swallow, shortbread and scotch and not at the same time.

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Waiting for the true connoisseur of British cuisine to chime in on Spotted Dick.

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Shepherds pie is pretty good. Shepherd's Pie Recipe at Epicurious.com

Old mom (81) makes a great shepards pie and yes,she's Scottish.

Mince, Meat Pies & (Proper) Sausage Rolls
Are all Scots food and are Delicious

Just don't test my cholesterol

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The funny thing is they all take to the hills during the season and are tricky to hunt. Seriously, a good shepherd's pie is a thing of beauty.

I think I will just stick to my boiled crawfish and crawfish etouffee. C'est si bon!

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If you like them try neeps and tatties. Very good!

I think I'm braver than all of you. I've eaten breakfast....in Ireland.

CW

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Haggis...Tasted like liver, mixed with the rest of the plate it wasn't bad at all. Had it twice while in Scotland. It DOES seem to amuse the locals for a Yank to ask for haggis.

I believe this was in Port Augustus.

FN in MT

Mmm, sheep innards....

Don't bash British food til you go to a London pub and have the kidney pie - it's to die for! Fish and chips isn't half bad either.

Clifton nj has this Irish dig named Shannon rose been eating there 5+ years now all I ever get is the bangers and mash! I do rather notice over the years prices goin up

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I have eaten a lot of strange stuff over the years, much of it raw, in a variety of countries and cultures, and consider myself to be pretty much of an iron stomach, but......

I am gonna give that haggis stuff a pass!

I believe that Hadrian built his wall to keep haggis out of England.

i've eaten Spotted Dick, a pudding with dried fruit , Bubble & Squeak, -fried leftover vegetables from a roast dinner, potato, cabbage, carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts and Toad in the Hole...bangers (sausages) in Yorkshire pudding batter.

mighty fine eatin, especially washed down with a pint or two of guinness

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I've been to the UK three times in the past 45 years. I can say with all truthfulness the food, read that as meat, was just as bad the last time as it was in the '60's.

I'm not sure what they put in their ground meat to ruin it, but they do tend to be consistant about it country wide.

I can't even look at what passes for sausage over there.

Then try to find an "iced" drink to wash it down with.

Now, fish and chips can be another story, but it's difficult to live on for more than a week.

LTC

Don't they do pretty well with roast beef? I read that somewhere.

I'm guessing that the wealthier households hire French cooks.

But an American author says that they do scrambled eggs very well in the upscale London hotels.