First meal
 

OK, so I am not going back to the UK, but, there are things that I miss, including the food. When you go back, or get back to the UK, what would be your first meal, assuming you had free rein to eat whatever you wanted? I have a little list in the back of my mind, of what I would want to eat, if I went back to the UK for a visit, and am curious to know what others would make a beeline for.

Mine, for the record, would have to be a steak and kidney pie and chips, smothered in HP sauce, from a proper chippy, preferably the chippy in Exening, nr. Newmarket... then, for afters, sticky toffee pudding, or jam roly poly with custard.

Sooo, what do you all have on your list?

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My first meal when I go back is ALWAYS fish'n'chips. And if I couldn't have fish'n'chips, I'd have bangers and mash.

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A real good hot curry.

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Sainsbury's duck and orange pate with Cointreau. Yummy yummy yum yum:tounge_smile:

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That fantastic welsh cheese with the mustard seeds through it....mmmh

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Chips. :thumbsup:

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Fired rice with curry sauce, mushrooms onions and peas:p

Actually when I was home over Christmas I kept craving Pot Noodles and bottles of Lucozade. Doesn't say much for my mum home cooking does it:rofl:

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Chips with brown sauce...Edinburgh style.

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Fresh chips with curry sauce. Nothing like the frozen rubbish here which they call chips.

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Kippers. Smoked haddock. Sprats.

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Kippers, smoked haddock mmmmmhhhh.

Arbroath smokies, milk fish...keep talking to me!:)

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Chicken Tikka Masala, Onion Baji's and Pilau Rice... But has to be from the Neelakesh in Ware, and he always brings us a big glass of Brandy or Baileys after, on the house!... OMG I'm salivating!!! :eek: Home in 15 days for a couple of weeks... Yipeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :p

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Fish and Chips from my local chippy and choc fudge cake from M & S:thumbsup:

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I'd forgotten about Chicken Tikka Masala and onion bhajis....
how can I have forgotten about curries?:blink:

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How could you?:ohmy:

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ahhh your just showing off 'cos u know how to spell Bhaji's :eek: :rofl:

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Onion Bajhia's and Sheek & Shami kebabs with mint & cucumber Raita. Chicken Bhuna, Mushroom Pilau and Aloo Gobi. <dribble>

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I've already planned it for when we go back (in 6 weeks!!)

Proper chip shop fish and chips first (from the local Chinese chippy;)).

Then a proper curry/balti.

Not both on the same day of course :lol:

Then I'll probably not want either one for ages - just need to have the taste...:D

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I had to make myself forget *sniffs* otherwise I would've been sick with longing. I did find a recipe for a restaurat style Tikka Masala, but have you ever tried shoving slimy bits of marinated chicken on to skewers? What a nightmare!

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When we went back we had everything you can't get here...fish n chips (the proper type), curry, prawn crisps, decent Pizza's, all the bad foods i guess:), but it was grand!

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Only because the word is etched on my stomach (rather than heart):rofl:

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I actually had a vivid dream about mushy peas, chips and gravy last night. I mean I could taste it and woke up gutted at 3am. There was tons of vinigar, the gravy was thick enough to build with and I was wolfing it with a shitty little blue plastic fork.

First stop for me? The Blue Chippy in Picadilly gardens, Manchester!!! :thumbsup:

Then a kebab shop.

Then to a pub.

Then to me mams for lumpy mash and Daddies brown sauce with four rounds of lightly buttered warbies bread.

Then several more pubs.

:eek:

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Dang it!!! (as we oh so politely say here ha ha) - I forgot about the bargies :p

So the Curry Mile in Rusholme is not to be missed as part of my gut busting itinery!!

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You couldn't possibly eat all that in one day...could you:unsure:

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:rofl: Reckon you'll be waddling about in no time!!!:thumbsup:

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I'll give it a bloody good go mate!! :eek:

EDIT: Just noticed. Day!!??? What you talkin 'bout Willis? That is the first two hours ha ha

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Waddling? Falling over and being sick after the pubs ha ha. I do so miss the way one is able to puke or pee in any busy street in the North of England, and not get into trouble. Where old age pensioners will look on and say to each other - lookie that lad, had a few too many that bugger, well, we all did it!!! C'mon Edna, let's get home for Corrie!! :thumbsup:


Or am I wearing rose coloured specs he he he

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:rofl:

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You still here? When's the big day?

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Last time I stayed at my sister's in East Finchley we had an amazing take-out vegetarian curry - I haven't found anything even close to it here and we have at least 4 Indian restaurants in SB. The other thing I always eat lots of when I'm over there are cherry almond tarts from M&S - mmmmmmmm. Oh - and cream - it is a mystery what they do to cream here that it is so tasteless. New potatoes with butter and mint sauce. Cod, chips and mushy peas from a pub called the Waterfall on the IOM. I'm getting hungry just thinking about all this food.

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Ha! That's aged you (about the same as me I reckon ;)). That was my fave TV prog when I was a child, after school. Just can't remember what it was called? Oh, just did - "Diff'rent Strokes" wasn't it? Fab:D

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It'd have to be a mixture of:

• Indian food
• those lovely, oozing, stinky unpasteurised French cheeses with yummy fresh baguette
• Pickled Onion Monster Munch & Quavers
• "proper" Cadburys chocolate, plus all my fave sweets (Drumstick lollies, Wham bars)
• Pizza Express pizzas (American Hot)
• a decent pub roast (or my mum's) with yorkshire pudding

.... all in one sitting :thumbup::eek:

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Very soon JG but, sshhhh........I haven't told the wife ha ha :p

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You are a Silly Sod...you should know better than to mess with Molly. ;)

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Yeah, Different Strokes lol. I can't help feeling now though that it was somehow inherently racist. Or am I being too PC and liberal here? It seems like a couple of very corny black stereotypes living with a beneficial white multi-millionaire who didn't try to sexually abuse them in anyway. I dunno, I haven't seen it for years but I just remember the kid and that terrible line with his lip sticking out - wha u tawkin bout willus?!?!?? Seems wrong somehow in these enlightened days - off topic I know but....opinions? :eek:

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You are right of course ha ha. :thumbsup:

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Malt loaf
Proper homemade yorkshire puddings
sausage and bacon
Sainsbury's American style choc chip cookies from the bakery (5 pack)
Vodka that hasn't cost me a new mortgage to drink

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Not all at once you understand :lol:

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Greedy moo.....:eek:

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You're not serious.:blink:

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I'm beginning to think I'm a little modest in my ambitions, re food I would like if and when I get a chance to visit the UK. I guess I would be better pushing the boat out and booking two seats for myself and stomach on the way back to the US because I'd forgotten about 'real' cadburys chocolate and not the green-worm infested US imitation (anyone interested in hearing that story better have a strong stomach:eek:), the gooey french cheese, and kebabs.

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I didnt know the Exning chippie was good value, geeandtee! I will give it a try next time I am home (just down the road in Cambridge but have a friend in Exning).

For me, a half decent ploughmans lunch with real cheese (not the plastic cr*p that passes for cheese here) preferably Stilton from any pub that happens to be en route.

Then real bangers from the village butcher, with mash.

Somewhere along the line there should be a real devonshire tea too but I dont want to go overboard on the first day.