Stuff like cucumber sandwiches - to go with our silver tea services
I had a summer of cucumber sandwiches when I was in college. My roommates gf was an english major and she was curious about them. So we 'reinvented' them from a picture. THey seem sort ho hum - but OMG we got obsessed. I have never forgotten my little friends (the sandwiches not the roommate).
We played it up naturally - we allowed ourselves to use words like "extraordinary", "too common", "too too sick-making". Little expecting the sandwiches (white white bread, a molecular monolayer of mayo, paper thin cukes, the crust CUT OFF, and cut into daity triangles) would take over our lives for a season.
Can we make Jaffa cakes as well - for High Tea you know
Jaffa Cakes I could definitely schedule. And I'll be covering bread making on my official CakesWeLike Substack at some point, and once you've perfected bread making you can make whatever kind of sandwich you like.
Eh, people need to stop fearmongering about food. Not dying from eating food is literally in the definition of food. If it would kill you we wouldn't call it food, we would call it poison.
For me it was sausage rolls from the school canteen, and giant Yorkshire puddings filled with sausages and gravy, and fish and chips with scraps, and buttery shortbread, and chocolate dipped flapjack, apple turnovers, cream cake with fresh strawberries, vanilla slices, scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam...
When it came to food, I had an excellent childhood.
Oh what memories! Our canteen was lousy so we'd sneak out to the chippy near school for a bag of chips (with scraps!) or to the bakery for a pasty/sausage roll.
Mum would make yorkshires on Sunday without fail. Mine are so-so.
I just did an order from britishfoodsupplies.com. Chocolate puds and ambrosia custard and rice pud. Trying to introduce my son to the finer things in life - he's currently scarfing Robertson's marmalade at every opportunity... but mostly 'cause it has paddington on the jar.
We used to vacation a lot on Vancouver Island, and found the best darned Cornish pasties in Qualicum Beach. Also, the best fancy pastries at the Bon Ton in Vancouver.
Funnily enough, there’s a cornish pasty place (or was, when I lived there) in the near north downtown aka “arts” district in Las Vegas. Damn good food, small band shows in the back.
One my favorite things about growing up near the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was the abundance of pasties. A lot of Cornish and Welsh miners immigrated to the area back in the 19th century and they brought that food tradition with them. They are one of my favorite comfort foods.
that’s where i discovered them, just outside st. ignace … we’d buy them frozen & haul a bunch back down to the Detroit area … oddly enough my mom was from welsh anthracite coal miners in Scranton, PA, OHJB’s hometown …
Pepperoni rolls, West Virginia's favorite (and official, but I have FEELINGS about that and we won't discuss it in public) were invented by an Italian baker who immigrated to the central Allegheny region, he sold them as an inexpensive, easy, and filling lunch to Italian immigrant coal miners.
A proper pepperoni roll is just pepperoni in bread. People try to add all sorts of other things, but once you start adding cheese and sauce and peppers, they become a whole lot less bucket friendly and lot more expensive. Also, you want to grind your pepperoni, slices are okay but inferior and sticks are just plain bullshit. I will fight you about that.
OneYieldRegular mentioned my local place to get pasties: Grass Valley, California.
There are two shops to choose from. You can order them frozen and keep them until you are ready to warm and eat them. Used to buy them all the time. A quick and filling meal on a cold night...
In a strange twist, there is a barber shop just below one of the pasty shops. In this barber shop is a sign, with an arrow pointing up which reads, "Fresh Meat Pies," in a tip of the hat to Sweeney Todd.
Oh and I forgot to mention the city's annual "Pasty Throwing Contest" on or near St. Piran's Day. Alas, I have never entered, not having either a good overhand or underhand throwing arm.
There's been talk of empanadas downstream and I've been on a little bit of an empanada expedition lately. Here's a recent example in actual stereoscopic 3D. These are mostly beef and corn.
That's a full width, parallel, side by side view for the two or three of you with 3D monitors, TVs, or faceboxes. The rest of you, just think of it as two very similar pictures.
Quad, like 3D, is one of those things that should have gotten a lot more love than it did. Even if it was correctly perceived as way for stereo stores to sell twice as many speakers.
Can we request stuff?
Stuff like cucumber sandwiches - to go with our silver tea services
I had a summer of cucumber sandwiches when I was in college. My roommates gf was an english major and she was curious about them. So we 'reinvented' them from a picture. THey seem sort ho hum - but OMG we got obsessed. I have never forgotten my little friends (the sandwiches not the roommate).
We played it up naturally - we allowed ourselves to use words like "extraordinary", "too common", "too too sick-making". Little expecting the sandwiches (white white bread, a molecular monolayer of mayo, paper thin cukes, the crust CUT OFF, and cut into daity triangles) would take over our lives for a season.
Can we make Jaffa cakes as well - for High Tea you know
Jaffa Cakes I could definitely schedule. And I'll be covering bread making on my official CakesWeLike Substack at some point, and once you've perfected bread making you can make whatever kind of sandwich you like.
that's a pepperoni roll in West By God
Is it a pepperoni roll if there's no pepperoni?
My abuelita would have called this an English empanada. Looks delicious.
Why festive? Why not festivus?
I'm giving away no spoilers.
...and I thought that was just a Upper thing.
A stew wrapped in a sturdy crust. Food to go and keep you going.
Thank you!
I grew up on cornish pasties and sausage rolls, and fish and chips... and of course Tetley's bitter.
Now that I think of it it's a fucking miracle I'm still here.
Eh, people need to stop fearmongering about food. Not dying from eating food is literally in the definition of food. If it would kill you we wouldn't call it food, we would call it poison.
Almost everything we eat will kill us if we eat it in large enough quantities. As a species, we like to live dangerously.
It would take absurd quantities to kill you. As in, literally splitting your digestive tract from overstuffing.
True. I didn't say it'd be easy.
Not heart healthy, but somehow we love it.
For me it was sausage rolls from the school canteen, and giant Yorkshire puddings filled with sausages and gravy, and fish and chips with scraps, and buttery shortbread, and chocolate dipped flapjack, apple turnovers, cream cake with fresh strawberries, vanilla slices, scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam...
When it came to food, I had an excellent childhood.
Oh what memories! Our canteen was lousy so we'd sneak out to the chippy near school for a bag of chips (with scraps!) or to the bakery for a pasty/sausage roll.
Mum would make yorkshires on Sunday without fail. Mine are so-so.
I just did an order from britishfoodsupplies.com. Chocolate puds and ambrosia custard and rice pud. Trying to introduce my son to the finer things in life - he's currently scarfing Robertson's marmalade at every opportunity... but mostly 'cause it has paddington on the jar.
Every autumn I bake a couple of apple crumbles and make a big pot of homemade custard. Mr Cakes sometimes buys Ambrosia, if we're feeling lazy.
Mr Cakes also makes excellent Yorkshire puddings, he should, I taught him everything he knows.
Nicola, you are a world treasure!
I'm not sure about that. Maybe just a Wonkette treasure.
You are all of that and more! Thank you for sharing your creative cooking talents with Wonkette AND the world🥧
I was once in London by myself, staying at the Strand, and behind the hotel is Covent Garden AND CORNISH PASTIES. It was great.
We used to vacation a lot on Vancouver Island, and found the best darned Cornish pasties in Qualicum Beach. Also, the best fancy pastries at the Bon Ton in Vancouver.
The pasty is prelude to the futury. - Old Saying I Just Made Up
Funnily enough, there’s a cornish pasty place (or was, when I lived there) in the near north downtown aka “arts” district in Las Vegas. Damn good food, small band shows in the back.
Oh. My. Giddy. Aunt! I 💖LOVE💖 pasties!! It has been approximately 500 years since I’ve made a batch. Thank you thank you thank you for this!
(Also thanks for the reminder that I haven’t finished watching Poldark.
Happy to be of service. Now go finish watching Poldark, t'int right, t'int fair, t'int proper to forget that.
One my favorite things about growing up near the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was the abundance of pasties. A lot of Cornish and Welsh miners immigrated to the area back in the 19th century and they brought that food tradition with them. They are one of my favorite comfort foods.
that’s where i discovered them, just outside st. ignace … we’d buy them frozen & haul a bunch back down to the Detroit area … oddly enough my mom was from welsh anthracite coal miners in Scranton, PA, OHJB’s hometown …
Pepperoni rolls, West Virginia's favorite (and official, but I have FEELINGS about that and we won't discuss it in public) were invented by an Italian baker who immigrated to the central Allegheny region, he sold them as an inexpensive, easy, and filling lunch to Italian immigrant coal miners.
A proper pepperoni roll is just pepperoni in bread. People try to add all sorts of other things, but once you start adding cheese and sauce and peppers, they become a whole lot less bucket friendly and lot more expensive. Also, you want to grind your pepperoni, slices are okay but inferior and sticks are just plain bullshit. I will fight you about that.
[Raises hands in defensive posture and backs away.]
Hey, hey, hey, take it easy. Who said anything about using pepperoni sticks?
[A fool, admittedly, but not so great a fool as to provoke a physical confrontation with a justly-enraged Granny.]
OneYieldRegular mentioned my local place to get pasties: Grass Valley, California.
There are two shops to choose from. You can order them frozen and keep them until you are ready to warm and eat them. Used to buy them all the time. A quick and filling meal on a cold night...
In a strange twist, there is a barber shop just below one of the pasty shops. In this barber shop is a sign, with an arrow pointing up which reads, "Fresh Meat Pies," in a tip of the hat to Sweeney Todd.
Oh and I forgot to mention the city's annual "Pasty Throwing Contest" on or near St. Piran's Day. Alas, I have never entered, not having either a good overhand or underhand throwing arm.
Sounds like food waste, up with which I will not put!
I think they remove the parking lot grit and sell them at half price.
There's been talk of empanadas downstream and I've been on a little bit of an empanada expedition lately. Here's a recent example in actual stereoscopic 3D. These are mostly beef and corn.
https://substack.com/profile/671070-paulomatic/note/c-43115451?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=edsu
That's a full width, parallel, side by side view for the two or three of you with 3D monitors, TVs, or faceboxes. The rest of you, just think of it as two very similar pictures.
Your Quadraphonic computer post does not work!
Quad, like 3D, is one of those things that should have gotten a lot more love than it did. Even if it was correctly perceived as way for stereo stores to sell twice as many speakers.
As a native Californian, I am embarrassed that I've never had one.
They come from Chile.
I've had empanadas from a few different countries. My favorite is from Argentina.
As an old kemist, learned to fuse these to see stereo drawings of molecules
Can you fuse a parallel view? I was tempted to post a cross-eyed version too. I think more people can fuse those.