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titch juicy

titch juicy

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Louisa Wrote:

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> titch juicy Wrote:

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> -----

> > Manze's pies are muck... And overpriced muck at

> > that. Trading on nostalgia and charging the

> earth

> > for it. That's the only reason there's only a

> > couple of them left. My folks brings down a

> > consignment of steak ale and mushroom pies from

> > their local pie shop in Cumbria every time they

> > come...?1.20 a pie and the best I've ever

> tasted.

> >

> > If the traditional working class food

> > establishment's cared for their customers and

> > served decent food at decent prices then we'd

> not

> > even be having this discussion. Empty nostalgia

> > only goes so far. People want better and are

> > getting it.

>

> Cumbria. Says it all. I don't think London's

> traditional working classes have much to worry

> about the rubbish they dish out from up north.

> That's probably why so many northerners choose

> London as home, to escape the poor culinary

> selection. My only memory of north of Watford gap

> is the disgusting chips with gravy. Yummy - NOT.

>

>

> These pie n mash shops are institutions which have

> been around for generations, they're still here

> today. They fed the dock workers of the East End

> and they provide decent good quality food at a

> reasonable price. They've left London but are now

> popular in other areas of the south-east, notably

> Kent and Essex. Just because you didn't grow up

> eating it doesn't make it disgusting or poor

> quality. It just means you have poor taste.

>

> Louisa.



Yeah. It's a bit boring now the horse has bolted.

Horsebox

Horsebox

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Louisa, you've made the same joke in 2 consecutive posts. It's not like you to bang your drum ad nauseum...


Anyway, despite the awful food served up at Manzes, at least you'll be in good company - Jim Davidson is a regular!


http://manze.co.uk/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=display&ref=F_F&sid=v610v71085v69ia9533724x0e7j2c6u8

Louisa

Louisa

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Horsebox - nice to see you still jumping on the bandwagon for a pop at Louisa. Quick you'd better run though, the collie is cornering the flock :)


StraferJack formerly SeanMacGabhann - the fact you continue to josh with me on here, despite claiming to have "gone through the is she/isn't she trolling" thing, is equally as flattering today as it was back in 2007. You even track down my posts now just so you can join in.


I make observations on here as everyone else does, I don't think that is trolling, but I can appreciate and understand why certain people on here who disagree with me take that route, it's an easy way out to dismiss someone as a troll. Even after six years. It's also interesting that other rubbish troll posts on here are allowed the slip under the SJ magnifying glass. I clearly do rattle your cage!


Louisa.

Louisa

Louisa

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Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> I'd quite like to eat at Louisa's new Pop-up she's

> planning, near the tidied up station area

>

> With ????'s there peeling the 'taters

>

> Serving pies and eels, without the slightest hint

> of irony

>

>

> Can't wait



Tbh I'd rather set up a genuine organic horse meat burger stall. I reckon I could outdo the other street food vans within days.


Louisa.

fishbiscuits

fishbiscuits

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Louisa Wrote:

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> Tbh I'd rather set up a genuine organic horse meat

> burger stall. I reckon I could outdo the other

> street food vans within days.


Nothing wrong with a horse burger. Horse tastes alright IMO.

http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/horse-burgers.html



As for M Manze - nobody in their right mind would eat jellied eels, but I do love pie and mash. So far we have conflicting reports from Louisa and Titch Juicy. Anybody else have any opinion (not that qualifies as street food, of course).

*Bob*

*Bob*

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Pie and Mash. Been there. What is there to say? It's exactly what you expect. A cheap pie. A pile a mash. Parsley sauce - I mean, Jesus. PARSLEY SAUCE.


Why are these shops dwindling over the years?


The bottom line is that people have found something (all kinds of somethings) better to eat - and they've voted with their feet.

TillieTrotter

TillieTrotter

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I love Manzes. When my daughter comes home from Exeter we indulge ourselves with pie and mash to celebrate my family's working class roots. Her rather posh boyfriend joined us last time and the lovely ladies were cooing all over him and advising him what to eat. One said "ain't he loverly, he's like royalty". I love a commoner me!
Louisa

Louisa

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El Pibe Wrote:

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> SJ, learn to embrace Louisa's ludicrous

> prejudices, and love the fact that no matter how

> much she may wind you up, it can't even come close

> to how much the mere existence of the bourgeoisie

> winds her up ;-P


As if the bourgeoisie wind me up ;)


Louisa.

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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*Bob* Wrote:

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> Pie and Mash. Been there. What is there to say?

> It's exactly what you expect. A cheap pie. A pile

> a mash. Parsley sauce - I mean, Jesus. PARSLEY

> SAUCE.

>

> Why are these shops dwindling over the years?

>

> The bottom line is that people have found

> something (all kinds of somethings) better to eat

> - and they've voted with their feet.


Ah but *Bob*


You have to have a burnt top with double mash, doused in spicy vinegar at Arments in Camberwell.


That's the one to go for


Mind you the HEARTBURN from the liquor/pastry is something to behold


Gives you a gut full of working class bile to work off.


Even I turn a little 'salt of the 'erf' after.

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