Londoners will understand...probably!

[Sweetpea]

I went looking for Manzies Pie 'n' Mash online the other day. I discovered they do 'online shopping'. Today I got my first delivery. 4 pies, 4 Mash and 2 liquor. It came via CityLink and I am over the moon.

Manzes Pie 'n' Mash in the middle of the Fens. Wow!!!

[poppy]

a lot won't know what liquor is, he,he.
Enjoy Sweet

[Sweetpea]

When you tell 'em it's green, they don't want to try either.

My husband is a Macclesfield man and was loath to try, when I got it into his head that it was really quite bland, he tried and quite liked it. What he did find odd, was putting vinegar on a pie, and refused to do that.

[poppy]

Oh that was the best bit you cant have pie n mash without.
vinegar pastry mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Sweetpea]

Off topic a bit, but I cannot help humming, "You probably think this song is about you".




I am just warming it all up now...

[Bruv]

I am a third eldest brother, doesn't matter how many more there is does it ?
I made my first visit to eat the traditional London fayre, Pie and Mash with liquor after starting work in a top West End Restaurant.
Taken there by my Big Bruvver to show me what it was like.
The mash was scrapped onto the plate and the pie was presented unceremoniously beside it then covered with a see through, parsley sauce type stuff.
The pie was made with tasteless boiled minced beef, the pastry was like a doughy pudding, nothing like my mums pastry at all, the mash was lumpy, watery and bland, and the liquor was supposedly eel liquor with parsley, tasting of ......mainly.... water.

I think it filled a need way back when, and probably gave the world the idea that the English had poor culinary skills.

Must admit I did enjoy the experience though.....and wouldn't mind testing them again.....just to make sure they were that amazingly bland flavour.

What were the internet ones like Sweetpea ?
They replicate that same blandness.....and sell it ?

[Sweetpea]

That's the joy Bruv, the pure simplicity.

Oh, if memory serves, there are two more brothers.

[poppy]

If it was any where near the Troc it would be rubbish, you needed to have been eating it up, Brick Lane or the Old Kent road or Middlesex Street, some parts of Pimlico did good pie and liquor too. The place I liked best near Westminster was in Rochester Row. Oh and there was god place near the 'Pimlico Tram' pub, my lunch time haunt.
Like everything eat it in the wrong place and it is bad.

[Bruv]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

That's the joy Bruv, the pure simplicity.

Oh, if memory serves, there are two more brothers.

And a sister........dont forget the sister.

I must remember, you never forget.....now thats a worry.

Mumble mumble.....wonder what else I told her ?

Poppy I used to work in the Troc, that was the West End restaurant "Premier Restaurant du monde" it's self appointed tag line.
The Pie and Mash experience was in Woolwich south east London, dont know if it was Manzies.

Reading this thread I swear I could smell pies!