Regional takeaway delicacies

[mistergixer]

We seem to have a few food threads going, so here's another:

On a recent holiday in Cumbria, i was delighted to see gravy available on the menu in a chippy. Gravy is generally not available in chip shops outside of the north - i was once called a 'dirty bastard' for asking for chips and gravy in a Welsh chip shop.
Also on the menu was black pudding which i love, and Haggis (which i would never even consider touching).

I currently live near Aylesbury, in every kebab shop here coleslaw is served on kebabs. However, go a few miles down the road to Tring Leighton or Hemel, and coleslaw doesn't feature on kebabs. It seems to be unique to Aylesbury, as i've been in many kebab shops across the land and never encountered it before.

So, are there any takeaway delicacies unique to the area in which you live?
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[Mudskipper]

One of my local places does a mean chicken parmo - a dish sent south by the smoggies I believe, had my first one in Stockton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmo
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Chip Spice in a chippy - not many places have that other than 'Ull.

Also, we have Patties - no, not Pate. Patties. Potato/sage in batter, fried. No. It isnt a fritter, we have them too. Patties.
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[mistergixer]

Oooh, i just thought of another:

Scraps - basically all the shitty bits of crispy batter scraped up and sold in bags.

When we first moved daarn saarf, i wrote in a school diary that my brother and i always fought over who got the scraps.

My Suvvern teacher (who had obviously never heard of scraps) took this to mean that we had to fight each other for scraps of food at home, and contacted the social.


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[RussG]

There's nothing special in Norwich.

Infact I moved from The Midlands, and when I ask for a kebab in Norwich I get funny looks when I ask for mint sauce and lemon on my kebab. Weirdos.
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[WishayKillie]

I love food threads like these. It might be sad but I find the regional differences in food rather fascinating

Where I live in North Lanarkshire our main specialties seem to be:

Chiken Tika (Spicy) Calzone: https://www.chillibiteonline.co.uk/pizzas-a-calzone.html

Which is essentially a naan bread version of a pizza calzone with a curry of your choice in it

Aslo the Scottish favourite "Pizza Crunch Supper":

https://pugwash.info/articles/pizza/deep-fried-pizza-3.jpg


Dont think you get those "dahn sarf"


Plus if you ask for a Supper, ie fish supper, haggis supper, black pudding supper. You will get x2 of the main (fish, haggis etc) and a large helping of chips.
Plus like the North of England you can usually get most toppings available, cheese, curry sauce, mushy peas, gravy and pakora sauce put onto anything you order.

One main difference regionally between Glasgow/West Central and Endinburgh/East Coast is the seasoning options offered to you at the point of sale.
In Glasgow and the West you will be asked if you require "Salt'n'Vinegar applied to your food, whereas in Edinburgh and the East you will be asked if you want "Salt'n'sauce". The sauce being brown chippy stuff. I find it very perplexing that they assume you need brown sauce applied. Sauce should be an extra at the customers discretion not an assumption


One I have tried after working with a guy from Middlesbrough was Parmo Chicken. I have to say it come highly recommended from me . I love the Smoggies


Mistergixer, I know you have a love of far eastern food and northern British cuisine. So I have a recommendation for you should you ever find yourself in Glasgow. I thought it was a taste sensation, it was a true fusion of Oriental meeting Scots.
The restaurant is called Dragon-i and the dish is Huk Guen and it is....wait for it.... Stornoway Balck Pudding in a pancake rolll!!!!! Oh my God it is fantastic I fucking love that place Quite posibly one of the wonders of the world. Combining a spring roll with Scotland's best Black Pudding, the chef deserves a medal
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Cardiff -
Cheese on chips, gravy on chips (surprised at your experience of gravied welsh chips, North wales by any chance?)

Distinct lack of Clarkes pies.

Rare to find curry sauce in chip shops.

Cheap pizza - £4 for a 11 inch pizza with 4 toppings, a can and a stick of garlic bread.

No black pudding, not even in my local butcher.

Used to get batter scraps in bristol, not seen them for a while though.

[oldpink]

Being from Glasgow I'll Add the deep fried mars bar supper from the fish & chip shop
in fact they will deep fry just about any snack bar you want

Down South Kebabs are shit, they want to put Garlic Mayo on it thats just wrong
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[Sam_Y_93]

By the sounds of it we get pretty much all if this in Cambridge except for WK's pizza crunch thing that just sounds horrible

allymoss what wrong with chilli and mayo on a kebab?

And all this speak of black puddings making me hungry might have to pop out and get some
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[oldpink]

pizza crunch sounds revolting but its acctually pretty nice to eat as long is its not to greasy
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[willis1337]

Uncle Sams (local burger place - about five outlets) in Brighton - their chilli burger is absolutely lovely (have a double).

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[Bendy]

[Sam_Y_93]

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[CaPo]

I can remember asking for chips and cheese when I was in Slough once (horrid place). They looked at me like I was weird then got a couple of cheese slices that they used for burgers and put them on the chips!
In Norway they put Paprika on the chips like its salt.
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[CaPo]

Also, cant beat a Munchie Box
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