Cooking trash

[keepdiggin 9,561]

Went into a lovely butchers in crowle near Scunthorpe todays called “Parkin butchers” old school full of game and massive cuts of beef and fantastic sandwiches 

[WILF 47,219]

Necessity I’d imagine does wonders for the menu.

My old man would eat things that would make a goat puke but that all came from growing up in a family of 9 in the 20s & 30s and then 5 years in a pow camp in the war……it became almost like a party trick to make everyone scream, but he also knew what mushrooms to pick in fields and stuff like that.

But mouldy bread, any type of game or offal or squirrels or anything odd….not a bother, he’s make a meal out of most of it.

[Lenmcharristar 9,816]

3 hours ago, WILF said:

This what I don’t understand about the Irish famine, nobody is more than 3 days walk from the sea which incidentally they had to walk to in order to board the boat to Australia or America ?……was fishing banned ?

Fishing wasnt banned but there was no spuds to make chips with, mon now wilf its fish n chips

[WILF 47,219]

Just now, Lenmcharristar said:

Fishing wasnt banned but there was no spuds to make chips with, mon now wilf its fish n chips

I’m glad you got the joke mate, I was waiting for some stick from someone ! Lol 

[chartpolski 23,987]

9 minutes ago, WILF said:

Necessity I’d imagine does wonders for the menu.

My old man would eat things that would make a goat puke but that all came from growing up in a family of 9 in the 20s & 30s and then 5 years in a pow camp in the war……it became almost like a party trick to make everyone scream, but he also knew what mushrooms to pick in fields and stuff like that.

But mouldy bread, any type of game or offal or squirrels or anything odd….not a bother, he’s make a meal out of most of it.

Your dads John Rambo ! 
Cheers.

[WILF 47,219]

1 minute ago, chartpolski said:

Your dads John Rambo ! 
Cheers.

That’s where I nicked that phrase but it actually fitted quiet nice with what I was trying to convey.

He told me that in the POW camp they would steal potato peelings which were well on their way to being rotten out of the kitchen waste heap, I suppose after that, everything’s a rump steak ! Lol 

[DIDO.1 22,844]

Traditional butchers are doing really well near us now, always new ones opening. They have adapted to what people want. Lots of nice looking ready to cook products. Also advertising on social media. 

[DIDO.1 22,844]

This local butcher now has 3 high street shops in areas that lost, and were without butchers for years. They sell out regularly. 

I mentioned on here years ago that I'd always wanted to be a butcher and had a dream of one day opening a shop. This is what I had in mind, really well marketed meat, packaged for the hipster wanker

[Qbgrey 4,097]

I’d love a decent farm shop with proper butchers, but round here the pikeys would just terrorise it, would nt be no fun I can tell you. Most young girls nowadays have trouble boiling an egg so throw a bag of mussels or a nice fillet of cod they would have no clue

[ditchman 2,843]

12 hours ago, South hams hunter said:

We have the same with fish like rockling, wrasse, gar, mullet, eel and other stuff ... most aint worth the hassle or are too good sport to snot for 1 meal

smoked eel fillets on toast..............superb

[South hams hunter 8,924]

19 minutes ago, ditchman said:

smoked eel fillets on toast..............superb

I was thinking/talking conger not scabby little green eels

[Wolfdog91 7,185]

51 minutes ago, Qbgrey said:

I’d love a decent farm shop with proper butchers, but round here the pikeys would just terrorise it, would nt be no fun I can tell you. Most young girls nowadays have trouble boiling an egg so throw a bag of mussels or a nice fillet of cod they would have no clue

Yeah a lot of modern women folk really missed the mark when raising their daughters.  All it is not is working jobs that make them feel miserable and cooking ramen noodles and microwave dinners

Lotta my friends tell me the love when I come over because I cook better then their wives or GF's but seriously I'll go hang out with them and within a hour or two I'm digging though their cabinets and freezers looking for somthing to cook because I'm sorry fast food and microwave waved bullshit just...yeah no 

[kanny 20,634]

15 hours ago, WILF said:

This what I don’t understand about the Irish famine, nobody is more than 3 days walk from the sea which incidentally they had to walk to in order to board the boat to Australia or America ?……was fishing banned ?

 

[NEWKID 27,209]

2 hours ago, South hams hunter said:

I was thinking/talking conger not scabby little green eels

I've said on here before my cousin traps eels in the exe, then has them smoked in an old smoke house in Newton Abbot area, they are in a lot of fancy restaurants down here and a few in London, got to say they are lovely... Conger is a bit shit imo, edible but not worth keeping...

[WILF 47,219]

35 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

I've said on here before my cousin traps eels in the exe, then has them smoked in an old smoke house in Newton Abbot area, they are in a lot of fancy restaurants down here and a few in London, got to say they are lovely... Conger is a bit shit imo, edible but not worth keeping...

Freshwater eels are protected species here (as is just about everything f***ing else !)

Theres a bass regulation or ban too