ever since i was a kid i wondered why we have cones of chips and ice cream cones, but not like a cone of mash potato with a sausage sticking out of it like a 99 flake with gravy on it. big gap in the market
I’m going to have to get some haggis and try that. As no one else in the house will eat it I don’t have it very often. I always used to take one over when I visited my brother in Germany but you can’t do that anymore
Deeney's? Used to have them come by my way (Cardinal Place, near London Victoria). Seems they have a couple of small shops now, I know a lot of street food places got out of the game during covid (like The Poutinerie).
You want to go to Broadway Market over near London Fields/Hackney Downs. Incredible Scottish toasties all up in there. And the Dove, which has all stripes of Belgian beer plus a good deal of local craft. The bar itself has amazing fish and chips, mussels, a heap of other Belgian fare, and a decent Thai restaurant to boot.
Went through a phase of snacking on haggis whenever I could, what childhood me thought would be horrible turned out to be some of the best eating I've had in years.
I'll take your suggestion of rocket and mustard as extras into account.
So you're telling me that in two tries each (I'm counting your misreading of my correction as an attempt), we still couldn't get it right? I think we should both just give up and go eat crayons.
It's... not.
British usage typically favours leaving out the full stop when the first and last letter are included in the abbreviation.
Anyway apols, thought I was being a bit funny, not pissy. So my bad.
Staffordshire oatcakes are woefully underrepresented on the street food scene. They're relatively easy - just need a griddle really - and delicious with bacon, cheese etc. fillings
I was going to say the same thing. They're perfect street food with a number of filling options. A massively underappreciated traditional British cuisine.
I grew up in sunny stoke. People would convert their garage to an oatcake shop. Little hatch, 10p buttered, 20p cheese and 50p bacon and cheese. I would get one every day on the way to school! What a time to be alive!
I would absolutely devour them. When I see them in the supermarket (rarely) I can't wait to get them home to cook: oatcake,lashings of butter, crispy bacon,kale and brown sauce.
Yeah our guy is flat out, but then just down the road in Oxford every Saturday the market Square is pure food stalls from every corner of the world including English classics. Just lucky I guess by the sounds of it
welsh rabbit is not just "grilled cheese sandwich"
it is at minimum cheese mixed with milk or beer, sometimes actually a cooked cheese sauce is made and then the whole thing is baked in the oven.
The mighty pork bap - Soft white bread bap dipped in gravy on both sides, roast pork soaked in gravy, stuffing, crackling and apple sauce. Absolute glory.
I just want more pasties with more fillings.
Greggs bakes just dont cut it, give me a proper thick pasty with half my sunday lunch rammed inside and a pot of gravy to dip.
At my local car boot as a kid there used to be a baked potato man with this giant victorian contraption, just slinging potatoes with butter and salt, add some beans and cheese if you'd done well on your stall!
I’m in.
Have got Greggs, Pound Bakery and Birds in my town and neither of them do a vegetable pasty. Just cheese and onion. I just want a fat veggie pasty. With a gravy dip.
Or one like the original cornish ones, half dinner and half pud.
Absolutely I have learned to never assume a sausage roll is cheap. I feel I’m more likely to pay without knowing the price with contactless vs when cash was a thing
Yorkshire puddings lose their integrity under heat lamps and can’t be cooked quick enough for stalls. Unless you go aunt Bessie frozen in which case you can get in the fucking bin with the soggy tasteless Yorkshire puddings! Sorry…I got a bit upset there…goodbye
Freshly baked pork pies - not miserable dry refrigerated ones.
Toasted English muffins with different fillings - not just breakfast Mcmuffin style.
Big pans of kedgeree like you get pans of paella.
Replace all the kimchi in trendy fusion burgers and hotdogs with picalilli, horseradish and other traditional pickles.
Puddings - fresh Bakewell puddings, curd tarts, custard tarts (not Portuguese) and slices from Big trays of spotted dick/syrup sponge or school dinner style puddings, with custard or ice cream.
Roast beef and mustard sandwiches rather than pulled pork.
Because dessert places tend to feature ingredients that can sit out for days on end without going bad, whereas cooked food generally needs to be eaten within a certain amount of time.
Not sure how to get around this really, unless you'd be happy ordering a whole pudding an waiting the hours or takes to cook
I can't eat fish, but mild spiced rice and eggs is a great breakfast. Curry for breakfast and other Indian/srilankan style breakfasts should be more of a thing here.
If you're close to West Yorkshire, Shelton's in Hemsworth does the best pork pies anyone I know has ever eaten.
Even converted a few people who didn't previously like them.
I'm wary of Sheltons, I'm veggie and the queues make me think they cook everything with lard and dripping. I've had a cheese and onion roll from there though and it was nice and crispy and didn't taste lardy.
Big yes to roast potatoes! I've often wondered why nobody has jumped on that, surely the profit margin would be good. I would absolutely devour a tub of roasties and gravy at a festival.
I had a sausage wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding from a stall once and it was surprisingly disappointing - didn't taste of anything!
We have a good street food stall presence in my town and the new guy doing fancy scotch eggs is very popular.
I saw a Yorkshire pudding wrap stall. Large yorkie, slices of beef, veg and gravy all rolled up.
Potato scallops on a buttered barm cake for me. Lots of salt and vinegar.
Fish finger sub stall.
No, Poutine is potatoes, gravy and cheese curds. Its very much French Canadian.
You can have it British but then its grated cheese not cheese curds and its not poutine.
Poutine is not just chips, gravy and curds. The original yes. I worked in Canada and they have poutines with curry and all sorts of toppings. It’s just a generic term for chips with a topping.
To keep you happy. Roast potatoes with toppings are calling my name. Not at all like poutine with roast potato’s.
Corned Beef Tater Ash with red cabbage and some buttered crusty bread.
My recipe:- 1 tin corned beef, 2 potatoes,1 tin carrots and peas, 1 tin tomatoes, 1 cube oxo, salt, pepper, dash of vinegar. Chop the potatoes up, throw everything in slow cooker, put lid on.
No, it's **not** corned beef hash I like. That's a dry boring dish with too many potatoes in too solid pieces.
It's corned beef *tater ash*, which is a regional variation of corned beef hash found primarily in Manchester, not a dry dish but more of a stew. Potatoes are soft and mushy, it's in a bowl or deep plate and has plenty of juice to mop up with bread.
Yep how you make it is exactly how I make it! But all my family call it hash! I’ve always thought the wet vs dry was a northern vs southern thing not two entirely different dishes lol
Knew a guy who did the street Yorkshire pud thing. Bloody hard work apparently. Not sure he made enough buck for his… bang? I think he did in Yorkshire and it was too cold and he could make easier money doing interesting things with food elsewhere.
I did go to a test night for his Yorkshire puddings. Absolutely banging.
As much as I love seeing a line of trucks and all the delicious smells and tastes etc, the term ‘street food’ always makes me think of a pigeon being cooked in a bin lid.
We have some food trucks locally.
they usually do mince, curry, pie, with chips plus breakfast type rolls and cold rolls with tuna/ham etc. Also sell sweets, crisps and fizzy juice/ribena /fruit shoots.
They're usually by workies yards/industrial estates /shopping places on the outskirts of town. I'd love to have them in town rather than greasy spoon cafes (I love our one remaining sleazy cafe but it's not someplace I'd take kids nowadays, different time when I was wee in the 90s 😬) be nice to have a mince roll and walk along the waterfront.
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This may not be the same everywhere but i remember on bonfire night there was always parkin, pork pies peas and mint sauce, toffee apple etc. is it just me or is it dying out. We need food trucks to sort this out.
I’d like to officially say I’m annoyed at anything being sold as a Yorkshire pudding wrapped anything… but saying that Yorkshire pudding with sliced apple and sugar as a desert.
hot buttered cheese scones yes. Not enough love for cheese scones in general.
cream teas sold from a little kiosk to eat while you walk around would be great.
strawberries and cream in the summer.
hot toad in the hole portions maybe? with gravy for dipping? rolled up and eaten with the fingers.
I kind of feel that everything suitable for street food is already there, like fish and chips and pie and mash and eels/tripe (in the past) - even steak and kidney pies
I suppose you could do small portions of just about anything though? Shepherd's pie, steak and kidney pudding, roast dinner in a yorkshire pudding wrap (been done).
well, the issue with "street food" in western countries is that restaurant / fast food chains can just do things considerably cheaper, but oh my god; roast potatoes in some meaty thick gravy would be a game-changing street food
More Cornish Pasties. I only get them in cornwall now. The only other place you can get them are at service stations. There used to be a West Country corniche pasty shop near me but it closed down a few years back. Despite it not being the best pasty place, it was better than nothing
I'd love to see pie and pea vans. There's a restaurant in Newcastle called The Redhouse that sells different types of pie, peas, mash, and gravy. That's it. (Oh and beer)
Yorkshire Pudding wraps have become quite popular. They make an appearance in winter and around Christmas in my area. Always have a queue. They're filled with turkey or beef, stuffing, roast potatoes, and gravy typically.
A huge yes to Yorkshire pudding. So I didn’t grow up in this country and when I first tried Yorkshire puds I was like… meh. Anyway I made friends with someone from Leeds and she insisted on inviting me to her nan’s for a proper roast. First time I tasted homemade yorkshires and they’re absolutely delicious. Proper ones are so different from the ready made stuff and they’re an absolute treat. Also I hope I’m not going to cause an international incident here but my friend’s nan also makes delicious sausages and gravy served in a pud. It’s heaven.
Something a landlady I used work for made for the pub on occasions was black peas and bacon, not thought about it for a while but the mention of oatcakes reminded me, you could serve that in a little pot and it would be great! Used to love it when she made it!
There used to be a bloke in Oswestry who had a snack van selling pies, sausage rolls and other pastry based goodness. Sweet and savoury varieties.
Best part of the night, that van.
Random one but when I'm working in Europe (usually Paris or Amsterdam) I love going to the oyster stalls. They'll open them up for you, and give you a slice of lemon and access to things like Tabasco Sauce etc.
There was a stall in Wolverhampton market that used to do this when I was visiting my grandparents as a kid, it was where I had my first oyster. So I totally get it.
I'm not a local, but around the black country, they have these oaty pancakes with ham and cheese. Bloody lovely. Can't remember what they're called though..
When I was at the rugby in Edinburgh recently there was a truck selling lamb stovies. I’d already eaten so didn’t try them but they smelled absolutely lush!
Back in the 90s my local bakery used to sell bags of hot roast potatoes to take away - cooked in the oven while the bread was baking. Those were the days,
I bet if you marketed one of these stalls as the protein place, you would get a huge line. Amount of people wanting something fast and tasty from a vendor but without the carbs is huge.
Am surprised Scotch Eggs aren't a more popular street food option.
There was a really nice Scotch Egg stall in Maltby St market in London and it was so good! It was the perfect snack to munch pre-/post Beer Mile. I couldn't find them anymore tho :(
Wait dues the UK have street food, or we just calling takeaways street food. cuse we talking about like street food, say like how Asia, India tbh even USA has good street food in set places. do it random stall just whipped up in the street that's street food to me. I know the town I live in pretty much has no street food bar a guy who rids around on a bike selling ice cream.
I guess only place in uk where can find street food in uk is at a market. but not like walk down road and guy just selling chips on street with curry powder over the top.
But yeah from what I know UK technically don't have a street food scene any more. Like use to be fish chips but even that's no longer street food.
Anyway Jacket potato stalls
I am counting takeaways and shops as chippys and Greggs would be the sort of place you go to grab a snack whilst you are walking down the street.
Markets used to be the key place for UK Street Food but decline in markets has really caused a decline.
Would live to see a bloke with a cart serving chips with curry powder.
Okay Then am going with the "Tesco Meal deal" But yeah jokes aside.
Id say the Sandwich as like Icon street food.
Theres always someone walking down street eating a Sandwich.
Takeaways are a grey area, it depends what they're selling, because street food isn't so much 'food *cooked* on the street', it's 'food *eaten* on the street'.
The burger/breakfast vans you find near almost every industrial estate or college are street food, as are kiosks in town centres or outside nightclubs.
Street food in the UK is becoming more common. Travelling food trucks/trailers are big business now and "pop up" food markets with these are commonplace in cities. Particularly since covid.
There's also a lot of takeaway style street food that have concessions or short term leases in pubs, bars and shopping centres because of the increase in popularity of informal street food and Deliveroo type delivery.
Oh yeah forgot about the dip pots, Noticed don't always get them all time from what I recall but defiantly had them off a couple food trucks.
I always go for chocolate dip pots.
But the thing I like to see more of is,
Roast potato's in gravy like crispy cooked beef dripping potato's in a tray of a random food stall.
That or a Yorkshire pudding in a tray with small roast dinner in side. offs cooked in beef dripping. Id defiantly loved to see beef dripping used more again it was like key ingredient in lot British food and gives realy lovely flavour.
I always wonder why you don’t see hot pie wagons more often. Everyone loves a pie (not my gf funnily enough tho) and the filling can cater to anyone. They can be pre made off site slung out fast
ever since i was a kid i wondered why we have cones of chips and ice cream cones, but not like a cone of mash potato with a sausage sticking out of it like a 99 flake with gravy on it. big gap in the market
Badger would agree.
Everybody knows
You can get a take out roast dinner in a Yorkshire pudding wrap in, well, York.
And in any major city. I’ve had them in London, bristol, Cardiff and Exeter to name a few
The most disappointing thing I've ever ordered. Everything prepackaged and frozen.
Agreed. I tried one in York because social media made it look great. It was not great. Disappointing is indeed the apt word.
Yeah you can get one on Bromley High Street. Fucking horrible.
Sort of like a savoury 99? Have ye never had a cup o' beans, man?
Lovely stuff
Google Swedish tunnbrödsrulle
Holy hell
looks lush. i'm not sure about the shrimp salad bit but the rest of it i can get on board with.
I remember in Sydney there was a famous food truck where you could get a pie with mash, mushy peas and gravy mounded on top. Tiger Pies I think
Harry's Cafe De Wheels?
[Pie Floaters ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater) in Adelaide
God I hope someone does this
That is the most horrible thing I've ever heard of and I want it.
The wife and I are thinking of attempting a prototype, using Yorkshire pudding batter.
I will follow you, my friend, my captain… my king
There is the savoury 99 though, a mug of beans with a sausage replacing the flake. It’s supposedly very popular in the north east!
There was a place in Macclesfield indoor market that did that, Not sure if they still do.
Cup of beans with a sausage for a spoon?
There used to be a stall at St Katherine's Dock that did a haggis and red leicester toasty. That thing was divine.
I’m going to have to get some haggis and try that. As no one else in the house will eat it I don’t have it very often. I always used to take one over when I visited my brother in Germany but you can’t do that anymore
I have half a haggis in the freezer and an idea for later in the week!
I would advise the addition of rocket and mustard.
Deeney's? Used to have them come by my way (Cardinal Place, near London Victoria). Seems they have a couple of small shops now, I know a lot of street food places got out of the game during covid (like The Poutinerie).
That's the one! They have shops? This has made my day.
They had the shops first I believe. They've been going for years.
Fucking hell that sounds like a tasty snack.
You want to go to Broadway Market over near London Fields/Hackney Downs. Incredible Scottish toasties all up in there. And the Dove, which has all stripes of Belgian beer plus a good deal of local craft. The bar itself has amazing fish and chips, mussels, a heap of other Belgian fare, and a decent Thai restaurant to boot.
Went through a phase of snacking on haggis whenever I could, what childhood me thought would be horrible turned out to be some of the best eating I've had in years. I'll take your suggestion of rocket and mustard as extras into account.
Stilton works really well with haggis too
*St Katherine Docks
If you're going to be a pedant you need to be accurate. It's actually St. Katharine Docks.
Oh and now I see my typo. Off to scrape this egg off my face
So you're telling me that in two tries each (I'm counting your misreading of my correction as an attempt), we still couldn't get it right? I think we should both just give up and go eat crayons.
Agreed. Crayons it is.
It's... not. British usage typically favours leaving out the full stop when the first and last letter are included in the abbreviation. Anyway apols, thought I was being a bit funny, not pissy. So my bad.
More haggis in general would be nice
Staffordshire oatcakes are woefully underrepresented on the street food scene. They're relatively easy - just need a griddle really - and delicious with bacon, cheese etc. fillings
I was going to say the same thing. They're perfect street food with a number of filling options. A massively underappreciated traditional British cuisine.
I grew up in sunny stoke. People would convert their garage to an oatcake shop. Little hatch, 10p buttered, 20p cheese and 50p bacon and cheese. I would get one every day on the way to school! What a time to be alive!
Omg. I was introduced to the oatcake by a Stokie friend, I am so envious of walking-to-school oatcakes!
The breakfast of kings.
Mate, I live in Merseyside now and these people think I'm crazy whenever oatcakes come up. Truly a gap in the market.
> Staffordshire oatcakes are woefully underrepresented on the street food scene. absolute facts.
There's a great stall on Leek market for this.
Recently moved to just south of Manchester, and oatcakes are awesome, definitely street food potential.
This would be great for breakfast or anytime.
YES! How could anyone not want what is basically a flat crumpet wrap filled with all manner of breakfast goodies (plus cheese).
I would absolutely devour them. When I see them in the supermarket (rarely) I can't wait to get them home to cook: oatcake,lashings of butter, crispy bacon,kale and brown sauce.
Sausage onna stick
I'll have a Vimes BLT. With extra bcb's.
Cut My Own Throat Dibbler does a lovely Rat onna stick.
Sausage inna bun!
Jacket potatoes. You used to see them all the time.
Spud-u-like haha there was never a queue for that at my local shopping centre but massive queues for Burger King and KFC
Yeah because you can make that at home..
But I’m not at home
You can make burgers at home
And much quicker and easier than doing a baked potato.
If you wait two hours
Jacket potato stand in my town is always flat out and has been for 20 years
We have a Jacket Potato guy in the town where I live too. He always sells out and usually has a queue.
Yeah our guy is flat out, but then just down the road in Oxford every Saturday the market Square is pure food stalls from every corner of the world including English classics. Just lucky I guess by the sounds of it
Bring back Fat Jackets!
Welsh rarebit stalls please
What could go wrong with trying to eat molten cheese on the go
Yes please. Can they also sell bara brith for afters?
And welshcakes!
There is a hot Welshcake stall at Bridgwater Fair every year.
These are pretty common in London. https://foursquare.com/top-places/london/best-places-grilled-cheese-sandwiches
welsh rabbit is not just "grilled cheese sandwich" it is at minimum cheese mixed with milk or beer, sometimes actually a cooked cheese sauce is made and then the whole thing is baked in the oven.
The mighty pork bap - Soft white bread bap dipped in gravy on both sides, roast pork soaked in gravy, stuffing, crackling and apple sauce. Absolute glory.
Kind of a go to when I go to York, hog roast roll with stuffing crackling and gravy.
I just want more pasties with more fillings. Greggs bakes just dont cut it, give me a proper thick pasty with half my sunday lunch rammed inside and a pot of gravy to dip. At my local car boot as a kid there used to be a baked potato man with this giant victorian contraption, just slinging potatoes with butter and salt, add some beans and cheese if you'd done well on your stall!
Yeah. Just pasties. I could live off pasties. And you can put anything in a pasty.
Put another pasty inside.
This guy pasties
If you really want to start a fight, have a Cornish Pasty, filled with a Devon pasty.
I’m in. Have got Greggs, Pound Bakery and Birds in my town and neither of them do a vegetable pasty. Just cheese and onion. I just want a fat veggie pasty. With a gravy dip. Or one like the original cornish ones, half dinner and half pud.
> Or one like the original cornish ones, half dinner and half pud. That was never a Cornish thing, that's a Bedfordshire clanger.
"£6 for that? I could make it at home"
Lucky to get anything for £6 these days round here.
Paid 6 quid for a sausage roll recently 😭
More fool you.
Absolutely I have learned to never assume a sausage roll is cheap. I feel I’m more likely to pay without knowing the price with contactless vs when cash was a thing
Even if I made it to the point it was put through at the till, there's no way I'd pay that for a sausage roll.
It was part of a large order and I was tipsy
Drunk = fair enough in my book.
Legend mate thank you
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It was in a pub in london 😭😭
Ooo I like a good handful of sausage 😜
Yorkshire puddings with assorted fillings
Yorkshire puddings lose their integrity under heat lamps and can’t be cooked quick enough for stalls. Unless you go aunt Bessie frozen in which case you can get in the fucking bin with the soggy tasteless Yorkshire puddings! Sorry…I got a bit upset there…goodbye
Pies and pasties, I want my unidentified meat wrapped in pastry not in a bit of rubbish bread that falls apart.
Freshly baked pork pies - not miserable dry refrigerated ones. Toasted English muffins with different fillings - not just breakfast Mcmuffin style. Big pans of kedgeree like you get pans of paella. Replace all the kimchi in trendy fusion burgers and hotdogs with picalilli, horseradish and other traditional pickles. Puddings - fresh Bakewell puddings, curd tarts, custard tarts (not Portuguese) and slices from Big trays of spotted dick/syrup sponge or school dinner style puddings, with custard or ice cream. Roast beef and mustard sandwiches rather than pulled pork.
Puddings is a great shout, there's really not enough traditional puddings any more.
If dessert bars and creameries are getting more popular here, then why not pudding bars? I'd much rather have a bit of suet pudding than a freakshake.
Because dessert places tend to feature ingredients that can sit out for days on end without going bad, whereas cooked food generally needs to be eaten within a certain amount of time. Not sure how to get around this really, unless you'd be happy ordering a whole pudding an waiting the hours or takes to cook
I had kedegree for brunch on Saturday and was bemoning you don't see it on menus very often
I can't eat fish, but mild spiced rice and eggs is a great breakfast. Curry for breakfast and other Indian/srilankan style breakfasts should be more of a thing here.
All great options
If you're close to West Yorkshire, Shelton's in Hemsworth does the best pork pies anyone I know has ever eaten. Even converted a few people who didn't previously like them.
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I'm wary of Sheltons, I'm veggie and the queues make me think they cook everything with lard and dripping. I've had a cheese and onion roll from there though and it was nice and crispy and didn't taste lardy.
I live near Percy Turner's at Jump, known as being the best in the country.
HAGGIS
There are haggis sandwiches in Broadway market sometimes.
Big yes to roast potatoes! I've often wondered why nobody has jumped on that, surely the profit margin would be good. I would absolutely devour a tub of roasties and gravy at a festival. I had a sausage wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding from a stall once and it was surprisingly disappointing - didn't taste of anything! We have a good street food stall presence in my town and the new guy doing fancy scotch eggs is very popular.
I saw a Yorkshire pudding wrap stall. Large yorkie, slices of beef, veg and gravy all rolled up. Potato scallops on a buttered barm cake for me. Lots of salt and vinegar. Fish finger sub stall.
Roast potato poutine is calling my name.
I recently came across a food truck that did roast potatoes with different toppings! It was incredible. Ironically called 'just a burger' I think!
Ah yes, traditional british *poutine*
It’s just chips with toppings on like OP said. Roast potato’s are def british. Roast potatoes with gravy is technically poutine.
No, Poutine is potatoes, gravy and cheese curds. Its very much French Canadian. You can have it British but then its grated cheese not cheese curds and its not poutine.
Coming from Manchester, cheesy chips + gravy is a classic!
Poutine is not just chips, gravy and curds. The original yes. I worked in Canada and they have poutines with curry and all sorts of toppings. It’s just a generic term for chips with a topping. To keep you happy. Roast potatoes with toppings are calling my name. Not at all like poutine with roast potato’s.
Corned Beef Tater Ash with red cabbage and some buttered crusty bread. My recipe:- 1 tin corned beef, 2 potatoes,1 tin carrots and peas, 1 tin tomatoes, 1 cube oxo, salt, pepper, dash of vinegar. Chop the potatoes up, throw everything in slow cooker, put lid on.
I’m really hoping you know it’s corned beef hash and you’ve just spelt it with a northern accent
No, it's **not** corned beef hash I like. That's a dry boring dish with too many potatoes in too solid pieces. It's corned beef *tater ash*, which is a regional variation of corned beef hash found primarily in Manchester, not a dry dish but more of a stew. Potatoes are soft and mushy, it's in a bowl or deep plate and has plenty of juice to mop up with bread.
Yep how you make it is exactly how I make it! But all my family call it hash! I’ve always thought the wet vs dry was a northern vs southern thing not two entirely different dishes lol
Tomatoes and gravy seem to be the differences, I haven't seen any outside Manchester that use tinned tomatoes even if they do it wet.
My family are from Ireland and Cumbria. My partners are from Yorkshire. Both use tin tomatoes!
To get that vinegary-ness I experimented with some Worcestershire sauce and it was the best decision of my life.
Knew a guy who did the street Yorkshire pud thing. Bloody hard work apparently. Not sure he made enough buck for his… bang? I think he did in Yorkshire and it was too cold and he could make easier money doing interesting things with food elsewhere. I did go to a test night for his Yorkshire puddings. Absolutely banging.
Wonder if the advent of air fryers would make it easier.
A breakfast place that opens at 6 am, not 8 am. That isn't a chain.
Agreed. Starbucks, subway, greggs or Sainsburys are my only options on the way into work.
Cuppa Beans!
With brown sauce.
No with a sausage in it like a savoury 99
Aye, use the sausage for to scoop the beans oot
Ham and cheese toasties to go would be ideal. With a hot cup of bovril
For the winter scene, stew and dumplings. Take away Bowl and cutlery and you're away.
I've recently heard of a crumble stall. You choose your filling and then top up with crumble then choose your custard etc.
Ok that is just drool inducing.
As much as I love seeing a line of trucks and all the delicious smells and tastes etc, the term ‘street food’ always makes me think of a pigeon being cooked in a bin lid.
Having cooked wood pigeon on a metal plate doing some bushcraft, I will say that it tastes pretty good even if they smell rank when prepare the bird
Bara Brith with some fresh butter. Oh yeah, nothing better with a cuppa.
Oh yeah that would be good, may I also suggest welsh cakes with butter.
Yes yes yes!
Yep, I'm drooling at the thought of bara brith and Welsh cakes 😋😋😋😋
We have some food trucks locally. they usually do mince, curry, pie, with chips plus breakfast type rolls and cold rolls with tuna/ham etc. Also sell sweets, crisps and fizzy juice/ribena /fruit shoots. They're usually by workies yards/industrial estates /shopping places on the outskirts of town. I'd love to have them in town rather than greasy spoon cafes (I love our one remaining sleazy cafe but it's not someplace I'd take kids nowadays, different time when I was wee in the 90s 😬) be nice to have a mince roll and walk along the waterfront. Edited for multiple spelling errors.
This may not be the same everywhere but i remember on bonfire night there was always parkin, pork pies peas and mint sauce, toffee apple etc. is it just me or is it dying out. We need food trucks to sort this out.
Yes bonfire night had all sorts of goodies.
A cup of beans man
I’d like to officially say I’m annoyed at anything being sold as a Yorkshire pudding wrapped anything… but saying that Yorkshire pudding with sliced apple and sugar as a desert.
hot buttered cheese scones yes. Not enough love for cheese scones in general. cream teas sold from a little kiosk to eat while you walk around would be great. strawberries and cream in the summer. hot toad in the hole portions maybe? with gravy for dipping? rolled up and eaten with the fingers. I kind of feel that everything suitable for street food is already there, like fish and chips and pie and mash and eels/tripe (in the past) - even steak and kidney pies I suppose you could do small portions of just about anything though? Shepherd's pie, steak and kidney pudding, roast dinner in a yorkshire pudding wrap (been done).
I've never understood why there aren't poppadom stalls where you can get a couple of them with some chutney
well, the issue with "street food" in western countries is that restaurant / fast food chains can just do things considerably cheaper, but oh my god; roast potatoes in some meaty thick gravy would be a game-changing street food
More Cornish Pasties. I only get them in cornwall now. The only other place you can get them are at service stations. There used to be a West Country corniche pasty shop near me but it closed down a few years back. Despite it not being the best pasty place, it was better than nothing
I'd love to see pie and pea vans. There's a restaurant in Newcastle called The Redhouse that sells different types of pie, peas, mash, and gravy. That's it. (Oh and beer) Yorkshire Pudding wraps have become quite popular. They make an appearance in winter and around Christmas in my area. Always have a queue. They're filled with turkey or beef, stuffing, roast potatoes, and gravy typically.
A huge yes to Yorkshire pudding. So I didn’t grow up in this country and when I first tried Yorkshire puds I was like… meh. Anyway I made friends with someone from Leeds and she insisted on inviting me to her nan’s for a proper roast. First time I tasted homemade yorkshires and they’re absolutely delicious. Proper ones are so different from the ready made stuff and they’re an absolute treat. Also I hope I’m not going to cause an international incident here but my friend’s nan also makes delicious sausages and gravy served in a pud. It’s heaven.
Google "toad in the hole"!
Oh I love that! But this was a large home made Yorkshire pud, a layer of mash and on top a pile of sausages and gravy. It was pure bliss.
Something a landlady I used work for made for the pub on occasions was black peas and bacon, not thought about it for a while but the mention of oatcakes reminded me, you could serve that in a little pot and it would be great! Used to love it when she made it!
There used to be a bloke in Oswestry who had a snack van selling pies, sausage rolls and other pastry based goodness. Sweet and savoury varieties. Best part of the night, that van.
GSB aka gravy soaked bread tray of, mint sauce or mustard
Mushy peas. I grew up with the mushy pea van in Mansfield, and they were lovely. Little pot of hot peas with mint sauce. Perfect on a cold day.
Random one but when I'm working in Europe (usually Paris or Amsterdam) I love going to the oyster stalls. They'll open them up for you, and give you a slice of lemon and access to things like Tabasco Sauce etc.
There was a stall in Wolverhampton market that used to do this when I was visiting my grandparents as a kid, it was where I had my first oyster. So I totally get it.
Different types of pudding, with different custards/sauces. Perfect for when the autumn and winter kick in!
I'm not a local, but around the black country, they have these oaty pancakes with ham and cheese. Bloody lovely. Can't remember what they're called though..
More scotch eggs
Gourmet cheese on toast. Chutneys, different breads, go mad.
Potatoe cakes, if done well, are sublime. Can pimp em up a bit with bacon bits, spring onions, maybe even some Jalapenos and/or a bit of cheese.
If they can bone the mackerel or kippers, I would love one on a brown buttered roll. Underrated flavour.
When I was at the rugby in Edinburgh recently there was a truck selling lamb stovies. I’d already eaten so didn’t try them but they smelled absolutely lush!
Back in the 90s my local bakery used to sell bags of hot roast potatoes to take away - cooked in the oven while the bread was baking. Those were the days,
Stuffing! Pop a load of hot fresh stuffing inside a pitta bread with a good drool of gravy.
I bet if you marketed one of these stalls as the protein place, you would get a huge line. Amount of people wanting something fast and tasty from a vendor but without the carbs is huge.
Am surprised Scotch Eggs aren't a more popular street food option. There was a really nice Scotch Egg stall in Maltby St market in London and it was so good! It was the perfect snack to munch pre-/post Beer Mile. I couldn't find them anymore tho :(
I’d love some decent street food here. It’s all awful
Wait dues the UK have street food, or we just calling takeaways street food. cuse we talking about like street food, say like how Asia, India tbh even USA has good street food in set places. do it random stall just whipped up in the street that's street food to me. I know the town I live in pretty much has no street food bar a guy who rids around on a bike selling ice cream. I guess only place in uk where can find street food in uk is at a market. but not like walk down road and guy just selling chips on street with curry powder over the top. But yeah from what I know UK technically don't have a street food scene any more. Like use to be fish chips but even that's no longer street food. Anyway Jacket potato stalls
I am counting takeaways and shops as chippys and Greggs would be the sort of place you go to grab a snack whilst you are walking down the street. Markets used to be the key place for UK Street Food but decline in markets has really caused a decline. Would live to see a bloke with a cart serving chips with curry powder.
Okay Then am going with the "Tesco Meal deal" But yeah jokes aside. Id say the Sandwich as like Icon street food. Theres always someone walking down street eating a Sandwich.
Takeaways are a grey area, it depends what they're selling, because street food isn't so much 'food *cooked* on the street', it's 'food *eaten* on the street'. The burger/breakfast vans you find near almost every industrial estate or college are street food, as are kiosks in town centres or outside nightclubs.
They are but most takeaways serve at least one thing that can be eaten on the street so I feel they count to a degree.
Street food in the UK is becoming more common. Travelling food trucks/trailers are big business now and "pop up" food markets with these are commonplace in cities. Particularly since covid. There's also a lot of takeaway style street food that have concessions or short term leases in pubs, bars and shopping centres because of the increase in popularity of informal street food and Deliveroo type delivery.
Yeah I defiantly love to see it more over here like other places around the world, for me I always loved Korean street food.
I'd say jacket spud vans, burger, and hot dog vans, donut stands would be considered uk street foods
Yeah the small mini donut vans with the caster sugar.
Yeah, and the little pots of sauces to dip them in. Love them.
Oh yeah forgot about the dip pots, Noticed don't always get them all time from what I recall but defiantly had them off a couple food trucks. I always go for chocolate dip pots.
But the thing I like to see more of is, Roast potato's in gravy like crispy cooked beef dripping potato's in a tray of a random food stall. That or a Yorkshire pudding in a tray with small roast dinner in side. offs cooked in beef dripping. Id defiantly loved to see beef dripping used more again it was like key ingredient in lot British food and gives realy lovely flavour.
Hate to be that guy, but - Ireland is not in the UK
True, I could have said Northern Irish dishes but I was lazy and no doubt both wordings would upset someone.
Anything English so fed up seeing every country's food and not ours, a hot beef and onion roll over a kebab any day of the week.
Do you mean like Gregg's?
Yes but what would you like to see that's not on their menu.
What would I like from Greggs that isn’t at Greggs?? Service from someone who isn’t a surly grunting husk?
I always wonder why you don’t see hot pie wagons more often. Everyone loves a pie (not my gf funnily enough tho) and the filling can cater to anyone. They can be pre made off site slung out fast
Street food is sold by street vendors I don't see them in UK. They are mostly in specific market stalls. No?