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The lamprey pie is interesting – noted as a most rare item.
If you're a fan of early culinary history in London, visiting a "pie and mash" shop is quite a fun thing. I've enjoyed a couple. Those places offer an eel pie which is indeed quite tasty, and uniquely of the place.
Those shops didn't arise until maybe 150yrs after Sam's time. A notable one was Henry Blanchard, located in Southwark which opened in 1844. MManze opened in 1892.
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The lamprey pie is interesting – noted as a most rare item.
If you're a fan of early culinary history in London, visiting a "pie and mash" shop is quite a fun thing. I've enjoyed a couple. Those places offer an eel pie which is indeed quite tasty, and uniquely of the place.
Those shops didn't arise until maybe 150yrs after Sam's time. A notable one was Henry Blanchard, located in Southwark which opened in 1844. MManze opened in 1892.
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"Can London pie & mash shops be saved?" -- Having lived in East London I'm certain the answer is "no". They're cute, they're historic, but I rarely saw anyone under 60 in there. And no-one orders the old specialty, jellied eel - the ones I saw don't stock it any more. What remains (apart from nostalgia) is pie, which you can get anywhere. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/03/the-pie-and-mash-crisis-can-the-original-fast-food-be-saved #london #eel #pieandmash
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"Can London pie & mash shops be saved?" -- Having lived in East London I'm certain the answer is "no". They're cute, they're historic, but I rarely saw anyone under 60 in there. And no-one orders the old specialty, jellied eel - the ones I saw don't stock it any more. What remains (apart from nostalgia) is pie, which you can get anywhere. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/03/the-pie-and-mash-crisis-can-the-original-fast-food-be-saved #london #eel #pieandmash
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I'm not surprised this business failed. It was better off in the town centre location, but thats still hard to get to unless you pay for parking (and car park immediately opposite got turned into construction zone).
Moving it to the sportsball ground makes it even harder to get to, on top of which although I like #PieAndMash I don't want to be the only brown person in the area, especially as this traditional British dish can attract #gammons who avoid "foreign" food..
I think there's still a pie and mash shop in the shared multicultural Tower Street Food Court, which I might visit next time I am in town
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I'm not surprised this business failed. It was better off in the town centre location, but thats still hard to get to unless you pay for parking (and car park immediately opposite got turned into construction zone).
Moving it to the sportsball ground makes it even harder to get to, on top of which although I like #PieAndMash I don't want to be the only brown person in the area, especially as this traditional British dish can attract #gammons who avoid "foreign" food..
I think there's still a pie and mash shop in the shared multicultural Tower Street Food Court, which I might visit next time I am in town
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World News release "Smoke An Angel" from upcoming EP "Mindsnap", out this Friday. London post-punks follow up May's "Escape" EP with new material:
https://go.stereobar.net/g2hxe3
#BestNewMusic2024 #Week47 #WorldNews #PieAndMash
