Any Scots domiciled in England/Wales have a regular stash they'll smuggle in their bags when they've been up north and are heading home again?
Whilst a lot of things you once couldn't get are now widely available down south (Bru, Tunnocks etc), I still struggle to find a lot of things - good haggis, lorne sausage and plain bread being the main examples. Safe to say they were in my car yesterday as I drove down to Hampshire
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Thread: Food Smuggled South
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17-01-2016 10:08 AM #1
Food Smuggled South
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17-01-2016 11:39 AM #2
Going the other way I take several things to my Dad that he has tried/liked in Edinburgh but doesn't come across in Liverpool. Decent Haggis\Black Pudding,Pies,Plain Bread.
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17-01-2016 01:21 PM #3
I'm often press-ganged into smuggling items into North America such as Skips, Rowntree Fruit Gums, Edinburgh Rock, Thornton's Toffee, Germolene & Daz.
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17-01-2016 02:42 PM #5
Every time we come back from Spain we bring back at least one suitcase full of food & drink.
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17-01-2016 06:16 PM #6
My girlfriend is from down south and every time we go down I have to take several bottles of Bitter & Twisted which isn't available in shops around them. Plain bread and lorne sausage is also often on the list.
In return I come home stocked up with proper Lincolnshire sausages (as opposed to the ones they sell in supermarkets) and Lincolnshire Poacher cheese.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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17-01-2016 06:49 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm down here at the moment actually and tried a few from Horncastle ales which is a micro brewery, bit hit or miss but couple of good beers. Oldershaw produce some drinkable beers as does the Riverside Brewery based in Skegness.
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20-01-2016 03:09 PM #14
When we lived down south it was things like tattie scones, plain bread, lorne sausage, haggis. Funnily enough tho, we used to find that Farmfoods started stocking plain bread and tattie scones. Not sure if they still do.
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20-01-2016 07:12 PM #15
My brother and his wife used to live in South-East London.
We were down with them at some point and his wife had been to a speciality Scottish butchers somewhere in London to stock up on food to soak up our hangovers after a big night out.
She'd got some Lorne sausage from there and it was the most sublime stuff I've ever tasted, knocked the socks off anything I've ever eaten up here in Scotland.
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20-01-2016 10:17 PM #16
Has anyone ever had the opportunity to try whale steaks ? I had one a few weeks back and thought it was fantastic.
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22-01-2016 05:19 PM #18
Why can't the English master the morning roll? They just don't do them the same down here.
Heading home on the sleeper tonight - gonna stock up on Mince Pies and Macaroni Pies!
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22-01-2016 10:26 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-01-2016 08:48 AM #20
I'm still waiting for chippy sauce to become a high value smuggling article.
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23-01-2016 08:57 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
When I was working in Glasgow for 2 weeks there, I walked past a number of small cafe's in the morning who all did morning rolls. Back down here for 2 weeks and there's nothing like that around us or near work.
You also don't get great rolls as you head further north in Scotland either incidentally. "Glasgow rolls" are pretty hard to beat.Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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23-01-2016 08:59 AM #22
No issues with bread-related breakfasts round here. Bacon, sausage and egg barm cake. Top stuff.
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23-01-2016 09:01 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteMadness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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23-01-2016 09:27 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also just realised I've never seen good Scottish style cod roe in London either. Not one so easy to snuggle back though.
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23-01-2016 09:53 AM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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23-01-2016 12:26 PM #26
As there's a good amount of Scots where I live it's pretty easy to get hold of stuff like haggis as well as Scottish beer and newspapers (well.......the Record and Sunday Post if they count!)
After reading this thread though I am seriously missing some square sausage though. Never seen that anywhere in this part of the world.
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28-01-2016 09:51 PM #27
Was in a local butchers today and bought some tomato sausages, was going to wait until tomorrow and have them, but they have all gone tonight.
Going for some more in the morning.
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28-01-2016 11:57 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-01-2016 05:15 AM #29
I always have some in the freezer, get enough visitors down to Nottingham who are more than happy to bring square sausage, everything else is easy enough to get hold of.
Got me thinking though, has anyone tried ordering it online? Quick google search brings up Campbells who delivery to the Uk, im sure other do too? Just a thought.
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