traditional lancashire hamper - what to put in it?

[heth]

Originally Posted by Greenwellies Church

What about a box of Lancashire Tea. Also a bag of Black peas. Thats Lancashire Fayre.

A Stanley mug to put the Lancashire Tea in?!

[MITZY]

Blackpool Rock

[MargaretR]

As well as Chorley cakes already mentioned, you could add Eccles cakes (greater Manchester now but still Lancs.)

[Mancie]

Try some free grit from the council ...seems to be the most wanted item in Accy.. if you can get it!

[steeljack]

How about some tripe ...seems to be a Lancashire delicacy

"In Lancashire and other parts of the North of England in the 1950s there were 146 UCP shops-cum-restaurants specialising in tripe dishes and with long queues for seats. UCP stood (and still does at its single remaining outlet) for United Cattle Products, who also provided ox tail, cow heel and other bovine extremities in an age when little was wasted. Tripe was also sold in chip shops." fast food in the days before KFC and McDonalds

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have to say I don't ever remember it being sold in chip shops , .... bit of a wander ... Mr Heffernan , a teacher at Gt. Harwood Top Council school (days before Norden) think he later taught at Rhyddings had a tripe shop in Arrod run by his wife , a couple of doors up or down from Redmans on Queen St.

[US Angel]

how come it took so long for Blackpool rock to be listed ???

[Taggy]

Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

Which is why I never buy the Barr's stuff. Stocks' Iron Brew was much better and, I believe, the original.

Interesting that you mention that because i'm sure that as a kid i drank Iron Brew (thats how it was spelt then) round here, and i'm certain it wasn't by Barrs either, but i cant find any reference for Stocks Iron Brew, i do remember it being more flavoursome than what we drink today though!

Best Regards - Taggy

[Barrie Yates]

Manchester Tart - not one from the Gaumont Long Bar, Nettle Beer from Heysham.

[archiveuk]

Sunny Delight, a Greg's Pasty and 20 Fags.

[DaveinGermany]

Mount Pleasant Wine, Bolton-le-sands (By Morecambe) it was even praised by Oz Clark on his travels with Hugh Dennis "Oz & Hugh raise the Bar"

[Sara]

Did you make up a Lancashire hamper, if so what did you put in? Be interested to know.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by archiveuk

Sunny Delight, a Greg's Pasty and 20 Fags.

I don't quite 'get' how this is considered Lancashire Fare.

[Bob Dobson]

And to finish off- of one Uncle Joe's Mint Balls and a Fisherman's Friend, washed down with Vimto, all of which are made in Lancashire.

There are at least 4 types of Lancashire cheese: Crumbly, Tasty, Creamy/Mild and Blue. If it isn't made in PR3, then it isn't Lancashire cheese.

Of beers , there's Thwaites', Moorhouses,Holt's, Pheonix, Hyde's - all made in Lancashire. All available in bottles.

[Lost in Cornwall]

I can't find any reference to Stocks Iron Brew either but my mother used to sell it back in the 1960's and 70's. It didn't have the same label as the rest of the Stocks pop but was definately theirs. The label was much smaller and had a picture of a blacksmith or a forge and I'm sure said that it was created in the 1870's. I always understood that Barr's had to call theirs Irn Bru because Stocks had the trademark on Iron Brew. I think they sold it to Ben Shaw's when they closed down in Accy because I've seen the odd can of it since although I have to say I've never tried the Ben Shaw's stuff.

[Bob Dobson]

Burton's biscuits in Bl;ackpool make Wagon Wheels and others. There's also another biscuit bakery but have forgotten the name. Near Kirkham there is Fox's biscuits.

As well as Eccles and Chorl;ey cakes there are Goosnargh cakes.

Goosnargh is famed too for the quality of the ducks reared there.