quote:What about my extra points for a great Dick van Dyke (ooer missus!) impression?
giv us a tune guv a tad of Chim Chim Cher-ee giv us a tune guv a tad of Chim Chim Cher-ee
quote:I got a choon for ya me old china...
'My old man said follow the van....'
Pull your frock don't Mazzy...doing a knees
up at 2 in the after noon...
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:RZB beat me to it
I like to turn the pie over, then
slice the bottom off...."yum yum smiley"
The burnt crust the better.....dribbles...
Jeeze i am starving now
quote:Originally posted by Mazzystar:
Ooh..a variation on the tuna melt wrestling...a pie and mash wrestling competition!
lol where's Hed
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:I got a choon for ya me old china...
'My old man said follow the van....'
Pull your frock don't Mazzy...doing a knees
up at 2 in the after noon...
Never to early for a good old knees up!
Knees up mother brown
Knees up mother brown
under the table you must go
ee i ee i ee i o
quote:Originally posted by Liverpoollass:quote:Originally posted by Mazzystar:
Ooh..a variation on the tuna melt wrestling...a pie and mash wrestling competition!
lol where's Hed
He doesnt move off mafia wars these days!Come to think of it 'es a londoner too innit?
quote:Originally posted by Mazzystar:
He doesnt move off mafia wars these days!Come to think of it 'es a londoner too innit?
He needs to get out more and yes he is
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
Actually, I could just eat Pie n' Mash now
Omg I want to come back to London just for this now. Apparently they sell it on Sheppy but it doesn't taste as good. I wont be doing with no fakers now.
I was born in Hackney but we moved to Essex when I was 9. I was bought up on Pie 'n' Mash and that piccy of Cookes really brought back memories!!!
Cookes had a shop in 'Chats' where old man Cooke used to open the front shop window so we could all watch him chop the heads off the eels and they used to writhe around in a big bowl for ages without their heads, lol!
Great memories, sigh...
Cookes had a shop in 'Chats' where old man Cooke used to open the front shop window so we could all watch him chop the heads off the eels and they used to writhe around in a big bowl for ages without their heads, lol!
Great memories, sigh...
quote:Omg I want to come back to London just for this now. Apparently they sell it on Sheppy but it doesn't taste as good. I wont be doing with no fakers now
Damn right, there are about 5 top notch pie n mash shops that i know of in London, i have been to 4 of them, but Arments is the best
quote:There's a great one in Bermondsey
Manzes...
one of the last standing.
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:There's a great one in Bermondsey
Manzes...
one of the last standing.
It's still there?
I used to love going in there. Can't remember how old it is, but I know it is very old. One of their famous customers is Tommy Steele
There used to be one down the Cut .Is it still there?
Hey RZB, did you know that there is a Pie n Mash club where they go round all the shops in London and have a league system and you get points as to how many scoops of mash you have, or pies or jellied/stewed eels, liquor....this is serious stuff to them
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff! 
quote:It's still there?
I used to love going in there. Can't remember how old it is, but I know it is very old. One of their famous customers is Tommy Steele
Still there...just, still packed out,
queues out the shop, and up the road on a Friday.
My Dad lived 5 minutes from there...
all changed now...
quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:
Hey RZB, did you know that there is a Pie n Mash club where they go round all the shops in London and have a league system and you get points as to how many scoops of mash you have, or pies or jellied/stewed eels, liquor....this is serious stuff to them
My Nan told the story many years ago how they used to buy rounds in the pie shop like in a pub, when she was carrying it was normal to have 3 round of double pie & double mash....
quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
Is it the green liquor thats putting you off Tidds
quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
Is it the green liquor thats putting you off Tidds
Unless it has a fairy on the label, I'll pass thanks!
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:
Hey RZB, did you know that there is a Pie n Mash club where they go round all the shops in London and have a league system and you get points as to how many scoops of mash you have, or pies or jellied/stewed eels, liquor....this is serious stuff to them
My Nan told the story many years ago how they used to buy rounds in the pie shop like in a pub, when she was carrying it was normal to have 3 round of double pie & double mash....
Bloody hell, thats a serious lunch there mate
One of life's mysteries is why does it never taste the same if you take it away. 
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:It's still there?
I used to love going in there. Can't remember how old it is, but I know it is very old. One of their famous customers is Tommy Steele
Still there...just, still packed out,
queues out the shop, and up the road on a Friday.
My Dad lived 5 minutes from there...
all changed now...
I used to work up the road in Long Lane many years ago. That was our Friday treat. I haven't been to one for donkey's years.
Hopefully, they will be around for many more years
quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
I dont like liquor
quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
Is it the green liquor thats putting you off Tidds
Unless it has a fairy on the label, I'll pass thanks!
quote:I used to work up the road in Long Lane many years ago. That was our Friday treat. I haven't been to one for donkey's years.
Hopefully, they will be around for many more years
He lived just off Long Lane,
I got married in the church in Long Lane,
Opposite end to the pie shop.
quote:Originally posted by RZB:
One of life's mysteries is why does it never taste the same if you take it away.
Its the plastic benches and condiment selection on the table that make it a must at a shop
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:I used to work up the road in Long Lane many years ago. That was our Friday treat. I haven't been to one for donkey's years.
Hopefully, they will be around for many more years
He lived just off Long Lane,
I got married in the church in Long Lane,
Opposite end to the pie shop.
One of my best mates still lives in Bermondsey
Small world eh?
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:
Hey RZB, did you know that there is a Pie n Mash club where they go round all the shops in London and have a league system and you get points as to how many scoops of mash you have, or pies or jellied/stewed eels, liquor....this is serious stuff to them
My Nan told the story many years ago how they used to buy rounds in the pie shop like in a pub, when she was carrying it was normal to have 3 round of double pie & double mash....
We used to do that too
and they'd end up giving us free Tizer quote:Originally posted by Mazzystar:quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
I dont like liquor
you can't have pie & mash with out liquor...
quote:One of my best mates still lives in Bermondsey
I've one cousin left there now, after generations and generations of family living there,
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Originally posted by Mazzystar:quote:Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
My God you lot don't half eat some daft stuff!
I dont like liquor
you can't have pie & mash with out liquor...
I know I used to get odd looks asking for it.
Am sure there used to be one on the opposite side of the road to the Old Vic
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:One of my best mates still lives in Bermondsey
I've one cousin left there now, after generations and generations of family living there,
Oooh it's bringing some good memories back for me, talking about Bermondsey.
We used to drink in the Simon Tanner Pub and the Ship down Long Lane. Many a good lunch time and night spent in there. Got to know alot of good folk from Bermondsey - some right villians too
quote:We used to do that too and they'd end up giving us free Tizer
we used to play a nasty trick in our local pie
shop, after we finished we used to undo the
vinegar bottle, just enough to stay on the bottle, but loose enough so the next person to use got their plate full of it.
that was when I was 9.
quote:Oooh it's bringing some good memories back for me, talking about Bermondsey.
We used to drink in the Simon Tanner Pub and the Ship down Long Lane. Many a good lunch time and night spent in there. Got to know alot of good folk from Bermondsey - some right villians too
I think the Simon Tanner pub changed it's name, but has changed back now. All the pubs suddenly became trendy round there.
Lappy from on here came from that area also.
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:We used to do that too and they'd end up giving us free Tizer
we used to play a nasty trick in our local pie
shop, after we finished we used to undo the
vinegar bottle, just enough to stay on the bottle, but loose enough so the next person to use got their plate full of it.
that was when I was 39.
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Oooh it's bringing some good memories back for me, talking about Bermondsey.
We used to drink in the Simon Tanner Pub and the Ship down Long Lane. Many a good lunch time and night spent in there. Got to know alot of good folk from Bermondsey - some right villians too
I think the Simon Tanner pub changed it's name, but has changed back now. All the pubs suddenly became trendy round there.
Lappy from on here came from that area also.
I think you're right. I looked it up on the internet a while back and it closed down for a while and then re-opened. No idea if the guy who managed it is still there. Ex-footballer, if I remember.
quote:Originally posted by Bovrilking:quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:We used to do that too and they'd end up giving us free Tizer
we used to play a nasty trick in our local pie
shop, after we finished we used to undo the
vinegar bottle, just enough to stay on the bottle, but loose enough so the next person to use got their plate full of it.
that was when I was 39.
LOL...Used to do that with salt!
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:We used to do that too and they'd end up giving us free Tizer
we used to play a nasty trick in our local pie
shop, after we finished we used to undo the
vinegar bottle, just enough to stay on the bottle, but loose enough so the next person to use got their plate full of it.
that was when I was 9.
How naughty - I've never heard of that before...
(shhhh, I think most of us pulled that one....
)quote:I think you're right. I looked it up on the internet a while back and it closed down for a while and then re-opened. No idea if the guy who managed it is still there. Ex-footballer, if I remember.
My dad for years drank in the the
Ancient Briton, a little pub around the back of the pie shop, it was sold off as flats in the
early 80's.