Birdseye Rissoles

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Anyone remember Birdseye Rissoles?
I used to love these at meal time as a child.

If anyone knows what the ingredients were can you let me know?

I seem to recall they had pearl barley in them and tasted great but that's about it.
 
Hmmmmm Rissoles, oh yes, I remember them. Can't you get them anymore? Maybe not in Waitrose but I can't remember the last time I went to Iceland

Faggots were another one of my favourites...
 
They look horrible


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Cobra said:
Could have been worse, you could have got arse holes :D
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Isn't that (or should it be "aren't they?) what rissoles are made from anyway?

As for faggots, love 'em! Mr Brains for preference, with mash and peas.
 
Nod said:
Isn't that (or should it be "aren't they?) what rissoles are made from anyway?
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You are thinking of hot dogs, thats lips and arse holes (y)
 
Isn't that (or should it be "aren't they"?) what hot dogs get pushed through anyway?
 
Nod said:
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As for faggots, love 'em! Mr Brains for preference, with mash and peas.
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Love them too. But a local farm butcher makes their own "naked" faggots. Slap them in a casserole dish and add your own seasoning and a little stock, and they blow Mr Brains out of the water.
 
viv1969 said:
Love them too. But a local farm butcher makes their own "naked" faggots. Slap them in a casserole dish and add your own seasoning and a little stock, and they blow Mr Brains out of the water.
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The idea of someone having their Brains blown out by naked faggots sounds like a Daily Wail headline. ;)
 
Can't say I remember rissoles but, to be honest, I don't have any particular recollections of what we ate when I was growing up. I've no idea what 'faggots' are, other than an old word for bundles of firewood and a derogatory term for homosexuals.
 
MartynK said:
Can't say I remember rissoles but, to be honest, I don't have any particular recollections of what we ate when I was growing up. I've no idea what 'faggots' are, other than an old word for bundles of firewood and a derogatory term for homosexuals.
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Faggots are (generally!) "bits" of pork, minced and wrapped, sometimes in bacon and/or caul. As Chris says, probably best not to look too closely into the ingredients, just chow down and enjoy!

If I was better at gravy, I might hunt down a local supplier of the real thing (if there is one) but since I only have them a couple of times a year (and I'm not that good at making gravy!), I'll stick to Mr Brains's pre-prepared ones.
 
When I was a kid there was a faggot, sav and pease pudding shop up the road, they were cooked and kept warm in big metal pots on a hot plate.
Faggots came in a bit of greaseproof and were great for keeping your mitts warm on, not all that for eating though.

Shop was known as dewdrops, geezer behind the ramp always had one hanging from his hooter, never saw it fall though.
Preferred the pie, mash and eel place especially the stewed eels, sold live ones too that came wrapped in newspaper.
 
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Rissoles were available in most chip shops at one stage.
I'm guessing they either fell out of favour with the modern palate or were banned by the EU for having nationalist views.
 
Nod said:
If I was better at gravy,
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Dead easy :)
Besides if you are struggling there are plenty of additives / stock pots etc these days (y)
 
soupdragon said:
Rissoles were available in most chip shops at one stage.
I'm guessing they either fell out of favour with the modern palate or were banned by the EU for having nationalist views.
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Rissoles, like faggots, were cheap and offally good. They're still around, especially in places like old mining communities .

The wife always gets a rissole from the chippy when we're at her parents' house.

Every good butcher will make faggots, they just won't necessarily display / advertise them.
 
All these things are no doubt full of the best cuts (not) strangely enough the tastiest bits though.

Watch out if poncey chefs get hold of them, gourmet Bubble is something I hope never to see again, supposed to be a dish of leftover spuds and cabbage
Lamb shanks were a nice cheap cut, not any more, same goes with Ribeye steak, used to buy a big lump in Smithfield for not much money.

Pickled eggs in the jar and big wallys in the tin, don't see them now on the chippy counter, never see Rock Eel outside London either, always my favourite fish.

Bought fish and chips up north once and they stuck all this green s*** in with them, didn't even ask for it.
 
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tijuana taxi said:
When I was a kid there was a faggot, sav.....
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As in savoury duck? That's what faggots were called in the Peak District when I grew up, and it's what our local farm butcher sells his own as. :)
 
tijuana taxi said:
gourmet Bubble is something I hope never to see again
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But you can't beat proper bubble and squeak (y)
I make it sometimes, goes with most things :)

tijuana taxi said:
Lamb shanks were a nice cheap cut,
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And pretty much the bit of the leg, that was fed to the dog, until it became fashionable :(

tijuana taxi said:
never see Rock Eel outside London either,
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Is that Rock Salmon AKA dog fish?
That's available around here...

tijuana taxi said:
they stuck all this green s*** in with them,
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simon ess said:
Proper grub that.
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I must be a closet Northerner I quite like mushy peas too :D
 
viv1969 said:
As in savoury duck? That's what faggots were called in the Peak District when I grew up, and it's what our local farm butcher sells his own as. :)
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Sorry nowhere near that posh, sav is short for that other delicacy the saveloy.

Cobra said:
Is that Rock Salmon AKA dog fish?
That's available around here...
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Indeed it is, must have a few refugees from the capital there then
 
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jakeblu said:
They look horrible


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That's not what they looked like, they were just round breadcrumbed patti type things, inoffensive and ordinary to look at, you wouldn't even know what was under the breadcrumbs without cutting in to it.
I did like them, but that was years ago, I wouldn't touch em with a 10ft pink snake these days...:)
 
tijuana taxi said:
Sorry nowhere near that posh, sav is short for that other delicacy the saveloy.



Indeed it is, must have a few refugees from the capital there then
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Nothing posh about either my local farm, or that of my childhood. Just tasty.
 
Rock Salmon/huss is very much nicer that cod to eat, and I'd choose it every time.

As for 'issoles & faggots, no thanks.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Sorry nowhere near that posh, sav is short for that other delicacy the saveloy.
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I was in a chippy in Chester many many moons ago, when a slightly inebriated gentleman came in and proceed to order the above item with accompaniment using the best phrase I've ever heard in a chipshop "Donger and chips please mate!"
 
Faggots Yuk! i tried them once and they kept repeating on me, i could still taste them 2 days later. :puke:
 
tijuana taxi said:
Lamb shanks were a nice cheap cut, not any more, same goes with Ribeye steak, used to buy a big lump in Smithfield for not much money.
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Belly pork too! As soon as it goes on TV prices quadruple overnight and continue to rise for the next 6 months.

Yet to see anything have prices come back down the other side of the fashionable wave though
 
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