Radio 4 - "kitchen Larder" - Gross Story

[DTCwordfan]

I was driving back here earlier this afternoon, listening to Radio 4 and heard a story that really was quite gross, the food equivalent of Buenchico's Earl of Yorkshire cocktail.

There was a question to the panel about recipes for pickled onions, only the final panellist getting one. However, one of them related this chap coming into his pub - he would empty the pickle jar of its contents and drop a pork-pie in the liquid, then drink the 'vinegar' before eating the pie......

Anybody any pickle recipes or similar unsavoury stories......?

[Mamyalynne]

I had to be stopped from drinking the pickled onion vinegar as a child.

[DTCwordfan]

lol, mamya - why am I not surprised?!

[Mamyalynne]

You mean cos I'm a sourpuss?

[DTCwordfan]

nope.......it would sharpen up the wit!

[jennyjoan]

As a child I used to smell the muck of the potatoes and then eat some raw potatoes until stopped by mother.

[donny48]

Pickled onion vinegar is the second best for fish & chips ,the first being pickled red cabbage.

[EcclesCake]

It's the Kitchen Cabinet and the person in question was Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners.

Pickled red cabbage reminds me of going to a friends Nan for 'tea' when visiting on a Saturday afternoon and being served meat and potato pie with pickled red cabbage on the side, it was most odd for my peculiar Southern ways!

[DTCwordfan]

That's it, Eccles, 'Kitchen Cabinet' - I didn't catch the start of the programme and relied on a hazy memory.... didn't have memories like that - I can remember going to my great-grandmother's for Sunday tea, the trolley groaning with her bakery and bake she loved to do, and the Cornish cream - and then the day the trolley-leg gave way, the disaster.......