Show Your Manxness Immigration Test

[Port Erin]

According to the fuckwits the Isle of Man Examiner interviewed, the answer would appear to that the national dish of the day here is chips, cheese and gravy.

 

It says a lot about the Manx culture!

[Gladys]

Probably eaten more often than the real national dish of spuds and herring.

[VinnieK]

I thought the national foods were comedy fishing village dishes like kippers and queenies.

 

Chips, cheese, and gravy still wins in either case. Especially if accompanies by a slab of chicken that's been fried beyond all reasonable levels.

[mollag]

I reckon the journo pulled that dish out of his ass. how many people will sit down to that dish tonight? its a drunk out your skull meal.

 

I reckon the most popular meal at present will come out of a chinese takeaway, luvvvley

[Deejay Denzel]

Mr B's pastie's are a driving force on the lsland!

 

Suggestions for a board vote maybe?

[Dontlookbehindyou]

Awww yeah cheese pasties from Mr B's mmmmmmm

[mollag]

Sometimes i wonder with these newpapers, they will print any old shit that comes into there heads, im born and raised alongside the quay, never ate spuds and herring till i was 40 and i was wearing dinner jacket

 

Generally of my era it was soups, stews and fish, interspaced with loadsa offal.

 

 

On the pastie and pie note, tescos are well worth a go

[manxchatterbox]

bonnag

[LoneWolf]

Sometimes i wonder with these newpapers, they will print any old shit that comes into there heads, im born and raised alongside the quay, never ate spuds and herring till i was 40 and i was wearing dinner jacket

 

We used to be fed on herrings during the summer months. I can remember an old guy in a green austin van used to do the rounds shouting at the top of his voice "Fresh Herring" and ringing a bell.

These days its almost impossible to get a herring, at least a fresh Irish sea herring.

Manx National dish ?

Im not sure there is one anymore but Im very fond of a curry and particularly like queenies in curry sauce.

[pontiuspilot]

chips cheese and gravy is not a manx dish, miss isle of man, now there's a manx dish!

[Gladys]

chips cheese and gravy is not a manx dish, miss isle of man, now there's a manx dish!

What? The Donkey Derby as we used to call it??

[mollag]

Fresh herring were delightfull, we had them fried, grilled, baked, soused also as roll mops {manx sushi?}

 

But salties,, nah, they are food from another era like salt pork and ships biscuits. If i never have another saltie it will be too soon.

[Gladys]

Ultra-fresh (I mean straight off the hook and under the grill) herring or mackerel, for that matter, are just ambrosia. Pity about the bones, but a chunk of crusty, buttered bread sorts that out!

 

I only had spuds and herring once years ago at "an evening" and there is a certain oily flavour to salted fish that is very distinct. You get the same with the Jamaican breakfast dish of ackee and codfish or saltfish, which was very reminiscent of the old spuds and herring, funnily enough!

[mollag]

Salt cod was still about in my time, my auld man made his own, called it stockfish, it really minged and had to be cut with a hacksaw yet he soaked it overnight and wolfed it down, sod dat!

[Dontlookbehindyou]

Kippers

 

 

Manx broth