Behold the ‘Wigan kebab’: a pie (meat and potato, chicken, balti) in a barm (bap, roll, cob). Do you know someone who would eat one?
What’s in a Wigan kebab?
10 miles down the road you’ll find the Wigan Kebab – it’s similar to the pasty barm except that it’s a meat and potato pie inside a buttered barm.
What is a Wigan Slappy?
A Wigan Slappy! A pie, typically a small meat pie, served inside a sliced barm cake. Also called a ‘Wiganburger’.
What is a Wigan butty?
Pies and Pastries. Lancashire. A pie, typically a small meat pie, served inside a sliced barm cake.
What is in a Wigan pie?
Pie barm or Wigan kebab is a unique English sandwich hailing from Wigan. The sandwich consists of a meat pie that’s sandwiched between a barm cake – a buttered roll that’s leavened with barm (beer foam, in most cases).
What food is Wigan famous for?
Pie
But there’s one town in Greater Manchester where every week is Pie Week. Wigan is known as the land of the ‘pie-eaters‘ – although there’s more history behind that nickname than you might think…
Why are Wigan people called pie eaters?
Wiganers are proud to be called pie eaters, but the nickname is not thought to be because of their appetite for the delicacy. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work, before their counterparts in surrounding towns and were forced to eat “humble pie”.
What is a pie in a barm called in Wigan?
A Wigan Slappy! A pie, typically a small meat pie, served inside a sliced barm cake. Also called a ‘Wiganburger’.
What is Pey wet?
After that he eats Smack Barm Pey Wet. Which is a sandwich of deep fried potato, salt and vinegar, and pey wet, which is the water that comes off mushy peas.
Why is Slappy called Slappy?
In the 1930s, slappy was a slang variant of slap-happy, a slightly older colloquialism for “punch-drunk” or “carefree.” As a character name in fiction, Slappy appeared in 1959 in the children’s book Slappy: The Story of a Little Duck, about a duckling whose webbed feet made a “slip-slap” sound when he walked.
What do Northerners call a bun?
Bun – name most commonly used by 10% of English people
Bun is a favoured name in the North East, with the majority of people in the counties of Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland being most likely to use this term.
What do Northerners call a bacon roll?
Depending on where you are in the UK, a sandwich made from a bread roll will have a different name, and the survey found that in the south of England bacon bap or roll was the most common, which in the north west of the country, is called a bacon barm. The Midlands meanwhile opt for cob.
What do they call bread rolls in Lancashire?
Where we come from here at Visit Fylde Coast it’s called a teacake. With currants it’s a currant teacake. Ask for a teacake anywhere else and it seems you get currants in it…
What is the jelly in a meat pie?
Natural bone stock jelly is added, after baking, to enhance the flavour of the meat and ensure a moist, but firm texture when eaten.
What is the jelly in a porkpie?
The jelly in British pork pies is added deliberately, after the rest of the pie is cooked, to help keep the meat moist. In good pies it is usually either ham or chicken stock which jellifies as it cools.
What is the jelly stuff in pork pies?
While you can make a pork pie without the jelly, traditional pork pies have gelatin (some boiled pig trotters) added to preserve and keep the meat moist. You will often see a small hole in the lid of the pie where the jelly has been poured in.
What do you call someone from Wigan?
‘Bongs’, ‘Platt Wazzers’ and all the bizarre nicknames for people from Wigan – Manchester Evening News.
Are people from Wigan friendly?
Wigan is known for its friendly people and our strong sense of community.
What is the oldest pub in Wigan?
The Boar’s Head
The Boar’s Head is one of the oldest inns in Wigan and could also have one of the longest histories of any boozer in the UK. A plaque outside says the site dates back to 1450 but it is thought there could be newspaper cuttings referring to a pub on the spot as early as 1271.
Where does the Wigan accent come from?
Irish influences are also central to the town’s distinct dialect with historians saying Wigan had an ‘Irish quarter’ around Wallgate at the peak of Irish migration.
What do Leythers eat instead of pies?
Leythers are also known as Lobby Gobblers because they eat lobby – pies without a crust, basically.