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[Admiral Yi]

I thought the kidney in steak and kidney pie was one of the most disgusting things I've ever put in my mouth.  Truly revolting. 

[The Brain]

Have you ever put a peasant in your mouth?

[Barrister]

I quite like steak and kidney pie.

[Admiral Yi]

Have you ever put a peasant in your mouth?

Not an entire peasant, no.

[Habbaku]

The one thing I've never understood is eating bone marrow. The stuff turns my stomach every time.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I thought the kidney in steak and kidney pie was one of the most disgusting things I've ever put in my mouth.  Truly revolting. 

That might account for the low rating of the steak and kidney pie, a kidney might be a disgusting thing to eat for many people, though it flavours the gravy..................a lot of places sell steak and ale pies now instead, the ale helping to make the gravy rich.

[Sheilbh]

Where are these people getting their steak and kidney pies/puddings from? I find it almost inconceivable that they are so poorly regarded 

I am angry about:
Steak and Kidney Pudding
Black Pudding
Kippers
Liver & Onion
Haggis
Beef Wellington
Pork Pie
Scotch Eggs (these last two make me think some of these people may be traitors)
Ploughman's lunch

[Iormlund]

God tier British cuisine. 

[Syt]

Ploughman's Lunch looks a lot like what's called a Brettljause in Austria:


(served with slices of bread)

[Admiral Yi]

That might account for the low rating of the steak and kidney pie, a kidney might be a disgusting thing to eat for many people, though it flavours the gravy..................a lot of places sell steak and ale pies now instead, the ale helping to make the gravy rich.

Are you saying the right way to eat that mess is pick around the blobs of kidney? 

[Sheilbh]

Yeah looks similar. I love it because it's one of the few foods that is genuinely different everywhere you go.

Most pubs will do broadly similar dishes and generally they'll be of a similar okay-ish quality.

But with a ploughman's it changes. You'll get ham (and possibly cold cuts from the Sunday roast), you'll normaly get one to three local cheese, some pate (again often local) and some pickles. It's a delight.

[Sheilbh]

That might account for the low rating of the steak and kidney pie, a kidney might be a disgusting thing to eat for many people, though it flavours the gravy..................a lot of places sell steak and ale pies now instead, the ale helping to make the gravy rich.

Are you saying the right way to eat that mess is pick around the blobs of kidney? 

They're an assertive organ, for sure, ("Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.") but as RH says it also adds useful flavour to the gravy.

Nowadays you will often just get steak and ale which just doesn't have any kidney and more steak

[Richard Hakluyt]

That might account for the low rating of the steak and kidney pie, a kidney might be a disgusting thing to eat for many people, though it flavours the gravy..................a lot of places sell steak and ale pies now instead, the ale helping to make the gravy rich.

Are you saying the right way to eat that mess is pick around the blobs of kidney? 

No, I think you should get a steak and ale pie instead 

[Syt]

Yeah looks similar. I love it because it's one of the few foods that is genuinely different everywhere you go.

Most pubs will do broadly similar dishes and generally they'll be of a similar okay-ish quality.

But with a ploughman's it changes. You'll get ham (and possibly cold cuts from the Sunday roast), you'll normaly get one to three local cheese, some pate (again often local) and some pickles. It's a delight.

Yeah, same here. You get it mostly in the small restaurants and especially Heurigen (vinyard drinking halls that traditionally only open a few weeks per year) in the countryside, and it's usually whatever their local producers offer. Often also ridiculously cheap.

[Barrister]

That might account for the low rating of the steak and kidney pie, a kidney might be a disgusting thing to eat for many people, though it flavours the gravy..................a lot of places sell steak and ale pies now instead, the ale helping to make the gravy rich.

Are you saying the right way to eat that mess is pick around the blobs of kidney? 

Of course you eat the kidney!