Wiganer here, was very surprised to see you make a barm cake. They are much bigger. That pie was probably about the same dimensions. They are very fluffy and soft. A lot of those "bread rolls" are often crispy like a baguette, which is not right for a proper barm you'd stick a pie on. Meat and potato and minced beef are the 2 people usually use. Coincidently, the town next to Wigan - Bolton, has a "pasty barm" . Pasties are essentially a pie filling, in either puff or shortcrust pastry formed into a pocket shape. Meat and potato is the go to pasty. Though cheese and onion are popular too
I uttered a sigh of relief when you included HP in the plus ups. HP was our go to during college 'steak nite' since it would rescue the 'steak' they would give us once a month.
Bisto Gravy, Malt Vinegar, and HP Sauce...you sure hit all the popular British condiments there! My family is from the south of England so have never had the pleasure of trying out this northern concoction.
Now that you have a bottle of HP sauce - if you didn’t before - we need more sandwiches with HP sauce! As a displaced Canadian, I have to pay a prime price for HP sauce at specialty grocers. This was my Granddad’s secret ingredient for the best tuna salad sandwiches! Did you know that A1 sauce was based on HP sauce? Love your videos ❤
Live in Liverpool, have enjoyed many a Wigan Kebab on nights out, some I can even recall. You outdid yourself making the barm, the W-Kebab is usually made with a cheap, bottom shelf, mass produced bun. Soaks up everything: meat juices, hopes, dreams etc. HP Sauce is never a bad idea. Very much best enjoyed after 12 pints.
I am a huge fan of the meat and potato pie, having been brought up in Manchester. If it can go between two slices of bread it is a sandwich. Well done for covering this one.
I enjoy food shows from UK so I've heard of this one. As I recall it is best enjoyed watching a live football (soccer) game with a few pints. Also known as a Slappy. Not every roll in UK is a barm, this is specific to an area. I did call the HP plus up.
This is not what I was expecting to find on SoH tonight. As a Northerner (being born north of the Watford Gap), but not as a Wigan native, I must say: 1. Thank you for your dedication to sandwich lore. You are loved by sandwich munchers far and near (here). 2. Bisto rhymes with "piss-toe", not "peace-toe".
That looks like the greatest sandwich in the history of humankind. For the Wigan native commenters--do you pick this up to eat it, or do you eat it with a knife and fork? I only ask because my English friends used to eat their hamburgers with a knife and fork. That custom has probably changed since I lived there 40+ years ago.
Not much of a baker?????!I sire strongly disagree!The dedication you've shown to us is incredible.Time and again you've gone out of your way to source ingredients for sandwiches.Who else would bake their own bread(many,many times).And all to provide us,your audience with a dynamic sandwiching experience!Harumph harumph harumph!
Wigan chip shop sandwich. 11/10❤ I’m from the black country of Uk. And we had chip shops . Staple was a scallop (potato battered) on a buttered bap. Some time with a fish cake also😂
Day 7 of asking Barry to make the sandwich I submitted! As someone from the U.S. I haven’t seen many of these ingredients before. Looks like something I’d like to have with a pint of Guinness. Maybe one day when I make it across the pond. Thanks Barry!!
Another old ex-Wiganer here. These were just pies in a bap when I was growing up. The "kebab" name seems to have been added after my time. It was basically a practical way to hand eat a pie, with the bread catching any gravy spillage. Of course, you don't have gravy in a meat and potato pie - those were easy to eat already.
Wow, HP sauce, Bisto, talk about blast from the past. Tinned minted peas were one of my pet hates when I was young. Congratulations to the UK for being able to come up with some of the unhealthiest food combinations
I don’t know when this started, but my inner reading voice has started pronouncing ‘UK’ as ‘ook’ (like a noise an ape may make) and it’s brought me great joy
Heard this called a few things, including the Slappy but never a Wigan Kebab, definitely a great combination, but I'd probably put it on a plate! Bisto sounds almost exotic when pronounced that way!
I live close by WIgan but not in WIgan, and I seem to remember it was a slur on the Wigan coal miners during the pit strikes. Wigan claimed they would never give up the strike but had to eat Humble Pie, after a lengthy strike, by Maggie Thatcher. So, people from Wigan were said to eat pie. Hence, Pie Eaters.
I was playing around with Chat GPT asking for a really weird sardine sandwich and it basically gave me a SpongeBob sandwich, feel free to use this abomination if you’re feeling brave and can somehow source the jellyfish lol 1 can of smoked sardines • 2 slices of sourdough bread • 2 tablespoons of chunky peanut butter • 1 tablespoon of jellyfish (typically found in Asian markets, prepared and ready to eat) • A few sprigs of fresh mint • 1 teaspoon of sriracha sauce • 1 tablespoon of wasabi mayo The instructions say mash the sardines in a bowl, toast the bread, spread peanut butter on one slice, spread the wasabi mayo on the other slice, layer the sardines on top of the peanut butter slice, add the prepared jellyfish, top with sriracha and fresh mint and close it.
Generally speaking, I love traditional British dishes. But I just don’t get the mushy-peas thing. What am I missing that makes these so appealing to so many people?
What is your day job. I don’t need to know where you work, I just want to know what you do when you’re not making sammiches. I looked up Julie’s website even though I live halfway across the country and will probably never go there. I’m impressed with what she’s doing. Apparently, she makes excellent Scotch eggs. Have you tried them?
Not yet but I am going to for sure. As for my day job, I am a partner in a small marketing/business and now video production consulting firm. My big claim to fame is that I was part of the marketing team that took Netflix from a small DVD by mail start up to an international streaming brand.
@@SandwichesofHistoryThank you for the explanation! It sounds like you have one of those somewhat rare jobs I’ve heard about where people don’t feel like they’re working because they love what they do. You’ve got a great job and you live in a beautiful part of the country. You are blessed! Have a great day!!!!
Swap the meat and potato pie out for a butter pie (also from that part of the world) and you have the mightiest hangover cure ever created. It's like a chip butty on steroids
I am a partner in a small marketing/business and now video production consulting firm. My big claim to fame is that I was part of the marketing team that took Netflix from a small DVD by mail start up to an international streaming brand.
Your process for making this gave it far too much dignity. Just slap a pie in a bread roll. Open a tin of mushy peas and add gravy or HP sauce to taste
@@thebitterfig9903 honestly this all could (and probably should) be store bought. Granted this depends on having shops selling things like mushy peas. All the plus ups would work excellently.
A Wigan kebab is three pies on a skewer, although it’s more of a joke than a real thing. It’s only recently that people have started (mistakenly) referring to a pie barm as Wigan kebab.
