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The Eel Shop

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 11:31pm on 28/11/2005

The Eel Shop
Originally uploaded by purplecthulhu.
I promised to put this up far too long ago...

Anyway, here is the eel pie shop a little up the road from me. Yes its real, no I haven't eaten there (and don't intend to!). But this is meant to be the home of a real East End delicacy.
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posted by [identity profile] crazysoph.livejournal.com at 07:34am on 29/11/2005
We must, must, MUST make sure that [livejournal.com profile] dear_hubby gets to visit this shop... it's still extant? I'm not a fan of eels myself, but he adores them (as did his father) and I think it would be great to give him a chance to experience some non-Dutch ones.

Crazy(now, just when could we plan this outing? *sigh*)Soph
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:41am on 29/11/2005
When you come to holiday with us, and we're all staying at D's place!!!! In the summer???
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posted by [identity profile] crazysoph.livejournal.com at 07:51am on 29/11/2005
I would like that... we'll have to put it to [livejournal.com profile] dear_hubby after the current upheaval is a bit past.

Crazy(and so, er, so... so!)Soph
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:33am on 29/11/2005
Oh yes, its still there. I walk past it every time i go to Broadway Market.
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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 08:56am on 29/11/2005
These will be boiled eels (the boiling is what makes them "jellied"). I understood that what the Dutch liked (and what makes the Dutch market a big enough absorber of eels to have driven the Southern English jellied eel into the luxury foods bracket) was smoked eels?
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posted by [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com at 10:00pm on 29/11/2005
The smoked eels I had in the Netherlands wern't very nice, but as the phrase "there's wheels within wheels in jellied eels" has rattled round in my brain since I saw a 50's Ealing type film, I've always wanted to try some.
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posted by [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com at 08:15am on 29/11/2005
There's one near us, too. The oddest thing is that all the prices are really weird (things for x.73p instead of rounding up to x.75 or x.99, for instance). I suspect they converted everything very precisely at decimalisation and have just very mechanically increased the prices in line with inflation ever since.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:33am on 29/11/2005
How... traditional!
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posted by [identity profile] frostfox.livejournal.com at 09:41pm on 29/11/2005
I like eels in any way except jellied!

And yes, Del, smoked eel is the Dutch delicacy. Lovely lovely stuff.

FF, dreaming of eel sush.
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