the best hotpot in the world right here in Wigan..

it was the first thing I bought after six months away.It costs a quid from Sutcliffes (?) tripe stall in Wigan market. Put it on your list of grub to eat before you die.

I hope you just washed it with cold water, shaked it dry, put it on a plate, sprinkled it with pepper and vinegar and then ate it - yum yum yum :)

I turned it into a Wiggin ploughmans lunch dennis. With beetroot and a chunk of cheese.

Lancashire hotpot ingredients different in every town in Lancs,bowt 200 different versions

Nowadays, Wiganers eat Greater Manchester hotpot while they sit listening to their favourite group called the Merseyside Hotpots!

dennis Your talking about tripe with vinegar on, ispy is talking about otpot.

Dennis was up early Marie

has anybody bought one yet.

just had one with a scotch egg.brilliant.

MarieM - yes you are quite right - I live in New Zealand so at times I get things upside down

Remember when in the 50/60 you put a Hot pot in the oven before you went out for the New Year partying and we used to toss up whose house yoou went back to after the New Year was in to eat it with pickled onions.Beetroot , I used to make it for the Pub we took at new year for after hours they used to put 1 pound over the bar before closing time and they drank and ate what they wanted including the Police who came in the back door, with their Pand Car tucked in the barn out of sight happy days

Elizabeth - your posting reminded me of the pub adjacent tio the railway station at Pimbo Lane, UpHolland.
Quite often on a Saturday night, the landlord would call 'time' at 10.00 and most people would drink up and leave. Then a few of us locals would move into a small room at the back, the landlord would lock the front door and switch the lights off in the front part of the pub. The landlady would bring out a plate of sandwiches etc - the next thing there would be a tap on the back window, the landlord would unlock the back door, in would walk a bobby or two, sit down and 'partake'

Dennis we do have alot incommon ,I wonder if we ever met , as a friend I , we used to get the bus from Wigan and et off at the turning to think it wasSkemersdale could be wrong asd you went on the road past Abbey lakes and the bus took a winding hilly road and stopped at the Cenotaph on a corner , we then carried on walking past st Josephs college and came to a little pub on the right (detched) cannot for the life of me remeber the title but we used to go every Friday happy days

It would have been one of these two pubs at Roby Mill Elizabeth.

The Star Inn


The Fox Inn

Thanks Ayrefield pretty sure it was the Fox smashing landlord

last time I went past the Fox it was shut down. anybody know if its back in business.

yes it is, answering my own question.

thanks for letting me know

You're welcome.

Panic - went to get one today and the stall was shut.

Went back today and half a dozen hot pots were looking at me. Unfortunately there was no one serving on the stall.

WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE???????????????

I'd have said, "Hey, hotpot, who d'you think you're looking at"?

To which the hotpot would have looked at his fellow hotpottians and exclaimed, "Ooh look, a talking boot."

no CCTV

Fill yer boots!

The best hot pot I ever tasted when I was eating red meat as a kid....was my Dad's hot pot.....he would use lamb, and potatoes out of our garden.....and onions and a big thick crust on top........

I can smell it from here lizzie...

So can I....I-spy.......long ago and far away........

still a bargain £1.

bought another today.
I should be on commission.

today I got experimental.
I took off the top, grated some cheese on the spuds, cracked an egg, and put the lid back on.
15 minutes in the oven and it was brilliant.

I will have to check with EQ to see whether I've committed a sin.

It had to happen - they've gone up 10p. But still worth every penny.

Cottam hot tops from St Helens take some beating, the crust is good and plenty of meat.

Up another 5p
But still number one

memories you cant buy them down here, homesick

as anyone heard of a homity pie(SPELLING MIGHT BE WRONG)consisting of potato garlic and capers.?

I saw a program on tv about ww2 recipes and I am sure one was for Homity pie so it could have something to do with rationing

retep1949 thanks for that I will look on google

Wiganers are STILL eating Greater Manchester hotpot while they sit listening to their favourite group called the Merseyside Hotpots.

Nothing's changed!

especially your sense of humour keep up the good work.

Wigan? In Lancashire?

well done

Tonker it's humble pie that Wiganiers eat

GrahamK - Do you mean humble pie or umble pie ? There is a big difference !

The only difference is the 'h'. They both mean the same thing, Dennis.

Hi tonker - I don't think that 'Humble Pie' and 'Umble Pie' are strictly the same.
'Umble Pie' is made from the edible offal of either deer or hog.
'Humble Pie' is made from the cheaper cuts of meat and usually served to the lower classes in the 16th / 17th century.
However if i'm wrong, please correct me.

if those are the contents Humble Pie sounds most appealing,worried about the sell by date 16th/17th century.

Dennis, that was a brilliant self-contradiction. You are now the reigning 'self-contradiction champion'. You win an orange!

tonker - What do you mean I am the reigning 'self-contradiction champion' and I win an orange ?
Surely the winner should get an Uncle Joe's, not just an orange !

They're not as good as they used to be! (that's Uncle Joe's, not Oranges!)

whats the equivalent of an hot pot if there is one ?.

Lamb casserole?

what about cawl ?

Yes!

I'd like to know if anyone has tasted one of the hotpots which inspired this thread.
Or am I the only believer.

Just a reminder that they are still available and as tasty as ever.
I've also discovered Bowens pork pies at Adlington. Worth the walk along the canal. Delicious.

Worth the walk along the canal? To Adlington?

You'd need at least two!

pimblets are back in business now called pimmies I have heard.,they have a website you can order online,pies by post ,will they still be warm.?

not sure they're the real thing joe but tonker will probably know.

i-spy your right the oracle will know.

Tripe Marketing Board - @TripeUK (today):

We don't give our Gold Stars out lightly!
Visit Wigan market for the best quality tripe that money can buy. photo

I see it's not good enough to just call it 'Wigan Market', it has to be referred to as 'Wigan Council's Market' now.
What a sad bunch they are!

Wigan Council refer to 'Wigan Borough Markets', and Wigan and Leigh Market Halls on their website, Tonker.



It's the Tripe Marketing Board (@TripeUK) who tweeted '@WiganCouncil market' - that automatically notifies Wigan Council's tweeter(s) that the council has been mentioned in a tweet, so they're made aware of it & can retweet it if appropriate.

The Tripe Marketing Board's twitter feed is rather lively - the exchange following that tweet:

@MargoJMilne: @TripeUK @WiganCouncil Oh I *love* Wigan Market! Not been there since I stopped going out with Tony, mind...

@TripeUK: @MargoJMilne @WiganCouncil Everyone loves Wigan Market, madam. Even if they've never been out with Tony.

@MargoJMilne: @TripeUK @WiganCouncil So very, very true.

I'm pleased to see that the hot pots still top their list of goods for sale

top pie

Elizabeth (mee darlin) - your posting on the 16th of Sept 2012 concerns me !
Have you forgotten that we had a few 'liquid refreshments' in the Fox Inn in Roby Mill ? we discussed your whale-bone corsets and upon leaving you kissed me good bye
I thought I had made a life long impression on you, but evidently not
Ah well, my mother always said that one day my ship would come in - and I would be waiting for it at the Railway Station .... kind thoughts

is their a budding romance built over a pie,?

I'm thinking of posting one to a friend in Swansea. Should I freeze it first

Would you freeze coal and send it to Newcastle? Or freeze sand and send it to Egypt?
There's no shortage of hot-pot anywhere. It's not exclusive to Wigan, you know!

i-spy no dont freeze it package it securely to avoid crushing and send me one as well please.tonker they are unavailable in south wales as are butter pies.

Go to Tesco. They sell hotpot there.

tonker I will do that on the weekend.

up to £1.20 - but fatter than ever

i-spy have you been thinking on your reply,

I was tempted to switch today joe - they've started selling beef and pepper pies.

i-spy they sound good,my local butcher had a go at making meat and potato pies good effort but not the same as pies from wigan.

pies from wigan ? are there any.

I've just discovered they have finally got a name - DAWSONS.
But where Dawsons are based I haven't a clue.
And in my new state I no longer scoff hotpots.
I did however buy one for old times sake and the smell from the oven was delicious.
Who ate it - me or the dog

I hope it was the dog's tail wagging and not you falling off the wagin, I-spy!

He left me the carrots

bring back the meat pies with the jelly in.

Dawsons pies are made in Tyldesley

What a lovely dog to share his dinner. Hope he'd licked all the gravy off the carrots

Tripe Marketing Board - @TripeUK (23rd Nov 2014):

We don't give our Gold Stars out lightly!
Visit Wigan market for the best quality tripe that money can buy.

enjoy all the pies you buy ,jelly and included.

jo anne, Joan on the guestbook is a troll. She/he/it is using tripe in this instance as a comment on the site. In other words rubbish!

It's a play on words

Try the pigs belly from this stall,it is delicious with a bit of vinegar and a little pepper.I do not know any where else to buy it.

Mouth watering

I-spy, for the dog?

I used to love it cooked with onions in milk.

I-spy, not for vegetarians, no matter how you cook it

True jazzy. It's offal init

up to £1.35 now. just wish I could eat one

A mate of mine, in Wigan, goes to St.Helens for Pimmies pies. Then he calls at a place called Cottoms for a hot-pot. He reckons they're the best!

Are Pimmies what used to be Pimbletts or did somebody just hi-jack the name

The owner of Pimblett's died and the son took over. He changed (modernised) everything to try and improve sales. Things weren't the same, so people stopped going. As you would?
So, the bakery closed down and shops were bought by Waterfields.

Apparently, the main bloke in charge of making t'pies knew the original recipes, so he started making them himself. The bakery grew and was sold to another person, who still makes them. Yes, they have to be called Pimmies, rather than Pimblett's. Copyrighs etc..

Personally, I haven't tried the new Pimmies pies or Cottom's Hot Pot.

I have not had a Hot Pot for years now

Me too

I don't think I've ever had real Lancashire Hot-Pot? Only that what my mum used to make and my wife makes (occasionally!) which is like Leigh 'lobby' / lobbies / lob scouse / corned beef hash?

THIS only with a suet crust on top!

100

Can someone buy one and tell me what I'm missing

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still a bargain £1.

Replied: 5th Mar 2013 at 21:53


My mate paid £1.65 for a meat and tatty pie.today

Like many so-called Cornish Pasties, how many are proper Lancashire Hotpots?

And the price of pies, especially at sporting stadia are ridiculous.