Colcannon

[SÓC]

Never heard of it until two years ago when I had to occasion to visit Cork Prison and it was on the menu, the chef explained that it was "some Dublin dish" but I'd never heard of it in my time in Dublin either tbh

All the Oirish pubs over here serve it though.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Here's a song about it :

'' Oh you did , so you did , so did he and so did I
And the more I think about it sure the more I am to cry
(forget the next line).............................when troubles we knew not,
And our mother's cooked Colcannon in the little skillet pot.

Champ is also known in England by the way.

Now does anyone know about Coddle?

[Magicme]

I never heard of Coddle until I married a dub! Sounds disgusting and as a Veggie I will never find out to the contrary!

[Green Tribe]

I had some fantastic boxty last night, my mum made it though
huge boxty cake, had about 4 slices last night cos it's halloween, it's massive, it's made from 20 potatoes in total
Magicme you should know this type of boxty as it's a Fermanagh/Cavan/Monaghan thing, not this rubbish thin potato boxty pancake you get in the rest or ireland.
it's so good. slurp

[Magicme]

Yeah its a "wild big feed" as they would say around these parts!

I made the big pot of bubble & squeak (yes stan I think you are right that it should be fried to make it propper b&s but we always called it that anyways) and bacon for the 3 carnivores. God it was gorgeous. Didnt stop the kids scoffing tons of sweets & junk later though.

[paul_oshea]

I knew GT would have something stupid and irrelevant to say.

Stann, thats my take on it too, but I actually think Colcannon is one of these Oirish things that became more popular when it was seen abroad as an Irish dish. I have asked the parents as well, they obviouslly know it, but said it was not a popular dish when they were growing up either!! Maybe its just big outside of connacht

ALso I have also known Bubble and squeak to have been an English dish, northern too I might add. Makes sense as its the more northern residents on here talking about it!

Yeah its a "wild big feed" as they would say around these parts!

"while" or "wild"?!

[Magicme]

wild of course! Thats wild that you dont know that its wild!

[Green Tribe]

I knew GT would have something stupid and irrelevant to say.

Stann, thats my take on it too, but I actually think Colcannon is one of these Oirish things that became more popular when it was seen abroad as an Irish dish. I have asked the parents as well, they obviouslly know it, but said it was not a popular dish when they were growing up either!! Maybe its just big outside of connacht

ALso I have also known Bubble and squeak to have been an English dish, northern too I might add. Makes sense as its the more northern residents on here talking about it!

"while" or "wild"?!

I love you too Paul!
I always thought B+S was a northern english dish too. Colcannon is not big up our way (Fermanagh/Down) it was always boxty at halloween.
I agree it(Colcannon) always seemed to be something on an irish themed bar menu (o'neills etc) in the UK.

[Green Tribe]

wild of course! Thats wild that you dont know that its wild!

it's wild, but POS is pronouncing it "while" cos he's a big culchie

[Magicme]

I suppose it does sound sorta like "while" but its more like "wile" but means wild! god its complicated explaining northernese to WIMs

[paul_oshea]

no, see the thing is im used to hearing wile up around donegal and derry and stuff, and i have seen dcfcsteve use it here before, like "he's wile sound like that there" and to me i always though it meant wile and was actually wild being said till a few friends pointed out to me that they were saying "wile". So I was wondering whether or not you were actually saying wild or not. I think its just a dif dialect MagicYou. I misspelt it above i meant to spell wile!!

[Magicme]

It was your spelling that threw me. It is pronnounced "wile" but it means "wild" in my neck of the woods anyhoo!

[Macy]

Magicme you should know this type of boxty as it's a Fermanagh/Cavan/Monaghan thing, not this rubbish thin potato boxty pancake you get in the rest or ireland.
it's so good. slurp

You mean your not actually boxty boxty?

[Green Tribe]

You mean your not actually boxty boxty?

eh?

[Macy]

Boxty is the thing you dismiss, not the potato cake effort you call it. That is all.

[stann]

I always thought B+S was a northern english dish too. Colcannon is not big up our way (Fermanagh/Down) it was always boxty at halloween.
I agree it(Colcannon) always seemed to be something on an irish themed bar menu (o'neills etc) in the UK.

Never thought of where bubble and squeak came from, it could well be a North of England thing ("and fry it in't lard, mother, none of this olive oil sh!te!"), but it was always popular wherever I went in Ireland due to it being the de facto tea-time dish on the night after you've had the feed of bacon and cabbage.
Without wanting to sicken the purists and epicures on here, colcannon has, for example, been available pre-prepared in most of the country's finest supermarkets for years now. It really is quite popular, down this end of the country at least.
Now, who remembers pandy? Or goody!

[noby]

Goody is/was fabulous. I was reared on the stuff. Pandy, never heared of it.

[stann]

I think it might be a Tipperary thing, used to get it at the gran's there as a child anyway.
Basically mash mixed with enough milk to make it kind of a semolina-ish paste. Almost runny, like. Quite the thing at the time. Nothing on goody though, that was the business.

[Wolfie]

Excuse the fine cuisine ignorance folks - what the hell is "Goody" ?

[noby]

Basically bread and warm milk mushed up together.