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  • Derek Cooper explores some of the traditional dishes of the East End of London - from jellied eels to smoked haddock.
    Derek first visits Joyce's Pie and Mash Shop on Tower Bridge Road, the oldest eel and pie shop in the East End, where the menu - pie, parsley sauce, mashed potatoes and stewed eels - has remained unchanged for decades. Then on to Tubby Isaac's jellied eel stall in Aldgate, where Tubby himself addresses the rumour that eels are an aphrodisiac, and bemoans the rising price of his most famous ingredient. After a quick stop at Billingsgate Fish Market, Derek finally speaks to Eric Ruffell - one of the few remaining East End fishmongers who operates a smoke hole to prepare traditional smoked haddock.
    As urban renewal projects see the old tenements replaced by high-rise flats, are these the last bastions of traditional East End cuisine?
    This clip is from A Taste of Britain, originally broadcast 27 August, 1975.
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  • @elrondhubbard7059
    @elrondhubbard7059 5 месяцев назад +487

    "I reckon eels is the most nutrimental food there is"
    -- Guy who sells eels.

    • @tmarritt
      @tmarritt 3 месяца назад +46

      I mean especially back then when they came from the Thames it contained all you nutrition needs, rubber, coal, sewage, bits of dead people.
      And how we import from china we get exactly the same quality.
      I do like a smoked fish tho.

    • @sasori100x
      @sasori100x 3 месяца назад +3

      when this was filmed they came from newfoundland

    • @wilmh9586
      @wilmh9586 2 месяца назад +4

      @@tmarritt HAHA Well said mate...my sentiment exactly...Thames =rubber coal sewage rats mice and rotten corpses

    • @1421davidm
      @1421davidm 2 месяца назад +1

      Lou Hart, better man than you.

    • @elrondhubbard7059
      @elrondhubbard7059 2 месяца назад +1

      @@1421davidm Geez man, it's a joke.

  • @jogsamson
    @jogsamson Год назад +872

    We have no idea how gently he’s holding them pies

    • @rebeccanater
      @rebeccanater Год назад +52

      Not even a thumbprint

    • @lucascoval828
      @lucascoval828 Год назад +29

      That Munchies callback!
      😁

    • @xyz-ns7ym
      @xyz-ns7ym 7 месяцев назад +3

      Haha

    • @MrGnarlybirdman
      @MrGnarlybirdman 5 месяцев назад +3

      Is this the same
      Shop?

    • @ATY676
      @ATY676 5 месяцев назад +6

      I'm still trying to figure out which University degree I need to do so I can figure out how gently he's holding them?

  • @sandro9237
    @sandro9237 Год назад +460

    Their cuisine and the face of their women made the british the best sailor in the world

  • @nikamota
    @nikamota Год назад +108

    "..there's nothing elaborate about Mr Rufffles smoke hole.."
    I don't think I'll ever hear anything as charming as that in ...well...ever!

    • @natethebesttt
      @natethebesttt Год назад +3

      Excuse me

    • @Angelicala
      @Angelicala 3 месяца назад +1

      Love this. 😂 Can imagine Rik mayall saying this in his tone.

    • @UnIimited_Power
      @UnIimited_Power 2 месяца назад +2

      He has to get a chimney sweep up there every month!

    • @Angelicala
      @Angelicala 2 месяца назад +1

      @unlimited_power. Sounds painful 😓

  • @johnferry7778
    @johnferry7778 6 месяцев назад +221

    I cried when I watched this and I’m not sure why. I grew up in London in the sixties and these are the kinds of faces I remember from my childhood.

    • @Surreptitious_1
      @Surreptitious_1 6 месяцев назад

      Development and progress is great but we've lost our culture and community. All sold off, sold out and replaced by consumerism, giving rise to China and global communism.

    • @sugarfish6722
      @sugarfish6722 5 месяцев назад +72

      ​@@spunkychops7484getting *ucked is different from "moving on"

    • @BBCBOY919
      @BBCBOY919 5 месяцев назад

      i love getting uck@@sugarfish6722

    • @garyk1334
      @garyk1334 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@sugarfish6722Spinkychops is clueless

    • @newbleppmore7855
      @newbleppmore7855 5 месяцев назад +91

      Native population wiped out in London

  • @andrewferrier3351
    @andrewferrier3351 Год назад +160

    I checked, in London jellied eels are 26 Australian dollars per kg, in Sydney oysters are 20 dollars per kg, that man was right

    • @TankManHeavy
      @TankManHeavy Год назад +34

      World's gone crazy, Lobster and Salmon were considered the poor mans food if you go back far enough too, now you pay a premium for it.

    • @petesmith9472
      @petesmith9472 Год назад +10

      Oysters are not sold by the kilo. They are sold by the dozen at the retail level and by standard sack at the farm gate. The price is determined by the number of oysters in each sack.

    • @jesegyani3575
      @jesegyani3575 Год назад

      For the Sydney oysters are you referring to American dollars

    • @aurelmatthews4164
      @aurelmatthews4164 Год назад

      Oysters need to be fresh generally, which means keeping them in their shell. Twenty dollars per KG for oysters includes the shell i assume?

    • @ZILOGz80VIDEOS
      @ZILOGz80VIDEOS Год назад +13

      @@TankManHeavy They've both been massively overfished. They had to cancel the snow crab season in Alaska after an 80%+ drop in population this year and probably will for the next several because their population has been so poorly managed.

  • @horsenuts1831
    @horsenuts1831 Год назад +314

    I was 10 when this was shot, and I moved to the East End of London some 8 years later. A lot of this is still recognisable to me (at the time the docks were shutting down and I had a job in the a dole office in East London). There were still a few pie m mash shops around but I never developed a taste for it, and I don't car for jellied eels (but I love smoked eels). It is interesting to see the old Billingsgate market. I recall a storty from when they re-developed it that they just couldn't get rid of the smell of fish until they discovered that the cast iron roof supports were full of water that was infused with the smell of a century's worth of fish trading.

    • @eva5601
      @eva5601 Год назад +6

      I also was 9, or 10 depending on what month of the year this video was filmed. My Birthday is in August.

    • @ssgssbeet4133
      @ssgssbeet4133 Год назад +18

      Im american but read this in a thick english accent

    • @parlay-music
      @parlay-music Год назад +4

      @@ssgssbeet4133 cool

    • @ssgssbeet4133
      @ssgssbeet4133 Год назад +8

      @@parlay-music thanks

    • @briangleason5597
      @briangleason5597 9 месяцев назад +3

      Dam good Eating. Eels and pies.

  • @IronMonkeySounds
    @IronMonkeySounds 4 месяца назад +47

    Eels are a bit of a delicacy in Denmark (and very expensive), but we typically eat them either pan fried in butter served with potatoes, or smoked on rye bread with scrambled eggs and chives.

    • @user-et6pj4db9s
      @user-et6pj4db9s 4 месяца назад +18

      That definitely sounds more appetising than cold in jelly

    • @patrick-bu3eq
      @patrick-bu3eq 4 месяца назад +1

      They are very expensive now in the Netherlands too 1kg easily sets you back 50 euros without looking at current prices.. They are here mostly eaten smoked probably now a days as sushi but thats another story. Stewed eels used to be populair amongst the working classes here too.@@user-et6pj4db9s

    • @Jack908r
      @Jack908r 4 месяца назад +3

      I have no idea why the British view cooking as an enemy activity to be completed with every ounce of resistance a human can muster. But the Danish way sounds like its actually appealing.

    • @aclubcalledRAGE
      @aclubcalledRAGE 3 месяца назад

      When did you last eat in in Britain?@@Jack908r

    • @froggin-zp4nr
      @froggin-zp4nr 2 месяца назад +2

      See now that sounds like a simple way to make eels sound palatable. Don't know why people on this island have dreadful cooking skills and equally bad taste buds

  • @johnbarry1965
    @johnbarry1965 5 месяцев назад +25

    Up here in Wales, I treat myself quite often to a proper East End tea of Pie,mash and liquor with white pepper and chilli vinegar. It's all gravy up here!!

    • @Initium1000
      @Initium1000 24 дня назад

      Your cuisine is horrible. Absolutely horrible

  • @the_terrorizer
    @the_terrorizer Год назад +66

    As an American, I am disgusted by the thought of jellied eels yet also terribly intrigued. Wonderfully shot documentary

    • @Jack-bx3ow
      @Jack-bx3ow Год назад +10

      And how about that bright green liquid?

    • @the_terrorizer
      @the_terrorizer Год назад +15

      @@Jack-bx3ow Looks like something from a cartoon hahaha. Why does it have to be bright green? What does it taste like?? We may never know

    • @romulus_
      @romulus_ Год назад +17

      @@the_terrorizer it's made from parsley. i'm american, would give it all a try. there's a reason why it was popular.

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@Jack-bx3ow It's literally chopped parsley, flour, and water. Nothing more.

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@the_terrorizer It's literally chopped parsley, flour, and water. Nothing more. It tastes like parsley. Try making it - I don't personally rate it but my family have always loved the stuff - in true East-London fashion.

  • @dorndy1
    @dorndy1 5 месяцев назад +74

    the gentleman that begins speaking at 2:50 (Tubby Isaac) has such a way of speaking, so well articulated, thought out, pragmatic, knowledgeable without a hint of pretension.

    • @AudioJellyfish
      @AudioJellyfish 4 месяца назад +2

      He sounds like the Hitcher from Mighty Boosh

    • @dorndy1
      @dorndy1 4 месяца назад +1

      @@AudioJellyfish Eels up inside ya, finding an entrance where they can.

    • @0PsychosisMedia0
      @0PsychosisMedia0 2 месяца назад

      I thought he is on a current show. Going to markets around the world. The voice and speak pattern is unmistakable.

    • @biggdogg6196
      @biggdogg6196 2 месяца назад

      He has the exact same voice as Arthur Smith the comedian!

    • @0scarisaiah
      @0scarisaiah 2 месяца назад

      @@AudioJellyfish Had the exact same thought. Wondered if they'd based the character off him

  • @stephenord3403
    @stephenord3403 Год назад +33

    Such wonderful characters, sadly gone now 😢

    • @phillpidgeon8961
      @phillpidgeon8961 5 месяцев назад +1

      hearing a east end say bob or 2. Makes me just want to go see my dad and have a chat

  • @YourContentSucksDlck
    @YourContentSucksDlck 5 месяцев назад +24

    1975: talking about The War like it was yesterday.
    2023: still talking about The War like it was yesterday.

    • @mypointofview1111
      @mypointofview1111 14 дней назад

      Except these days everyone under the age of 50 thinks it was all about food shortages. They cannot comprehend the level of physical devastation that went on across the world

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 11 дней назад

      :p

  • @jasonhewlett1283
    @jasonhewlett1283 Год назад +27

    Great to see old London !

  • @WolfDaddy420
    @WolfDaddy420 5 месяцев назад +25

    I am a 59 year old Italian-American from New Jersey and pie n mash with stewed or jellied eels on the side looks like good enough food to me. I used to catch eels in the bay while standing on the dock during summers down the shore in Point Pleasant back in the 70's. Then my father would gut them and remove the bones and my Sicilian grandmother would flour and fry them in olive oil served with spaghetti on the side therefore I grew up eating them and I still love 'em. Other than that nutrimental is a word whether anyone's pretentious ass likes it or not, folks✌🏼

    • @user-og2wt3le4j
      @user-og2wt3le4j День назад

      Sounds like a good Italian American meal to me. I love eel and spaghetti.

  • @johngough2958
    @johngough2958 Год назад +198

    A lot of the eels came from Ireland. I read (a few decades ago) about some family on the West Coast of Ireland who supplied eels and one of them turned up in London looking for work and only knowing the eel pie seller - he was totally shocked by the mark up in price! Especially as back home they hadn't been paid for the last catch sent over.

    • @fairybuddy-angel2035
      @fairybuddy-angel2035 Год назад

      Britain and London - screwing our neighbours for years and years.

    • @jessicatorretto159
      @jessicatorretto159 Год назад +1

      And scrumptious fried in a pan in there own fat and a pinch of pepper. I used to catch them in the streams everywhere and the invasive species of the American yabby. Easy to catch and a great bit of grub.

    • @TheBenzer9
      @TheBenzer9 Год назад +6

      The guy who originally started selling them back in the late 1800s was from Ireland greystones Co wicklow I think, his great grandson is selling running one of the oldest pie and mash shops in london

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf 5 месяцев назад

      Yep

    • @astroboirap
      @astroboirap 5 месяцев назад +2

      lmao @ nutrimental

  • @london2resistance
    @london2resistance 2 месяца назад +3

    Living in London I’ve been lucky enough to encounter only on a few occasions to purchase Jellied Eels, I’m glad to say I took every opportunity to keep on walking

  • @jamesphlames7498
    @jamesphlames7498 Год назад +118

    I used to go to a 'pie and mash' shop after work on a Friday when i got my pay cheque. It was like a moment of glory! True comfort food. It brings a tear to my eye thinking about how wonderful those days were!

    • @SamTheManWhoCanTwice
      @SamTheManWhoCanTwice Год назад +6

      Middle aged people back then hated those times! everything was new and without tradition!

    • @jamesphlames7498
      @jamesphlames7498 Год назад +11

      @@SamTheManWhoCanTwice That wasn't my experience of middle aged people at all. I'm not sure where you pulled that from.

    • @judohondaboiii
      @judohondaboiii Год назад +5

      For me all the days are wonderful. Especially nowadays since I can access my playlist of favourite sex scenes on RUclips.

    • @SamTheManWhoCanTwice
      @SamTheManWhoCanTwice Год назад +11

      @@jamesphlames7498 older people always complain about how the world was better when they were younger,
      You can read accounts from the Romans saying 'it was so much better back in my day'

    • @jamesphlames7498
      @jamesphlames7498 Год назад +6

      @@SamTheManWhoCanTwice It depends on which direction you choose to look.
      My grandparents back then were incredibly happy, as was my boss, the people surrounding me and my dog.

  • @adolphsanchez1429
    @adolphsanchez1429 Год назад +50

    "Pie, parsley sauce, and jellied eels." It doesn't get more British than that.

    • @simonsimon325
      @simonsimon325 6 месяцев назад +10

      Only if Britain = London. Most of us have never been near a plate of jellied eels.

    • @chetmanley1885
      @chetmanley1885 5 месяцев назад

      Not really, you only find it in a pretty small area.
      Ask someone in the north of Essex about pie and mash and they won't have a clue.

    • @MaSoNGaMeR115
      @MaSoNGaMeR115 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@chetmanley1885 completely untrue, actual londoners live all over essex now, it's one of the only places you'll find genuine london culture

    • @noramartin96
      @noramartin96 3 месяца назад

      The parsley sauce was called 'Liquor' .To me it looks ghastly but millions loved and still love it

    • @apebass2215
      @apebass2215 2 месяца назад

      ​@@simonsimon325 jellied eels are traditional in areas outside of London, particularly Kent and Essex. Coastal areas in the west of Britain also sell jellied eels as they're typically imported from Ireland.

  • @BVargas78
    @BVargas78 4 месяца назад +14

    I remember that Britain from when i was a kid. It was still around in the early to mid 80's. It's funny how much things changed especially over the 90s.

    • @bertiescunsbutch9323
      @bertiescunsbutch9323 3 месяца назад +9

      Blair.

    • @seanjones180
      @seanjones180 2 месяца назад

      ​@@bertiescunsbutch9323Thatcher

    • @dabin88
      @dabin88 Месяц назад +3

      @@bertiescunsbutch9323Bliar lol

    • @nolickspittle4753
      @nolickspittle4753 Месяц назад +1

      @@bertiescunsbutch9323 Exactly! It peaked in the 1980s and then downhill since!

  • @kidkieran77
    @kidkieran77 Год назад +233

    What I find fascinating, being a Londoner born in the early 90s, is just how central 'East' was even up until the 1970s.

    • @darkarts59
      @darkarts59 Год назад

      Quite.

    • @pigglewiggle175
      @pigglewiggle175 Год назад +1

      OK kid.

    • @grimjim1599
      @grimjim1599 Год назад +74

      It's more like the middle east these days

    • @acropolisnow9466
      @acropolisnow9466 Год назад +64

      @@grimjim1599 It's disgraceful what has been done to the city and this country. The same has happened all across Europe.

    • @Miniver765
      @Miniver765 Год назад

      @@acropolisnow9466 Yes. It's all about destroying historically wyte, krish/chun countries throughout Europe.

  • @almiles6922
    @almiles6922 Год назад +54

    Sort of wish times were still like this

    • @Paulatthedisco
      @Paulatthedisco Год назад +31

      No thanks

    • @jimmelton5846
      @jimmelton5846 Год назад

      London is a shithole now.

    • @vertigo10yearsago25
      @vertigo10yearsago25 Год назад +1

      No , so many were poor at this time , London was a shithole and was still recovering from ww2

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 Год назад +24

      It was a tough, gruelling life

    • @philbe2482
      @philbe2482 Год назад +6

      Back when America was still great.

  • @rhythmjones
    @rhythmjones Год назад +6

    The video: People in 1975 complaining about how life was better before.
    The comments: People in 2020 complaining that life was better in the video.

  • @ChorizoCentauri
    @ChorizoCentauri 4 месяца назад +34

    The London everyone complained about is the London most of us long for today.
    London was tough, raw, and unique. It had a charm of authenticity. I truly abhor today's Disneylandesque-London.

    • @tmarritt
      @tmarritt 3 месяца назад +1

      You are looking at the wrong parts of londong, there is a lot of what you are looking for in London, it's just not where it used to be.

    • @apebass2215
      @apebass2215 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@tmarritt gentrification has pushed out working class communities and traditions, this has been reported for years.

    • @tmarritt
      @tmarritt 2 месяца назад

      that's just the push and pull of London it's always happened always will happen and just changes. Idiot nimbys, old cunts complaining and young hipsters that don't realise they are the ones doing it.
      Just the natural cycle of any city.
      FFS my family used to live 12 in a room in a peasbody building in Soho in my granddad's day, think we should go back to that?
      Total rosy eyed bollocks.

    • @petermatthews2180
      @petermatthews2180 Месяц назад +6

      Because there are hardly any native people born and bred in London anymore

    • @kraftyfrog
      @kraftyfrog Месяц назад

      ​@@petermatthews2180 Exactly. Modern London is "Disneylandesque" only in that it's a chaotic, cultureless blob punctuated by violence perpetrated by imported Third Worlders.

  • @SGProductions87
    @SGProductions87 Год назад +69

    Makes me think of being a kid. My parents used to take me down to Whitstable back in those days and we'd come back with a hoard of shellfish, mainly cockles, muscles and whelks. Watching this made me realise what that whole thing was all about. It was cultural, but at the time it was just a thing that happened that I enjoyed but didn't really understand. Of course now, I never experience these things, but this made me miss it and get a touch teary-eyed.

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 Год назад +2

      Whitstable eh? Wow, so cockney 🥴
      Sorry, but, WTAF has whitstable cockles and a day trip got to do with pie n mash and jellied eels?

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@JulieWallis1963 Because Whitstable was a standard day trip for South and East-end Londoners. Because the Whitstable cockles were sold in London on the same stalls that the Eels were sold on. Because people would often have Eels and Cockles or Whelks or Mussels. Because the day trips often resulted in a stop-off to get Eels at the end of the day.
      And because yes, it is a VERY Cockney lifestyle. These trips by Eastenders out of London to the coastal fishing villages of the southeast, and these combinations of foods, are uniquely Cockney London.
      Soditch the 'WTAF' attitude and be educated.

  • @--pussypatroll--
    @--pussypatroll-- Год назад +28

    I could watch gems like this all day long.

  • @stephenscales353
    @stephenscales353 Год назад +31

    Surely some Hoxton/Shoreditch hipsters can revive jellied eels and no doubt charge £20 a portion.

    • @Hellomynameis93
      @Hellomynameis93 Год назад +1

      And? That's what capitalism is all about. If someone is willing to pay for it then charge it.

    • @tonypine3434
      @tonypine3434 5 месяцев назад

      You can get jellied eels in the poppies off commercial street

    • @davefave4351
      @davefave4351 2 месяца назад

      Served on a Redland 49 roofing tile...

    • @TheFanatical1
      @TheFanatical1 Месяц назад +1

      You'd have to, as jellied eel is critically endangered.

    • @georgerobartes2008
      @georgerobartes2008 Месяц назад

      Try Cookes in Hoxton St , been there for ever .

  • @traceya9615
    @traceya9615 Год назад +56

    Nice to see Derek Cooper. His voice is very evocative for me of 70s' tv and radio reports.

  • @stephenguppy7882
    @stephenguppy7882 4 месяца назад +3

    I used to have smoked haddock with crusty bread and butter for tea at Grandma's house every Friday when I was a kid. Ahh, memories.

  • @paulohlsen3332
    @paulohlsen3332 Год назад +42

    My great grandparents ran an eel and pie shop, great documentary

  • @britturk123
    @britturk123 Год назад +46

    I love going back in time it feels like I am in a time machine, a lovely capture of these wonderful decent honest folk.

  • @guymorris6596
    @guymorris6596 Год назад +22

    I'll pass on eating eels because I'm watching this for the history aspect. Now the pie, parsley sauce and mashed potatoes sound good.

  • @jomatuazon
    @jomatuazon Год назад +59

    Love how dapper that seafood/jellied eels vendor looks!

    • @noramartin96
      @noramartin96 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes Tubby Isaacs was very famous at his stall in Aldgate

  • @chrisrovai9625
    @chrisrovai9625 7 месяцев назад +11

    The last man is right...nothing can beat the divine delicious simplicity of smoked haddock and buttered bread

    • @georgemorley1029
      @georgemorley1029 6 месяцев назад +1

      Craster kipper and the oil on a bit of toast for me.

    • @astrovarius543
      @astrovarius543 5 месяцев назад +1

      How can you say that with all the rich diversity pouring into your country.
      Just think of the street slop you're missing out on.

  • @paul9511
    @paul9511 Год назад +4

    Good day to all my brothers and sisters in the UK 🇦🇺🌹🙏.

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti Год назад +11

    Jimmy eats that exact meal in Quadrophenia, I've always wondered what that florescent sauce was.

  • @gavinmillar7519
    @gavinmillar7519 Год назад +3

    What a brilliant little excerpt. Lovely.

  • @adrinathegreat3095
    @adrinathegreat3095 3 месяца назад +4

    That little pot of jellied eels was 30p that's equal to £3.15 in today's money, I can remember a portion of chips costing 10p in 1975.

    • @user-og2wt3le4j
      @user-og2wt3le4j День назад

      Same with fish and chips. They were cheaper in the mid-70s.

  • @davidlister370
    @davidlister370 Год назад +65

    That young lad at 1:01 looks absolutely fuming to be served eels and parsley sauce. Can't say I blame him!

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 Год назад +1

      rip young lad.

    • @Heaven-dy9lj
      @Heaven-dy9lj Год назад +5

      It's Liquor not Parsley Sauce.

    • @blokeabouttown2490
      @blokeabouttown2490 Год назад +5

      @@purefoldnz3070 He's probably still alive, he'd be in his late 60s by now.

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 Год назад +7

      @@blokeabouttown2490 depends on how much eels he had.

    • @ericmckinley7985
      @ericmckinley7985 Год назад +2

      @@Heaven-dy9lj can you explain the difference for an American? Are they not both essentially a bechamel with parsley?

  • @tazzatamania
    @tazzatamania Год назад +10

    Lovely this. From Liverpool so only ever been for pie and mash once, very tasty.

  • @davidbull7210
    @davidbull7210 Год назад +6

    Love how he pronounced Aldgate.

  • @blackcitroenlove
    @blackcitroenlove Год назад +28

    Smoked fish is a Cherokee staple. We smoke it slowly over hickory, so good. The man doing the smoking does it pretty much the same way we do, which is neat to see.

  • @1DoctorMoo
    @1DoctorMoo Год назад

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @davewalker7126
    @davewalker7126 Год назад +1083

    'neutrimental' food indeed

  • @sdg2185
    @sdg2185 6 месяцев назад +18

    It's absolutely tragic seeing what modern London has been reduced to 😢

    • @bibo2445
      @bibo2445 5 месяцев назад +3

      What's bad about it? That you have food that doesn't look like someone's vomit? Or that it doesn't look like dresden after the bombs fell?

    • @MaSoNGaMeR115
      @MaSoNGaMeR115 5 месяцев назад

      @@bibo2445 not quite worht third world crime rates for rape and murder brought by third world people

    • @user-og2wt3le4j
      @user-og2wt3le4j День назад

      Overpriced Vegan restaurants and Indian food.

  • @jcs3330
    @jcs3330 Год назад +12

    I remember my beloved late Mother taking me into the two pie & mash shops in Deptford high street in the early seventies (I think one was called Goddards and the other Manzies or something similar, with sawdust covering the floors) when I was a young child.
    She would order the jellied eels for herself (I refused to eat them!) and pie & mash for me. I also remember when Fish & Chips came with a serving of 'crispy bits' on the side and served in old newspaper. (All probably stopped by the FSA and Health and Safety brigade!). What great days they were.

    • @elliotvernon7971
      @elliotvernon7971 6 месяцев назад +4

      A J Goddard had to shut down, but Manzes is still on Deptford High Street.

    • @pnelancslad9771
      @pnelancslad9771 2 месяца назад

      Been to Goddards at Greenwich in december had my first pie and mash here absolutley superb

  • @dawnlewis4891
    @dawnlewis4891 3 месяца назад +7

    Still go for a pie and mash...Selkirk Road, Tooting. Just introduced it to my eight month old great nephew, he loves a bit of mash and liquor 😂

  • @hetrodoxly1203
    @hetrodoxly1203 Год назад +51

    It was very similar in Birmingham, there was the huge old Smithfield fish market and the market stalls in the bull ring, you can still get a small bowel of jelled eels with a chunk of bread with vinegar and pepper, or a plate of welks to eat at one of the shellfish stalls, the old Smithfield market was knocked down in the 1970s but a new one was built.

    • @rjy8960
      @rjy8960 Год назад +3

      I remember going to the Birmingham fish market as a young child in the 70's and eating whelks standing up!

    • @croonyerzoonyer
      @croonyerzoonyer Год назад +4

      A small ‘bowel’? Yuck! Surely you mean BOWL.

    • @hetrodoxly1203
      @hetrodoxly1203 Год назад +12

      @@croonyerzoonyer Sorry if you couldn't see it was an obvious typo.

    • @AudioJellyfish
      @AudioJellyfish 4 месяца назад

      I thought it was some kind of old medical thing. "Got a problem with your Derby Kell? you need a jellied eel in your bowel, fix you right up".@@hetrodoxly1203

  • @AN-ed8qq
    @AN-ed8qq Год назад +158

    What a beautiful and nostalgic documentary piece. I love eel and pie shops. I understand that eels are an acquired taste. Personally I love them, but I know lots of people who really don't.

    • @Zooumberg
      @Zooumberg Год назад +2

      I had them once in London and hated them. I then tried again in Blackpool and hated them. However, I believe I was eating them incorrectly, crunching the bones isn't the done thing. If I'm ever away from Newcastle again, I'll give them another chance.

    • @hetrodoxly1203
      @hetrodoxly1203 Год назад +10

      @@Zooumberg No don't crunch the bones, they're sharp, pick the meat off the bones as if eating a drumstick, like in the film they're best with vinegar and pepper.

    • @Zooumberg
      @Zooumberg Год назад +3

      @@hetrodoxly1203 I tell you what I do like. Whelks. It's like seafood chewing gum. With loads of vinegar and pepper. There's not much seafood I don't like. I will try eels again sometime.

    • @hetrodoxly1203
      @hetrodoxly1203 Год назад +2

      @@Zooumberg I also love whelks.

    • @Zooumberg
      @Zooumberg Год назад +2

      @@hetrodoxly1203 whelks, mussels, cockles, there's not much seafood I don't like. Shame it's so expensive these days.

  • @vinn3327
    @vinn3327 Год назад +4

    Jellied eel n mash, was a part of my childhood I will never forget YUM

  • @bushwhackeddos.2703
    @bushwhackeddos.2703 5 месяцев назад +1

    Been frequenting the same pie shop for 50 years, since my mother first took me at around 6 months old.

  • @rjy8960
    @rjy8960 Год назад +45

    This is a thing of beauty. I assume that this was taken from 35mm film? Brilliant job! Watching this was almost like being there. Thanks!

    • @elijahmodnar1
      @elijahmodnar1 Год назад +3

      16mm or super16mm

    • @jannalyzer3944
      @jannalyzer3944 Год назад +2

      We might have already been here. Swimming with our dad's sack

  • @Playsinvain
    @Playsinvain Год назад +18

    Stunning and fascinating. It’s like from an alien planet

  • @iandeare1
    @iandeare1 Год назад +18

    My father was a proppa East end Cockney born in Shadwell, 1921. Eventually ended up in Arbroath; where we do smoked haddock very slightly differently: the world famous "Arbroath Smokie"
    (the style described in the clip would generally be called Yellow Fish locally)

    • @rickyspanish9002
      @rickyspanish9002 Месяц назад

      Who did he go to France with?

    • @iandeare1
      @iandeare1 Месяц назад

      ​@@rickyspanish9002I have absolutely no idea what you're referring to; but oddly my paternal Great Grandfather painted chapel ceiling frescoes in France, and added an acute accent, altering the spelling to Dearé, as is the custom in Europe, they would've pronounced the final e, which is silent in English.
      The name is not unique, but unusual, and has been traced back to the I6th C.

    • @rickyspanish9002
      @rickyspanish9002 Месяц назад

      @@iandeare1 what i mean is most British men born in 1921 got a free trip to France right around 1940

    • @iandeare1
      @iandeare1 Месяц назад

      @@rickyspanish9002 : nope my father went to India and North Africa as, RAF Aircrew transport Command AG/Sigs, and later, in 1943 Coastal Command, U-boat patrol in Scotland

    • @rickyspanish9002
      @rickyspanish9002 Месяц назад

      @@iandeare1 thats awesome!

  • @naguerea
    @naguerea Месяц назад

    What an absolute treat it has been to watch this vid. As a soldier I served lots with east Londoners and pie and mash is what they loved., I even ent there to try it for myself.

  • @CorvoFG
    @CorvoFG Год назад +3

    Used to frequent the one that still exists in Peckham. Pie, mash and liquor, I passed on the eels.

  • @Favep
    @Favep Год назад +3

    These are living history 👍

  • @Mark-0O
    @Mark-0O 4 месяца назад +2

    I live beside Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland and the eels here were sent to Billingsgate market in London and also to Amsterdam.

  • @5argetech56
    @5argetech56 5 месяцев назад +1

    Gives me the feeling of "Only Fools and Horses". Loved that series.

  • @Twilight-cl3zc
    @Twilight-cl3zc Год назад +7

    Bless him... he's so foodimentally good for his beloved London 🙏✌️❤️

    • @protectwhatisours6895
      @protectwhatisours6895 3 месяца назад

      I need to try Pie and Mash from one of these old places, if they’re still about.

  • @richardmullins1883
    @richardmullins1883 Год назад +7

    I fkn love jellied eel and smoked haddock, pie n mash w mushy peas. Omg I miss home

  • @johnboy1042
    @johnboy1042 Год назад +1

    Still love my pie mash and liquor eels even today as a child I use to go harringtons in Tooting Broadway which is still going today

  • @Greg-fl4cb
    @Greg-fl4cb Год назад +1

    Lovely documentary!

  • @dannyward673
    @dannyward673 Год назад +10

    It’s an expensive treat pie & mash these days. I go Leytonstone or Canning Town if I fancy it. The grub was introduced to me by my nan & grandad who were born and raised eastenders, salt of the earth people.

  • @spidyman8853
    @spidyman8853 Год назад +14

    In the days before Mac Ds

  • @jaywalker3087
    @jaywalker3087 Год назад +3

    I remember eating cockles at Tubby's.
    I miss those days.

  • @EndChineseGenocide
    @EndChineseGenocide 5 месяцев назад +3

    Its like another world

  • @simonlunt353
    @simonlunt353 Год назад +18

    A lot of the old ways are gone now so sad 😞

  • @stevenikitas8170
    @stevenikitas8170 Год назад

    Love that old cash register... I remember them well from my youth.

  • @sophrapsune
    @sophrapsune Год назад +4

    This is absolute gold.

  • @josephking1947
    @josephking1947 Год назад +5

    I used to frequent that place as I worked in the area for 20 odd years, great memories

  • @paulhemingway9149
    @paulhemingway9149 2 месяца назад +3

    Pie mash and green gravy.

    • @1421davidm
      @1421davidm 2 месяца назад

      Green as Saint Patricks arse, as my mum used to say.

  • @williamsmiler184
    @williamsmiler184 Год назад

    Fascinating!

  • @darkarts59
    @darkarts59 Год назад +1

    Nutrimental - Love that word.

  • @BadYossa
    @BadYossa Год назад +43

    The parsley sauce (liquor) is an acquired taste. Tried it a few times at the old place in Chapel Street market in Islington back the early '80's. It was served like a portion of soup. I was 17, so maybe my taste buds weren't geared up for it back then.

    • @jakubbarton1770
      @jakubbarton1770 Год назад +6

      what does it taste like? I just imagined it being a parsley flavored gravy

    • @BadYossa
      @BadYossa Год назад +11

      @@jakubbarton1770 it has a strong vinegar vibe and all the parsley that ever existed in it. I'm a chef and it's too much for my tastes!

    • @elwolf8536
      @elwolf8536 Год назад +1

      More like flour liquer with a hint of parsley

    • @aleccastro4761
      @aleccastro4761 Год назад +10

      been trying for 30+ years still haven't acquired the taste of it

    • @chetmanley1885
      @chetmanley1885 5 месяцев назад +4

      I was weaned on it, my mum says it's the first solid food I ate (slightly dubious claim) but I've eaten it since I was little.
      Not sure it's an acquired taste, you like it or you don't.

  • @newspaperface
    @newspaperface Год назад +9

    M Manze pie and eel shop on tower bridge road still looks like that Joyce's place from the start. Cheap too. If you dont like eels their pies are top drawer. Pay a visit if your in the area.

    • @grahamross6397
      @grahamross6397 Год назад

      Was going to post similar.
      Thought I recognised the place in the first few minutes of this film.
      Hasn't changed much.
      Ate there last week.

    • @chetmanley1885
      @chetmanley1885 5 месяцев назад

      I've only been to the Walthamstow one, and yeah that hasn't changed, they still chuck sawdust on the floor.

  • @FrithonaHrududu02127
    @FrithonaHrududu02127 2 месяца назад +1

    Im a 48 year old American yet somehow i feel nostalgic for this. Like I actually had to remind myself that i have no real nostalgia for this. But i wish i did.

  • @PeterNorman-xd8tr
    @PeterNorman-xd8tr 2 месяца назад

    Our late Mum loved jellied eels she was born in that era 1920s but memories for me as we went on a school trip to billingsgate like the men talking see Tower bridge in the background still follow the pie and mash shops that get posted on Facebook mainly Manzes.

  • @PaulWalshp-wx4in
    @PaulWalshp-wx4in 3 месяца назад +3

    FEKKIN BEAUTIFUL 👌👌

  • @Heaven-dy9lj
    @Heaven-dy9lj Год назад +9

    Wish this culture and practises were still widespread today.

    • @cantagiousca5220
      @cantagiousca5220 Год назад +1

      ..I open a British news paper today and all the majority of bad crimes are in london but the colour of the race of londons criminal is no longer white

  • @NR-qx6ld
    @NR-qx6ld 24 дня назад

    Beautiful old London❤❤❤
    Love jellied eels.

  • @chrissyboy2401
    @chrissyboy2401 21 день назад

    I'm from North London and worked in East London,Dalston in the 90's,on my lunch break I walked up Dalston High Rd and used to get a quick pie from the pie shop for my lunch and they had a metal container on the outside window with live eels in it and they'd cut them up fresh if you ordered them and served with jelly,never had them but the pies were delicious and a great London tradition.

  • @cerneuffington2656
    @cerneuffington2656 Год назад +17

    I love Smoked Haddock, but i'll give the rest of that muck a wide berth. My dad used to eat cockles and other stuff from seafood stalls, some of it had sand in 🤢

    • @maxpayneful4328
      @maxpayneful4328 Год назад +2

      No crab, lobster, bass, prawns, cod, crawfish?
      All of these are must try’s

    • @poopbutt6241
      @poopbutt6241 Год назад

      @@maxpayneful4328 go to Louisiana for that

    • @kahyui2486
      @kahyui2486 Год назад

      That's strange cos smoked haddock Is one of the stinkiest fishes. It makes the whole house stink like a brothel

    • @cerneuffington2656
      @cerneuffington2656 Год назад +2

      @@kahyui2486 😂

  • @larrynintendo6838
    @larrynintendo6838 Год назад +13

    I HOPE one day i can try this for myself! Always been fascinated by it!

    • @shaunwild8797
      @shaunwild8797 Год назад +2

      I thought that and one day I had the chance to try them in Cromer. Never again. lol.

    • @larrynintendo6838
      @larrynintendo6838 Год назад +1

      @@shaunwild8797 Hahaha that is hilarious! I have very odd taste in food so I am hoping I love it.

    • @shaunwild8797
      @shaunwild8797 Год назад +1

      @@larrynintendo6838 I'm not a fussy eater and will try anything. I even ate Surstromming once but will never ever try jellied eels again.

    • @H4CK61
      @H4CK61 Год назад +1

      @@larrynintendo6838 Try stewed first mate then jellied you wont be dissapointed.

    • @larrynintendo6838
      @larrynintendo6838 Год назад

      @@H4CK61 Thanks for the tip! Eel just seems really delicious!

  • @businessgoose4883
    @businessgoose4883 5 месяцев назад +1

    I just checked on Google maps, this shop is still there 🥳

  • @halfgingeralehalfgin
    @halfgingeralehalfgin Год назад +4

    I love mackerel and eel sushi rolls. Those english dishes look delicious!

  • @johnwalton2019
    @johnwalton2019 Год назад +40

    1970s film showing how London was changing from the old days. 01:39 Lou Hart, Old Billingsgate eel and shellfish specialist for many year. My Dad portered for Lou in the late 1960s and early 1970s at the old market which would have been in it final days when this film was taken. In the pan shot of the market in the film you can see the old buildings starting to make way for new offices. Market finally moved to Poplar in January 1982 after almost a 1,000 years of trading in it's City of London location. I also fear Tubby Isaacs' (not his real name in this film, think it was Solly?), prediction that we will always east jellied eels isn't correct - London is now ironically seeing more pie shops close and move out to Essex, Herts and the Home Counties as more and more old Londoners see out there days...not many kids in those places eating jellied eels though!

    • @1421davidm
      @1421davidm Год назад

      Hi mate, did your dad know Jack McCarthy , my dad ?

  • @UnIimited_Power
    @UnIimited_Power 2 месяца назад +2

    Mmm neon green liquor and _meat_ pies.

  • @emorelix
    @emorelix 5 месяцев назад +1

    Can we take a moment to look at the camera work at 2:13. Can you imagine the camera that some dude had to manipulate, whilst on the ground that low?

  • @sassy_brit1975
    @sassy_brit1975 Год назад +13

    What a superb clip 🥰❤🇬🇧 love watching stuff like this, back to better days in many ways, proper eastenders & lots of cockney slang & old london grub X

  • @donaldpyper4627
    @donaldpyper4627 Год назад +3

    Wow amazing to think this isn’t that old - yet these people and thier food etc have been completely replaced now.

  • @MDL_79
    @MDL_79 5 месяцев назад

    We used to have this place that was a pie-and-mash shop by me townhome. They used to serve eels there. Live eels wriggling around inside your belly exploring your organs. Finding an entrance where they can.

  • @JulieWallis1963
    @JulieWallis1963 Год назад

    “It’s busy”
    One old dear in the queue next to him.
    I love pie n mash served with liquor and lots of vinegar. I still get mine via the internet (I’ve long since left london)

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Год назад

      Still, most seats looked full, when it might’ve had only one or two customers a day. Not bursting, but ticking over nicely still at that time

  • @Justin_BKK
    @Justin_BKK 5 месяцев назад +5

    My Dad was a fish merchant in Bristol, I remember often going with him to the Old Billingsgate in his lorry when I was on school holidays. I'm so glad I got to see it. It's a different world now. A poorer world.

    • @Klonkus
      @Klonkus 5 месяцев назад

      Your generation is the reason everything is so ruined now. Absolutely venomous mentality that comes from you people, you'll piss and burn everything away so the next generation doesn't even have a pot to piss in.

  • @tmarritt
    @tmarritt 3 месяца назад +9

    Jellied ells are to expensive so he had to supplement his income sell cheap shell fish..... How the world has changed

  • @liftthathigher
    @liftthathigher Год назад

    i think i just cried then smiled 5 or so times

  • @user-og2wt3le4j
    @user-og2wt3le4j День назад

    These shops still exist in London. I tried the jellied eels and pie and mash. Not bad food and cheap compared to other places in London.

  • @mijajajaja
    @mijajajaja Год назад +16

    That stewed eal soup looks radioactive

    • @chucky2316
      @chucky2316 8 месяцев назад +2

      Looks cleaner than the Indian drum

  • @allouttabubblegum1984
    @allouttabubblegum1984 5 месяцев назад +1

    The skin of the haddock is the best tasting fish skin I've ever had in my life!

  • @cambs0181
    @cambs0181 Год назад

    I love jellied eels, not everyones taste but I can never get enough of them. Nice dose of omega 3 and protein.