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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
Yes, brats are a sausage - familiar for bratwurst. Never inquired about the meat. Figure that where sausage is concerned, ignorance is the best policy.
Hot dish is an Up Nort' specialty. It's a fairly generic term for a casserole, which MUST contain one item from each of these categories: cooked starch (pasta, rice, diced potatoes), diced cooked meat (chicken, sausage, beef, pork, venison, whatever), canned condensed soup (usually cream soup - cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, cream of asparagus - but let your creativity run wild!) and may contain anything else, at the cook's discretion. Ingredients are combined and placed in a casserole dish, topped with either crumbled potato chips or crumbled canned fried onion rings (It is NOT a hot dish without one of these toppings!) and heated in the oven until browned on top, Serve with beer and your preferred condiment - ketchup, tabasco, sriracha, A-1, to taste. Makes a fortifying and warming meal when the temperature outside dips to -40. (And it does up here.) Known in other parts of the country as Methodist pie. (Refers to the Methodist tradition of potluck suppers, not to an ingredient. At least, not as far as is discussed.)
Don't they eat the justly infamous black pudding in your area?
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Yeah - Who was it that said "He who loves sausages or the law should watch neither being made" Bismarck is ringing a bell....
Hot dish sounds good - I'm saving the recipe - will be trying it out soon...
There's nothing infamous about Black Pudding - they do seem more common in Lancashire and Yorkshire and the further South you go the less chance of getting a proper one. The plastic-covered supermarket variety are ok, but really you can only fry them - you need to get the real deal from a butcher - boiled for 10 mins and served with mustard - Delish
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Does this count as a thread hijack? - I mean the OP nudged it in theis direction before he disappeared......
Food trivia time: What's the connection between Doughnuts, JFK and Bismarck......