Vegetable roll

[john mcgill]

Vegetable roll is made of sausage meat with onion and tomato added.  Lovely but big time bad for the arteries. Comes in rolls the size of a small burger. Its a great delicacy in Armagh and Tyrone.  A friend who lives in Luton always asks me to bring hiim some over.  He tells me that its not available in the south.  I'd like to know where its sold and not.  Also are there any other areas where there are specialist foods like this.  I once had the best white pudding ever in Newport.

[Stranworst]

Am from Craigavon myself and have to say love a good veggie roll!

Plus live with a good few fellas from Down an all from school who hadn't really heard of them? What's the deal there?

Great meat addition to a fry!

[stew]

I havent had a veggie roll in about ten years 

Whatever happened to the keady loaf? I loved that bread, the toughest crust in the world and you used to get them still warm from the oven and i put butter and jam on it with a mug of tae, ahh the memories.

[john mcgill]

Stew
The Keady loaf, as was, has gone out of existence.  O'Kanes in Armagh sell a very good batch loaf from a bakery in Cavan. (No I'm not Eggie O'Kane!)
Keady also did a very good soda loaf
I'm off for breakfast, this nostalgia has made me hungry.

[Fiodoir Ard Mhacha]

I see Tesco's is now selling Polish bread. What is the difference between it and a Crossey's special.

PS My relations in Canada just want tins of mushy peas brought over to them when there's ones going over.

[Long time dead]

Think the Keady loaf as we all knew and loved it went for hygiene reasons, doubt it would go down well now walking into Macrai's pawing round the bread and breaking your own loaf off - but hey it was beautiful bread.  As for vegetable roll - I love the stuff.

[mooncatiii]

if its veggies roll your after look no further than charlie mallon's, in lurgan and portadown!  fuk they're some eat!

[An Fear Rua]

In and around Dungannon we have  the "mate roll" , sounds quite similar, sausage meat with a few herbs and stuff, shapped like a thick burger , battered and deep fried. A meat roll supper from O'Neills(the original Dolphin) on the Donaghmore road would take the beer of anyman, no matter what time of the morning. I always get at least one serving every time i go home.

Its no wonder the heart attack rate is so high, but sometime you just have to for go the risks..

[rrhf]

the "mate roll" is indeed a Dungannon phenomenon,  in Dungannon they say its better than sex,  in Belfast they try to serve me pasties but Im never buying.

[Donagh]

Wheaten farls outside Lurgan?

[SammyG]

Wheaten farls outside Lurgan?

Split them down the middle, toast the inside bit, spread on half a pound of butter, food of the gods. 

[An Fear Rua]

the "mate roll" is indeed a Dungannon phenomenon,  in Dungannon they say its better than sex,  in Belfast they try to serve me pasties but Im never buying.

One Ferrari driving family who used to operate in Irish Street in Dungannon, used to try and pass off battered burgers as meat rolls, it was never gonna work, no disrespect to the battered burger, but its was no meat roll

[aontroim abu]

True its no veggie roll - but a battered burger out o fthe Village chippy in Coolock on a Friday night certainly soaks up the drink

[rrhf]

we must be careful here not to let Dungannon towns most marketable asset and best kept secret ie Meat roll half chip and brown sauce escape to rivals on the www  Next Harry ramsden will be downsizing his fish operation in favour of the humbkle veggie roll.

[An Fear Rua]

Its called a Meat Roll supper- 2 x meat rolls and the rest of the bag filled with chips.

Real men dont put sauce on it, just salt and vinegar.

Its up there with other Dungannon classics of years gone by like the "Cowboy Supper", "Chip pea onion gravy" from Terrys chinky in Perry Street (I heard a rumour its now closed) and then fantastic "Special Chip" from the now Defunct Pips Place , also on Perry Street, no one ever knew what the sauce was, but it was a bit like a chicken gravy, and the whispers at school had us convinced that it was made from chicken feet smuggled out of Moy Park. RoystonmVasey eat your heart out.

The finest vendor of deep fried food, is Pagnis cafe at the top of Irish Street, its been there for god knows how many years, the current spot isnt the original, it used to be directly across the road, but moved after the DunOwen was "redecorated"- its an institution.