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Post by Norfolkstokie in manchester on Feb 14, 2008 12:14:52 GMT
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/13/3The oat, as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was recently moved to observe in these pages, is mighty, full of flavour, lowers your cholesterol and keeps you regular. The oatcake, many will argue, is mightier still. And in few places in these islands is the oatcake mightier than in the Potteries of north Staffordshire. To the remaining followers of (once-mighty) Stoke City, The Oatcake means only the local football fanzine. Elsewhere in the region the edible oatcake remains a much-loved vernacular speciality, not to be confused with its smaller and nowadays positively bourgeois Scottish cousin, and never to be mentioned in the same breath as the upstart Derbyshire oatcake - which is very much the Robert Brown (see Monday's In praise of...) of the genus. To regulars at the Hole in the Wall shop in Hanley's Waterloo Street, the last surviving of many such terrace-house serveries in the area, an oatcake simply means the traditional circular pancake, made from a mix of oatmeal, flour, milk and water, cooked on the bakestone, stuffed with cheese, bacon, sausage or eggs to taste, and served out of the end-of-terrace window more than 2,000 times a day to devoted regulars. But for how much longer? With the departure of Spode to China and Royal Doulton to Indonesia, the Potteries are not what they were. The Hole in the Wall clings on to its century-old existence, but will only survive if it can be incorporated into the developers' plans for the area. It deserves to succeed. Come on, Hugh. Chicken out. Oatcakes in. A mention of us as well! Surely the first time we've made the Guardian leader's page?!
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Feb 14, 2008 12:23:56 GMT
That Oatcake shop was also featured on BBC's Breakfast Telly on monday. Wonder what's prompted all the attention?
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Post by powchirper on Feb 14, 2008 12:24:12 GMT
wtf, " the once mightY Stoke City "  thats made me hungry that has  |
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Post by Norfolkstokie in manchester on Feb 14, 2008 12:26:00 GMT
Perhaps we should write in to the corrections page: should be "the once and soon to be mighty again Stoke City"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 12:27:51 GMT
To the remaining followers of (once-mighty) Stoke City are they having a laugh or what! The Oatcake means only the local football fanzine. do they know nothing about stoke-on-trent |
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Post by albanianstokie on Feb 14, 2008 13:04:41 GMT
Bit patronising that, but it's nice to see a local delicacy getting some national publicity. Down
in Hemel only the big Sainsbury's stock them. Better than nowt mind!!
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Post by JoeStoke on Feb 14, 2008 13:32:40 GMT
soon to be Mighty AGAIN!! GOOOOO ARRRRNNNN STOKE!
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Post by lordb on Feb 14, 2008 13:42:53 GMT
- bit of an aside her,& bear with me -
oft on this MB there is a regurgitation of the debate re the badge.
personaly I quite like the current badge to a point but feel it needs some kind of symbol in the middle of it (in the same way that the Acadamy badge has Stan on it) & finally now I can propose the perfect thing: the mighty oatcake should adorne the badge ASAP!
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Post by stevetheboater on Feb 14, 2008 13:48:44 GMT
It was on the box coz the hole in the wall in Hanley is closing down. The article implied that this was the end of oatcakes in the Potteries. I did email them but no idea if they corrected later in the program as I had to go to work.
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Post by gralowe on Feb 14, 2008 15:35:51 GMT
im from hemel albanian,and get my oatcakes from sainsburys in apsley-where abouts in town are you?
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