saveloy

The noise of footsteps on the creaking stairs, a few minutes after the occurrence of this conversation, roused the merry old gentleman as he sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket-knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet.

When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.

'Still, when circumstances over which you have no control, interpose obstacles between yourself and Small Germans, you can't do better than bring a contented mind to hear on'--again dropping his voice in deference to the chariot--'Saveloys!'

He likewise entertained his guest over the soup and fish, with the calculation that he (Bounderby) had eaten in his youth at least three horses under the guise of polonies and saveloys. These recitals, Jem, in a languid manner, received with 'charming!' every now and then; and they probably would have decided him to 'go in' for Jerusalem again to-morrow morning, had he been less curious respecting Louisa.

And there are the office lads in their first surtouts, who feel a befitting contempt for boys at day-schools, club as they go home at night, for saveloys and porter, and think there's nothing like 'life.' There are varieties of the genus, too numerous to recapitulate, but however numerous they may be, they are all to be seen, at certain regulated business hours, hurrying to and from the places we have just mentioned.

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Bostin' ay it?" James Boyd, 29, dairy engineer originally from Wolverhampton: "Considering I now live out of the area in Stoke, the best thing about the Black Country is orange chips, a saveloy and roe.

I'm also delighted to get the chance to eat a saveloy dip on stage."

Dicksons, which was established in 1953 and bills itself as "the home of the saveloy dip", has more than 30 shops around the North East, as well as a factory producing meat products for wholesale customers that include bigname supermarkets.

A fish and chip supper at 60mph would go unpunished, although my mate was once stopped by a Bobby who asked: "Was that a saveloy, sir?" He added: "It WAS a saveloy, Dave.

Kate serves all the basics you'd expect from your local chippy: Cod, jumbo and saveloy sausages, scampi, chicken nuggets, fish cakes and extras including pickled eggs and mushy peas.