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Arments is the best. Maureens is pretty good, but Arments is the best. Two pies, one mash and plenty of liquor. Heaven. Been popping in for 40 years or so.

@Grahame1975

3 ай бұрын

I’ll have to look up what’s in the liquor

What people have to remember is that pie and mash was a cheap meal for the working people. Now that we have food from all over the world people forget plain good food. I personally like all different kinds of meals but i still like a good pie and mash dinner.

@ironhell813

3 ай бұрын

British are spoiled by takeaways but bangers and mash, chips, fish n malt, beef Wellington and mince pies and mash is still the GOAT

@jadedwitness9840

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call it plain at all?? Liquor is an eel stock sauce, don't find that anywhere, lashings of vinegar for the acid to cut through the fat of the meat and pastry.. its comforting but plain is a misnomer

@realitygaming4088

3 ай бұрын

British staple mssh pie and gravy!! I'll be having it tonight 😅

@aramdeara1

3 ай бұрын

Only Brits can hype up utterly bland food.

@realitygaming4088

3 ай бұрын

@@aramdeara1 if you make it bland then yes it's bland. My pies are homemade I don't skimp on seasoning that's for sure 😅

The best pie n mash shop by far in London

@Tee-B

3 ай бұрын

Its good but Castles on Camden Road is my go to for over 30 years now. Started going when I was 5 years old!

@user-iz4mq4td2u

3 ай бұрын

Gross

@stevej7930

3 ай бұрын

@@user-iz4mq4td2u Why put that?

@user-iz4mq4td2u

3 ай бұрын

@@Tee-B yes that's true,too also sir

@zerotree1310

2 ай бұрын

@@Tee-B I went there and I wanted to like it but found it a bit bland to be honest. I guess it was in comparison to the fancy food nowadays. But I will give it another go, with a different mindset. Its awesome these places like this are keeping up the traditions.

When I was a young lad I worked in a pie shop and I remember the baker making them while smoking a cigarette. I guess the secret back then was no one washed there hands. Great video mate.

@FrithonaHrududu02127

3 ай бұрын

I worked in a pizza place at twelve in 87. Same thing.

@ironhell813

3 ай бұрын

Not much of a secret when it comes to diners im afraid but hopefully it’s been done with.

@user-vg5rv5xf4u

3 ай бұрын

I like to take a big shite before making my pies,Without washing my hands off course.

I wish we had Pie and Mash shops in The North East...Love it.

When on the knowledge many years ago I visited most pie and mash shops in London.Arments was always the best!

@astroboirap

3 ай бұрын

its bland disgusting boiled meat though

We have pot pies here in the States, made with either chicken or beef and vegetables, like peas and carrots!! Never tried British mash pies,but, would like to try one! Im open minded! Great video ❤❤❤ Emily from Missouri ❤❤❤

@mattwinstanley2544

3 ай бұрын

They are not Mash Pies. The pie is traditionally beef mince. Then the dish is finished with a side of Mashed Potato and a generous helping of Liquor. Liquor is parsley based sauce but it used to be made from the water left over when stewing the Jellied Eels. If you want mash potato pies - probably closest would be the Butter Pie from Lancashire.

@Emily-Whitfield

3 ай бұрын

@@mattwinstanley2544 Sorry for my mistake! Thank you for clearing this up for me!

@naughtydorf18

3 ай бұрын

I've tried pie, mash, and ...............eel. 3 pies, mash, some eel pieces, and tons of liquor for me. Great stuff and beats the tourist food. Greetings from South Carolina.

@mattwinstanley2544

3 ай бұрын

you are welcome. If you enjoy pot pies, stews with things like peas and carrots check out the Lancashire Hot Pot - a dish now a few hundreds years old with its origins in the Industrial Revolution. Up in the north of England we have a few of these types of dishes, Lancashire Hot Pot, Irish Stew, Scouse (Lobscouse). They were relatively cheap and easy to make, still popular because its food you eat when you get home cold and wet and its often cold, wet and miserable here ha. @@Emily-Whitfield

I lived in Walworth until my late twenties, now living in New Zealand. Only two things I miss are pie and mash and jellied eels!

@jayj6325

3 ай бұрын

From a genuine Essex Boy (who loves his food); Cold Jellied Eels? Really???! Ugh.

One of the only uk businesses not sold of to another country.

Watering the pies gets me Everytime

I like it how the mash is applied like a plasterer😆. Good on them for preserving the tradition.

Gosh this reminds me of when I lived in London. We used to have pie and mash at least once a week. I now live in Australia and this bring back fond memories of when I was young.

Brilliant keep pushing grew up as a kid eating there driving from essex to get there. Even bought me mum 60 frozen pies for mothers day one year and similar for my dear old nans funeral

The two pie and mash shops near me, Exmouth Market and Chapel Market both closed due to rent rises. They were both making a good living

I think pie & mash is a great dish. Liquor is fine assuming there is no eel anywhere near it. In fact, prominently display no eel anywhere unless the labeling says that's what the thing contains.

Looks wonderful. Nothing like that in Australia

Didn’t realise the staff were looking at me when I was a little kid in there. I’d demolished 2 pies & then decided to have 2nds.

Looks delicious and very reasonably priced, pie and mash for less than £5

The Guvnor been eating Arments for over 50 years ! Nothing comes close

Arments in Westmoreland Road was our local shop but there was also one in the Walworth Road too. Miss it with all my heart. There's nothing like it in New Zealand where I live now 😢

Back in the day in arments they had plastic cuttlery

0:58 happy to come here and give it a try but you need to improve the cooking technique to stop that pie top getting burnt to a crisp.

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Cockney’s pie and mash, portobello road. Best in my opinion

Is this "Pea, Pie 'n' Pud"?

I don't know why a different patsry is used for the tops, it's brittle and often burns. While i've had some decent pie and mash (and I love stewed eels) I have to say they're not a patch on northern pies.

Who remembers Goddards in Deptford. Not that nasty gaff in Greenwich

See you soon.

Rather than simply moan about changing tastes and demographics he actually did something about it. Where did they move to mostly?

Someone let me know how they actually make the parsley liquor!?! Is it really just the potato water, parsley and cornflour?

@Tee-B

3 ай бұрын

Been trying to recreate it at home but havent managed it

@Tee-B

3 ай бұрын

@realRRfidem Are you a northerner with Spurs in your picture? 😄😄

@Tee-B

3 ай бұрын

@realRRfidem Your taste buds are about as good as your taste in football teams pal

@macdaddybender

3 ай бұрын

I'm no expert but you start with eel stock, or fish stock which is more easily come by. Aside from chucking in some parsley I've no idea where u go from there

There are many things I enjoy when I'm in London, the local cuisine is definitely not one of them. 😂

Oh lord..was that just raw mince n a spray of Tap water?

I go to Arments and its good but Maureen's is the best.

UK the banana republic where a £15m pound donation to the tories lands you a £400m govt contract.

Is it halal

@esorliversage6634

3 ай бұрын

100%. Kosher, vegetarian, vegan. Same as the pork trotters in Palestine are halal.

Yes but where are the jellied or stewed eels, as a kid growing up in London's 50s loved them.

Steak and kidney should not be on a pie and mash menu.

A really tasty meal but best leave the eels out and let them do their thing in the river

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

3 ай бұрын

Pie & Mash tasty? 🤣; if you believe Pie & Mash is tasty then your exposure to cuisines is EXTREMELY limited. British savoury meals are some of the most blandest; the only half decent British meal is cooked breakfast; the British also score well when it comes to their baked potatoes, aside from these British savoury meals are EXCRUCIATINGLY bland. However, the British score highly when it comes to desserts and confectionery; not when it comes to your savoury meals.

@Mike_5

3 ай бұрын

@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO where did you park you spaceship

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

3 ай бұрын

@@Mike_5 My comment on British savoury meals is a FACT; ask people of any country that is renowned for immensely pleasurable food what their opinion is on British savoury meals and they will do a vomiting gesture implying that traditional British savoury meals are puke; take the example of Fish & Chips, straight out of a deep-fryer the only flavour that comes through is that of cooking oil; whereas Mexican and Indian savoury meals straight out of the pot or deep-fryer taste of multitude of different flavours and thats even without any condiments. The only foods that the British excel at are desserts and confectionery, not savoury meals.

@stephenguppy7882

3 ай бұрын

@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO Choose a window and leave......

@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO

3 ай бұрын

@stephenguppy7882 I made perfectly valid points about British savoury meals; you are like ignorant Goldfish in a 4'ft diameter pond who cannot fathom that there are waters on Earth stretching for thousands of miles, this is impossible for Goldfish to comprehend because they exist in a tiny world consisting of their 4'ft diameter pond, likewise you cannot comprehend or accept that there are cuisines that are infinitely superior than anything the British have ever come up with.

Some pies looked a little burnt.

@fredericklee6899

3 ай бұрын

Always best when they are burnt, best pie shop is Kelly’s Roman road E3

@carloakley5367

3 ай бұрын

That's the best bit 😊

@ironhell813

3 ай бұрын

It’s deliberate caramelization.

@ftumschk

3 ай бұрын

Many customers will ask for the crust to be burnt.

@HdHd-hp6qz

3 ай бұрын

@ ftumschk Just because a customer prefers it burnt that doesn’t mean that is how it should be served. Burning means overcooked in a professional kitchen. They aren’t helping sell pies showing us burnt crusts.

If your last name is ARMENT FIRST TIME visiting BUY ONE PIE GET ONE FREE ? Lol

You wouldn't even want to get out of your car/van in Walworth!! Haha I drive through there every week for work, it's locked van doors and foot down until I get home! Absolute sh*thole, more like downtown Mogadishu than London

Honestly lol that looks disgusting

The first dish looks awful.

It looks fkin awful. No qualified chef worth their salt would serve a pie or mash in that condition. I wouldn’t accept that food at a prison canteen.

Your chance to shine and you show BURNT broken pies...is this a joke?

@adamwyatt9748

3 ай бұрын

The burnt ones are the best once covered in liquor.

@ironhell813

3 ай бұрын

Caramelization am I rite?

@ftumschk

3 ай бұрын

Many customers ask for them to be cooked that way.

Good food but being replaced by goats eyes and camel guts curried of course

@orbtain

3 ай бұрын

still sounds better than jellied eels

RIP Great Britainistan

Pie and Mash cafés are not my cup of tea. It tastes like tinded baby food🤮

@casualken

3 ай бұрын

No one asked you

@michaeldunham3385

3 ай бұрын

Nothing like baby food....ridiculous comment

@darranrichardson4938

3 ай бұрын

Talking absolute crap

The portion of mash is beyond pathetically small.

@lexxlars5762

3 ай бұрын

Looks alright

that actually looks gross, plain boring red meat with bloody water still inside, plain mashed potatoes and a watery sauce? no wonder brits started loving indian food more