Brits and their bloody food. Marmite is another story.

Now this makes me wonder if the RN still tins the shit out of eels as ship rations...

Why did it have to be jellied eels...

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Why did it have to be jellied eels...

Bcoz Warspite has a Hovercraft that's full of 'em.

OMGkillitwithfire said:

Why did it have to be jellied eels...

Wait till she gives you a fishy pie next~

Now this is the first time i heard about this jellied eels, i have the same reaction when i first heard stargazing pie.

/\/\ao said:

Wait till she gives you a fishy pie next~

Is it wrong that I actually want to try some stargazy pie?

ZeonTwoSix said:

Bcoz Warspite has a Hovercraft that's full of 'em.

You won't be finding many Hungarian shipgirls around.

To be truthful in my whole life in Britain I've never seen Jellied Eel. Nor other eel.

It's one of those myths associated with the old cockney working class of London in around the 1880s to the 1950s when they mostly died out; along with whelks, cockles, winkles and rollmops ( pickled herring ) and any other sea trash I'm sure Japanese would enjoy. Some people will still eat such things but you generally won't find it in your corner-shop.

What, not even eel pie?
It's mainly due to the collapse of the eel stocks from overfishing and pollution, though.

ithekro said:

You won't be finding many Hungarian shipgirls around.

FYI: When Hungary was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire it HAD a navy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy ). It fought in WW 1 and disintegrated with the rest of the Habsburg monarchy. There was the Tegetthoff-class of battleships. I'd like to see a Viribus unitis shipgirl.

@sanitaeter said:

FYI: When Hungary was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire it HAD a navy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy ). It fought in WW 1 and disintegrated with the rest of the Habsburg monarchy. There was the Tegetthoff-class of battleships. I'd like to see a Viribus unitis shipgirl.

Well, there's the one from WSG post #3158418

shade_30 said:

Well, there's the one from WSG post #3158418

Nice (especially the dolmanlike jacket with fur trim)! But a battleship with four triple gun turrets portrayed as a little girl? In Kancolle she would be a grown woman with big breasts...

Paracite said:

What, not even eel pie?
It's mainly due to the collapse of the eel stocks from overfishing and pollution, though.

Paradoxically, though a natural sequence, one is more likely to find old working-class favourites only in the more upper-class supermarkets now, and hipster shops, having been been abandoned by the working-class. And prices to match.

Just as if the 1950s American TV-specials were to become gourmet delicacies in the future.

"You are really spoiling us with these pineapple slices in Lime Jell-O and Mayo, Ambassador."