Comments on: Boiling The Eels At Barneys Seafood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/#comment-1256942 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:03:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172245#comment-1256942 Used to be a stall on Queensbridge road, was it Tubby Isaacs? I come to London every few weeks now. Where are the roadside stalls now? I’d like some jellied eels and pepper!

]]> By: MaggieToo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/#comment-1256244 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:19:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172245#comment-1256244 As an American reader of your blog, I’m fascinated by every post you make about the eel industry in the East End. They always leave me daydreaming about a trip to London just to partake of the eels, pie & mash that sound so exotic from this side of the ocean.

(Although, one assumes I might find a few other things besides eels to interest me while I was there.)

]]> By: Virginia Heaven https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/#comment-1256050 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 15:58:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172245#comment-1256050 Fascinating! Haven’t had them for years—I was taken to Cooke’s Pie and Mash Shop in Dalston when I was tiny. Used to watch the eels slithering around in their containers. Nice memories of a time gone by. Must have been the early 60s because I had to be lifted up to see the eels!!

]]> By: Tom https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/#comment-1256023 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:28:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172245#comment-1256023 I’d like to know – do the heads and guts then go off to be made into cat food or fertilizer or something post consumer use? Seems an awful waste otherwise? Perhaps you could include such details in your reporting.

Many thanks indeed.

]]> By: Lesley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/02/boiling-the-eels-at-barneys-seafood-x/#comment-1255954 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 10:48:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172245#comment-1255954 Lovely! It’s the juice that the eels have been cooked in that is used to make the liquor for pie and mash. Yum!

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