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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,salt,savoury,spread,English,hot,toast,buttered,umami,discontinued,salty,vintage,food,traditional,classic,heritage,historic,old fashioned,grocery,fish,potted anchovies,established,1828,John Osborn,secret,recipe,seafood,condiment,jar,white,package,packaging,nostalgia,unpopular food,love it or hate it,acquired taste,Marmite,comparison
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ECEE1J - Patum Peperium The Gentleman's Relish is shown spread on hot toast beside its opened pot, making a strong editorial food image of one of Britain's most distinctive savoury condiments. The traditional spread is made from salted anchovies, butter, rusk, water, salt and spices, giving it an intense salty, fishy and deeply savoury flavour that is usually used very sparingly. First created in 1828 by Englishman John Osborn, Gentleman's Relish became associated with Victorian and Edwardian food culture, gentlemen's clubs, breakfast tables, savouries after dinner, and old-fashioned British pantry products. The opened container, foil lid, product label and toast on a white plate make the photograph useful for illustrating British culinary history, nostalgic foods, heritage brands, acquired tastes, preserved fish, anchovy paste, retro groceries and changing consumer habits. It can also support current stories about discontinued traditional products, food manufacturing decisions, declining demand for once-familiar brands, and the way strongly flavoured old British foods survive through loyal enthusiasts, specialist shops and restaurant revivals. The label's delicious on hot toast message is clearly reflected in the image, with the brown relish melting into crisp toasted bread. The scene is commercially useful for articles on comfort food, savoury snacks, umami flavours, breakfast habits, English eccentricity, food nostalgia, supermarket ranges, speciality condiments, recipe ideas and the cultural divide between loved and disliked traditional foods. Although visually simple, the image carries strong context because Gentleman's Relish has a long history, a memorable name and a flavour profile that links it to potted fish, anchovy butter and intense savoury seasoning rather than sweet breakfast spreads. As a documentary stock image, it records a recognisable British food product at the point of use, with packaging and serving suggestion visible in the same frame.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3E424AJ - Greenhalgh's Craft Bakery on Sankey Street in Warrington town centre is shown with its bright green shopfront, window posters for pies and hot food, and the slogan good honest food below the display. The bakery is part of Greenhalgh's, a North West family craft bakery founded in 1957, with the company saying it now operates more than 50 retail stores and sells breads, pies, cakes, savouries, pasties, sandwiches, breakfast items and wholesale bakery products. The Warrington branch is listed by Greenhalgh's at 35 Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1XG, and the company says the shop opened in 2008. The image is commercially useful for stories about British high street bakeries, local food retail, pies, pastries, sandwiches, lunchtime trade, town centre shopping, family bakery brands and the continuing appeal of savoury baked goods in northern England. It also works for more critical coverage of processed and ultra-processed convenience food, high-fat snacks, salt, pastry-heavy diets, obesity, public health, food marketing and the tension between traditional comfort food and healthier eating campaigns. The Beat the Winter Blues and fresh bake, fresh mood posters show how bakery chains promote warm pies, buns, bakes and hot drinks as affordable everyday treats. The neighbouring Warhammer sign, urban pavement and shop windows add wider town-centre context, showing Greenhalgh's as part of an ordinary retail street rather than a staged food image. The photograph can also illustrate pressure on high streets, bakery competition, changing lunch habits, grab-and-go food, food inflation, small retail employment and the role of local chains in filling former town-centre shopping areas. As a documentary stock photograph, it captures the public-facing branding of a familiar regional bakery, where nostalgia, convenience, local footfall, processed food choices and high street survival all meet in one shopfront.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PYKTFT - Lángos is a typical Hungarian food. Today it is a deep fried flatbread, but in the past it was made of the last bits of the bread-dough and baked at the front of the brick or clay oven, to be served hot as the breakfast of the bread-baking day
The name comes from láng, the Hungarian word for flame.
Up to the mid 20th century, bread was baked once a week due to the cost of heating up the large oven and the lengthy process kneading up to 80 pounds of dough. Because the bread loaf, typical to Hungary, was 6 to 10 pounds each, traditionally they used to bake smaller (1-2 pounds) cipó rolls for the evening and the next day. The name lángos (literally meaning flamed) comes from baking these flat breads in the morning while the oven was still heating up. Lángos were also used as a side to lunch
The dough for lángos is made of water or milk, flour, yeast, and salt. The ingredients are worked together either by hand or a kneading machine. As the yeast starts to metabolize the carbohydrates in the flour, carbon dioxide is released which causes the dough to rise, creating the air bubbles in the lángos. The dough is basically the same as pizza dough, but it is not baked but fried in oil. Adding sour cream, yoghurt or mashed potatoes to the dough is optional but highly encouraged, in the latter case it is called potato lángos (in Hungarian krumplis lángos)
In the early 2000s, some people built small, portable clay ovens and started to sell oven baked lángos, called kenyérlángos (bread-lángos) on festivals and fairs. Although reminiscent of the traditional lángos, it is more like a pizza with sour cream, onions and bacon.
Lángos is popular all year long. As it is a rather affordable and simple food, it is often sold around bus stations, fairs, local markets and all over Eastern European countries during local celebrations or sport events. It is sold at many fast-food restaurants not only in Hungary but also in Austria.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWFMR - A fish and chip shop, sometimes referred to as a chip shop, is a (often fast food) restaurant that specialises in selling fish and chips. Usually, fish and chip shops provide takeaway service, although some have seating facilities. Fish and chip shops may also sell other foods, including variations on their core offering such as battered sausage and burgers, to regional cuisine such as Greek or Indian food.
Variations on the name include fish bar, fishery (in Yorkshire), fish shop and chip shop. In the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, they are colloquially known as a chippy or fishy, while in the rest of Ireland and the Aberdeen area, they are known as chippers.
The word chip-shop is first recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1953. Chippy or chippie was first recorded in 1961. Occasionally the type of fish will be specified, as in 'Cod-n-Chips'.
In Scotland, the fish tends to be haddock, whereas in England it tends to be cod. This is because both fish tend to be sourced from Scottish waters in the North Sea and then shipped around the UK. Haddock was thought to taste better than cod when fresh, while cod tasted better a few days later. In the days before refrigerated haulage this meant that haddock would taste bad by the time it made it out of Scotland, while the cod would still taste good if it took a few days to reach its destination. Hake, pollock, whiting, and plaice are also seen at many chip shops. In Scotland, 'special fish' is a variant where the haddock is breadcrumbed instead of battered.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MX9FPP - Concept image showing Scottish banknotes and coins beside a lit domestic gas hob, illustrating the pressure of rising household energy costs on home budgets in Scotland and across the UK. The photograph links everyday cooking, heating and fuel use with consumer finance, inflation, cost of living pressures, utility bills, and the squeeze on disposable income faced by households during periods of high gas prices. Visible cash and currency emphasise budgeting choices, bill payment worries, and the trade off between essential spending and other family costs such as food, rent, mortgage payments, transport and childcare. The blue gas flame provides an immediate visual shorthand for domestic energy consumption, meter usage, tariff changes, supplier charges and the wider debate about affordability, fuel poverty and energy market volatility. This image is suitable for editorial use on stories about gas bills, household finances, inflation, consumer hardship, personal budgeting, winter heating worries, energy affordability, Scottish consumers, British utility costs, and the continuing impact of higher fuel prices on ordinary homes. It also works as a broader symbol of economic stress, financial resilience, money management, cash flow pressure, and the challenge for low and middle income households trying to balance essential utilities against stagnant wages and wider rising living costs. The Scottish notes make the picture especially useful for regional coverage involving devolved policy, Scottish consumers and the domestic effect of energy pricing. Because the money is shown in physical form rather than on a screen, the image underlines the kitchen table reality of budgeting, where higher utility charges are felt as pounds and pence leaving the household purse. It is well suited to reporting on arrears, debt advice, payment support, winter resilience, fuel poverty, and the real world impact of gas price rises on everyday family finances.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MN7NHH - Concept image showing English sterling banknotes and stacked coins beside a lit domestic gas hob, illustrating the way rising gas prices and wider household energy costs affect home budgets in England and across the United Kingdom. The photograph combines visible cash with a blue gas flame to symbolise utility bills, inflation, cost of living pressure, and the strain placed on ordinary households as domestic fuel charges increase. The use of Bank of England notes makes the image especially relevant for English, UK-wide and Westminster-focused coverage of consumer finances, energy affordability, and the real cash impact of bill rises on family spending. It suggests the practical reality of budgeting in the kitchen, where money for heating, cooking and essential energy use must compete with food, rent, mortgage payments, transport, council tax and other everyday commitments. The gas burner acts as a strong visual shorthand for domestic fuel consumption, meter readings, tariffs, supplier charges, standing charges, and the continuing public debate around energy prices, affordability, and support for households under financial pressure. Suitable for editorial use on stories about gas bills, utility costs, fuel poverty, personal finance, inflation, debt, arrears, economic hardship, and household budgeting, the image also works more broadly as a symbol of financial stress, shrinking disposable income, and the choices facing low and middle income homes during periods of high energy prices. Because the money is shown as physical notes and coins rather than a digital banking screen, the image has an immediate, everyday realism that suits newspaper, magazine, business and consumer reporting on the burden of rising gas bills. It also lends itself to stories about winter heating worries, the energy price cap, consumer confidence, household resilience, budgeting advice, and the continued political sensitivity of domestic utility costs in Britain.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K148X3 - Avanti West Coast is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup (70%) and Trenitalia (30%) that operates the West Coast Partnership.
During November 2016, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced the InterCity West Coast franchise would be replaced by the West Coast Partnership (WCP). In August 2019, the DfT awarded the WCP franchise to the First Trenitalia consortium. On 8 December 2019, Avanti West Coast took over operations from the prior operating company Virgin Trains, which had run the franchise since 1997. Originally, the franchise was initially scheduled to run until March 2030, and had also been set to operate the initial High Speed 2 services from 2026. However, during December 2020, it was announced that First Trenitalia and the DfT had agreed to terminate the WCP franchise at the earlier date of 31 March 2026 as part of the abolition of the franchise system. Since then a number of contract changes have taken place due to COVID-19 and then poor performance by the company. As of March 2023, the company's contract will expire in October 2023.
Between 14 August and 18 September 2022, Avanti West Coast reduced its timetable, citing unofficial strike action from its employees. However, this allegation was disputed by Aslef, which accused the company of lying and blamed their lack of recruitment, especially of train drivers, for the problems. Trains were running at one service per hour on the majority of routes, as opposed to the three which would typically occur on the London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly route. Following these changes, Avanti West Coast was subject to public criticism
news stories emerged of numerous train cancellations, overcrowded services, delays, and expensive fares. Many commuters faced difficulties reaching their destinations on the reduced services and some travellers have been left to wait for to two days before travel for tickets to be released for sale
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTX7 - A crumpet is a small griddle cake made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour and yeast, eaten in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and some areas of the Commonwealth.
Crumpets are regionally known as pikelets, a name also applied to a thinner, more pancake-like griddle cake: a type of the latter is referred to as a crumpet in Scotland.
Crumpets have been variously described as originating in Wales or as part of the Anglo-Saxon diet,[3] based on proposed etymologies of the word. In either case breads were, historically, commonly cooked on a griddle whererever bread ovens were not available. The bara-planc, or griddle bread, baked on an iron plate over a fire, was part of the everyday diet in Wales until the 19th century.
Small, oval cakes baked in this manner were called picklets, a name used for the first recognisable crumpet-type recipe, published in 1769 by Elizabeth Raffald in The Experienced English Housekeeper. This name was derived from the Welsh bara pyglyd or pitchy [i.e. dark or sticky] bread, later shortened simply to pyglyd. The early 17th century lexicographer Randle Cotgrave referred to popelins, soft cakes of fine flour, &c., fashioned like our Welsh barrapycleds.
The word spread initially to the West Midlands of England, where it became anglicised as pikelet, and subsequently to Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and other areas of the north
crumpets are still referred to as pikelets in some areas. The word crumpet itself, of unclear origin, first appears in relatively modern times
it has been suggested as referring to a crumpled or curled-up cake, based on an isolated 14th century reference to a crompid cake, and the Old English word crompeht (crumpled) being used to gloss Latin folialis, possibly a type of thin bread
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4050861051 - 'A strawberry plant fruiting still hanging on in the Grappenhall Heys (Warrington Cheshire UK ) walled garden veggie patch. I am sure frost is coming soon unfortunately, your number will soon be up.
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