A food market is to be held on Friargate in Preston in August selling only food made in Lancashire. If this can be achieved it will be a great opportunity to find out just what is made in the locality. There might be surprises.
Lancashire Cheese comes immediately to mind. Then again Rocky Bars are made in Kirkham, a stall of Rocky Bars sounds pretty good. Beeches chocolates made in Preston, not what you’d normally find on a market, as they try to be more up-market than market, but why not.
Is Bury classed as Lancashire or is it Greater Manchester – black pudding display. Thwaites Beer from Blackburn and maybe Boddingtons and Stella Artois from Samlesbury. What could be more Lancashire than Stella Artois. Cains from Liverpool, whoops Merseyside not Lancashire.
Fishermans Friend of Fleetwood, Burtons biscuits in Blackpool, not to mention a stick of rock from Coronation Rock, Greenhalgh’s bakery. Hollands Pies and Uncle Joes of Wigan not Lancashire. Warburtons of Bolton in Greater Manchester. Where is the boundary, is it county or palatine. Are unitary authorities in Lancashire. Don’t be pedantic.
Hope it’s not all eggs, sausages, pies and cheese.
It will be interesting to find out who Lancashire residents preferred suppliers should be. To find one new decent product made locally, bring it on.
Not forgetting all the local honey produced by the beekeepers of preston and area. A stall with exhibits of honey production, wax and propolis, plus someone to explain how it is produced could enhance ones ideas about the honeybee.
Sounds great. We plant a bee friendly garden. If there are any local honey producers who have named products let us know.