OI OI! SAVELOY!

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this is the thread to document when the phrase, "oi oi!" "saveloy" is heard, on the streets of london

saturday 16 april: junction of holloway road and seven sisters road

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 24 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

One of the Kids that Jonnie assistant teaches has OI! OI! Saveloy!! tippexed on his sports bag

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

what does this even mean? i'm american.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

it means "directly translated":

hello hello, sausage made from Offal

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i dont really know, caitlin. its something i'd never heard until i came to london, but, you hear people saying this from time to time. one person will shout OI OI, and then the other will reply SAVELOY. it must be done in loud voices, as far as i can make out

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

For the edification of non-British readers:
http://www.snowbirdfoods.co.uk/images/saveloy.JPG

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Peas, pudding, and saveloy/
What next? is the question/
Rich gentlemen have it, boys/
In... di... gestion!

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Surely "pease pudding" rather than "peas, pudding"?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

speaking of holloway road, how did i miss the little strip of colombian/bolivian cafes just past the station??

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Haha one whole extra foodstuff got inserted there! (Now do we have to explain what pease pudding is too?)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Surely "pease pudding" rather than "peas, pudding"?

WTF is pease pudding?

God, I'm glad I'm not British.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Pease pudding = essentially dal without any of the flavour. Some like it hot, some like it cold, and allegedly some like it in the pot nine days old. Although I doubt that, tbh.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Ah ha. Same as pease porridge, I see.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

http://orange.s48.xrea.com/mt/archives/images/peas.jpg
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http://www.campionandcurtis.com/steamed%20marmalade%20pudding.jpg
=
http://www.downingm.freeserve.co.uk/images/nurserypease.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Er... or maybe not.

Pease porridge sounds even LESS appealing somehow, doesn't it?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I all sounds awful. I just imagine having to eat it with barely set blood pudding and gelatinous pork runoff on dry toast. Makes fast food sound like an epicuream delight.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

ooooh that sounds fantastic.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Rebecca Mead: When I was growing up in England, my idea of a treat was a slice of something called "lardy cake," whose selling point was, in fact, that it was made from lard —- that's how bad it was. And we liked it. We knew no better.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

numnum, black puddin AND drippin AND pease puddin...

hold on, lardy cakes aren't made FROM lard, they just have a lot of lard in them, there is still a pastry/dough element, they are an gloucestershire speciality

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Of course, all this is very unfair. Jessa and I have our own "Fantasy Food Vacations." She wants to go to Portugal -- I want, on a spare-no-expense budget, to eat my way around London for about two weeks. What dreams may come.

But I will not be eating lardy cakes if I can avoid them. I hear the Indian food is the best anywhere, even including India.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

To explain the phrase, saveloy is rhyming slang for boy, as in 'one of the boys'. So you could basically interpret it as a cry of 'Hello Mate' or any other such friendly greeting based on a mutual recognition of informal social relations.

Also, despite looking vile they taste great (esp. with mustard). [saveloys that is, not boys]

― David_X (David_X), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Hi Dave! Looks like yr course is finally paying off ;)

Lardy cakes are great, like a chelsea bun but rolled uyp with lard.

Kenan, Portugal is pork fat central, you'll love it

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Saveloy Dips.

A bun dipped in gravy, with pease pudding, a skinned and split saveloy, and english mustard on it. From Dickson's in Fowler Street in South Shields.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

oh sweet jesus I'm hungry

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

oi oi!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

saveloy!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Me too. Cheese on toast is about it though.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

piccadilly line tube, westbound, at covent garden. 1020am, this morning

small boy, slightly exaggeratedly, fast and high-pitched,..."oi oi, saveloy!"

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 21 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

some notes:

lardy cake is in fact delicious. i used to have to weigh 1 lb scoops of lard with my hands from an enourmous bucket of lard and currants. desipte this, lardy cake is still delicious.

laruen: the bolivian cafe on holloway rd is great! i was a bit scared of going in, but the people were really friendly. everyone else was bolivian in there. not tried the columbian or ecuadorian ones.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 21 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

saveloy is rhyming slang for boy

christ, standards are dropping. we need a rhyming-slang tsar, and no mistake.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

last week, at work. i forgot to add it in at the time

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

i just sed it cock i did ia plops in me bog and it looked like a saveloy so i lokked at it and said oi oi saveloy cock

― ploppety plop plop & cums, Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

OI OI!

― 696, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/about/news/images/2006-03-22-totp.jpg

― blueski, Sunday, 13 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Lardy Cake

I'm gonna be thinking about that all day.

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

wotcha!

― 696, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

cheers ears

― blueski, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

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