Brit Food: Pancakes and flapjack

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kadedeetje" <kadedeetje at ...> wrote:
>
> Here on mainland Europe (or Belgium more specific) the term we us is pickles
> also, but I believe that it should be piccalilly. The piccalilly we have
> (Bister is the brand name) is a bright yellow and tastes very good with
> (sweet) carrots but I also know this is a bit of an acquired taste. My mum
> had craves for the stuff back when she was pregnant with a few of siblings.
> 
> The colour (yellow as far as I know) comes from the spices used, so that
> might explain the greener variety you speak of.

Geoff:
I am not a fan of any pickle using them quite rarely - usually with cold 
meat.

Piccallili (with a final i) is quite specifically a mustard pickle hence the 
yellow colour.