Hi guys, I'm Ivan, I'm from Croatia and I'm a freshman here at University of Sunderland.
Hi, my name's Christina, I'm from Greece.
My name is Zainab, I'm 19 years old and I'm originally from Ireland.
Hello, my name is Diogo, I am 24 years old, and I am from Portugal.
Hi, I'm Jordan Sama, I'm from Newcastle.
Hi, I'm Georgia Berry-Price, I'm from Manchester, I'm doing Health and Social.
We've only been here for like a month and a half so we haven't really had the
idea of what local Sunderland food is, and we hope it doesn't bite us.
Like, I hope it doesn't know we're not locals, you know?
(Christina) Thank you.
It's meat, it's like pork.
(Ivan) Yeah, it smells alright.
There's a bit of potato in there, a sausage.
Is it like...okay there's bacon.
There is this like liquid around it, which I'm not sure...
(Christina) I think we should try it. (Ivan) Yeah, we should, definitely.
(Diogo) Hmm... It looks bad!
It's like my mum's food!
This is definitely not what my mother would cook!
(Jordan) That is really nice. (Georgia) That is actually nice.
Potato, okay.
What kind of meat is this?
(Christina) It's nice. (Ivan) I feel like there are 3 or 4 types of meat in it.
It's like too soft to be like real meat, I don't know.
I don't know, I have no idea.
(Christina) I like it. (Ivan) I'm not sure what meat I'm eating, to be honest.
What meat is that?
It doesn't seem to be meat from pork or a cow, I don't know.
I mean I would give it a 6 out of 10. (Christina) No for me it was a 10.
Oh right okay, I'm not on that board yet.
I give it a 10. (Jordan) A 10? A big 10?
(Georgia) Yeah I'm definitely gonna give it that. (Jordan) I'd probably give it like an 8.
It was like my mum's food, so I liked it.
Is that a compliment towards your mum? (Christina) Yes...yes!
(Ivan) I'm not sure, I'm not following. (Christina) It was nice!
(Christina) Oooh. (Ivan) Okay. Yeah, it's definitely a pie.
(Ivan) Wait is this, is this meat? (Christina) What is this? I don't know.
There's pastry on it so that's already like a 5 out of 10.
(Christina) It's disgusting.
Sorry...I don't like it. (Ivan) I'm not sure.
That is so bland.
It's meat...what's that? (Ivan) I'm not sure what's in it.
It could be maybe something like cheese?
Is it cheese? (Christina) No, it's not cheese.
I'm not sure what it is, but I'm kind of okay with it.
There's something sweet in it. (Georgia) Sweet?
Can you not taste the sweet, or is that just me? Like that's sweet.
(Georgia) Or is that apple?
I feel like it makes perfect sense, it's cold, it can stay in the house.
Yeah, it's cold, but why?
I think cheesy chips by itself, I think should just stay there. (Georgia) Yeah...
With a bit of gravy – cheesy chips and gravy. Acceptable without the pie bit.
Cheesy chips and gravy?
I feel like it can wait for you in the fridge when you get home from the night out.
It's perfectly there, it's already made, out of 10, I would give it maybe 8.5.
(Christina) Minus 5!
Look at that sausage! (Jordan) Right, I actually know what this is.
Do you actually know what this is? (Georgia) No, I've not a clue.
You've never had one of these before? (Georgia) No, is that like stuffing?
So that's stuffing, is that stuffing? (Jordan) Yeah, well it's stuffing.
I'm gonna dismantle it.
(Wretching noise)
Stuffing, cheese... (Jordan) No, not cheese.
(Jordan) That is nice. (Georgia) It's nice?
(Jordan) Yeah. (Georgia) Right, are you sure?
(Jordan) Yeah. (Georgia) Right okay...
Stuffing, pease pudding and bread... and sausage!
(Jordan) And a saveloy, you can't forget that. (Georgia) What's pease pudding?
You've never had pease pudding before? (Georgia) No.
Saveloy dip? Why's it called saveloy? (Jordan) It's a dip because of the gravy.
(Georgia) Oh. Okay. (Jordan) 7 out of 10, I like it.
5, I've never heard of that in my life ever. Never ever ever.
Can you edit out sweat? (Cameraman) No.
(Georgia) Aww.
Okay that's peanut? Probably? At least it smells of peanut.
It's very erm... Rubbery.
So that's a no.
It's similar to peanut butter, but it's slightly different, but it has peanut for sure.
I would eat it but if I could choose not to, I wouldn't, so I would give it like a 5 or 4.
I give it a 2, I'm sorry.
Okay this is yours, I'm being generous (Christina) Thank you.
(Christina) Wow. (Ivan) I'm not really a fan of sweet stuff.
But marmalade, I feel like this is marmalade right? (Christina) Yeah.
(Ivan) In the middle yeah.
I feel like I've had something like this before.
Like it just fools you on the top. It tastes like apple in the middle, I don't know what it is but...
(Ivan) Yeah, it's good. (Christina) Mmhmm.
(Ivan) Yeah I'm liking it.
I usually not eat it, but it's nice like that.
(Ivan) I'm liking it.
(Christina) It's nice. I would eat that again it's nice.
Out of 10? I don't know, what would you give it? (Christina) 7 and a half.
Oh my god I would give it to like a 9, be a little more generous.
That's actually really nice. Mmm I could eat all of that.
I give that... (Jordan) I'm going to have one more.
(Georgia)...a 15. (Jordan) That's a 10 out of 10 for me.
Out of everything we've had I would say, yeah it's... (Christina) I would prefer the first plate, the meats.
Oh no girl, what are you onto? Definitely not.
Get it out of my way, I would say.
I feel like your mother will be like disappointed in you or something.
Like if she was to try it.
I reckon the stew was probably my favourite
as long as I can add like loads of different things to it.
(Off-camera) Do you remember what it was called? (Jordan) It was erm...
(Jordan) Pe...Pen...Pecanalty or something... (Georgia) Pen...Pen....Pentackle!
(Jordan) I knew it was something... Pin...Panac...Panackelty
(Georgia) Panackelty. But yeah, mine was the pink slice – as you can see, I'm still eating it.
I'm still eating it! It was so good.
Well I didn't like the butter or whatever that was with the bread but I...
Kind of enjoyed the meat thing, like mixed with everything.
So from the two, I would definitely choose the meats mixed like things there.
(Off-camera) So your thoughts on food in Sunderland, has it changed?
Err, yes, for worse!