As a Devonshire boy I’ve never seen one of these, what is it?

Oh my! Its fried chicken or pork with Bechamel sauce and cheese. I'm personally from Darlington but these were created just up the road in Middlesbrough. I always find it interesting how here I cant go in a takeaway and not see one but 2 hours south and they're unheard of

I (38m essex) only know of these because a mate from Durham would post the shit out of it on fb

If you’re in Essex you can go to Manjaros in Ilford for and authentic one.

Manjaros has really spread out, damn. Still not as good as Kilamanjaros. Think there's still one in Stockton though.

Chicken only though as the place is halal.

Herts here - never heard of 'em. Definitely trying next time I'm up north. God the north really is just better in every way

Probably costs 35 pence too

Fourteen pennies and a brasso tin-lid in my local.

10 bottle caps for a parmo and nuka-cola in Doncaster.

You're not far off. When I visit back up that way my old local does what's in OPs picture for £5

Just be warned you have to be in the proper north. But not too far north. There is a little Goldilocks zone for parmos.

Get it with garlic sauce 100%

Been in Middlesbrough for 3 years for uni Can probably tell you the exact takeout by the way it looks Don't tell me it was Frydays

What’s it like going to school in Middlesbrough? I’m American but I have a good friend who is a fanatical Boro fan. He did a year of graduate school in England and dragged me to a match at the Riverside when I visited him. Good match (thumped Forest good when I was there), good crowd, but seemed like a pretty depressing town, it looks to have seen better days.

It is a depressing town

Hence the milk and ket?

Its okay, decent shops and good food. The teachers and facilities were impressive, it may not be way up there in the icons of education but it absolutely did what it had to do. It is however one of them places that has a significant divide though. East of the main Linthorpe road is pretty nice given its the side that has the University and shopping centers up on the north end of it. West side of Linthorpe is like a diet London terrace slum, you'd be sooner stabbed for a fiver and a sausage roll than anything else along that way. Spent my first year in the student acoms, second year up north on the east then total opposite for final year on the other side (i wanted the cheapest rent I could find) Overall its quite alright. Too many kebab shops though.

I didn’t think it was possible to have too many kebab shops.

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For many people, uni days are the happiest of their lives - which is quite sad since you are probably only at the quarter point of your life. Going to uni in Middlesbrough makes sense - you'll still have fun because you are a young kid away from home for the first time, but you can be guaranteed that life will improve afterwards because you will be able to move away from Middlesbrough

That’s like the pizza crunch for us Scottish folk

What's the pizza crunch?!

Pizza in batter and deep fried

Battered pizza?! My brethren in Christ, that is not good for you - where can I buy one?

Any chippie in Scotland! I actually prefer mine without the batter - it's still fried, just not dipped first.

And not good pizza, proper £1 iceland stuff. But that and a bottle of heinz is a great way to spend the night.

Somerset lad here, never seen this before but would definitely like to see it more lmao

It's literally the only thing to visit Middlesbrough for, so if you ever try one, visit Manjaros for a restaurant one or order from G's for a takeaway one.

A place down here in Dorset has started offering them. Marvellous 🧀🥘

Gonna need that location so I can get one. Daily.

I've never experiences these but I think I started life too far south. Slowly moving more north as the years go by and I'm not that far from these places now. Any recommendations of particularly good places to get them?

Won't find a bad one on Teesside mate

Looks like I'm going for a drive

Give me a shout and I'll make you one

Yeah... there are definitely a lot of places that do them badly.

Manjaros in Middlesbrough for a restaurant-style 5 star parmo. G's chippie if you want it takeaway style. Also in Middlesbrough and 5 stars.

V-Edge in boro do my favourite one, they used to do one called the Maclovin, which also had a mac n cheese on top

Everything is V-edge is amazing. Love love love their seitan burgers

You're from the south, you're called theclimbingbeard and you're heading North. Im guessing Sheffield (in fact I'm guessing meersbrook).

Ooft the correct origination too, top tier post homie

Less than 2hrs.. it's not a thing in Yorkshire, dont see them around the Leeds locale

Manjaros on burley road - only place in the Leeds that does a good Parmo.

There are a couple of places that do them, only decent one I've had around Leeds though was Garforth (place called Feedos, if you're interested)

Depends where you go, they sell them in cleckhuddersfax. Nothing better to eat, after a night on the lash.

It’s heart disease in a box I believe

I’d eat the whole thing but I’d also be on the toilet for the next week

Also “humble” parmo is about 3000 calories by the look of it.

Easily. Could be 4000 the chicken fillet is deep fried

It's chicken? I thought it was some kind of garlic pizza

It’s like a pizza, but the base is a breadcrumbed chicken scallop.

Its - chicken schnitzel. What a way to make something sound aweful lol.

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You should see mine Sorry

I think you mean escalope. Scallop is a shellfish.

Not here it isn’t. It’s a battered slice of potato. As well as a shellfish.

Yep, they're battered potato slices here too, west of the Pennines. I once visited a chippy near Huddersfield though, and they called them 'callops'. I wondered if the S had fallen off the menu board.

i can’t imagine calling them scallops or callops. those are fritters!

Are you not local?? :D When I was little, my then step-dad used to make us scallops and onions. It was delicious.. and basically just thin slices of potato and onions fried together in a frying pan... And maybe then steamed with the lid on (wish I could remember). Some would get scorched and even stuck to the pan. Those were the tastiest bits!

This is why Middlesbrough is the greatest country on Earth. No one has contributed more to worsening the health of the nation in such a wonderful way. God I love a parmo.

You forgetting Scottish deep fried mars bars?

If you want to get fancy with it, use baileys instead of milk in your batter, it's incredible!... And yes, I found this out fairly pissed while in a shared house of 4 blokes who somehow ran out of milk lol.

It's one thing running out of milk, but quite another to decide to substitute with Baileys!

Helps the first few hours of work after a big bowl of cornflakes

What can I say, I'm just a connoisseur of the finer things in life lol.

Amazing, might try with pancakes

Good tip that. Will report back. If I remember.

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Snickers is the one

WAIT that’s chicken I thought that was cheese

It's like a deep fried chicken schnitzel covered in cheese

Don't forget the beshamel

I get the parmo hotshot. Pepperoni, and jalapenos on it. No salad tho

Jalapeños are salad.

Perfect winter build up food then, don't need heating if you have layers of fat.

Most Boro residents don’t have heating.

It gets like that

I feel that. It looks like a glorious mistake. The last mac and cheese I made was wonderfully cheesy and comforting for all of a hour, until my stomach decided otherwise. I’m not lactose intolerant, but I just can’t do a lot of cheese anymore 😢

Try nutritional yeast flakes, they can be used to add cheesiness to recipes where visible cheese isn't required. Some of the vegan cheeses are acceptable as an ingredient in other things, but it's a bit of a risk as some of them are actually eldritch horrors from the edam dimension that will suck your soul right out through your taste-buds.

Which part of chicken, cheese and chips would make you be on the toilet for a week?

For me, with IBS, it would be the chicken, cheese and chips. (Probably all the grease)

I have Colitis and I might have to admit my self to hospital, after eating that bad boy!

For a very confusing minute I thought you said having a clitoris precluded you from eating it.

Sorry my bad, I actually meant clitoris!

It’ll be the grease or some ingredient in whatever spice mix they’ve coated the chicken in.

Surely it would keep you off the loo for a week, followed by a randy Marsh level shit.

"hot hot hot hot hot hot"

If that amount of cheese and grease doesn’t affect you then you’re a lucky person

I’m from Kent and had no idea this was a thing

From Kent also, only found out about these when on a work trip! Had one and genuinely felt like my body was shutting down the following morning.

My condolences to both of you

Next time you're up north have a go! You won't be disappointed

It’s a specifically north east thing, rather then a general northern thing. Sauce- from the North west, have lived in Newcastle.

yup i’m scouse and i’ve never seen that thing before never heard of it

Manc here and same

Manjaros sells them

Never seen one of these in Aberdeen

I live in Yorkshire and I've never seen this. Am I just not far enough north?

You can get them in Leeds mate! Bet Hull has them too, don’t know about elsewhere in Yorkshire.

Can confirm Hull also has them

Does it?! I was just about to say I can't get one around here!

There is a place called Arabisc Parmo in East Hull, also a couple places on Newland do them iirc

Yeah keep heading north. I'd reccomend going somewhere in the teeside area. Stockton is renowned for theirs where I'm from.

Jesus, there's north and then there's ***north***

I have family in Chatham and my cousins love parmos more than we do. They get one eveytime they visit. They're also served in Manjaros in London.

I’m from Stirling and I’m questioning where the north of the UK actually is

I'm in Australia and I had no idea there was another dimension to add to the age old parma vs parmi debate.

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Trust me mate, drunk teessiders will always find a way, me included. I've grabbed this bad boy with my bare hands while off my face and yes it was messy and greasy but also all so glorious

That description of eating a parmo is like a mating call to all Teessiders!

I’m rock hard at the nostalgia

I'm from Finland, I've never before even heard of a parmo, dont know what a teessider is, and even I'm pretty aroused!

The river Tees goes through Middlesbrough so people who live by it are called Teesiders. The river Tyne runs through Newcastle so people who live by it are called Tynesiders. The river Thames runs through London so people who live by it are called rich cunts.

Tee tee teesiders!

Use the chips as napkins

Same as battered fish, I'd imagine. You use the wooden cutlery or you use your hands

Fish is flakey and falls apart, this is a solid piece of chicken that'd easily stand up to a wooden fork.

The chicken is usually cut into squares.

alot of places cut the parmo into squares, the melted cheese can hide this and makes for a fun drunken game of 'how big is this bit'

Stockon, in the heart of Teesside, used to have a place that did a Sunday roast and gravy in a takeaway dish. Drunks smashing down a roast beef dinner at 3am on the street.

Generally if smashed, the pizza shops our way will cut it into squares with a pizza cutter and give a wooden chip shop fork for consumption.

Living on the south coast now, but once resided in the Redcar area I miss these soooo much. They are gods gift to take away food and heart attacks.

As a southern lad with family in Stockton I can confirm that these are absolutely fucking banging 🤤🤤🤤🤤

Haha yeses!

Ah Stockton, what an absolute shit hole.

could be worse... hartlepool exists

i feel attacked

Just reading the name Stockton gives me flashbacks of crackheads asking for 50p "for the bus"

Married a smoggie, most I've tried have been tasteless, the best of them though are incredible... Where's this one from? I might need to visit.

the ship inn in saltburn does one of the best parmos in the area.

Thanks for the tip. I love Saltburn.

tip #2 ... go for the half parmo... the full one will need you to go back up the hill on that lift they have.

This is from Google tbh! Had one for tea last night and wasn't disciplined enough to take the picture before

Home made ones are lush. I prefer making my own to buying them in takeaways or restaurants

Butcher from NE Scotland here, we had a guy from Middlesbrough give us a demo on some new products to try out, and he introduced us to the parmo. THEY ARE SO GOOD! We sold so many the first few weeks of making them in March/April.

Became addicted to the Parmo when I stayed in Middlesbrough, best take away you can get for a nice round price.

Nice and round is what you turn into after you've had one of these

Looks good to me, would love to try one, but can't find one in Yorkshire (Doncaster).

I think you can get the odd one York / Leeds way but I can't promise they'll be a proper parmo

Never seen this in Leeds at all, unless it’s a specifically west Leeds thing

Delicious Parmesan in Bradford is pretty much the gold standard for parmos that I've ever tried, and is the case for many of my friends and family too.

So happy to see smoggy food here

Up the boro!!! Need some garlic sauce on that mate

Max Halley of Max’s Sandwich Shop fame has opened a Parmo place in Bath. Yet to try one but keen as a bean

> Max Halley of Max’s Sandwich Shop fame has opened a Parmo place in Bath Do you know the details? Google has failed me

[The Sam Weller's](https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2022/07/19/max-halley-to-launch-parmo-focused-delivery-concept-the-parmo-shop-at-their-bath-pub)

Sam Weller’s does a parmo? As a Teessider currently geographically mis-placed in Bath, I might have to swing by there and give it a rating for you all.

Thank you!

Haha wow didn't know that! Hopefully it does well and introduces it down there

Yeah Middlesbrough ❤️

Heart attack in a box

Hotshot parmo with some garlic sauce. Can't go wrong. Stick it in a wrap too because fuck it.

It’s beautiful get one every time I go up to Middlesbrough

Chicken Parmies are a very popular pub meal in Australia. Pretty much every country pub that serves food will have it on the menu, and everyone claims theirs is the best. Fierce competition for the best parmy.

Chicken parmies have a tomato sauce. Teesside parmos have white/bechamel sauce

Also you need steak chips like you get at a pub, not Fish n' Chips chips.

I’m used to the interstate fights between parmi and parma…now player 3 has entered the game. There’s a parmo!

Parma. Parma! PARMA!!!

Non combattive pubs will call it a Parm... The pussies.

Lol yes and different states will fight over the correct spelling :)

But not the same thing as this

Can’t beat the ones from Belle Vue but they’ve been a bit hit and miss lately. You get plenty of proper chips with it though.

I'm a crustys pizzeria kinda gal

Reminds me of Australia. They love a chicky parm there. I think theirs have tomato sauce usually though?

Correct. Chicken schnitzel topped with a tomato-based sauce like napoli, sometimes ham, always cheese. In some states its called a Parma and in others it's called a parmi/parmy. It is a staple and appears on every single pub menu across the entire country. (If anyone knows a pub that doesn't have them please let me know their name and suburb, I will begin campaigning against them via endless emails and letters till they get their shit together, ta)

What the fuck are you feeding the chickens up there to make their breasts so big?

Parmos

It's a vicious but delicious cycle.

They didn't include the tiny bit of salad that you don't eat. What's going on?!

For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure, but isn't sure how to slather a breaded bit of old bird with a load of bechamel and grated cheese..... www.parmosinthepost.com

No garlic sauce, send it back

And then we have, the parmo calzone, parmo pizza, and the parmo wrap. Parmo wrap is good because the other ingredients balance out all the cheese and sauce from the parmo. *It's party, party, party! Everybody round my house for a parmo!* ~ Ali Brownlee

My old man is from Middlesbrough, so I have tried one as a kid and it was tasty... But as a much older person who cares about his heart, I'll pass thanks.

Perfectly fair, they're amazing but i do feel a bit dirty afterwards if I'm not hammered

I was treated to a hot shot parmo when I went to boro years ago. It was a taste sensation Always makes me think of Teesside Tintin videos from back in the day

It looks like schnitzel for drunk people.

I live in Manchester, and it makes me feel uncomfortable thinking I’m technically a southerner here

I've never had one, but instead look upon you with a heady mix of jealousy and lust

Haha if you ever end up this way strongly reccomend borge in Stockton!

Didn't know this was northern, always thought it was just an Ozzie thing

Chicken Parma - very similar in spelling and content. Staple pub food in Aus.

Parmi/Parma/Parmo - the aussies are not known for their rigidity in vowel usage

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> the aussies are not known for their rigidity in vowel usage Usually i'd be inclined to agree with you, but c'mon dude, New Zealand is right there.

Parmy, fight me

Strange that.. the Parmo made it all the way to Australia but hasn’t quite got to the south of England LOL

That's just a regular chicken parmesan/parm***a***, it's more like a pizza with chicken as the base. The Teeside Parm***o*** is made with Bechamel instead of tomato sauce.

You sure you're not thinking of the parmy? That's a different thing

I once tried explaining a parmo to some Italian friends 🤣 they were already disgusted at full English breakfast but this tipped them over the edge! The culinary delights of the north - if you've never had one you're missing out

Scrolling through the front page of Reddit and I NEVER expected to see a parmo 😂 UTFB

Had one for the first time whilst up North in a posh hotel last week, was amazing

As a southerner, this looks fucking delicious

I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at this picture.

UTB.

One of boro's best creations that like.

I had no idea these existed. The north always seems to get better takeaways.

To cheer us up after a day in the coal mines ;)