Manx Things to Tickle Your Taste Buds

Who doesn’t love food and drink? I don’t know about you but I’d literally die without them. With that in mind, Gef has created a specifically Manx menu for you newcomers to the Island so you don’t perish from a lack of sustenance or die from excess Monster.

Please find your official ‘Must Eats While on the Island’ menu below. Starting with;

Food, Glorious Food

Queenies (Scallops)

Regal by name, regal by nature. Queenies represent the upper class of the Manx cuisine world. You may look like a regular old rough and tough biker. But add a dainty portion of delicious butter-fried Queenies served in a freshly cleaned shell from Fenella Beach and you, my friend, will be swapping those leathery leathers for a diamond-encrusted fur coat, ditching your bike for a horse drawn carriage (tram), and saying things like ‘I MUST have that cravat’. Added bonus. If you’re in need of a drag name, (who isn’t?) look no further than Queenie Baps.

Kipper Bap

Like Marmite but fishier. You’ll either love this or hate it. It’s a high risk, high reward situation but isn’t TT a time to be taking risks? Don’t eat one when hungover though. The smell is dreadful when it comes back up. And it will come back up.

Chips, Cheese, and Gravy

Whereas Queenies are high brow, local chips, cheese, and gravy is the salt and vinegar dish of Manx soil. Canada says this is their national dish but they were only founded in 1867 and we’ve been around since the Vikings, so we had it first. Suck it Canada. Stick to Maple Syrup.

Davison’s Ice Cream

One of the only forms of Manx food I’ve seen people line the streets for. You know it’s good when there are queues outside Davison’s Ice Cream stores even when it’s p*issing down and below freezing, which it is 362 days of the year. Flavours include Vanilla, Peel Fish Foodery, Chocolate, Laxey Wheel Coal Mine, Spilled Bushy’s, Mint Choc Port Jack Chippy, Vanilla, and Rum and Raisin’ the roof in Ramsey.

Manx Knob

Get your mouth around one of these. They’re hard, small and don’t leave a sour taste. You can also keep them in a glass jar on the windowsill for decoration.

Today’s Specials

Manx Loughton Burger / Wallaby Pie. One of those is real.

Beverages

Pint of Bushy’s 

The Manx equivalent of a Butter Beer in Harry Potter. If you come over to the Isle of Man for TT and don’t have a pint of Bushy’s, it’s like going for a run and forgetting to put your FitBit on. Didn’t happen.

A Tot of Fynoderee Gin

OOOOOO aren’t you fancy drinking Fynoderee. Fancy, FANCY Fynoderee. They say gin is ‘Mother’s ruin.’ Well. Prepared to get ruined on this fine and fancy liquor. If social services pop up the next day to take away your kids, it will have been worth it for a tot of the Summer edition. Then you can drown your sorrows with MORE FYNODEREE GIN.

A Cup of Fairy Bridge Tea

The fairies from the Fairy Bridge have branched out from administering bad luck to producing their own line of tea bags. And they do do a good brew. But approach with caution. I don’t trust them for a second. Just make sure you say hello to the fairies at Fairy Bridge or your tea may be laced with something tasting like Arsenic.

A Swig of Hoolie

Hoolie – the term Manxies use for a particularly prolonged period of gusty wind. The type that you can lean into without falling over. The Manxman’s arch nemesis. The type that sent all those poor auditioning nannies in Mary Poppins flying off into space. Grab a swig of Hoolie by heading on up to Douglas Head and opening your mouth wide. If that doesn’t quench your thirst, there’s a rum version of Hoolie you can try instead.

A Cup of Connor Cummins Coffee

Found at all EVF stations on the Island, why not stop and fill up your petrol AND your bladder with a cup of Connor. Coffee made from Connor Cummins’ beans. Sorry. The joke wrote itself.