Questions: Food & Beverage

Not the poncy French pastry type, a proper British rissole that you get from the chippy when you haven't got enough cash to buy a fish. Rissoles, (from the Latin russeolus) are a mix of corned beef and potato rolled into a ball or pattie and coated in breadcrumbs before being fried in oil. They can also be made using cheese in place of meat.

They are most popular in North East England and South Wales and are thought to arrived with Italian migrants. As well as the chippy you can buy them at markets or prepacked to cook at home if you're too dumb to roll mash into a ball.