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was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun |
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ………    |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun
Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ……… "
Watford Gap is the traditional north/south divide, but those just north of Watford Gap often dispute they are living in the north.
Personally, as a southerner living in the north I tend to feel that the north begins at Leeds. |
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun
Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ……… "
Always thought anything south of doncaster was t'other side |
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun
Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ………
Always thought anything south of doncaster was t'other side"
Nah, Chesterfields down south. Donny just scrapes in!
It has to be the North - you haven't been truly afraid till you've been out in Donny on a Friday night!!! And its the women who are scarey...
They don't wear coats no matter what the weather cos it'd spoil their going out outfit - thats always been my benchmark for being Northern! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Nah, Chesterfields down south. Donny just scrapes in!
It has to be the North - you haven't been truly afraid till you've been out in Donny on a Friday night!!! And its the women who are scarey...
They don't wear coats no matter what the weather cos it'd spoil their going out outfit - thats always been my benchmark for being Northern! "
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In the south you may find burger fritters mushy peas and kebabs you should find cheese and onion pasties maybe Jamaican patties too
Only once seen a pea fritter too
More likely to find chilli sauce than curry sauce down south
Some American style places do cheesy chips but they might be French fries so beware |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Always thought anything south of doncaster was t'other side
Nah, Chesterfields down south. Donny just scrapes in!
It has to be the North - you haven't been truly afraid till you've been out in Donny on a Friday night!!! And its the women who are scarey...
They don't wear coats no matter what the weather cos it'd spoil their going out outfit - thats always been my benchmark for being Northern! "
GGGGRRRRR Chesterfield and very much northern and proud  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
chips and gravy is a northern thing and i lived in liverpool for a while can't get here so i think its northern x |
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"Yorkshire fish cakes....slice of real fish...slice off potato sanwhiched together...battered and fried.... never seen em down south x"
oddly enough that was my first introduction to a North/South divide, moving from North Yorkshire where a fishcake is fish mashed up with herbs and a little potato and breaded and fried to South Yorkshire where its a fish/potato sandwich battered and fried. Took me a while to work out what to ask for! 
Still never had the nerve to try roe yet though... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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i remember back in the day when mum used to take us to see grandad over in yorkshire.
there was a fish n chip place not far away and we used to get a bag of chips with a carton of the nicest mushy peas you`ve ever tasted in ur life! only 14p aswell |
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You can get curry sauce with your chips in most places down here....and battered chips in some chip shops....and chips cooked in dripping in some....and gravy in some....
And even the odd battered Mars bar...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I dunno if there’s any special geographical influences at work which cause the quality of proper cream-tea’s to be so much nicer in Devon and Cornwall than in other area's.... but they seem to have it totally nailed down them-there parts..... bloom'in lush they are !!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Chips and currey sauce doesn't exist down here....
Chips with cheese and chilli sauce either....
It's like I love battered chips but only get that in midlands"
We had battered chips in Exmouth Devon because a man from Wolverhampton owned the shop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun
Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ………
Watford Gap is the traditional north/south divide, but those just north of Watford Gap often dispute they are living in the north.
Personally, as a southerner living in the north I tend to feel that the north begins at Leeds."
As a South Londoner I can confirm that Northerners start on the other side of Lambeth Bridge |
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ong scraps ! I'd forgotten about them , heaven. ive lived on south coast for 16 years afte growing up in the north, so take it from me, decent fish and chips are very rare in the south , as is decent beer - gotta go home for the real thing lol xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"ong scraps ! I'd forgotten about them , heaven. ive lived on south coast for 16 years afte growing up in the north, so take it from me, decent fish and chips are very rare in the south , as is decent beer - gotta go home for the real thing lol xx"
Same up here now. Hard to find a decent chipy these days. |
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down south is jellied eels, most northerners dont know how to spell it never mind eat it.
Its like a chip butty, in manchester its a chip balm i believe, in the south its a chip cob (possibly)
in yorkshire we have mint sauce on all sunday dinners, chicken, pork, beef, no where else in the world do they have mint sauce as religion on sundays |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"down south is jellied eels, most northerners dont know how to spell it never mind eat it.
Its like a chip butty, in manchester its a chip balm i believe, in the south its a chip cob (possibly)
in yorkshire we have mint sauce on all sunday dinners, chicken, pork, beef, no where else in the world do they have mint sauce as religion on sundays"
Lamb only for mint sauce here.... xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"in yorkshire we have mint sauce on all sunday dinners, chicken, pork, beef, no where else in the world do they have mint sauce as religion on sundays"
Wanna bet. I'm from Bedfordshire and I have mint sauce on every combination of sunday roast you can think of. It's not a Bedfordshire thing, it's a me thing lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And don't get me started on the whole teacake thing!!!!
Teacake = plain
current teacake = teacake with currents.
Kat x xDONT EVEN GO THERE!!!  "
WELL I DID!! SO WHAT YE GONA DO ABOUT IT?¿!
Ner ner ner ner ner |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"And don't get me started on the whole teacake thing!!!!
Teacake = plain
current teacake = teacake with currents.
Kat x xDONT EVEN GO THERE!!!
WELL I DID!! SO WHAT YE GONA DO ABOUT IT?¿!
Ner ner ner ner ner "
Il bring ya fecking teacakes.....the proper ones with currents in....hows ya baps btw? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And don't get me started on the whole teacake thing!!!!
Teacake = plain
current teacake = teacake with currents.
Kat x xDONT EVEN GO THERE!!!
WELL I DID!! SO WHAT YE GONA DO ABOUT IT?¿!
Ner ner ner ner ner Il bring ya fecking teacakes.....the proper ones with currents in....hows ya baps btw? "
Ye know where ye can stuff ye baps!!
Anyway you know for a fact matt is on my side on this one |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"And don't get me started on the whole teacake thing!!!!
Teacake = plain
current teacake = teacake with currents.
Kat x xDONT EVEN GO THERE!!!
WELL I DID!! SO WHAT YE GONA DO ABOUT IT?¿!
Ner ner ner ner ner Il bring ya fecking teacakes.....the proper ones with currents in....hows ya baps btw?
Ye know where ye can stuff ye baps!!
Anyway you know for a fact matt is on my side on this one "
Lmao... |
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By *un_JuiceCouple
over a year ago
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There's obviously midlanders too. We don't or I certainly don't see myself as Northern/Southern.
Gets a bit tricky though as Derbyshire goes as far as joining Lancashire which is Northern. But of course the City of Derby is very much in the East Midlands. The capital of which is Nottingham
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"And don't get me started on the whole teacake thing!!!!
Teacake = plain
current teacake = teacake with currents.
Kat x x"
Nooo Teacakes are little brown toffees with coconut
at least round here within shopping distance of teddy grays sweet factory in duddlayyy |
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"If you want battered chips black country museum they to die for"
Shame it's a bit pricey to get in there. Do love battered chips, but we get these mobile fish and chip vans that roam around here, and they're a treat. The midlands, or north of Watford Gap. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
Fruit cake and cheese
Married a lass from Leeds .. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Ahem....Perhaps some southern dwellers have a different perception of what constitutes a justifiable claim to where living Up-North begins ……… "
Its Official.
Anywhere North of Watford. And no not Watford Gap. |
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"If you want battered chips black country museum they to die for
Shame it's a bit pricey to get in there. Do love battered chips, but we get these mobile fish and chip vans that roam around here, and they're a treat. The midlands, or north of Watford Gap."
i have an oragne battered chip shop at the end of the street
and when i was young (i know a long time ago) the battered chips were called yorkshire chips |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Plain bread bun is a T-Cake here in Yorks, when i called it that in Lancashire i got some very funny looks and remarks! Tried explaining if it had currents then it was called a current T-Cake, but they was having none of it. A girl from blackburn called them a Barm Cake? WTF? lol |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"Onion vinegar sounds nice tho x
lol you just save the vinegar from pickled onions!"
To be proper onion vinegar it has to be white spirit vinegar, not the brown malt stuff.
There as chip shops in Dorset I`ve seen that do curry sauce or gravy so we`re not complete heathens down here! We do like our pea fritters though! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"born in leeds i use to love my plain t cake with dripping or as mum said mucky fat"
Haven`t seen the proper stuff since a long established bakers near me closed down but is lardy cake a southern thing? It`s a flat oblong with fruit and cinnamon, loads of sugar on top to give an almost crusty top and when it`s cold it`s almost greasy with the fat content. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
kebabs on top of a pizza. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
moved to bolton from sunderland and i went into a chippy and asked for a chip buttie the same as you she just stared at me... its a chip barmmmmmm down here  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Portion sizes differ north to south
Yeh we all have larger portions up north!
Not what the Northern lasses tell me ..
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Nope, they go on diets prior to trips south, to get used to the smaller portions they'll be getting down there  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Can't get much further South than Brighton. Yes we get chips and curry sauce it's the dogs dangles. The North /South divide is I believe junction M23/M25  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Portion sizes differ north to south
Yeh we all have larger portions up north!
Not what the Northern lasses tell me ..
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I didn't know Lassie could talk! |
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By *exykirstyWoman
over a year ago
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"was down south other week with work and went to a chip shop and asked for chips and curry together. They looked at me as if i was off planet mars . So it got me thinking what do we have up north that the south find bizzare and vice versa. Just a bit of fun"
I am from Southampton originally, now living up north! chips and curry is normal, chips and gravy well that is not normal. |
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