FabSwingers.com forum: North/South Divide

By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

We haven't explored this for a little while.

On another thread someone mentioned curry sauce on chips. Another NW person told me about gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

On the other hand my local chippy offers homemade tartare sauce, tempura prawns and sometimes lobster and chips.

What differences do you notice?

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Curry sauce and chips is a favourite around here, they do do gravy but ive never had gravy on chips in my life.

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By *stwoCouple
over a year ago

anywhere

we have deep fried mars bars

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By *ogistical NightmaresCouple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

House prices, income, quality of lager, abundance of Man Utd fans down south

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meat & potatoe pie is non existent in chippys down south

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Curry sauce and chips is a favourite around here, they do do gravy but ive never had gravy on chips in my life. "

Do you have ketchup at the same time as the sauce? Or mayonnaise?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The language up north is a bit weird, sort of..... foreign

*Ducks for cover

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I dont really see any difference, except my Scottish £10 not being accepted south of Hadrians.

apart from that, no real difference me thinks

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"we have deep fried mars bars"

I have never had one of those but we did once tempura some Toblerone.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Curry sauce and chips is a favourite around here, they do do gravy but ive never had gravy on chips in my life.

Do you have ketchup at the same time as the sauce? Or mayonnaise?"

I have mayonaise with chips, yet when i go to belguim they put a pot of ketchup out as they think the english all have ketchup

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh yeah and chippys down south are bloody expensive

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Oh my, where do I start?

Gravy on chips is wrong!

A muffin is not a bread roll its a cake! And barmcake??? That is a bread roll lol

Pants are underwear, trousers are outer wear!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!"

I take the top of a mince pie, put a slice of stilton in it, put under the grill and lid back on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The language up north is a bit weird, sort of..... foreign

*Ducks for cover"

Lol I agree!! When I moved to eastbourne it took everyone about 3 months before they understood the Manc accent

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!"

My Caribbean origins mean that I have cheese with fruit cake, tea-cakes and hot cross buns. It just works.

I don't really go to KFC but when I have asked those I know who do they tell me there is no gravy down here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

when i first moved down here the biggest thing that stood out to me was battered chips

id never seen them before so was a bit of a shock first time i went to the chipped and was presented with these bright orange battered chips

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

"We haven't explored this for a little while.

On another thread someone mentioned curry sauce on chips. Another NW person told me about gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

On the other hand my local chippy offers homemade tartare sauce, tempura prawns and sometimes lobster and chips.

What differences do you notice?"
Harpenden has a Waitrose and a Sainsbury, Luton has Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Aldi, is that enough of a divide, ?

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!

I take the top of a mince pie, put a slice of stilton in it, put under the grill and lid back on"

That might be a bit far even for me! Blue cheese is the only cheese I can't eat.

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

gotta luv a stottie from greggs up north .. why they cant make them down here is beyond me ?

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By *imply_SensualMan
over a year ago

warrington

One thing is the name, in the North West (and some other places) they are called Chippys. I knew a few people from the North East years ago and they referred to them as Fishys......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Agree with north having better quality beers/lagers on draught than the south also has anyone in the south heard of meat paste, pease pudding or potato scones.

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Oh yeah and chippys down south are bloody expensive

But the quality is sooooo much better, besides they offer more than one type of fish lol

I've had fish n chips once since living in manc, and swore never again!! Its now a ritual when I'm in Norfolk.....propper chippies lol

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Meat & potatoe pie is non existent in chippys down south "

My local chippy has venison pie - will that do instead?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

and roe, does any chippy outside the black country sell roe?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

cant get steak and kidney puddings down sarf, but i do like the saveloys,mmmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Meat & potatoe pie is non existent in chippys down south

My local chippy has venison pie - will that do instead?

NOOOOOO!!! You can't beat a good meat&tatty pie

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Oh yeah and chippys down south are bloody expensive

But the quality is sooooo much better, besides they offer more than one type of fish lol

I've had fish n chips once since living in manc, and swore never again!! Its now a ritual when I'm in Norfolk.....propper chippies lol"

That reminded me of going to the chippy in Cumbria with a friend. There was a long queue so I was pondering, out loud, what sort of fish to have. I was shocked when she told me that there is no choice of fish. It's just fish. What do you do if you fancy a bit of Haddock or a Skate Wing?

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"and roe, does any chippy outside the black country sell roe?"

Yes, I have seen roe down here. Not often but I have seen it.

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"and roe, does any chippy outside the black country sell roe?"

Can get it in Norfolk, never liked it though

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

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By *hadygreyCouple
over a year ago

stockportish

Has tha nowt moist down there? Lol

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Agree with north having better quality beers/lagers on draught than the south also has anyone in the south heard of meat paste, pease pudding or potato scones."

Meat paste? Is that the strange beige thing in a tube?

Pease pudding yes. Potato scone - is that the same as a rosti?

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Oh yeah and chippys down south are bloody expensive

But the quality is sooooo much better, besides they offer more than one type of fish lol

I've had fish n chips once since living in manc, and swore never again!! Its now a ritual when I'm in Norfolk.....propper chippies lol

I know, can't even get plaice! Proberbly didn't help being brought up by the coast, we were spoilt for choice!

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

My gran used to serve Yorkshire puds with jam. But she lived in East Anglia. Not something I've ever seen up North.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Has tha nowt moist down there? Lol"

We have jus rather than gravy, dontcha know!

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?"

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"My gran used to serve Yorkshire puds with jam. But she lived in East Anglia. Not something I've ever seen up North."

Butter and jam! They have to be cold though... Yum

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"One thing is the name, in the North West (and some other places) they are called Chippys. I knew a few people from the North East years ago and they referred to them as Fishys......

Where is the cut off line? Is there a no-mans land where they are called something else?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

My local chippy does battered sausages

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is blacks peas a northern thing , love them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My gran used to serve Yorkshire puds with jam. But she lived in East Anglia. Not something I've ever seen up North."

We had that as kids,.i love it my kids think im a freak, they were born doen here do no hope

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baby yed and pea wet can't beat it

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Is blacks peas a northern thing , love them"

I've never heard of blacks peas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am Scottish and lived further up from where I am now when we moved from Scotland.

What I miss the most is scottish sausage!!

I don't like gravy on chips, but I don't really like chips though

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"My gran used to serve Yorkshire puds with jam. But she lived in East Anglia. Not something I've ever seen up North.

We had that as kids,.i love it my kids think im a freak, they were born doen here do no hope"

Golden syrup...

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Baby yed and pea wet can't beat it"

Now you're speaking in foreign... I haven't a clue how those words form into a sentence.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

When i move outside my home town. I struggle to find a good cucumber sandwich cut into small triangles with the crust cut off.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"When i move outside my home town. I struggle to find a good cucumber sandwich cut into small triangles with the crust cut off."

Skin cut off the cucumber too? Lol

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

i wudnt venture out .. it sounds far too risky .. cucumber sarnies with crusts !?!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Potted meat, yorkshire with either jam, golden syrup or blackberry vinegar. Battered sausages, pickled eggs (ive never had one)

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Damn - I thought this was going to be discussion on the long standing grudge between North and South following the American Civil War!

Go Rebels!

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Baby yed and pea wet can't beat it

Now you're speaking in foreign... I haven't a clue how those words form into a sentence."

It's a suet pudding with pea juice (I believe, though they are odd ont'other side of t'ill.

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

It's just the one in Manchester. I just dont get it? A scallop AND chips? It doesn't make sense lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We haven't explored this for a little while.

On another thread someone mentioned curry sauce on chips. Another NW person told me about gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

On the other hand my local chippy offers homemade tartare sauce, tempura prawns and sometimes lobster and chips.

What differences do you notice?"

All I know is, I wanna come to your chippy!

I dont get the whole gravy and curry sauce on chips thing. Soggy chips are revolting.

I am originally from London and I do miss saveloys, dont se them much down here. I also used to get Jamaican Patties in the chippys back home.

The thing I notice most in the chippys in Devon are the people serving usually have webbed hands and 6 digits on each.... It was even worse in Cornwall!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When i move outside my home town. I struggle to find a good cucumber sandwich cut into small triangles with the crust cut off.

Skin cut off the cucumber too? Lol"

i peel my cucumber

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"When i move outside my home town. I struggle to find a good cucumber sandwich cut into small triangles with the crust cut off.

Skin cut off the cucumber too? Lol"

The best people only use thin skinned cucumbers and take alternate strips off.

But they should be seeded.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

I would not be happy if I ordered scallops and got potato! Thanks for this useful bit of information.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is blacks peas a northern thing , love them

I've never heard of blacks peas."

Really... Very popular at thus time of year and serve in vinegar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!

My Caribbean origins mean that I have cheese with fruit cake, tea-cakes and hot cross buns. It just works.

I don't really go to KFC but when I have asked those I know who do they tell me there is no gravy down here."

There's gravy in our KFC's and we're 'darn sarf'

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By *umsuckMan
over a year ago

Gateshead

Peas pudding. When my brother first moved to the Isle of Wight they thought he was some kind of antichrist when he was around local shops attemtpting to buy it

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

I would not be happy if I ordered scallops and got potato! Thanks for this useful bit of information."

Ah, but it's not listed as scallops but as a scallop.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"We haven't explored this for a little while.

On another thread someone mentioned curry sauce on chips. Another NW person told me about gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

On the other hand my local chippy offers homemade tartare sauce, tempura prawns and sometimes lobster and chips.

What differences do you notice?

All I know is, I wanna come to your chippy!

I dont get the whole gravy and curry sauce on chips thing. Soggy chips are revolting.

I am originally from London and I do miss saveloys, dont se them much down here. I also used to get Jamaican Patties in the chippys back home.

The thing I notice most in the chippys in Devon are the people serving usually have webbed hands and 6 digits on each.... It was even worse in Cornwall!

It is a rather good chippy. They do home deliveries too, but it's best if you get and eat the food there fresh from the fryer. The crab cakes and whitebait make a rreat starter (I don't do calamari).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

I would not be happy if I ordered scallops and got potato! Thanks for this useful bit of information."

There Scollops not Scallops lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The batter is better and well crispy up here and even better with curry sauce to dip it in.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"You don't have gravy at KFC? I feel sorry for you.

When I first moved up here I was offered cheese with fruit cake. I thought they were crazy but tried it. OMG its fab!

My Caribbean origins mean that I have cheese with fruit cake, tea-cakes and hot cross buns. It just works.

I don't really go to KFC but when I have asked those I know who do they tell me there is no gravy down here.

There's gravy in our KFC's and we're 'darn sarf'

Really? Well there you go. I will tell my gravy loving people. I bet they will think it's odd as gravy is for a roast meal.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

I would not be happy if I ordered scallops and got potato! Thanks for this useful bit of information.

There Scollops not Scallops lol"

All the chippy menus near me list them as scallop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

Can you get a wally or a pickled egg?

Never looked, I don't like them. But I think I've seen eggs.

Scallops! I just don't get The point of them

I north Yorkshire where I grew up a scallop was just a battered slice of potato.

In Sheffield it's two slices with a piece of fish inbetween then battered.

I would not be happy if I ordered scallops and got potato! Thanks for this useful bit of information.

There Scollops not Scallops lol

All the chippy menus near me list them as scallop"

Hmmm maybe they don't know the difference

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By *aybe_amyWoman
over a year ago

Wales

I've been told English chippies don't do rissoles! If this is true, I'm staying my side of the Severn bridge. (I know that's east/west rather than north/south).

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I dont really see any difference, except my Scottish £10 not being accepted south of Hadrians.

apart from that, no real difference me thinks"

We don't have square sausages down here.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"I am Scottish and lived further up from where I am now when we moved from Scotland.

What I miss the most is scottish sausage!!

I don't like gravy on chips, but I don't really like chips though

Mmmm square sausage.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Proper mushy peas - they're like bullets down south.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have gravy at KFC and curry sauce at the chip shop, I don't know one that offers what yours does, though one did used to do battered mars bars, eugh

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"I've been told English chippies don't do rissoles! If this is true, I'm staying my side of the Severn bridge. (I know that's east/west rather than north/south).

Depends what you mean by rissoles. I grew up calling them fishcakes, moved to Sheffield and got looked at like an idiot when I asked for one. They call them rissoles here (fish and mashed potato and breaded).

They do roe though...

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Pineapple fritters....mmmmmm

Never seen them up north

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went down south a while ago, asked for a sausage and bacon barm with brown sauce, the bloke just looked at me funny.

I received sausage and bacon with ketchup and bread.

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

"Is blacks peas a northern thing , love them

I've never heard of blacks peas."

Black peas seem to be peculiar to the Rochdale/Bury/Oldham area i reckon. Just peas that are black, cooked til mushy then eaten with salt and vinegar.

Lovely!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Agree with north having better quality beers/lagers on draught than the south also has anyone in the south heard of meat paste, pease pudding or potato scones.

Meat paste? Is that the strange beige thing in a tube?

Pease pudding yes. Potato scone - is that the same as a rosti?"

no meat paste comes in little glass jars and potato scone actually is scottish they call them tattie scones and to another post we do and always have got battered sausages and saveloys in our chippys up here.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"I dont really see any difference, except my Scottish £10 not being accepted south of Hadrians.

apart from that, no real difference me thinks

Scottish notes are accepted in most areas round Arse End...then again, so are chickens, wood, parafin, jewelry and other assorted baubles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Curry sauce and chips is a favourite around here, they do do gravy but ive never had gravy on chips in my life. "

Its quite liked here too ... nom nom... cury sauce on chips ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When i move outside my home town. I struggle to find a good cucumber sandwich cut into small triangles with the crust cut off.

Skin cut off the cucumber too? Lol

i peel my cucumber"

we eat the peel and throw the nasty bit away

. Salted dripping on toast is good too

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

"Is blacks peas a northern thing , love them

I've never heard of blacks peas.

Black peas seem to be peculiar to the Rochdale/Bury/Oldham area i reckon. Just peas that are black, cooked til mushy then eaten with salt and vinegar.

Lovely!"

we've got grey payse and bacon

orange battered chips

roe what sort? fresh / tinned / steamed

scallops potato and batter

saveloys ( gritty paste in a red skin yeuch)

fishcakes

meat and tatty pies

and our chippy does the full range of greek snacks including fresh homemade crisps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mmmmmm chips and gravy... lovely with salad cream!!

I don't like fish n chips down south because they leave the skin on the fish ewwww

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

hollands pies and bury black pudding..cant get more northern than that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few years ago I was meant to be moving to Shrewsbury. Visited this year and when I asked about pease pudding coz glared at like I had 2 heads! They had it in a tin (I went back and told the woman for future reference) but it just didn't taste the same.

Thank God I didn't move!

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By *inxi62Woman
over a year ago

northwest

have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol

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By *ugbyunionMan
over a year ago

good old yorkshire

I have been told that around the Wigan area they ask for pea wet on their chips is this true im presuming its just juice from the mushy peas??

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol"

Wish someone would bring me some it is bloody rubbish down here

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By *lackCherryCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

"gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

We have gravy in our KFC

and were about 40 mins from London! Demand gravy!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our local fish and chip emporium sells battered faggots, which is apparently a hate crime in America.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol"

We have black & brown pudding around here.

Can't abide anything wet on my food. No gravy at all. If I want a wet meal I'll have a soup or a stew.

Mushy peas is the work of the devil.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And why on earth would you put potatoe in a pie. Leave out the potatoe and you'll have room for more meat.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Oh, and you can't get battered sausages or savoys up here

they do in the north east.... battered sausages and battered burgers... and Savs are called "smokies" up here.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Pineapple fritters....mmmmmm

Never seen them up north"

spam fritters... sure... pineapple fritters??? huh.....

my local has started doing chocolate chips and chocolate pizza's.... overstepped the line!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Steak & Kidney Pudding, chips & gravy...mmmm got a craving now! Not really a fan of mushy peas, but pea wet (ie the pea juice) is quite popular round these parts. Do wish we had more choice with fish, and it is usually listed as fish so they can serve either cod or haddock (whichever is cheapest at the time methinks), but when you drown it with curry sauce I guess it doesn't really matter what type of fish it is!

Once sent a work colleague (from down south) for a pastie barm with ketchup for my dinner...don't think he believed such a thing would be served and was surprised when the lady at Greenhalghs didn't even query it.

Have to have gravy on the rare occasion I go to KFC...it's the law!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pineapple fritters....mmmmmm

Never seen them up north"

You want a chinese chippy for fritters...pineapple or banana usually x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sloppy peas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Agree with north having better quality beers/lagers on draught than the south also has anyone in the south heard of meat paste, pease pudding or potato scones.

Meat paste? Is that the strange beige thing in a tube?

Pease pudding yes. Potato scone - is that the same as a rosti?"

no lickety potato scone is mash ,flour oil,salt rolled out and made on a hot plte , can be eaten cold ,but is better fried with square sausage,egg,beans black pudding tea toast!!

bugger it im hungry now

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Pineapple fritters....mmmmmm

Never seen them up north

spam fritters... sure... pineapple fritters??? huh.....

my local has started doing chocolate chips and chocolate pizza's.... overstepped the line!!!

They are gorgeous! Try one if your ever down south.

Now I'm with you on the chocolate chips and pizzas

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Today I have learnt that pea wet (I have to be careful there, almost came out as pee) is the water from the peas. I hope these are the same peas as the mushy peas otherwise there is an awful lot of pea water and no peas being eaten.

Potato scone is a fishcake without the fish.

KFC down here does gravy.

I'm not the only person who thinks wet food is wrong.

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Pineapple fritters....mmmmmm

Never seen them up north

You want a chinese chippy for fritters...pineapple or banana usually x"

I refuse to eat from them! They don't know how to do proper fish and chips!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Today I have learnt that pea wet (I have to be careful there, almost came out as pee) is the water from the peas. I hope these are the same peas as the mushy peas otherwise there is an awful lot of pea water and no peas being eaten.

Potato scone is a fishcake without the fish.

KFC down here does gravy.

I'm not the only person who thinks wet food is wrong."

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think"

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think"

I always presumed they were like thick potatoe cakes? Which I had never come across till moving up north

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?"

I am going to go to KFC in Dundee tomorrow and ask for gravy ... I am intrigued

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By *upitersmileCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?"

Ketchup!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?"

The only thing you should put your chips in is your mouth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think they mean a potato cake. It's made from mash and flour. Grilled with tons of butter.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

I always presumed they were like thick potatoe cakes? Which I had never come across till moving up north"

I am the least qualified to speak about cooking, I order in most nights

but the consistency is different...

Am prob wrong tho

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?

I am going to go to KFC in Dundee tomorrow and ask for gravy ... I am intrigued"

Please do report back. I am curious to find out what this gravy is and how it is presented on your food.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I shall

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And you CAN get battered sausage and more than one type of fish in northern chippys. You just have to know a good one, usually one that only opens lunch and teatime. One near me still uses dripping to fry, now THATS a proper chippy.

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

Ikea do meatballs chips and gravy

nom nom nom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is a difference in food but the big difference is on how friendly people are out on the streets. I go to London a fair bit for work and its really bad. If you dropped dead on the pavement people would step over you. Up here in the north its totally different and people still say hello to strangers. Maybe its all the black pudding and fired bread that makes us more friendly.

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By *aybe_amyWoman
over a year ago

Wales

"I've been told English chippies don't do rissoles! If this is true, I'm staying my side of the Severn bridge. (I know that's east/west rather than north/south).

They do roe though..."

No, we have fish cakes too, rissoles are breaded balls of potato and meat. So kind of fish cakes, but meat cakes I suppose!

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By *els_BellsWoman
over a year ago

with the moon n stars somewhere in gtr manc

Ooooo KFC gravy is the dogs! It is nice n thick and yummers to dip your chips in.

Was well confused when I emigrated to greater manchester and was asked if I wanted 'scraps'. I said no thanks as preferred proper chips. Turned out scraps are bits of batter sprinkled over chips. Never tried them though. Still makes me go 'ewwww' when they ask if I want 'scraps'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got a chippy in Liverpool called the Lobster Pot...

There is no Lobster!

The fried chicken is also awful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"gotta luv a stottie from greggs up north .. why they cant make them down here is beyond me ?"

Omg love stottie make my mates from Newcastle bring them to Kent for me mmmmm yum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chips, curry sauce & cheese with ketchup. They don't sell that dawn sarf...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There is a difference in food but the big difference is on how friendly people are out on the streets. I go to London a fair bit for work and its really bad. If you dropped dead on the pavement people would step over you. Up here in the north its totally different and people still say hello to strangers. Maybe its all the black pudding and fired bread that makes us more friendly.

Totall myth about Londoners being unfriendly.

While we're stereotyping the only reason northerner say hello and chat to you in the street is cos there mates are robbing your house and they want to keep you out a bit longer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Totall myth about Londoners being unfriendly.

While we're stereotyping the only reason northerner say hello and chat to you in the street is cos there mates are robbing your house and they want to keep you out a bit longer.

We pretty friendly down south to I am that far south I can get to France quicker than London mind, but we still all say hi in the streets and look out for our neighbours, well most of them anyway lol, have had odd looks when visiting Liverpool and doing it and been dragged away by relatives telling me u don't just chat to anyone, fuck that I'm sad ill chat to anyone who's willing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Curry sauce and chips is a favourite around here, they do do gravy but ive never had gravy on chips in my life. "

Chips and gravy is lush especially if its bisto gravy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol

Wish someone would bring me some it is bloody rubbish down here"

I know its not chippy related but my local butcher does square sausage that has stornoway black pudding through it and its amazing

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol

Wish someone would bring me some it is bloody rubbish down here

I know its not chippy related but my local butcher does square sausage that has stornoway black pudding through it and its amazing

This wasn't intended to be a chippy thread... it's just the way it went.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have deep fried pizza... yup pizza put in a fryer ...dripping fat as its served, known locally as the heart attack topping... gross

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"We have deep fried pizza... yup pizza put in a fryer ...dripping fat as its served, known locally as the heart attack topping... gross"

That doesn't make sense. How does the cheese, let alone any other toppings, stay on? Or, is it folded like a Calzone and then fried? Either way... why?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

nope it is already baked.. then lowered into a deep fat fryer ....shocking!

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Ooooo KFC gravy is the dogs! It is nice n thick and yummers to dip your chips in.

Scraps are soooooo good!!!

Used to get them on the way home from guides if we couldn't put together 14p for a bag of chips to share - a bag of scraps was free!

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

"Ooooo KFC gravy is the dogs! It is nice n thick and yummers to dip your chips in.

Scraps are soooooo good!!!

Used to get them on the way home from guides if we couldn't put together 14p for a bag of chips to share - a bag of scraps was free!

Battered chips now they are real chips

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ooooo KFC gravy is the dogs! It is nice n thick and yummers to dip your chips in.

Scraps are soooooo good!!!

Used to get them on the way home from guides if we couldn't put together 14p for a bag of chips to share - a bag of scraps was free!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am led to believe in parts of the Midlands you can buy orange coloured chips

Is this true ?

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"have to take black pudding south when i visit family down there lol

Wish someone would bring me some it is bloody rubbish down here

I know its not chippy related but my local butcher does square sausage that has stornoway black pudding through it and its amazing

I'll take some of that as well please

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is a potato scone the same as a fish cake without the fish..

And we have gravy at KFC, I think

God I thought all KFCs did gravy.

What else do you dip chips in ?

Ketchup!"

Mayo

preferably continental mayo

tastes much nicer than this hellmans nonsense

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"I am led to believe in parts of the Midlands you can buy orange coloured chips

Is this true ?"

Yes it is true orange chips.. they coat the chips in this coloured powder and fry in beef dripping.. Its a Black Country thing..

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

how can chaips n gravy be wrong

you have gravy with your roastis on a sunday

its just the same !

once had deep fried pizza was awsome !

oh and watcha cal three pies on a stick ?

a wigan kebeb !

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

"I am led to believe in parts of the Midlands you can buy orange coloured chips

Is this true ?

Yes it is true orange chips.. they coat the chips in this coloured powder and fry in beef dripping.. Its a Black Country thing..

That be battered chips then

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"I am led to believe in parts of the Midlands you can buy orange coloured chips

Is this true ?

Yes it is true orange chips.. they coat the chips in this coloured powder and fry in beef dripping.. Its a Black Country thing..

That be battered chips then

It depends some put batter some don't

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

£2.50 for kebab on a nan £5 in London bought a house in west brom £185.000 brother lives in Enfield basically same house same rooms more or less same size garden £650.000

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's hard to find a chippy in Suffolk who will put gravy on your chips

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

"I am led to believe in parts of the Midlands you can buy orange coloured chips

Is this true ?

Yes it is true orange chips.. they coat the chips in this coloured powder and fry in beef dripping.. Its a Black Country thing..

That be battered chips then

It depends some put batter some don't "

Blue submarine Russell hall does both

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"£2.50 for kebab on a nan £5 in London bought a house in west brom £185.000 brother lives in Enfield basically same house same rooms more or less same size garden £650.000"

I honestly don't know how people afford to buy or rent property in certain areas of the south.

I was watching some proprty programme the other week with a young couple looking for a 1 bed flat and they were in the region of £160,000 to £180,000.

I have an above average wage coming in but as a single person would not be able to get a mortgage on even a 1 bed flat on the basis of those figures.

I know many companies allow a 'London weighting' in some of their salary packages but not the degree where it covers the % increases in property costs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think they mean a potato cake. It's made from mash and flour. Grilled with tons of butter."

no we mean a tattie scone its flat and thin (nothing like a potato cake) and you have it with bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, tomatoes its part of a traditional scottish breakfast its either fried or grilled (normally fried).

Also people from the north are generally more friendly than the south with the odd exception.

Oh and in the north we dont have chips on a cooked breakfast.

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

chips and gravy or chips and curry. Yum. So much better than dry chips.

We have pea wet round here (pea juice) and it makes me giggle every time I hear it. Never had it myself, rather have the mushy peas. Real mushy ones, not bullet ones, urgh.

Love black peas with lots of vinegar at this time of year too.

Oooh we have chip barms too, not rolls, muffins, baps or bread. Its a barm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

"
saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Love black peas with lots of vinegar at this time of year too.

Oooh we have chip barms too, not rolls, muffins, baps or bread. Its a barm

It's a butty!!!

Was in the channel islands recently and my friend and I had some amazing food. But on the last day we both fancied something simpler. So we found a caff.

My friend had noticed they did roast dinners too so when she ordered her saus, egg and chips she asked for gravy too.

Tumble moment!

The whole caff ground to a halt as the guy behind the counter double checked. Then checked again. Then people at nearby tables started chatting to us about her choice.

Then the cook sent a waitress out to check. Then he came out himself since he didn't believe her!

Then when the order came there was no gravy! The waitress had seen it and thought it was a mix up so had to go back and get it!

They are odd down south!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying "

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed"

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand .......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand ....... "

I seem to remember a chippy on the high street near Rochdale train station that did amazing chips. Can't think of the name, but I'm sure it had a red sign on the front

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"£2.50 for kebab on a nan £5 in London bought a house in west brom £185.000 brother lives in Enfield basically same house same rooms more or less same size garden £650.000

I honestly don't know how people afford to buy or rent property in certain areas of the south.

I was watching some proprty programme the other week with a young couple looking for a 1 bed flat and they were in the region of £160,000 to £180,000.

I have an above average wage coming in but as a single person would not be able to get a mortgage on even a 1 bed flat on the basis of those figures.

I know many companies allow a 'London weighting' in some of their salary packages but not the degree where it covers the % increases in property costs."

They are ridiculous prices. It is very hard for first time buyers here. I remember my 1st place 25 years ago. I ended up with a mortgage 6 times my salary. Bloody banks would lend anything at the time. If you decide to move up north it's not very often you can afford to move back again

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By *exybrunette91Woman
over a year ago

Tidworth

One thing I noticed is my friends from midlands and up call a pitta bread a naan... but to us southerners, thats an indian bread!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same up here naans are indian pittas italian.

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By *oger ThatMan
over a year ago

essex

Im from Southend and acll it Naan....

Biggets difference is we have the sun!

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand .......

I seem to remember a chippy on the high street near Rochdale train station that did amazing chips. Can't think of the name, but I'm sure it had a red sign on the front "
probly burried behind all the fencing for the tram extension at the moment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand .......

I seem to remember a chippy on the high street near Rochdale train station that did amazing chips. Can't think of the name, but I'm sure it had a red sign on the front "

Don't remember there ever being a chippy near there

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By *luespartanMan
over a year ago

crawley

Gravy on KFC , you pulling one?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand .......

I seem to remember a chippy on the high street near Rochdale train station that did amazing chips. Can't think of the name, but I'm sure it had a red sign on the front probly burried behind all the fencing for the tram extension at the moment "

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"One thing I noticed is my friends from midlands and up call a pitta bread a naan... but to us southerners, thats an indian bread! "

Only in the rural parts. In the more posher parts of the south naan is your granny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gravy on KFC , you pulling one?

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KFC's done gravy for years. First time we had one, my Dad though it was soup..... and drank it...

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over a year ago

"One thing I noticed is my friends from midlands and up call a pitta bread a naan... but to us southerners, thats an indian bread!

Only in the rural parts. In the more posher parts of the south naan is your granny

Not in Dartford....

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By *awkeye and HotlipsCouple
over a year ago

Takeley

Chip shop curry sauce....mm, you can buy a bisto chip shop curry sauce mix ( other curry sauce manufacturers are available ). Remember being asked if I wanted pea wet ( it's the clear fluid on mushy peas that separates when it's kept warm in a chip shop ), in Wigan. It was wrong then, it's still wrong!!!!

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By *awkeye and HotlipsCouple
over a year ago

Takeley

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"We haven't explored this for a little while.

On another thread someone mentioned curry sauce on chips. Another NW person told me about gravy at KFC. We don't have these things down here.

On the other hand my local chippy offers homemade tartare sauce, tempura prawns and sometimes lobster and chips.

What differences do you notice?"

The KFC gravy is down in London but its on a need to know basis and similar to obtaining other illegal items

If you learn the code word and whisper it to the right server the magic gravy will be served but at a premium price

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over a year ago

"Oh yes, I really miss the oven bottom muffins from Tommyfield market in Oldham too. They were bloody lovely with a thick wedge of ham in

saddly tommyfield is not what it used to be know what your saying

I haven't been back up North for six years, I imagine a lot has changed

Even in Oldham time waits for no one

Rochdale on the other hand .......

I seem to remember a chippy on the high street near Rochdale train station that did amazing chips. Can't think of the name, but I'm sure it had a red sign on the front

Don't remember there ever being a chippy near there"

I think it was on Oldham road, near the junction of Queensway

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over a year ago

We recently had the misfortune of driving thro Liverpool on our way home from Wales and decided to stop in for a 'chippie'

We drove for miles before realising that ALL the chippies were also chinese takeaways so decided to risk it - yuk yuk yuk!! It was very cheap but the chips were refried - they had obv been cooked and then stuck back in again which made them so hard I almost broke a tooth trying to bite one in half.

Maybe I am racist or something but I do not like combined takeaways! I would not expect my local chippie to start attempting chicken satay or kfc to start selling big macs!

In Scotland we used to call the chippie the Tally's referring to the italians who always seemed to own them and knew how to make chips

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"We recently had the misfortune of driving thro Liverpool on our way home from Wales and decided to stop in for a 'chippie'

Maybe I am racist or something but I do not like combined takeaways! I would not expect my local chippie to start attempting chicken satay or kfc to start selling big macs!

In Scotland we used to call the chippie the Tally's referring to the italians who always seemed to own them and knew how to make chips

How is an Italian selling chips any different to a Chinese ? Surely an Italian is worse lol

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

see... i love chinese take away "chips".... fantastic!!!!

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By *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield

"My gran used to serve Yorkshire puds with jam. But she lived in East Anglia. Not something I've ever seen up North."

Me mam was from the boro... We had Yorkshire n jam... And fruitcake with cheese.....

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"see... i love chinese take away "chips".... fantastic!!!! "

If they are the big fat ones. Sadly a lot of them don't do them anymore

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

wondering what the price differences are between different parts of the country for fish n chips

i refused to pay £8.50 for haddock and chips from rick steins but it did include a lemon wedge and parsley

what are the prices like near you

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

i think you are going to have to start off a part 2...lol

where i am jumbo cod and chips is a fiver......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We recently had the misfortune of driving thro Liverpool on our way home from Wales and decided to stop in for a 'chippie'

Maybe I am racist or something but I do not like combined takeaways! I would not expect my local chippie to start attempting chicken satay or kfc to start selling big macs!

In Scotland we used to call the chippie the Tally's referring to the italians who always seemed to own them and knew how to make chips

How is an Italian selling chips any different to a Chinese ? Surely an Italian is worse lol"

Why would an italian be worse?????

traditionally all the chippies here were run by Tallies and the chips were amazing! Chinese takeaway chip were always soggy and undercooked so when my dad wanted chips with his chicken curry he used to stop at the chippie on his way home and get 'real chips' lol

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