Staffs oatcakes aren’t weird, they’re the food of the gods.
Not at all weird – but very much local to there. Its surprising they haven’t travelled more widely as they are properly lovely, and convenient, and versatile. It seems mad really that they’re not on sale everywhere.
Not so much a local dish but a comestible that I didn’t realise was ‘local’ until I left the area…. Growing up in St Helens you could buy ‘Dundee Biscuits’ – really big shortbread biscuits coated in chocolate on one side – so big that a packet only had about 5 biscuits in it. Having moved to Scotland since I assumed ‘Dundee Biscuits’ would be a thing here – but they’re not even a thing in Dundee. It seems they were made and sold pretty much only in the Northwest of England and called ‘Dundee’ for no real reason at all.
And on the small scurrying animals front – while most people would say that ‘Moggy’ is a cat – in Wigan a Moggy is a mouse and in St Helens a Moggy is a spider (or anything wingless and scurrying with an exoskeleton so potentially woodlice/slaters too)