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on the way to an Audax in York a couple of weeks ago, popped to McDonalds before 4am, they wouldn't sell me Porridge as it wasn't time for the Breakfast menu
I'll do it...
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Pea wet is indeed a northern thing loads of my mates have it but it has never appealed, but I don't like chippy peas much anyway. I'm def gravy/curry sauce man. Pie/pasty barm, again, I don't really get it.
🙂 hehe.'Yes I know, it's chicken' she replies. I repeated the fact I was vegetarian and she replied as though talking to a 4 year old, 'Yesss, it's chicken'
Veggie starters served on a bed of meaty starters didn't go down too well on Ton's tourer weekend either. words were had with the staff.
Wetherby Whaler, in WetherbyNo shit, Sherlock
they have shops in York, Wakefield, Guiseley, Pudsey too.
I take it back. From the name i thought it'd be a one-off.
I'd take you out but as you're a cheeky bastard I'm not going to bother
No, that's a fair cop.
Where I come from we call them "bits"- "can I have that wi'bits please love?"
Name of the chip shop in Mirfield is "Wi'Bits"
We called 'em scrubs when I were a lad in Bath in t'1970s.
Wetherby Whaler, in Wetherby, (there are others) does scraps. Go there next time. Fish and chips are also very nice.
Also grossly overrated. (IMO) Even the Frying Pan up the road's better. Drakes in Knaresborough are spot on though. (IMO)
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another post office conversation
Does your post office sell chips ? 😕
nbt speaks the truth. Y'cant whack pea wet on yer babbies yeds.
As a recent immigrant to Scotland, this confused me slightly.
Not as odd as chip shops in Leicester, not selling gravy or baby's heads though.
It's called batter up here* 😀
Pie n chips, with pea juice and tommy K. Om nom nom. Burp.
* North Shields.
When my wife was pregnant she had a real thing for Macca's hot chocolate, so off I went at 3am to get one. Only to be told they don't serve it at night. They did serve coffee, but not hot chocolate at "that time of night". Same machine - button for hot choc next to selection of coffees. Made no sense at all.
nbt speaks the truth. Y'cant whack pea wet on yer babbies yeds.
Too right.
Translation from northern talk :-
Babbies Yed = Steak or Steak and Kidney pudding
Chip Barm = chips in bread
Special = potato scallop
Pea wet is called Soup at the chippy near my mates dads in Bolton. When I was skint starting my business up, I lived on chips, soup and scraps every lunchtime, cost £1
Down here in Wiltshire when I was a kid, you could buy a 6d bag of scrumps with salt'n'vinegar, and it was a [i]big[/i] bag, too!
Yum!
I remember drunkenly trying to order Chips N Cheese from a kebab shop in London a few years ago.Blokes serving me was having none of it. Chips and Cheese just could no co-exist
Even after I explained it basically just involved sprinkling the cheese from the pizza topping over the chips and handing me the box he still refused.
Should have asked for cheesy chips, lots of places down here sell them.
Yum! 😀
Scraps/bits/batter/scrubs
Screeds in West Cornwall (not illegal round here though, obligatory in fact 🙂 )
Round here they call patato scallops 'Smacks'. Couldn't understand why I kept getting funny looks in the local chippies for ages when I first moved up here.Special = potato scallop
They're dabs, what's wrong with you?
I remember being in Edinburgh for a new year. We got a chippy tea, and with the haggis (battered) we were offered salt and sauce with the chips. No one could work out what the sauce was..
Probably gentlemen's relish.
The GF eventually strolled in and asked the bloke if he could put some scraps on my chips which he did. I was 26 years old when I learned the alternative word to batter...
I'm born bred NE and I've always known them as scraps as has my wife, friends and family.
Had fish and chips with scraps 3 times this week,I feel dirty.
I live in a village with the best F&C shop [b]ever[/b] (and I have a bizarre claim to authority on such matters).
Problem is once you've had some, you just want a kip.
Paaaaaay wet mmmmmmm
I remember being in Edinburgh for a new year. We got a chippy tea, and with the haggis (battered) we were offered salt and sauce with the chips. No one could work out what the sauce was..
It's an East Coast thing, basically brown sauce mixed with vinegar.
I've often wondered where the salt and sauce border lies, like a sort of West/East great divide - in the west we have salt and vinegar.
When I retire, I may make it my life's work to visit all the chippys around this 'great divide' and produce a map. By that age I won't be giving a toss about the possible death by chip fat consequences.
As a recent immigrant to [s]Scotland[/s] Edinburgh, this confused me slightly.
FTFY
Don't tar us all with the same shitty stick.
Nobeer - the border is probably the A720, I've certainly never heard of it outside of there (besides Fife but that's bandit country anyway)