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Bechet45 said:Martin, you can't just say 'peas' to a Brit and expect him to understand - we have six kinds - fresh (very rare), garden frozen(common), garden canned (less common but common) and then we move to the truly disgusting and ever popular - processed peas (canned, yeuk) and marrowfat peas (can't stand them even still inside the can (tin)) and mushy peas (a kind of thick, course, green-ish grey slime, also from a can). Mushy peas get more and more common and popular the further north you go in England and even into the haggis-eaters land.
I think mushy peas and sprouts are left over from WWII, aluminium or cast iron (please note correct spelling, colonials).
WiffWaff said:If any of our American cousins are shaking their heads at this, I have only one thing to say.... grits!
Bechet45 said:Mushy peas get more and more common and popular the further north you go in England
dodgy said:Bechet45 said:Mushy peas get more and more common and popular the further north you go in England
Carl, if you don't mind providing a little more info on this,
So just guessing, but the people living in northern England are generally a bit more.... 'unpolished' shall we say, than others living south? Is it sorta like the hillbilly states here?
Thanks in advance for the lesson on UK social standings.
joe mcclaine said:Thin ice, treacle.
AGIO said:I'm a dirty northerner :icon_wink:, you cant beat mushy peas with a blob of mint sauce stirred in
Pig Cat said:AGIO said:I'm a dirty northerner :icon_wink:, you cant beat mushy peas with a blob of mint sauce stirred in
And I think that's exactly what our dodgy friend is trying to do... :icon_razz:
AGIO said:Pig Cat said:AGIO said:I'm a dirty northerner :icon_wink:, you cant beat mushy peas with a blob of mint sauce stirred in
And I think that's exactly what our dodgy friend is trying to do... :icon_razz:
Are all yanks dodgy ? :icon_razz:
Bechet45 said:Not hillbillies, Martin - they live in the West Country - Northerners work harder, play harder, have more poverty and ill-health and die younger than the Southerners. They are friendly and down-to-earth and have incomprehensible accents. I think most of them live in the South now, anyway - economic migrants. The North is bitterly cold even in summer and very close to Scotland.
Now, if you want to talk unpolished .......
Northam Saint said:Bechet45 said:Not hillbillies, Martin - they live in the West Country - Northerners work harder, play harder, have more poverty and ill-health and die younger than the Southerners. They are friendly and down-to-earth and have incomprehensible accents. I think most of them live in the South now, anyway - economic migrants. The North is bitterly cold even in summer and very close to Scotland.
Now, if you want to talk unpolished .......
Your not wrong there about the West Country Hillbillies. There is an element of them that marry a family relation, and take turns with the family teeth. I have also seen the locals filling cars up with red diesel and picking up road kill. I haven't seen any banjo players, I think they have used all their strings up for rabbit snares.
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