is it just me or is there alot of people from UK on here??

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10 Mar 2006, 3:34 pm

Laz wrote:

Can't believe no ones mentioned chuffin' OATCAKES from stoke on "chuffin'" trent

Those oatcakes are gorgeous especially when they are stuffed with sausage and cheese yummmmmmmm. Has anyone mentioned anywhere in this thread yet about steak and kidney puddings of Fray Bentos pies?

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10 Mar 2006, 3:40 pm

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what is christmas pudding

Basically its fruit cake (although why its called fruit cake is beyond me as it looks like brown sponge with dead flies in it in my opinion and it tastes horrible) that is sort of bowl shaped with either cream or brandy butter poured over it, a lot of people like it but I think its vile!

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10 Mar 2006, 4:09 pm

I think I'm the first person living in Scotland to post here. Up till now it's been very much an English thread.

I live in Dalkeith, a small town just outside Edinburgh. I wasn't born, or raised in this area, and have lived in various areas of Scotland.

Now we have Scotland, are there any Welsh, or Irish Aspies out there?

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10 Mar 2006, 5:08 pm

Black Pudding

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10 Mar 2006, 5:19 pm

Asparval wrote:

Black Pudding

Goes well with haggis, yum !

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11 Mar 2006, 5:55 pm

Black pudding, haggis mmmmmmmmmmm

Scottish oatcakes are okay

Aberdeen Angus beef, wow!

Lorne sausage is tasty. Its a real b***h to find round here. I prefer that to normal pork sausages as I think it tastes nicer and two bits of lorne sausage fit nicely into bread to make a sausage sandwich with. i.e no ridgy bits from the round sausages and all bread mass is covered.

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12 Mar 2006, 4:15 am

hecate wrote:

i mis-read that. i thought it said "it's all the inbreeding"! :lol:

or is that just the area of the UK that i come from?!

When I moved deeper into East Anglia, I was amazed at the number of people with missing fingers I found. At first I thought this was just a very casual attitude to dangerous equipment (mainly circular saws and tractor power couplings) but I now realise it's more subtle. It seems many fenland males are told "To avoid inbreeding, never marry anyone with the same number of fingers as you."

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12 Mar 2006, 4:21 am

Tequila wrote:

I'm Lancastrian first!

When Cornwall goes independent I'll be able to get in under grandfather rights.
I can sing the National anthem, too!

" A good sword, a trusty hand..."

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12 Mar 2006, 4:45 am

Tequila wrote:

Pasty

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A Pasty or pastie is a type of pie, originating in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat, preferably skirt, finely sliced potato, onion, swede and sometimes parsely. It is seasoned with pepper and salt. These ingredients are uncooked before placing in the pastry case. Shop bought pasties are often filled with beef mince (ground beef) or steak—potato, onion and swede (rutabaga). Pasties with traditional ingredients are specifically called Cornish pasties. Some pasties contain carrot but this is not part of the traditional recipe; the presence of carrot in a pasty is usually an indication of inferior quality.

Apparently Rory McGrath goes completely ape about carrot in Cornish pastys.
One of those odd pointless facts I have acquired.

The above quotation is quite true in a bare sort of way, but there is *another* tradition.
It is said that the Cornish pasty is the reason the Devil has never entered Cornwall. Sitting on Devon bank of the Tamar, he observed that Cornish folk would put ANYTHING in a pasty, and he wasn't sure enough that he would be exempt.

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22 Mar 2006, 7:42 pm

Asparval wrote:

Black Pudding

I have Issues with black pudding ... mainly that it completely goes against the Biblical view of blood. But that's another topic.

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22 Mar 2006, 9:22 pm

So,... Do any of you Brits know any good frog jokes??? :wink:

BTW, I'm half french myself, so i'm not being racist here.

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22 Mar 2006, 9:25 pm

BeeBee wrote:

Its not yet considered...taboo...to the extent it is in the UK.

Yes it is. Maybe not in the midwest, but it is definitely considered a bad word to use in the populated parts of the US.

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23 Mar 2006, 5:29 am

I come from Aberdeen, Scotland

The place where locals befriend the sheep...

Quite like the Welsh actually - anything to get them involved in this thread

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