Bloody southerners.
You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding
A Nottingham pub reckons it has cracked Easter PR with the launch of a Cadbury Creme Egg Yorkshire pud*. The Riverside Farm's egg-citing creation will be a traditional giant Yorkshire stuffed full of enough sugar to send your kids rattling around the room for the whole four-day weekend. According to local media reports, two …
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 15:56 GMT wolfetone
"Nottingham is in the EAST MIDLANDS........ you know near EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT, which is sort of validation of that fact....."
Pfft. That's like saying Chelmsley Wood is in Solihull when in fact it's North Solihull because Solihull don't want them in Solihull.
And East Midlands "Airport"? You call that an aiport? That ain't an airport, THAT'S A LIE!
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 20:46 GMT Sgt_Oddball
if it makes you feel any better...
There's no such thing as East Yorkshire. It's east riding and nothing more.
Mainly because that would mean having
HellHull as part of God's own and no-one wants that.Now the question of if your Northern or not is matter of knowledge over such things as a ginnel, a snicket and the whole words to 'on Ilkley moor by'tat'
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 15:39 GMT Steve the Cynic
Re: if it makes you feel any better...
'on Ilkley moor by'tat'
There's a crushing irony in your spelling here, coupled with your question of knowledge of these lyrics being a criterion for Northernerness...
It's "baht 'at" ==> northernish for "without a hat".
Caveat Lector: Steve the Cynic was born in the N1 part of London, and has not lived anywhere north of Coventry.
Caveat Lector the second: However, his mother was born in Doncaster.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Midlands starts at around Coventry and ends at Walsall."
Don't confuse the County of the West Midland with the The West Midlands...just, don't even go there! It's like Wolverhampton claiming it's in the Black Country.
Anyway F**K you urban lot, I'm from Mercia. That's the proper "midlands"
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 07:58 GMT TonyJ
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I wouldn't say Nottingham could be classed as being the midlands. Midlands starts at around Coventry and ends at Walsall..."
You do realise that there's an EAST and a WEST Midlands, no?
I assure you that Nottingham falls very much in the EAST MIDLANDS!
Ooh I almost went full bombastic-bob there with the caps!
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:13 GMT AndrueC
Re: Draw a line going
Basically true, although people within counties which straddle that line are not likely to see a North-South divide within the county.
I think Northamptonshire does. Down in the south of the county most of us look toward Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire for employment and entertainment. We consider ourselves to be part of the M40 corridor. Our county town is a long way north (over half an hour away even though it's dual carriageway) and most of us can't be bothered going up there.
But Northamptonshire is an unusual shape - quite narrow and very north/south.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Draw a line going
The north (well north of England) starts to my mind somewhere between Preston and Lancaster when driving up the M6. And I remember the ructions in Cumbria (well, apart from a bunch of southerners in Kendal) when the BBC in its wisdom decided we'd be better served with local news from Manchester rather than Newcastle. Mike Neville was eminently preferrable to the alternative of <ahem> Stuart Hall
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 19:02 GMT AndrueC
Re: Draw a line going
I lived my formative years (7 to 16) in Exeter then went to Plymouth Polytechnic. I befriended a chap that had never been outside Plymouth. I used to wind him up by suggesting that the border ought to be moved so that Plymouth was in Cornwall "because we don't need it and it's lowering the tone of the county" :)
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:10 GMT AndrueC
And speaking as a resident of South Northants I wish that 'South Midlands' was an official term. My outlook is definitely southern yet officially I live in the East Midlands even though I'm only a few miles from the west midlands :-/
Our part of Northamptonshire sticks down in to the area known as 'the South East'.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 17:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
>Nottingham northern?
>It's simple:
>Draw a line going through Manchester and Leeds. Anything above that is the North
>Draw another line from Gloucester to Norwich, Anything below that is the South.
>Anything in-between is the Midlands.
Not sure Liverpool and Sheffield will be happy about being part of the Midlands. That is probably a better line to draw - especially if you fudge it to the Humber.
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 07:56 GMT TonyJ
The perils of the Midlands!
"...Bloody southerners..."
"...You mean Northerners..."
As someone from the East Midlands, it always amuses me that I only have to go a few miles either North of South and immediately get the above sentiments.
We're pretty much in the middle!! lol
Mind you this thing sounds like a heart attack on a plate. As well as, frankly, disgusting. :)
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:24 GMT Oh Homer
Three problems...
- It's a bloody sacrilege. In places like Hutton-le-Hole you can actually still be hanged for doing this to a yorkie. Seriously, just ask George the local gallows polisher
- It's disgusting, anyroad
- With or without the yorkie, creme egg fondant make my teeth scream like a banshee
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 19:41 GMT Chris G
Re: Three problems...
Speaking of Yorkies, the least they can do with this abomination is to use Yorkie bar chocolate, though I wouldn't eat it anyway.
I'm a southerner but as kids Yorkshire pud was either part of the Sunday roast and in my case flooded with my mum's gravy or occasionally we would have it hot with a spoonful of treacle or jam.
Bloody chocolate overwhelms almost everything, except possibly the yellow and white goo in a creme egg.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 19:45 GMT macjules
Don't care where anyone comes from in the UK - just let me at the 1600 calories per bite concoction!
As for Cadbury's "shocking" revelation of sugar levels in a Cream Egg ... Pfft!
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