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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Wednesday 21st March 2018 11:01 GMT I ain't Spartacus
2 years ago that thar New Cadbury's had a pop-up cafe in London. They were selling Creme egg tray bake - which looked like the cheapest children's party vaguely chocolate-ish bone-dry sponge with pieces of creme egg on top. Then there was the egg with soldiers. Looked from the pics like Tesco's cheapest thin-sliced white loaf, toasted and margarined and cut into soldiers - that are totally impractical to dip into an egg with a centre that's basically solid.
And the Cadbury's Creme Egg toastie [cue: chord sung by heavenly choirs]. A colleague was due to go, and had sung the praises of this amazing concoction. Anyway for reasons, her friend let her down, and she was sad to miss out.
So I brought my toasty machine into the office, and made them for her.
They were absolutely fucking disgusting. Tasted like the vilest, cheapest chocolate spread in the world. Obviously even good choccie would struggle to impose its flavour over the fondant filling. Who's bright idea was it to cover icing in chocolate anyway...?
However the female denizens of the office disagreed with me on this opinion. They thought it was orgasmically amazingly delicious, and I was happy to provide them with seconds. The boss of the company downstairs decided to be the grump and complain about the smoke emanating from the joint kitchen. But you can't make a toasty without burning some butter.
the way to eat Creme Eggs correctly is to freeze them. Then bite the top off and sort of lick/suck the sugary stuff out of the middle. Then realise it's not that nice after all and don't eat any more until next year.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 14:33 GMT Pen-y-gors
Direct action time
the elite food concoctions rating team at Vulture Central said it was a "monstrosity", and a third suggested we called the pub to "find out what they'd been drinking".
Meths and metal polish can do that to a chap.
But to be serious for once. This sounds like something so appalling that the good citizens of Nottingham have every right to get out the pitchforks, scythes and blazing brands and march on the pub en masse. Can you see Ye Olde Trippe toe Jerusalemee doing something like that?
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:53 GMT Pen-y-gors
Re: Direct action time
What was that about "No publicity is bad publicity"?
So very wrong in this case. Why would you want to be famous on FB for something like this? It could destroy your business. It's nearly as bad as putting kitten pie on the menu. (Not to be confused with Katt Pie, which is okay https://www.bakingmad.com/recipe/katt-pies and definitely not to be confused with Kit Kat pie)
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 14:33 GMT david willis
Yorkshire pudding - sweet or savoury
I’m from Yorkshire. The pudding can be served sweet or savoury. Hot or cold. Warm with strawberry jam and whipped cream is just as nice as hot with beef and gravy (obviously not on the same plate at the same time).
https://www.thespruce.com/ways-to-serve-yorkshire-puddings-435911
I do feel however that chocolate cake filled with cream egg filling, topped with cream eggs served in a Yorkshire pudding may be a bit “dry”... perhaps add some vanilla ice cream and some of the Cadbury’s mini eggs (for texture).. it might just work Grommit.
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 03:12 GMT Diogenes
Re: Yorkshire pudding - sweet or savoury
I’m from Yorkshire. The pudding can be served sweet or savoury. Hot or cold. Warm with strawberry jam and whipped cream is just as nice as hot with beef and gravy (obviously not on the same plate at the same time).
Why not, being an ex-infantryman many is the meal I had on exercise where the steak, mashed potato, peas and corn had a serve of custard and sponge cake added. The second Cup-canteen was for the coffee and anti snake bite juice (rum taken orally just in case we were bitten by one of the many deadly Australia snakes)
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 17:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Oh dear no,...
>... the 'Riverside Farm' is a 'new' pub attached to a Travel Tavern. I'm having dot.com boom flashbacks of Corby trouser presses, and large expense bills.
Riverside Farm is one of a chain of Farmhouse Inns, with the local ones known for carvery and cakes - and not for portion control in the size of said cakes. I recommend the large cream eclair, which was roughly the size of my arm.
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Tuesday 20th March 2018 16:07 GMT BebopWeBop
Not that they were great to begin with IMHO - notionally appealing but in practice just too sweet. In true 'concerned and outraged' about Cadbury's behaviour and the blatant lying to a parliamentary committee I seem to remember (why oh why was she not hauled back and jailed for contempt?) I have boycotted their offerings ever since, although I am given to understand that the chocolate has gone downhill as they attempt to duplicate American sweetened wall paste.
When I lived in the US and made frequent trips back to Europe, I earned much goodwill by bringing back decent chocolate for friends and family.
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 08:29 GMT jake
Talk about "Fake News".
There is plenty of good chocolate available in the US. Guittard, for example, makes better chocolate than anything I ever sampled on the east side of the pond. Scharffen Berger did, before the Hershey buyout, and although quality has slipped (IMO) it's still a damn fine product. Even the relatively inexpensive Ghirardelli is far better than anything Cadbury ever sold.
Anybody who claims us Yanks can't make chocolate has clearly never actually sampled it. Next you'll be saying that we can't make wine or beer ... but don't bother, you'll just be showing your ignorance.
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Wednesday 21st March 2018 10:02 GMT ShadowDragon8685
Good lord, sitting here in New Jersey, where I was born and raised, I think you've all gone mental!
It's undoubtedly an abomination of calories and sugar that sounds, in the words of The Cat (as spoken by Danny John Jules,) "about as healthy as jumping off a cliff!" but pitchforks and torches is an overreaction lads.
Now, the brouhaha over who's from what part of the country, that's entirely in good form, keep that up.