Has the World gone mad?

Originally Posted by Biker Biker

So you were speachless about scraps........

I'm a Southerner and the other half is a Northerner. In his efforts to make me fall in love with the Noth and understand their strange ways we went to Whitby Bay for Fish n Chips. After finding the 3rd chippy it became apparent that Northerners do not 'do' gherkins. How can it be a proper chippy if it doesn't stock GHERKINS FFS!

You cant have nowt green with ya fish bait....green things tend to be healthy, we will be having non of that up north. Unless it comes from a green can (see avatar). Good luck to your other half in there efforts to covert you

I moved to leeds from suffolk and got the strangest look when I asked for savaloy and chips....

that was me told...

and the northern way of asking for them makes me smile. the future ex mrs keithd is from leeds, we went into a chippie and she said "twice please". i asked if the assistant was a frickin mind reader. twice what? once and a fish. whats that? just random words thrown together

[Luckypants]

Nah, the correct term is one of each, or two of each etc.

I totally agree with the "twice please" method, plus no you can't have gherkins in a chippy!
Now not having gravy, that is a criminal offence. Plus down south you get the strangest looks when asking for a chip butty, and things go from bad to worse when you explain it's just chips between a breadcake!

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Shop probably thought you were asking foe a fight.

or begging....

[Girth]

See if they was a proper chippy they would of done them.


Can't beat a battered sausage from local chippy, can feel the damage its doing as you eat it!

can you get scraps down south?

used to get them up north all the time

That's means you must have moved down here from up't north! No one I know in Basingstoke knows what "scraps" are! I only know cos family is from up't north!

[Girth]

I feel this is very appropriate.............



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kG1wJT4aA78