Do you qualify as a northerner?

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  1. wiseowl

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    Oh Dear:)

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      Same here Woo...:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
       
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      Absolutely nothing FC! What about chips, cheese and gravy, also chips and curry sauce. All popular here. :)

      Something I've noticed living here in the north west. When you ask for fish, you get fish, it's huge! Not like the south. :)
       
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        The regional variations are quite remarkable - not sure if its the same in England, but in Scotland if you go for fish & chips you get the stock "salt & vinegar" question in the west, but in the east that becomes "salt & sauce" the sauce being gallons of brown sauce.

        Never had cheese with my chips and gravy (not sure I would like that one), but then many people would consider a deep fried pizza to be a horrendous thought, whereas they are the norm where I come from.

        And I miss chips and curry sauce terribly, as it just isn't the same down here. Many's the night I have rolled home from the pub, via the local 'Chinkie' to get chips and curry all packed in the one foil tray to keep it warm til I got home.

        No wonder my blood pressure is sky high..........
         
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          It has to be grated cheese on the chips first then the gravy on top, it all sort of melts in together. :)

          I don't like the idea of deep fried pizza but I'm not a great lover of pizza anyway. I don't think we can get chips and curry in the 'Chineses' here, but all the chippies do it.

          What I do miss from the south is deep fried Savaloys, there's only one place on the island that does them and a thirty mile round trip when I fancy some is expensive on petrol. :heehee: We can't get pickled gherkins either (the large one's known as Wallies), pickled eggs seem to be favoured but I don't like those. :doh:
           
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            Sheal, we have fried saveloys with Wallies in our village chippy :blue thumb:. It's run by Turks! :heehee:

            They do brilliant fish and chips as well as chicken, kebabs etc.
             
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              Ooooo, what I'd give for a saveloy or two Shiney! What I really miss from down there is pie, mash and liquor (of the parsley sauce kind). That's what comes of being reared by Londoners for parents. :heehee:
               
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                  Thanks Zigs but that recipe is too posh! The pie and mash I know needs to come from a shop in east or south east London where the recipe is basic and the pies are burnt black! An acquired taste. :heehee:
                   
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                    And I though Scottish cuisine looked a bit odd .......

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                    Each to there own FC! :heehee:
                     
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                      Aye, true.

                      It could have been worse - it could have been jellied eels! Now that definitely would have put the 'own' into 'each to their own'

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                        Look again FC, top row, third from right.......eels, now that's something I can't stand! :eeew:
                         
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                        I don't really like fish of any sort, but eels are just wrong

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