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- From: D.S.Walker@bradford.ac.uk (Simeon Walker)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: humor in England
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.130040.14347@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:00:40 GMT
- References: <GRC.92Nov13113650@bhars109.stl.stc.co.uk>
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- In article <GRC.92Nov13113650@bhars109.stl.stc.co.uk> grc@stl.stc.co.uk (Gary Cook) writes:
- >In article <721669346snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> battered. Don't seem to see these outside Yorkshire. Same with scraps.
- >> Ask for 'scraps' outside Yorkshire and you get puzzled looks. Or a fight
- >>
- >> Steve
- >>
- >
- >I used to get scraps in Grimsby ... that's outside Yorkshire ! Not the
- >fighting type, but the scraps of batter from the fish ..... can't get
- >them in Essex, can't get anything half-decent in Essex other than
- >curry sauce (and that's only very occasionally).
- >
- >Oh what I'd do for decent chips-n-gravy.
- >
- >-grc.
- >
- I once got fish and chips from a shop in Luton, they left all the skin
- on and the bones in it!! Awfull! Is there anywhere else in the country
- that doesn't do this?
-
- What about fish butties? I've never dared ask for one outside Yorkshire
- as they don't seem to sell the teacakes that the fish would go in :-)
-
- >--
- > Gary Cook, LL UU UU FFFFFF CCCCCC
- > BNR Europe Limited. LL UU UU FF CC
- > Harlow, LL UU UU FFFFFF CC
- > England. LL UU UU FF CC
- > E-Mail : grc@bnr.co.uk LLLLL UUUUUUU FF CCCCCC ... & PSV
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- I usually delete peoples .sigs from followups :-)
-
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- Sim. ----------------------------------------------------------- Simeon Walker,
- ----------------------------------------- Department of Electrical Engineering,
- D.S.Walker@bradford.ac.uk -------------------- University of Bradford, England.
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