Arrrggghhhhhh .... you heartless bastid. Mentioning the name was bad enough, don't go showing me pictures.

Rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream

They sell nice Rhubarb pie fresh at Love At first Bite in Chiang Mai!

Rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream

They sell nice Rhubarb pie fresh at Love At first Bite in Chiang Mai!

and at Bake & Bite in Chiang Mai - it must be a northern thing.

JxP

Suegha,

if we must speak of Devonshire Teas, we should get it completely correct: Devonshire Cream Teas

of which an essential ingredient is clotted cream which I have sadly only ever been able to find it in the South West of England (Cornwall / Devon).

Also we can add Stargazy Pie to Cornwall, a dish made of baked pilchards and 5 other kinds of fish covered with a pastry crust.

Plus did you know that true Cornish pasties were made for tin miners, so they had a thick crust and often included both dinner and desert? (I dont half miss my Grandma's cooking...)

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Most would know the usual, Yorkshire Pudding, Lancashire Hot Pot and possibly even "Scouse", but what about area specific :-

: Pontefract Cakes

: Eccles Cakes

: Chelsea Buns

: Kendal Mint Cake

..to name but a few, please help me out with more

............then of course there are the cheeses

: Cheshire

: Cheddar

: Wensleydale

: Stilton

Good list LK. I'll be back when I can think of some more. Although one, slighty cheating, 'Scouse', more or less a Scouser dish!

That reminded me of one day, wjen I was working up in Runcorn, I was looking up the origins if scouser and came across literally dozens of recipes for scouse. So the following weekend I selected one, got the ingredients, and made a huge vat of it (mainly because it comes over as a dish best prepared in bulk) and lived off it for best part of a week. Never did really track down the origin of scouser, maybe youse guys could enlighten me.

We can't get tinned tomatos here in central VN and a fried brekky just isn't the same without.

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Most would know the usual, Yorkshire Pudding, Lancashire Hot Pot and possibly even "Scouse", but what about area specific :-

: Pontefract Cakes

: Eccles Cakes

: Chelsea Buns

: Kendal Mint Cake

..to name but a few, please help me out with more

............then of course there are the cheeses

: Cheshire

: Cheddar

: Wensleydale

: Stilton

Good list LK. I'll be back when I can think of some more. Although one, slighty cheating, 'Scouse', more or less a Scouser dish!

That reminded me of one day, wjen I was working up in Runcorn, I was looking up the origins if scouser and came across literally dozens of recipes for scouse. So the following weekend I selected one, got the ingredients, and made a huge vat of it (mainly because it comes over as a dish best prepared in bulk) and lived off it for best part of a week. Never did really track down the origin of scouser, maybe youse guys could enlighten me.

We can't get tinned tomatos here in central VN and a fried brekky just isn't the same without.

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Hi, P.H.

For Your Information :-

SCOUSE [From 18c lobscouse, a sailor's dish of stewed meat, vegetables, and ship's biscuit, not unlike Irish stew. Lobscouser was a slang name for a sailor. The terms Scouse and Scouser for someone from Liverpool seem to be recent, and probably arose because the city is a port and stew was a feature of the diet. The OED cites the Southern Daily Echo (1945), in which ‘a scouse’ is explained as ‘a native of Liverpool where they eat “scouse”’]

please see link for further info on how to speak Scouse (I also remember seeing one on a Liverpool Echo link)

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-SCOUSE.html

I spent the first 16 years of my life growing up on the Wirral at a place called West Kirby, consequently spoke Scouse with a Wirral "Bent", as my Mum was from Hertfordshire she thought I spoke funny and had too many colds, she had my adenoids removed. , now I speak a very weird mix of pidgin !

Who says you don't learn anything in Bedlam?

Thanks LK for some interesting pieces of trivia with the above and the lunatic asylum one!

Bet you'd clean the board playing trivial pursuit. Me, I'll stick to monopoly.

Who says you don't learn anything in Bedlam?

Thanks LK for some interesting pieces of trivia with the above and the lunatic asylum one!

Bet you'd clean the board playing trivial pursuit. Me, I'll stick to monopoly.

Thanks Soundman, I blame my Dear Old Dad, as I'm sure it's in the genes.

We never had much money when I was a kid, but Dad always found a way to travel, he believed travel was a great method of education, and if you kept your eyes open and paid attention one could learn a lot. The other great thing he passed on was a love of books (all books) he reckoned you could find out anything you wanted to know in a book, (it was just a matter of finding the right book, consequently I spent hours in a

library as a result, but time well spent). It's a pity my D.O.D. didn't get to experience the wealth of information now at one's fingertips courtesy of the internet.

We used to play great thinking games as kids like list as many rivers beginning with M. or how many birds do you know starting with L, etc etc all topics, all letters.

Now on some nights when I can't sleep I still go through the alphabet and name flowers or fruit a - z, see what happens when you stop drinking..

'

I forgot

Dundee Cake

Yorkshire Parkin

and what about Madeira Cake ?

twisties !

Gee that was a curly one out of the blue !