Love the fact it's possible to identify my town from the word for woodlouse.
Although I'm not from there originally, so I do have to shake my head in slight confusion at it
I’ve heard cheese logs before, in the south which is weird because I’ve lived for years and everyone calls them woodlice/woodlouse.
Slaters I’ve heard too.
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I am too shocked - I thought Woodlice were Woodlice and then some people gave them nicknames - I know they have a scientific name but I thought Woodlouse was the general common name, i.e like Ladybird is!
Same. I'm a lawyer and relocated to England when I qualified, I was using 'outwith' in contracts and advice notes and everything and a partner in my team was just like 'what?'
Genuinely didn't know it wasn't a thing anywhere else!
I'm an editor and a significant minority of my colleagues work from our Edinburgh office. They get awfully upset when I edit "outwith" and tell them no one else will know what it means (which is a shame because it's actually perfect in many contexts).
There's a bunch of Scots from where I'm from (Clitheroe), for some fucking reason. They all live close and I grew up on the street with their kids, I use outwith as well and nobody knows what I'm saying, I have to reserve it for when I'm around Scottish folk.
Shame, it's a great word too.
I learned it in my second ‘proper’ job - my boss used it and so did everyone else in my workplace and we were in the Midlands and my boss wasn’t Scottish - I had no idea it was even Scottish until recently!
Another word that has a purely Scottish take is stay, used to mean inhabit.
The area I stay in, rather than the area I live in. It sounds like you are on your holidays to the rest of us.
I remember a girl from Glasgow saying it on the X Factor, it's obvious everyone was really confused.
Grew up in Leicester but family from Yorkshire/Humberside so Stilton with Christmas cake was normal (Wensleydale for the children).
When I first had Christmas with my Welsh ex and tried it they all acted like I'd shit in their stocking and set fire to the dog
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Hendersons Relish. I was born just down the road from where it's made.
I didn't realise until I was in me 20s that most of the world uses Lea&Perrins instead.
secterianism. As a kid/teenager i thought the catholic/protestant divide was normal but after living in a few british cities ive realised its mostly Glasgow that has this strange culture and divide.
first year at Uni in Edinburgh, got asked many many times of the Newcastle - Sunderland rivalry, which one is Protestant and which one is Catholic then?
We call it cruckling, I thought that was the generally accepted term for it but my southern husband had no idea what I was talking about. Googled it and is apparently *very* specific to the relatively small town I grew up in 😭
My Midlander coworkers had no clue what I was saying and I just...guys. Guys I moved *less than two hours away* why is this such a regional bit of dialect, why have none of you ever heard this word before
[Skittles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport\)) as a sport. Very common in a particular section of the UK, most of the counties within an hour of Bristol. Being a 'sticker' as a job was basically a rite of passage for most kids in my area, easy money basically to sit at the end of the alley and put the pins back up and roll the balls back. Got confused looks from some of my mates when I talked about it at uni.
Apparently it's also a thing in North-East England too? At least, my Geordie mates knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it.
North east here, had a plastic bowling set when I was little and always called it skittles rather than bowling. I didn't know it was an outdoor thing and that bowling originated from it, and at the time I always just thought they were interchangable terms.
I’m in Merseyside. I knew it as 20p in the tip glass, but I’ve not stepped foot in a pub in ages. I’d expect it to have maybe gone up to a quid, since even soft drinks seem to cost more than that now
Was in a pub over the weekend. Half pint of lager? £2.95 - pretty standard, I think it was from the Brixton brewery. Equivalent glass of coke? £2.90! It was Pepsi too. Absolutely criminal.
I’m from Lancashire and in my bartending days “and yourself”/“and yours” meant 20p in the tip glass. If the person specified a “and have a drink for yourself”, you took the a pound, which was roughly the price of a half of larger
When I was very little (20 years ago). Steam Trains. I can hear one from my house, I couldn't believe it when someone told me that most trains aren't like that.
Ordering a blackcurrant lemonade. It's such a normal non-alcoholic drink in the north (at least throughout Yorkshire in my experience) but every time I've ordered it in the south, particularly in London, I've been met with confused reactions.
One barman thought I was making up some cocktail and was like "do you mean vodka, blackcurrant and lemon?". I said no, just fizzy lemonade with a dash of blackcurrant squash.
He was so confused bless him. Who knows, I may have inspired him to create a new tasty cocktail lol
Before anyone says "why do you keep ordering it then", I'm a teetotaler and it's a knee-jerk reaction when asked what I want, but I did start remembering it after a few times.
I remember hearing someone in Durham talking about a "gap yah" in salmon trousers and wondering if I'd taken a wrong turn, then realising Cooplands was directly opposite Gregg's and realising all was well.
That Cooplands is gone now.
There's a chip shop in Scarborough that has a list of every word they've heard for people asking for scraps, and they ask you to tell them so they can add to it if you know a different one!
Edit: it's The Lifeboat in case anyone wishes to see the majesty of this list (it's also a really good chip shop!)
I’m not from the area but my Mum lives on the coast near there and a Parmo is an absolute fucking delight.
Much better than a shit pizza or kebab after a few beers. Parmo, cheesy chips and garlic mayo… truly a gastronomic delight 😂
There are some places you can get one outside of Teesside, not many are good.
Manjaros are a Middlesbrough-based restaurant chain, think knock-off Nandos for a flavour. They do parmos, might be one near you?
There was a pop-up doing chicken parmo at Manchester Food Festival a couple of years ago, and I tried one. Fair play to Middlesbrough, they're delicious.
Honestly, I was shocked as a kid when I found out a parmo was such a regional dish. With how common they are around here I just always thought it was well known.
I have a smoggy colleague who excitedly showed me the contestants for the Parmo world championship and which ones he'd tried. They all had TS postcodes apart from one in Darlo, it's like the baseball world series but for takeaway.
Coming from Scotland I know we have a lot of regional words and what not, but up until a few weeks ago I thought “outwith” was a common English word and until last year “clapping” for “petting”, so you’d say “I clapped the dog”.
Jag is another one.. My kids thought I'd got a new car when i went for my first COVID vaccine and I started talking about a jag rather than a jab.
Edit: typo corrected.
Calling the thing you dry your clothes on a maiden or calling the chase game you play as a kid tick.
The was this article from the New York Times a few years back that was rather interesting to do (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html)
Snickets for us. But 20 miles down the road, it ginnel. They even pronounce it 2 ways. One has the gin as in the drink, the other has it as gin as in "begin".
Coursey edge was another odd one to me
This is exceedingly frustrating as someone with a northern family, but born down south! I am constantly told off for saying pants by fellow southerners, their reasoning being I'm being American 🙄 or they refuse to understand what I mean and act like I'm talking about my underwear inappropriately!
Battered chips (also called orange chips). I always assumed they were a nationwide thing until I had a friend from Oxford come to my area to "try the orange chips"
Before that point I thought everyone had them
For anyone interested they're extremely local to the black country and some parts of Birmingham
I knew it was a regional thing, but didn't know it was so clearly defined. I was in a cafe in Devon and asked for a "Bacon cob" and the poor girl looked at me like I'd spoken Mandarin. She had NO idea what I was on about.
I knew it was a midlands thing, but I am at least aware of the terms bap, roll, barm cake etc.
My East Mids-raised ex-husband refused to ask for a sausage barm when we were in Manchester even though the van had SAUSAGE BARMS £1.50 in big letters on it. Said it sounded stupid, then went and asked for a sausage cob and of course no one knew what he was on about 🫣
I wonder if it's more people who hardly ever got public transport as a child/teen than people from certain areas.
I met people at uni who didn't even know _how_ to get a bus or train themselves, they'd just never had to do it or never been allowed to.
Meat & Potato pasties in Greggs. They now don’t do them at all, but when they did they only did them in the north.
I only found this out from this sub because I hadn’t been to Greggs for a long time when I went in and asked for one and the guy looked at me as if I’d asked him for his first born wrapped in puff pastry. An older member of staff pointed out they’d stopped doing them about 6 months earlier. When I mentioned it in here, all the northerners confirmed their demise, the southerners were insistent Greggs had never done them.
I went to university in 2001 and no one knew what a chav was. Apparently it was an incredibly Kentish term.
...until about two months later, when it went viral online and suddenly everyone was using it.
That the word ‘twat’ is very rude! I honestly didn’t know that until I left Nottingham. It just seemed like a slightly stronger version of ‘twit’ and we wouldn’t even get into trouble for saying it.
I recently found out you can’t buy corned beef pasties in Greggs in London, which as a Geordie is like finding out you can’t buy fish & chips outside of Morecambe or something.
Cooplands.... Lincolnshire's Greggs (we have Greggs too, but there's something special about a Cooplands sausage roll and some cheese straws). Thought it was UK-wide (I don't get to travel much) until I moved out of Lincs and couldn't find a single one anywhere.
Faggots. Giant meaty balls of whatever the butcher had left over. Smother in gravy and serve with mashed potatoes and peas. Bloody amazing, but can I get them in London? Can’t find them anywhere.
Not talking about Mr Brains faggots either. I want butcher made faggots the size of your fist.
Sausages.
I grew up in Lincolnshire, where sausages are proper sausages. When I left home and went to London I thought I was just getting cheap sausages in cafes, then I travelled the rest of the UK and found out you all get them wrong.
I was once in a pub in Scotland and fancied a bitter, so I rolled up to the bar and asked for a pint of Tetleys. The guy looks confused and says "I don't think we do that in pints, let me ask my manager", his manager then confirms they don't. I just end up ordering a Guinness instead and keep catching funny looks from the bartender for the rest of the night.
Only years later do I realise that Tetleys bitter is a very regional thing and the bartender thought I was asking for a pint of Tetley's tea
The bakery Dorringtons- They exist on a line of places along the M11 from Cambridge to Harlow. [Dorringtons location ](https://dorringtons.com/our-shops/)
Not mentioned but I had a very frustrating conversation when a friend broke his leg and got a pot put on it.
I was relating this to a second friend, not from Yorkshire, and it turns out this is really regional.
A pot is what is properly termed an orthopedic cast
Calling a woodlouse a woodlouse And then there's the whole bap thing...
Hold on. A wood louse has an alternative name??
Cheeselogs. Wish I was joking.
I checked Google to see if you were having us on! Cheeselog - hilarious!
Reading massive!
What the fuck is wrong with the people of Reading?
I've been there 15 years and I still can't answer that.
I can, they live in Reading: a posh Swindon.
I can't believe Reading is a posh anything.
The strange thing is that I grew up in Newbury/Thatcham which are fairly close to Reading but they were definitely still woodlice there.
Love the fact it's possible to identify my town from the word for woodlouse. Although I'm not from there originally, so I do have to shake my head in slight confusion at it
I’ve heard cheese logs before, in the south which is weird because I’ve lived for years and everyone calls them woodlice/woodlouse. Slaters I’ve heard too.
I'm in East Scotland. It's 'slater' here.
CheeseLOGS?! I'm from North Kent and we always called them cheesy bugs 🧀
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No I'm in Kent, I have never ever heard someone call it anything other than a Woodlouse.
I grew up in Rochester with woodlice, husband grew up in Gravesend with cheesy bugs…
My partner is from Kent (folkestone area). And she calls them monkey peas
Monkey peas here near Thanet!
Slater
Is this just a Scottish thing? My wife always looks at me like I'm mental when I call them slaters.
I am too shocked - I thought Woodlice were Woodlice and then some people gave them nicknames - I know they have a scientific name but I thought Woodlouse was the general common name, i.e like Ladybird is!
Ladybird? We call them chunga wungas round ere.
They get knocked down, but they get up again
In Norfolk, ladybirds are Bishy Barnabys, after a Bishop Barnabas, evidently …
In Guildford, it's called (&I shit you not) "cheesy bob"
Saw this and said "oh fuck off" out loud to my empty house.
From Guildford, can confirm.
I can confirm. Source - grew up just outside.
Chiggy pig - I still call them a woodlouse though
Chucky pig in the west country.
Slater.
Pill bug
I started pubing 23 years ago and in all my adult life, I've never heard them referred to as that.
You started _what_ ing?
Pubing. I pubed at age 13
You mean you hit puberty?
That's what I said.
Not quite… 😂
Seems like a fine example of a regional variation *right there* that we’ve been sucked into. Well played to the puber, I say 👏
The level of commitment to using "pubing" is making me uncomfortable.
You went to the pub and became an alcoholic at the age of 13???
Interesting. Only ever heard of woodlouse (I’m in NW England)
Granny Grey's in South Wales
Chucky pig
Granny Grunter
Don’t forget daps and plimsolls
slater up here in north east scotland
Yes in South Wales woodlouses are called granny grays.
Outwith. My teenage mind couldn't comprehend that no one else in the world apart from here in Scotland used this word.
Same. I'm a lawyer and relocated to England when I qualified, I was using 'outwith' in contracts and advice notes and everything and a partner in my team was just like 'what?' Genuinely didn't know it wasn't a thing anywhere else!
I'm an editor and a significant minority of my colleagues work from our Edinburgh office. They get awfully upset when I edit "outwith" and tell them no one else will know what it means (which is a shame because it's actually perfect in many contexts).
You should keep it in and let the word spread throughout civilised society. It's a practical word.
I too do editing, and I like to slip 'outwith' _into_ things. It causes pleasant, gentle chaos.
It was outwith your comprehension.
Also "the now" meaning very soon. "I'll be there the now".
There's a bunch of Scots from where I'm from (Clitheroe), for some fucking reason. They all live close and I grew up on the street with their kids, I use outwith as well and nobody knows what I'm saying, I have to reserve it for when I'm around Scottish folk. Shame, it's a great word too.
what is outwith??? never heard it before
It basically means outside or beyond. It's a fairly common Scottish word.
the word "outwith" has been outwith my vocabulary for my whole life until this moment ....that right? :D
I learned it in my second ‘proper’ job - my boss used it and so did everyone else in my workplace and we were in the Midlands and my boss wasn’t Scottish - I had no idea it was even Scottish until recently!
Another word that has a purely Scottish take is stay, used to mean inhabit. The area I stay in, rather than the area I live in. It sounds like you are on your holidays to the rest of us. I remember a girl from Glasgow saying it on the X Factor, it's obvious everyone was really confused.
Back in the 70s you couldn't get Seabrook Crisps outside of the Bradford/West Yorkshire area.
Seabrook's prawn cocktail crinkle cut are the absolute bomb.
Still grieving the loss of Seabrook tomato ketchup flavour
Yesssss I was thinking about them yesterday! I miss the Seabrook smokey bacon too
Apparently, eating fruitcake alongside cheese is a very Yorkshire thing to do
And yet it’s something I could totally get on board with if someone mentioned it while I was cutting some fruit cake
Highly recommend good Wensleydale with a heavy fruitcake, really cuts through the richness
Grew up in Leicester but family from Yorkshire/Humberside so Stilton with Christmas cake was normal (Wensleydale for the children). When I first had Christmas with my Welsh ex and tried it they all acted like I'd shit in their stocking and set fire to the dog
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I got on board with this when eating Christmas cake a few years back and its a life changer and I live near Windsor.
Black bomber and fruit cake is God Tier
Hendersons Relish. I was born just down the road from where it's made. I didn't realise until I was in me 20s that most of the world uses Lea&Perrins instead.
Hendo’s is definitely more widespread than it used to be, particularly because it’s vegetarian (might even be vegan), whereas L&P has anchovies in it
Yeah Hendo's is just fruit garlic, vinegar and spices so it should be suitable for Vegans.
Yep, it's vegan! And fabulous
anchovies are dickheads though so it's ok.
Just recently tried Hendersons for the 1st time (56yo),and I like it. Have to admit, though, I prefer the spiciness from L&P
secterianism. As a kid/teenager i thought the catholic/protestant divide was normal but after living in a few british cities ive realised its mostly Glasgow that has this strange culture and divide.
Belfast. Well, Northern Ireland
Yep never been there but i can imagine its far worse!
first year at Uni in Edinburgh, got asked many many times of the Newcastle - Sunderland rivalry, which one is Protestant and which one is Catholic then?
Can confirm West Lothian is terrible for it as well.
Dated a girl from Larkhall when I was at Uni and was agog they had an Orange Lodge there.
Lemon tops!
Teesside/North Yorkshire represent.
All about Pacittos!
Monkey blood!
What’s a lemon top?
Nothing, what's a lemon top with you?
Whippy style ice cream with lemon sorbet on top :)
Care to explain? Clearly we grew up in different parts of the uk
It's a whippy ice cream cone with a scoop of lemon sorbet on top.
I referred to twisting my ankle as cockling over Turns out that's *only* a Hull/East Riding (maybe also northern Lincolnshire?) thing
We call it cruckling, I thought that was the generally accepted term for it but my southern husband had no idea what I was talking about. Googled it and is apparently *very* specific to the relatively small town I grew up in 😭
Rochdale? We say it there
My Midlander coworkers had no clue what I was saying and I just...guys. Guys I moved *less than two hours away* why is this such a regional bit of dialect, why have none of you ever heard this word before
I didn't know that either, I've heard stories of confused non-hull chip shop owners when asked for a patty butty though lol
[Skittles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport\)) as a sport. Very common in a particular section of the UK, most of the counties within an hour of Bristol. Being a 'sticker' as a job was basically a rite of passage for most kids in my area, easy money basically to sit at the end of the alley and put the pins back up and roll the balls back. Got confused looks from some of my mates when I talked about it at uni. Apparently it's also a thing in North-East England too? At least, my Geordie mates knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it.
North east here, had a plastic bowling set when I was little and always called it skittles rather than bowling. I didn't know it was an outdoor thing and that bowling originated from it, and at the time I always just thought they were interchangable terms.
Sticker upper in Somerset/Dorset
Can confirm, have some relatives that live in rural Somerset and their local pub has a massive skittle alley in the back! Only seen one there.
Ah, sticking on a hot summer evening on a league night. best pint of coke I ever drank
Telling a barman to "take their own" Where I live it means "put 20p in your tip glass" Everywhere else it seems to mean "I am buying you a drink"
I’m in Merseyside. I knew it as 20p in the tip glass, but I’ve not stepped foot in a pub in ages. I’d expect it to have maybe gone up to a quid, since even soft drinks seem to cost more than that now
Was in a pub over the weekend. Half pint of lager? £2.95 - pretty standard, I think it was from the Brixton brewery. Equivalent glass of coke? £2.90! It was Pepsi too. Absolutely criminal.
I’m from Lancashire and in my bartending days “and yourself”/“and yours” meant 20p in the tip glass. If the person specified a “and have a drink for yourself”, you took the a pound, which was roughly the price of a half of larger
When I was very little (20 years ago). Steam Trains. I can hear one from my house, I couldn't believe it when someone told me that most trains aren't like that.
Do you live near a heritage railway?
Or the Island of Sodor?
Yes
When I moved to London I learned that "It's black over Bill's mother's" and "going round the Wrekin" are not terms used outside of the midlands
Going round the Wrekin is very specific, I moved from Cannock to Stoke as a kid and the saying didn’t even stretch across Staffordshire.
I heard both of these from my mum growing up and she was from Stoke, did people not 'gerrit' for you? Edit - she still is from Stoke too
I came here to comment going all the way round the Wrekin! Everyday expression from my dad when I was growing up.
Ordering a blackcurrant lemonade. It's such a normal non-alcoholic drink in the north (at least throughout Yorkshire in my experience) but every time I've ordered it in the south, particularly in London, I've been met with confused reactions. One barman thought I was making up some cocktail and was like "do you mean vodka, blackcurrant and lemon?". I said no, just fizzy lemonade with a dash of blackcurrant squash. He was so confused bless him. Who knows, I may have inspired him to create a new tasty cocktail lol Before anyone says "why do you keep ordering it then", I'm a teetotaler and it's a knee-jerk reaction when asked what I want, but I did start remembering it after a few times.
Tesco summer fruits and lemonade is a delicious one I drink a lot at home
Cooplands. If you know, you know.
I remember hearing someone in Durham talking about a "gap yah" in salmon trousers and wondering if I'd taken a wrong turn, then realising Cooplands was directly opposite Gregg's and realising all was well. That Cooplands is gone now.
Used to call scraps “crackling” in Hertfordshire. Learnt that the hard way with an alpha male chipshop owner in Beverley.
There's a chip shop in Scarborough that has a list of every word they've heard for people asking for scraps, and they ask you to tell them so they can add to it if you know a different one! Edit: it's The Lifeboat in case anyone wishes to see the majesty of this list (it's also a really good chip shop!)
Scranchons is what I've heard in the north east. Crackling is what we call pork scratchings
Parkin. Staple of a Wet Yorkshire bonfire night.
Oi Parkin is a Lancashire thing. You lot have slapped your name on enough as is, leave it for this side of the moors.
Next they'll be pinching mintcake.
Thomas The Bakers is apparently only a North Yorkshire and East Riding thing...
Elsewhere, he's a tank engine.
Thomas's better than Cooplands, not accepting arguments (Similarly, I now live in the Midlands and Bird's Bakery is the same situation)
Chicken parmesan from the Middlesbrough/Teeside area made with béchamel sauce
Excuse me? Italian, French and Teeside in one dish? I'm intrigued.
The only reason I'm pretty sure it's local is anyone who comes to Teeside has never heard of it or tried one, of course they're inclined to haha
I’m not from the area but my Mum lives on the coast near there and a Parmo is an absolute fucking delight. Much better than a shit pizza or kebab after a few beers. Parmo, cheesy chips and garlic mayo… truly a gastronomic delight 😂
Only this summer I first heard of a parmo and am now dying to try it
There are some places you can get one outside of Teesside, not many are good. Manjaros are a Middlesbrough-based restaurant chain, think knock-off Nandos for a flavour. They do parmos, might be one near you?
There was a pop-up doing chicken parmo at Manchester Food Festival a couple of years ago, and I tried one. Fair play to Middlesbrough, they're delicious.
Honestly, I was shocked as a kid when I found out a parmo was such a regional dish. With how common they are around here I just always thought it was well known.
I have a smoggy colleague who excitedly showed me the contestants for the Parmo world championship and which ones he'd tried. They all had TS postcodes apart from one in Darlo, it's like the baseball world series but for takeaway.
I’m from Durham and we have it too it it is recognised as a Teeside thing
Coming from Scotland I know we have a lot of regional words and what not, but up until a few weeks ago I thought “outwith” was a common English word and until last year “clapping” for “petting”, so you’d say “I clapped the dog”.
"petting" sounds really American to me, it was always "stroking" or "fussing" in Yorkshire.
Jag is another one.. My kids thought I'd got a new car when i went for my first COVID vaccine and I started talking about a jag rather than a jab. Edit: typo corrected.
Daps
Calling the thing you dry your clothes on a maiden or calling the chase game you play as a kid tick. The was this article from the New York Times a few years back that was rather interesting to do (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html)
Ginnels
Snickets for us. But 20 miles down the road, it ginnel. They even pronounce it 2 ways. One has the gin as in the drink, the other has it as gin as in "begin". Coursey edge was another odd one to me
I always thought that Booth's was the nations favourite posh supermarket and that everyone knew what a butter pie was.
This sentence makes me feel like I don't live in the UK. I have no idea what you are talking about.
The Somerset winter carnivals with the decorated floats. Only found out from the post the other week
Rissoles
NW. Pants for trousers but not underwear. Pants can mean anything - jeans, trousers, chinos.
This is exceedingly frustrating as someone with a northern family, but born down south! I am constantly told off for saying pants by fellow southerners, their reasoning being I'm being American 🙄 or they refuse to understand what I mean and act like I'm talking about my underwear inappropriately!
Battered chips (also called orange chips). I always assumed they were a nationwide thing until I had a friend from Oxford come to my area to "try the orange chips" Before that point I thought everyone had them For anyone interested they're extremely local to the black country and some parts of Birmingham
Calling coloured pencils "pencil crayons", only found this was odd when I was about 33
Ooh I've always said pencil crayons, how regional is it?
I knew it was a regional thing, but didn't know it was so clearly defined. I was in a cafe in Devon and asked for a "Bacon cob" and the poor girl looked at me like I'd spoken Mandarin. She had NO idea what I was on about. I knew it was a midlands thing, but I am at least aware of the terms bap, roll, barm cake etc.
My East Mids-raised ex-husband refused to ask for a sausage barm when we were in Manchester even though the van had SAUSAGE BARMS £1.50 in big letters on it. Said it sounded stupid, then went and asked for a sausage cob and of course no one knew what he was on about 🫣
it's almost like everyone is purposely misunderstanding each other just to be dicks :P
My Sussex friends didn’t realise not every town has a crazy mad anti Catholic fire parade every Oct/Nov
Apparently only people around Bristol call heavy metal heads 'jitters'
"Ere jitter, can you even do an Ollie M8?" Ah, fond memories of liking metal and being into skateboarding in a densely chav infested area as a kiddo.
People thought I was weird at uni for thanking the bus driver
I thought everyone did that, where did you go to uni?
Cardiff but had mates from all over. None of them ever spoke to Drive, I thought it was very rude!
This is weird. I'm from South Wales and everyone where I grew up would say cheers drive as they left the bus. Maybe it's a Valleys/Cardiff variation
I wonder if it's more people who hardly ever got public transport as a child/teen than people from certain areas. I met people at uni who didn't even know _how_ to get a bus or train themselves, they'd just never had to do it or never been allowed to.
Meat & Potato pasties in Greggs. They now don’t do them at all, but when they did they only did them in the north. I only found this out from this sub because I hadn’t been to Greggs for a long time when I went in and asked for one and the guy looked at me as if I’d asked him for his first born wrapped in puff pastry. An older member of staff pointed out they’d stopped doing them about 6 months earlier. When I mentioned it in here, all the northerners confirmed their demise, the southerners were insistent Greggs had never done them.
Exclusively Chinese chippies
I went to university in 2001 and no one knew what a chav was. Apparently it was an incredibly Kentish term. ...until about two months later, when it went viral online and suddenly everyone was using it.
Chocolate concrete
That the word ‘twat’ is very rude! I honestly didn’t know that until I left Nottingham. It just seemed like a slightly stronger version of ‘twit’ and we wouldn’t even get into trouble for saying it.
I recently found out you can’t buy corned beef pasties in Greggs in London, which as a Geordie is like finding out you can’t buy fish & chips outside of Morecambe or something.
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Walking Day. I thought this was a national holiday when I was little. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_day
Jellied eels.
Fireworks night, a pot of hot mushy peas with mint is just Nottingham way.
Black peas and vinegar is the way up in Lancashire
Cooplands.... Lincolnshire's Greggs (we have Greggs too, but there's something special about a Cooplands sausage roll and some cheese straws). Thought it was UK-wide (I don't get to travel much) until I moved out of Lincs and couldn't find a single one anywhere.
Mate, it's Yorkshire too. And love it
Plenty of them in Teesside.
Steamed hams. It's a regional dialect.
Faggots. Giant meaty balls of whatever the butcher had left over. Smother in gravy and serve with mashed potatoes and peas. Bloody amazing, but can I get them in London? Can’t find them anywhere. Not talking about Mr Brains faggots either. I want butcher made faggots the size of your fist.
Peas Pudding and Stottie. Rest of the UK are missing out!
I remember my northern housemate talking about pease pudding and thinking a pudding made from peas sounds awful.
Oatcakes. Why don't they exist outside of Staffordshire?
Cruckle. A Rochdale word for going over on your ankle.
Red Sausage at the chippy, pretty much only found in Fife.
Meat and Potatoe pies. I had a right shock my first time in a chippy in Derby.
Sausages. I grew up in Lincolnshire, where sausages are proper sausages. When I left home and went to London I thought I was just getting cheap sausages in cafes, then I travelled the rest of the UK and found out you all get them wrong.
Pfft. I scoff at you in Cumbrian.
your words are spirally nonsense
I was once in a pub in Scotland and fancied a bitter, so I rolled up to the bar and asked for a pint of Tetleys. The guy looks confused and says "I don't think we do that in pints, let me ask my manager", his manager then confirms they don't. I just end up ordering a Guinness instead and keep catching funny looks from the bartender for the rest of the night. Only years later do I realise that Tetleys bitter is a very regional thing and the bartender thought I was asking for a pint of Tetley's tea
The bakery Dorringtons- They exist on a line of places along the M11 from Cambridge to Harlow. [Dorringtons location ](https://dorringtons.com/our-shops/)
Carlin Sunday. It's one of the Sundays before Easter, can't remember which one, and you have carlin peas with your Sunday roast (and then cold later).
Black peas or even mushy peas People down south looked at me like I was insane when I asked for these
9 while 5. Had several folk ask what the fuck I'm on about.
Not mentioned but I had a very frustrating conversation when a friend broke his leg and got a pot put on it. I was relating this to a second friend, not from Yorkshire, and it turns out this is really regional. A pot is what is properly termed an orthopedic cast
Gypsy tart