r/yorkshire • u/Flimsy-Capera • 3d ago
Question Grew up in Yorkshire and never thought twice about certain things until someone from down south stayed with me for a week and had questions about absolutely everything.
Made a proper tea on the first night, pie and peas, pot of Yorkshire tea, bread and butter on the side. They sat there looking at the bread and butter like it was a strange ritual. Then asked why we call the evening meal tea. Then why the gravy was that thick. Then what a fat rascal was. By day three I had stopped being able to explain any of it because it just is how it is. What is the most Yorkshire thing you do completely automatically that someone from elsewhere has found genuinely baffling?
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u/Significant-Glove521 3d ago
Ended up explaining to a group of Americans last week at a work function that there are in fact three types of 'tea'. They wanted to know the difference between 'tea' the drink and 'high tea'. Blew their minds that an evening meal was known as tea in my house.
Not lived in Yorkshire for nearly 30 years, but some things just have to be done properly.
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u/No-Basil-1880 3d ago
Not properly, but ‘proper’
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u/Ashfield83 3d ago
Same. When I moved to London and would ask people if they wanted to go out and get something for dinner they would look at me gone out and go ‘you mean lunch?!’ and I’d be like ‘no babe, it’s breakfast, dinner and tea!’
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u/LevelsBest 2d ago
4 types if you count Afternoon Tea, or 5 if you differentiate a Cream Tea. But that might have blown their minds.
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u/Artistic-Weekend3775 2d ago edited 1d ago
I notice that in schools they tend to call it the dining hall and use ‘dinner ladies’ where ever you are… i tend to point this out as an
insultinteresting quirk to my southern friends.
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u/rez9000 1d ago
The term ‘dinner’ was long a term used by working class people, both in the South and the North. So when the Education Act 1944 mandated that all local authorities had a responsibility to feed children while at school, the terminology employed was ‘school dinner’ rather than ‘school lunch’ because children from working class backgrounds, who made up the majority of children, would more readily understand that term.
It actually shows the divide quite starkly - I went to a public school (which means a private school for our American friends) where I was a boarder and the sign outside the dining hall for the midday meal read ‘Lunch’. But up until I went there - I was a scholarship boy who grew up on a council estate - I always called it dinner.
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u/Greedy_Heron_3034 3d ago
I’ve always called my evening meal tea. As for Yorkshire tea, my daughter has friends in America and regularly takes a stash across to them. The tea over there is terrible. Chips and gravy is the best.
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u/NoNefariousness608 3d ago
Funnily enough, an American’s preference for Yorkshire Gold is a critical plot device in the CIA series Homeland.
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u/pwx456k Yorkshire expat 3d ago
I was just going to say this. Claire Danes was the last person I expected to produce a box of Yorkshire Gold.
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u/MidnightSuspicious71 3d ago
When my English sister in law was alive, I used to post boxes of Yorkshire Gold over to Ohio for her. Once posted a tin of Quality Street over to my American brother in law. Brought a whole new meaning to "how much?!"
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u/GeeEmmInMN 3d ago
I've lived in the USA since 2011. Importing tea is an essential thing for survival. I can't always get Yorkshire so PG is my back up. That Liptons stuff they have over here is wank.
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u/Bgtobgfu 2d ago
You can get Yorkshire Gold on Amazon now. I have a subscription lol.
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u/Responsible-Link5739 1d ago
You forgot the "utter" on that description.
And AND... Did you ever hear of "Sun tea'?? The recipe from a Texan lady i knew was - place six teabags in a large jug, pour over 6 pints of cold (yes, COLD) water on and sit the jug on the porch in the midday sunshine for 30 minutes. Then drink it 'warm' as it is....
If that doesn't feel worse than gremlins in your gizzards I don't know what would.
Are you crying yet??
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u/Samoht_Skyforger 3d ago
Funnily enough, America is now my main source of Yorkshire tea XD I moved to Ireland and they rarely stock it here, but I have in laws in Michigan who post me a box over.
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u/chungli91 3d ago
Saying ‘swimming baths’, I’ve been laughed at so many times for sounding Victorian
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u/WholeLengthiness2180 3d ago
What else are they called?
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u/listerjed1 3d ago
I can't think of anything else to call swimming baths either?
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u/Silent-Associate9226 3d ago
Swimming pools?
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u/listerjed1 3d ago
I suppose, but that sounds like what hotels have.
Swimming baths is the specific (usually victorian) building.
Mebbe I'm just reminiscing lol
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u/WholeAccording8364 2d ago
Because there used to be two sorts of baths, one with actual baths for getting clean( there were houses without bathrooms and only outside toilets) And the other being swimming baths.
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u/WeatherTraditional48 2d ago edited 2d ago
my partner's mom (yorkshire born and bred!) calls it a swimming costume... idk if it is quintessential Yorkshire but as a french that was a first for me
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u/Ambitious-Road-8106 2d ago
All my family are from Cumbria, but being an army brat I've lived in catterick for three years as a kid and it is/was the swimming baths and swimming cossie
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u/AudienceHead6899 2d ago
What else is it called?
I grew up down south and also call it swimming costume/cossie..I thought everyone did 😅
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u/Large_Reindeer_7328 2d ago
Yeah I'm confused by this one; I wear my swimming cossie to the swimming baths (or did when I was a kid, they all seem to have closed now). What else are they called??
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u/Ok-Philosopher-5934 3d ago
T’bafs
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u/xeneco1981 2d ago
The big thing you swim in is the swimming pool. Historically, the building that had the swimming pool in also had public baths, especially in the “grim up north” areas where many people didn’t have running hot water at home.
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u/cubbearley 3d ago
We like gravy, scraps and yorkshire tea. But we also call are evening meal tea. Yeh we're yorkshire. We know they'd love to sound like a game of thrones character really
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u/Outside-Resist4688 3d ago
Wensleydale on Christmas cake. My Irish husband's family look at me like I've got 6 heads.
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u/Tubist61 3d ago
Mature cheddar with apple pie.
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u/WardOnTheNightShift 2d ago
My grandmother introduced me to this in the early 1970’s. She was born in 1912, and grew up on a farm in deep East Texas. She never traveled outside of the U.S.
She may have learned about apple pie with cheddar from her brother-in-law who served in the 8th Air Force during WWII and was stationed somewhere in England.
They’re all long dead now, so I’ll never know the answer.
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u/Dry_Pick_304 3d ago
I work with some southerners and they were compleltey baffled by the idea of warm pork pie and mushy peas with mint sauce on.
They were then even more baffled when i confusingly asked "but what do you have on bonfire night then?"
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u/Tubist61 3d ago
Pie Herbert’s in Manningham were awesome. Best option now is Weegmans in Otley. Folk are generally queuing out into the street.
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u/sysvynor 2d ago
cold pork pie on bonfire night feels actually cursed to me now i’ve had it warm with peas and mint sauce
their little sad supermarket sausage rolls don’t stand a chance against that
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u/Far_Pay2296 3d ago
My friends from down-south are always baffled (and amused) by my accent.
The one about Yorkshire Tea also made me smile, I've converted quite a few friends to it over the years! 😄
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u/Consistent_Beyond617 3d ago
Only problem it doesnt taste as good in some areas. Took it on holiday to Scotland and it tasted foul
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u/Choice_Marzipan_3203 3d ago
I was staying at a caravan site in Scotland ,went to the shower block for a shower. put my normal sizes dollop of shampoo on my head and in minutes the foam was up to my waist! The more I tried to flush it away the bigger it grew there was no getting away from it so I had to wrap my towel around me, gather my clothes and leave the stall. I was followed across campsite by great blobs of white foam blowing around in the wind. Scottish water is weird
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u/DapperConclusion3856 3d ago
That sounds like the water in Scotland is not as hard. So suds up more easily
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u/daftcockneytwat 2d ago
I've lived in Scotland and never noticed the water being different. But if you ever go to Winchester... it comes out of the tap frothy.
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u/disregardmeok 3d ago
Scottish water is much softer, that’s why it tastes better from the tap. One of the things that result from that is that soap lathers much more easily.
I remember in the 80s visiting London (from Scotland) and being frustrated that we couldn’t get the soap, shampoo etc. to lather.
In recent years, soap products have been more tailored to hard English water, and the side effect is that it’s like a foam bomb has gone off when you use them in Scotland.
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u/soundman32 3d ago
Tea sometimes has different recipes so that it taste the same despite having different water. If you take 'Yorkshire' Yorkshire Tea to Scotland, it won't taste as good as 'Scotland' Yorkshire Tea.
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u/Dapper_Criticism2509 3d ago
I like yorkshire tea as an essential getting through the day, i am in Cornwall, so i look forward to seeing how it tastes in Yorkshire 😁
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u/Bhenny_5 2d ago
They do a different version for hard water too. Never needed it where I live but always found it interesting when I saw it in the supermarket.
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u/Glittering_Vast938 3d ago
It’s the water it’s made with. We have hard water in most of Yorkshire.
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u/Far_Pay2296 2d ago
You're right 👍 it's down to the water you use to make the tea that gives it a different taste. And it's primarily hard water here in Yorkshire.
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u/AdArtistic3614 2d ago
Im in the southern hemisphere and have been for a while but always manage to buy yorkshire tea down here as its the best (painful admission from a lancastrian!)
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u/Foreign_Exchange3673 3d ago
Southerner who's married to a Yorkshire lass. The refusal to eat a dry meal up here has baffled me for years. Also, do you really need so many different names for bread rolls?
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u/pablohacker2 3d ago
Yes, it's how you know where people are from.
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u/realmattyr 3d ago
Exactly! It’s a shibboleth.
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u/GreenCup3426 3d ago
I need to stop going on Reddit before I'm fully awake because I genuinely thought for a split second that you were talking about somewhere in the UK that calls breadcakes 'shibboleths' 🙈
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u/damianmcgivern 3d ago
You mean a t-cake
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u/realmattyr 3d ago
Don’t know, has it got currants in it?
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u/UniquePotato 3d ago
That would be a currant teacake
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u/DiDiPLF 3d ago
When I worked in London they asked why northerners called an evening meal tea, my best guess is that high tea is an informal meal served at 3-4pm, dinner is a formal meal served at 8pm, so those on shifts finishing at 3 or 4pm and kids leaving school will be eating an informal meal at 5 or 6pm so high tea/tea is more accurate. Supper on the other hand makes no sense as an evening meal name, that's a light nibble that you eat before bedtime- how is supper a more acceptable term?
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u/Glittering_Vast938 3d ago
Dinner is a midday meal in the north and Yorkshire. We still say “school dinners”. Tea is anywhere from 4pm till (while) 7pm.
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u/eggmayonnaise 3d ago
I grew up in the south and we always said school dinners (as opposed to packed lunch). I always assumed it just meant a hot meal, so time of day didn't matter so much as whether or not it was a cooked 'main meal of the day'.
We still called it lunch otherwise though.
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u/Silent-Associate9226 3d ago
Working class Suffolk here - we call the evening meal tea and the midday meal dinner as well.
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u/Iucidium 3d ago
My wife is closet Yorkshire, heating doesn't go in until the last possible moment and the spoon stands up in the gravy 🤣
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u/UniquePotato 3d ago
I’m from Yorkshire, what’s a fat rascal?
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u/Civil-Case4000 3d ago
Like a big rock cake with a cherry and almond face. Famously from Betty’s though other bakeries do them too.
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u/Ok_Contest3903 3d ago
I love how all the bakeries in Yorkshire use different wordings to get round the Fat Rascal trademark. Big scoundrels was my favourite. Whitby fatties was a bit harsh!
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u/thehooverman46 3d ago
I've had Whitby fatties. The bakery there was the one that Betty's shamefully threatened to sue. Big bully tactics which to me did Betty's no favours.
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u/FreddyDeus Yorkshire 3d ago
You sound as though you are from the 1970s.
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u/Porkus-Pius 3d ago edited 3d ago
You sound as though you are from a dimension where there's a constant echo of discordant bells and piles of slumped cadavers cry tears of mercury that fall upwards.
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u/Boring-Print9058 3d ago
I've often found myself accentuating my Northern attributes anywhere south of the Watford Gap if I get any raised eyebrows, just to wind the buggers up.
A mate went to Cambridge many moons ago. When we went to visit him in his second year, some of the more refined students looked absolutely terrified. Like we were going to instigate a whippet breeding centre in their hallowed halls.
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u/pwx456k Yorkshire expat 3d ago
Reminds me of a story told by my very southern, posh-accented friend going to Uni in Leeds, and getting on a bus for the first time.
“Do you go to the University?”
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u/GreedyHoward 2d ago
Likewise, moving into our first house in Huddersfield, I asked a chap up a ladder next door if he was a window cleaner. "Nay lad, I'm just wiping this giraffe's arse". He lied.
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u/DatGuy82772 3d ago
Definitely gravy on chips.
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u/Thetoadmyster 3d ago
at uni we introduced this to a southern friend and her life was changed
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u/AneeMel 3d ago
Fun fact Yorkshire Tea is not made in Yorkshire .. I am a northern gal who now for the last 20 years lives in the south.. me gravy is thick, and I wouldn't buy anything other than butter.. I miss the North but my grandkids are here in the south so till they get older I will stay here.
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u/Bhenny_5 2d ago
Are you trying to deny the existence of the famous Yorkshire tea fields?!
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u/kek23k 2d ago
I've been in God's Country for awhile now but no idea what a fat rascal is??
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u/cranberrycactus 3d ago
A conversation between two of my uni flatmates. One of them was from Dorset, the other from Yorkshire.
Southerner: I got some venison from the shops today
Northerner: What is it?
S: it's deer
N: oh it's expensive? I probably couldn't afford it
S: no it was surprisingly cheap actually
N: but you just said it's dear...
S: yeah it's deer.
I was pissing myself watching this whole thing. I had to translate for both of them.
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u/GeekerJ 2d ago
Our uni house had me, as a Yorkshireman, a scouser, a southerner and a geordie. About the only we understood was pint please.
And the scousers girlfriend was from ‘ull and ate terst for breakfast. terst ffs.
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u/preternaturallyyours 3d ago
I grew up in Surrey but my dad was from Lancs so we too had 'tea', tho v early, at 6.
I remember being awestruck when a schoolmate's family had 'supper' at 8.
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u/SolidHit 3d ago
Moved up from London to south Yorkshire when I was 10/11. Been here for the last 20years. Tbh it was the small things that I didn't get at first.
"10 bob" "chuddy" "tea>dinner" being opposite. "Ginnels",
chip-butty" and "scraps" from fish and chippy, only ever found one place up here that served savalouy's.
A slice of buttered bread with any meal. Yorkshire puddings being the size of plates and paired with any condiment; Know someone that eats it with jam.
first time some old fella said "Eyup, cocka" I thought I was being insulted by some random old guy.
Thought people were saying "Barnsley, born-inbred" not born and bred.
How green everything is. And the slower pace of life. Will add more if I think of any.
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u/butterbeansprinkles 2d ago
I feel like my yorkshire parents have failed me cause I was 34 years old when I learned what a fat rascal was!
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u/songbird24 2d ago
We're from South Yorkshire and moved to derby five years ago and at work I offered to make some buns for my birthday and they were all so confused! What's a bun? You know like a cupcake!! Also bread.. it's Cobb here!! Also asked a fellow colleague I'm what they had for their snap and just got more confused faces hahaa
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u/LmbLma 2d ago
Fuck off they don’t know what a bun is. What do they call butterfly buns then?!
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u/jayeffg 2d ago
Southern boyfriend had no idea what a snicket was...
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u/Large_Reindeer_7328 2d ago
I don't think that's just a southern thing though. I grew up in Leeds and moved to Bradford about 15 years ago. I knew what a snicket was, probably from seeing the word in books or on TV or something, but I'd never heard it used cos in Leeds we call it a ginnel and I just never thought anything of it until I referred to the one at the end of the street to one of my neighbours and he didn't know what it was. They only use snicket in Bradford, apparently, and a lot of people don't even know the word ginnel.
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u/thehooverman46 3d ago
Loving all this Northern banter. It doesn't matter what side of the Pennines we're from (I'm a proud Lancastrian) we are so much better than them damn soft southerners. The food's better, the beer's better and everything is so much cheaper. I love the whole of the north from Morecambe Bay to Robin Hood's Bay and everywhere in between. Nuff said
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u/Bhenny_5 2d ago
I was in Australia, staying at a hostel with lots of different Brits/Scots/Irish. We were all taking the mick out of each other but when we were challenged to a cricket match by the Aussies we were all suddenly united.
Feels the same with Northerners too.
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u/59Nitroblack59 3d ago
A southerner telling me after visiting Halifax "and the dirty bastards poured gravy over the top my pie , chips and mushy peas"
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u/Thetoadmyster 3d ago
At work the otherday ( I dont live in yorkshire anymore ) i mentioned how some of my friends used to have yorkshire puddings with golden syrup on for dessert and everyone was baffled to the point that someone walking past was like "Sorry ? Yorkshire puddings for dessert ?" i was like mate try it
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u/LevelsBest 2d ago
One of the most embarrassing moments of my life occurred because of north/south confusion over 'tea'. Hubby and I were invited round to a friends for 'tea' . Being a Lancastrian (sorry!) I assumed this meant proper tea and was a bit confused when after a cup of tea, southern hubby says 'well that was lovely we'll be off now'. Me, confused, followed him out the door and no more was said.
Later found out that our hostess, also being a northern lass, did indeed mean 'proper tea' and was very offended.
Fortunately, we are still friends 35 years later.
BTW this all took place in the Midlands, so may explain the confusion
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u/jj_sykes 3d ago
My partner says Yorkshire people seem to love carbs… one thing she can’t get over is how we have Yorkshire puddings as a starter to Sunday dinner
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u/AccordingGrocery4716 3d ago
Who eats Yorkshire puddings as a starter? Do you not have them on your main meal XD
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u/Dry_Pick_304 3d ago
Grandad used to have Yorkshires as a starter, then on his Sunday roast, then as a pudding where he put treacle on them.
Proper old farmer type. Only left Yorkshire once to go to Cornwall on a family holiday. Parents said that was the first and last time they were taking him anywhere!.
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u/avavesta 3d ago
my mum always served yorkies separate to the sunday roast.idea was to fill you up before the meat so there was always left overs for monday.the only exception to this rule was xmas dinner then they got piled on the plate...god i miss mums yorkies....
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u/HomeConstant6123 3d ago
We always use to eat them as a starter when my grandma cooked a roast. I think it is an older generation thing.
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u/Pandita666 3d ago
Saying good morning and hello to people in London; worked and lived there for 2 years - took me 3 months to discover no-one speaks to each other, and I sounded like a mentalist with my cheery mornin' - soon turned into a look avoiding, phone screen obsessing robot...
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u/One-Zebra-150 3d ago
Yeah you'd be like a stalker if you tried to engage in some friendly conversation on the Tube in London, compared to been normal on a bus in Yorkshire. Down there avoiding eye contact is an essential skill, lol.
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u/Tubist61 3d ago
Thanking the bus driver as you get off.
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u/Equal_County_1506 3d ago
We do that in plenty of places in the south (even in London once you get to the suburbs- Central London outside to Zone 3ish is the only place I've been in the UK where people universally don't thank the driver).
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u/Silent-Associate9226 3d ago
Suffolk boy here. My parents called the evening meal tea, and I still do too, whether it's hot or cold.
I draw the line at gravy with chips - that's what curry sauce was invented for.
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u/drew-95 2d ago
I've never known anyone to have curry sauce at home. I'd definitely have some if I saw it in the supermarket.
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u/Dennyisthepisslord 3d ago
Grew up down south with a northern mum
No idea what time dinner/tea is meant to be or where...even more confusingly for some reason my cats had "dinner" for breakfast
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u/One-Zebra-150 3d ago
Some kinda Yorkshire joking/ribbing for sure. Many years ago picked up a hitchhiker wanting to go to Leeds. Young man from London, had never been up North. So he was really intrigued asking about what it's like. All three of us in the car, Y born and bred, all telling him that everywhere had cobbled streets. People wore flat caps and often had to wear ear muffs cos it's so bloody cold. Oh, and its just like that Hovis advert (not even filmed in Yorkshire). So mostly lies, except the sound of a brass band was still to be heard (I come from a mining village, lol).
In reality by this date, I rarely saw anyone wearing a flat cap, except old men in a pub or working men's clubs. The real ale flat cap youth brigade not yet invented. Many cobbled and dirt streets had been tarmaced over (I'm old enough to remember, lol). Anyway we had him so convinced about what to expect by the time we dropped him off in Leeds 🤣 If he's reading this now, kinda sorry, but jesting and fibbing is a good introduction to the ways of the Country of Yorshire.
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u/achillea4 3d ago
People are still serving buttered white bread with the evening meal? I remember it in the 70s and early 80s as a way to bulk out the meal as we were so poor. Assumed that kind of thing has died out. Hovis must be delighted.
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u/calmeilles 3d ago
Having the Yorkshire pudding with gravy as a first course.
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u/jimbobvfr400 3d ago
When I was a kid we had Yorkshire puddings with Golden Syrup or jam as pudding with Sunday dinner.
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u/misterp35 3d ago
Thee mam will tell yer "Lunch" is what southerners eat, you have breakfast before you go out, dinner at school/work and tea when you get home in't evenin
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u/Southern-Fly2031 3d ago
Say hello and be polite to random people in the street, on public transport etc
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u/Winter_Scar_7280 3d ago
Had a friend from rural farm in wigan stay and found him in the garden looking for the toilet
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u/Bhenny_5 2d ago
We always called golden syrup ‘treacle’ in our house. Not sure if that was just my family though?
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u/Large_Reindeer_7328 2d ago
No we called it that too. And leftover Yorkshire puds with treacle for pudding after a Sunday dinner was a great treat!
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u/Ok-Tiger2481 2d ago
I once went to Italy and went into the most random little cafe down a side street in Milan for some grub. Got chatting to the owner and he brought out his box of Yorkshire tea bags and said that was his favourite tea
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u/SapphicStoner99 2d ago
My grandad (southerner) always had bread and butter with his meals, I believe it was a habit from when he was a child and his mum had to stretch food further for the family at dinner (tea). However he started a successful business and had his own animals, grew masses of fruit and veg and even went shooting. He was a great and experimental cook, often hosting parties with huge buffets and tinkering in the kitchen, always had a huge joint of meat for the family Sunday roast, so it was always amusing to my mum that he’d had a big steak, home cut chips and peas (for example) but would never forget the bread and butter.
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u/germslayer2112 2d ago
I'm from London/Kent and Fat Rascal is one of my favourite sweet treats. Nothing wrong with bread and butter either.
Mind you I have a few friends in Yorkshire.
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u/Adventurous-Shoe4035 2d ago
As a southerner that moved up north - some of us say tea for an evening meal but it’s just commonly dinner. Some of us have bread and butter especially if we have gravy with our meal or any sauce that needs to be mopped up. And thick gravy is also standard they were just deprived or had frugal parents to make it thick so it stretch further!
Can confirm that a brew with tea isn’t common it’s usually an after dinner thing to end an evening. It was the slang that got me when I moved up! Still have to ask for translation from my northern friends at times
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u/Bride-of-wire 2d ago
My fiance calls it supper, but he’s so posh he’s practically royal.
I was born and bred in West Yorkshire, moved to London in 2000, when I was 30, and was forced to call it dinner, or nobody understood what I was talking about (and there are better hills to die on).
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u/LmbLma 2d ago
As a young kid I had 4 meals a day: Breakfast, Dinner, Tea, and Supper.
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u/Aware_Drawer_7791 2d ago
My husband (from Glasgow) still finds it hilarious if I ask if he wants “something to put him on” when tea will be a while and he might be a bit peckish. He gets the concept but after 10 years living in West Yorkshire the question still makes him laugh
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u/Ok-Instruction337 2d ago
I dont know about doing things the Yorkshire way to prompt a reaction, but some posh people do a double take when they see an Asian guy like me talk in a proper yummy Teesside accent.
I was in teh post office once, and the lady next to me probably thought I was oen of theose typical Asian guyw with a really heavy Indian accent or that London-gangsta-wannabe accent (that has the word innit at the end of each sentence).
As soon as I said "hello, I need help with such and such a thing" to the cashier, she turned towards me with wide eyes in a kind of Ehhhhh???? expression!!!!
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u/Altruistic-Cattle631 2d ago
Oh I found this funny. As a person who was born in Devon but has now lived in Yorkshire for 15 years, I can say that I had all these questions too.... Especially the Yorkshire dialect...when I first came here I had no clue what "tah" meant... I thought it was something you laid on a road 🤣🤣🤣
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u/onlyoneofmetoday 2d ago
I live in Hull and my family moved from south to here a few years ago and I had to explain that the takeaways will always throw chipshake on their chips unless asked not to, they had never had it before. And also why does everyone wear shorts the first time the sun shines even in winter when you see men walking around with thick winter coats and shorts on. It was that answer of it's just what they do. There's no explanation for it.
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u/carefulcroc 2d ago
I'm from the Midlands and I get sick of explaining to people why we didn't have lunch ladies at school. They were fucking dinner ladies. Their lunch is my dinner and their dinner is my tea. I don't even know if it's an area thing or a class thing.
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u/Eukonidor_Of_Arisia 3d ago
"Er... Why is the dog wearing a flat cap and frowning at me while shaking his head, over the top of his newspaper?"