Ask Me Anything - being a Northerner

[Dazed]

Originally Posted by Manc_Chris

My usual response to the question about lunch/dinner is: So when you were at school, did you have lunch-ladies or... dinner-ladies?!

Dinner it is then

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You mean the midday supervisors? 😂

Oh and it’s lunch. Dinner is an evening meal

[Dazed]

Originally Posted by mushumadness

Are the most true northerners us Yorkshire folk?

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I think so! We live in London, eldest daughter lives in Yorkshire, she’s lived there so long now she has the accent and says every ‘northern’ thing listed in this thread Every time we FaceTime her and the grandkids we say ‘oh my, she sounds SO northern!’. Even though we know, it still throws us as she was born/brought up down here. Sometimes she has to repeat what we say to the kids as they don’t pick it up first time with our accent. It’s so strange, I never get used to it.

[duchy]

Originally Posted by Gabsnoot

Where is the cut off, where does the ‘North’ start?

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It’s a matter of perspective , for many where I live ... Watford !

[buryboy]

Originally Posted by mushumadness

Are the most true northerners us Yorkshire folk?

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Behave 😀😀

Southerners think of Coronation Street before they think of anything Yorkshire

[novocastrian]

Originally Posted by Dazed

You mean the midday supervisors? 😂

Oh and it’s lunch. Dinner is an evening meal

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what time do you have christmas dinner... is this an evening meal?

nope

so its...

lunch = sarnie/meal deal
dinner = sit down meal at midday /early afternoon
tea = evening meal

end of.

ps dont get me started on having people over for 'supper'... supper is a cheeky bowl of frosties / cheese on toast taken before bed

[novocastrian]

Originally Posted by mushumadness

Are the most true northerners us Yorkshire folk?

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nope its us true northerners... frontier folk in the north east/west border counties..

any further north there be heathens..

[Colette-S]

Originally Posted by novocastrian

what time do you have christmas dinner... is this an evening meal?

nope

so its...

lunch = sarnie/meal deal
dinner = sit down meal at midday /early afternoon
tea = evening meal

end of.

ps dont get me started on having people over for 'supper'... supper is a cheeky bowl of frosties / cheese on toast taken before bed

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That’s supper here too! Although crumpets sometimes make an appearance

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by pompeyboy

Being right down south and only attached to mainland England by 3 bridges, a few simple tests to check northerness include;

Do you use t' instead of the?
Do you have a brew rather than a cup of tea?
Do you call fizzy drinks pop?
is gravy compulsory on chips?
Do you call a bread roll anything but that?
Do you eat pork pies hot?
Do you call roundabouts islands?

Answer yes to any of those and you're a fully fledged northern person.

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A few people have already answered these. Here's my response (I'm from Cheshire).

No, I don't use t'.
Yes, I will sometimes say "brew" instead of "cup of tea".
Yes, I sometimes say "pop".
No, it's not compulsory. But when buying chips from a chippy, it's nice to have thick, chip shop gravy on your chips (it is different to the gravy on a roast dinner).
I am multilingual and will use a variety of names for bread rolls - baps, balms, batches, and buns. But I think I often call them rolls.
I usually eat pork pies cold. But I have had them hot.
No, traffic islands and roundabouts are different things.

[PABBY]

Originally Posted by salmim

There used to be a pub crawl day in Ramsbottom, blimey had some days and nights doing that.

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The Rammy Mile! I've lost days of my life to that pub crawl!

[Lizzim]

Originally Posted by buryboy

Where are all the Southerners on this thread with questions about cobbled streets and hovis ?

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We all know that the famous Hovis hill is in Dorset not the North! (to confirm my Southern ‘ness’ - born in Portsmouth and lived in Dorset / Wiltshire since I was 4).