[Leica] London tea

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

No need, Lancashire won, the monarch is the Duke of
Lancaster.
Joking apart I was raised in Lancashire and did my
apprenticeship in Yorkshire. Whilst there was much
goodish natured banter anout the relative merits of
Yorkshire and Lancashire it went without saying that
ALL other counties were beneath contempt and came
nowhere in the competition:-)
Frank

 --- Eric C <eric.calderwood@btinternet.com> wrote: >
Are you trying to re-ignite the War of the Roses?
> ;-)
> 
> Eric
> (Liverpool UK)
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/4/04 11:49 pm, "Douglas M. Sharp"
> <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> > Should anyone, by quirk of fate, find themselves
> in the North of
> > England, try Betty's in Harrogate, Yorkshire
> > for a really refined Tea - Taylors Yorkshire Tea &
> Tea Brack (a kind of
> > fruit cake, served best with a piece of
> > Wensleydale cheese) or try their Sloe Gin Cake,
> MMMMH!! beats the Savoy
> > and the Ritz into a cocked hat..
> > The real Tea Experience is, however, the
> "Yorkshire Farmhouse Tea"
> > look out for signs outside farms and pubs.  Home
> smoked or boiled ham,
> > haslet, fresh baked crusty bread, salted butter,
> > local cheeses, salad,cheese scones followed by
> masses of fruit cake,
> > scones, rock buns, moggie (a kind of gingerbread)
> and gallons
> > of tea. Pick a place close to the local pub, at
> least within crawling
> > distance, you will get seriously overfed.
> > For those who don't know the North of England, it
> consists of Yorkshire
> > (and a couple of  other insignificant counties
> > tacked on to its borders) ;-)     I shall now seek
> cover from irate
> > Geordies, Lancastrians and the like.
> > 'eers to me, thee an all on us
> > Douglas ( an exiled Tyke in Germany)
> > 
> > BTW The US harboured one of our exiles - Eric
> Knight who wrote the "Sam
> > Small" short stories for
> > Harper's in the early 40s, came to later fame by
> writing " Lassie Come
> > Home" but tragically died in a plane
> > crash before the film took the box-offices by
> storm.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jimmy Patrick schrieb:
> > 
> >> And I thought a buttie was on buttered bread, and
> a bap was on a roll.
> >> 
> >> The best butties are the late night chip butties
> (fries on buttered bread)
> >> with brown sauce.
> >> 
> > Well known from the Beatles song "Penny Lane " -
> now you know what
> > "finger pies" are.
> > 
> >>  
> >> 
> > 
> > 
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