Yorkshire to Annex France in 2014

[unloadonme]

That's what passes for sophistication in Lincolnshire. In Yorkshire, they drink tea out of the saucer.

 

[palbert]

I do my Yorkshire puddings in a muffin tin, as they form perfect cups that I can drink my gravy out of.

Too too gay!

 

[cgymike]

Traditional home made yorkshire puddings weren't like that. They were baked in a roasting tin and cut into rectangles/squares.

From Delia's recipe page : http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/party-food/accompaniment/yorkshire-pudding.html

Them individual ones are fancy doodads with Americans calling then 'pop overs' or some such nonsense....

I very much prefer toad-in-the-hole myself. With lashings of gravy.

Yeah mum made them in a square pan like that. the others look like muffins that have been squashed down but you could put cream or extra butter and maybe jam in them.

 

[cgymike]

That's what passes for sophistication in Lincolnshire. In Yorkshire, they drink tea out of the saucer.

Do they now? I thought it was in a mug? Saucer tea sounds dreadful.

 

[cgymike]

Americans have popovers I think?

 

[LeicsDom]

I think Yorkshire should apply to stand in for Mecca and hold the annual Hajj. There's plenty of room up on those moors!

Doesn't Bradford already do that ?

 

[LeicsDom]

Queen Mary I would have suggested a bullfight or the running of the bulls through Leicester, all in honor of her Consort.

Ooo can we vote on having the running of the bulls? I can see a very easy way to reduce our welfare burden

 

[LeicsDom]

It's only sausage embedded in Yorkshire Pudding. There are no actual toads used!

Those bloody southerners stopped us using real toads

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I don't have a good thing to say about Fanny Craddock, except that her name in English fits her personality to a tee, a total cunt.

And so the conversation comes full circle back to drag queens!

 

[LeicsDom]

Yeah mum made them in a square pan like that. the others look like muffins that have been squashed down but you could put cream or extra butter and maybe jam in them.

Individual Yorkshire puddings with syrup. Mmmmmm

 

[LeicsDom]

Do they now? I thought it was in a mug? Saucer tea sounds dreadful.

Sighs. The whole idea of drinking tea out of a saucer is so you can blow it cool enough to drink. It also stops you getting a mouthful of loose tea (never use tea bags!!)

 

[palbert]

What does do to or say about the TOUR as a feat of endurance?

 

[pat grimshaw]

I suppose Yorkshire annexing France is preferable to Bergundy annexing parts of London

 

[unloadonme]

They're welcome to London!

 

[rareboy]

The way I heard it...France was just coming back to finish the job they started under the conqueror.

Finally annexing Yorkshire..













(As a descendant of Yorkshireman...I can say this)

 

[unloadonme]

The way I heard it...France was just coming back to finish the job they started under the conqueror.

Finally annexing Yorkshire..

(As a descendant of Yorkshireman...I can say this)

You should read this:

It's a good, amusing read and one of the myths it dispels is that William the Conqueror was French. Normandy and France were separate countries in the eleventh century and William was more Viking than Frenchman.

 

[rareboy]

^ Oh I know this...William is in our family tree.....lol....

thx for the reminder though...I really should track this book down.

I would say though...I'll bet that Lance Armstrong would give his left nut to be there.....

 

[palbert]

At the time of William there was no real France -- it was an idea born of Philip II Augustus of France in his successful campaign against the Angevins. He was the first king of what we now call France.

 

[cgymike]

I suppose Yorkshire annexing France is preferable to Bergundy annexing parts of London

Yes and in that movie remember they showed a thermometer with almost over 90F....the English must have been dropping like flies. Normally 75f is a heatwave of sorts.

 

[oakpope]

Normandy was a vassal duchy of France and William was speaking French, his culture was French. To say that he was more Viking than French is,hum, typically English . Vikings had invaded Normandy more than 150 years ago. We could say that Lincoln was British but many people could object to that

 

[unloadonme]

We could say that Lincoln was British but many people could object to that

Lincoln is most definitely British.