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Audax67 mentioned Tripes à la mode de Caen but it seems you don't need to invade Normandy to find lots of the stuff

Re Yorkshire Pudding, there used to be a saying that you couldn't make a decent one if you weren't born in Yorkshire. I think I was about 14 when I realised that was a load of tripe. However, YP doesn't have to be like the product of a cardboard factory. Leave the roasting pan in when the beef is removed from the oven and being rested, turn up the heat to mark 7 and when the oven has had chance to heat up to that temperature, pour in your batter. The YP is then eaten as the first course and you have to have thought out how you will make your gravy.
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Paulatic wrote: 4 Nov 2021, 9:34am Is there a Bara in Wales? Barabrith
or maybe Leeks , Oh hang on that’s Staffordshire :D
Bara is simply the word for bread
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Sheffield steel
Warrington hammer
Oxford shoes, and Derby shoes
Portmeirion pottery
Denbeigh pottery
Harris tweed (albeit not a town as such)
Norfolk jacket (again not a town)
Hereford cattle
Galloway Cattle
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profpointy wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 5:24pm Sheffield steel
Warrington hammer
Oxford shoes, and Derby shoes
Portmeirion pottery
Denbeigh pottery
Harris tweed (albeit not a town as such)
Norfolk jacket (again not a town)
Hereford cattle
Galloway Cattle
I'm impressed with the caution about the ones that aren't towns... but are there any others in there?

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PS: In general who classes cities as towns and who doesn't, please?
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profpointy wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 5:24pm Derby shoes
I don't think their naming has much direct connection with the place. Reputedly named after a big footed Tory PM, one time Earl of Derby.
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Mick F wrote: 1 Nov 2021, 5:50pm Stilton Cheese
If you make cheese in Stilton, you're not permitted to call it Stilton.
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Mick F wrote: 9 Nov 2021, 8:20pm Yorkshire Pudding.
Why Yorkshire?
Egg, milk and flour into a batter is worldwide and been made for eons, and well before Yorkshire even existed.
Because they only taste nice when made in Yorkshire...it's all about the water :wink:
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PH wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 10:08pm
profpointy wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 5:24pm Derby shoes
I don't think their naming has much direct connection with the place. Reputedly named after a big footed Tory PM, one time Earl of Derby.
Oxford shoes are no longer made in Oxford sadly.
and Portmeirion pottery is made in Staffordshire so it's just a name.
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Berwick Cockles
Hawick Balls
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PH wrote: 28 Nov 2021, 10:12pm
Mick F wrote: 1 Nov 2021, 5:50pm Stilton Cheese
If you make cheese in Stilton, you're not permitted to call it Stilton.
You're absolutely correct.

We made some cheese years ago. Sort of cottage cheese stuff after someone showed us how to do it.
Sorry, can't remember how we did it. We could have called it Gunnislake Cheese perhaps?

Just say we made our home-made cottage cheese in Stilton. It wouldn't and couldn't be Stilton Cheese at all as that name is protected ............ but not in Stilton!
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To be precise, I suspect you can call it whatever you like, so long as you don't try to sell it.
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VinceLedge wrote: 29 Nov 2021, 9:47am Berwick Cockles
Hawick Balls
and Moffat Toffee
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Fort William, famous for its Glencoe whisky distillery. Most of this goes to expensive export single malt markets, but I've heard quite a bit of it makes its way into the local community :lol: Just as well, because it's regularly voted 'most boring town in Scotland'!
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Poole pottery?

Portland stone....

Brighton Rock

Axminster carpet

Melton Mobray pork pies

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"Sainsbury’s to rename Chicken Kiev to ‘Kyiv’ to support Ukraine":
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/20 ... t-ukraine/

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