Where in the UK should you actually live?
Jan 31st, 2014, 12:48 PM
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Got Cornwall which is OK. Lived in London and Hants. Think I got Cornwall because chose the turquoise and surfing - didn't have tennis among the choices.>>
I got london [worked there for 18 years so I can live with that] but thanks to Bedar i know how I should answer if I want to be allowed to stay in Cornwall.
I got london [worked there for 18 years so I can live with that] but thanks to Bedar i know how I should answer if I want to be allowed to stay in Cornwall.
Jan 31st, 2014, 02:45 PM
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First time I got Cornwall, which might have been OK except it came with photo of Camilla. Now I've had Belfast twice (dropped the cat and the surfing, no option for "hate sports"). I actually want London for a year or two, followed by somewhere like Bath or Salisbury.
Feb 1st, 2014, 03:03 AM
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"What is chippy sauce?"
It's a mixture of brown sauce (the biggest UK brand is HP, but the local version tastes a bit different) and, usually, vinegar though sometimes it might be water. Offered in chip shops in eastern Central Scotland in the same way that everywhere else they just offer vinegar. Usually mixed by the chippy concerned, it's got pretty much the same viscosity as straight vinegar and is poured over the chips: tastes differ on whether it should be poured over the fish (yes!!!) or hot meat pie (to my mind, never).
So, if it's the only question and you've got to have a single city answer, the answer would have to be Edinburgh. The taste spreads as far as Leith and (if I remember) Falkirk and Dunfermline.
Otherwise it's close to being the only single-city junk food in Britain.
It's a mixture of brown sauce (the biggest UK brand is HP, but the local version tastes a bit different) and, usually, vinegar though sometimes it might be water. Offered in chip shops in eastern Central Scotland in the same way that everywhere else they just offer vinegar. Usually mixed by the chippy concerned, it's got pretty much the same viscosity as straight vinegar and is poured over the chips: tastes differ on whether it should be poured over the fish (yes!!!) or hot meat pie (to my mind, never).
So, if it's the only question and you've got to have a single city answer, the answer would have to be Edinburgh. The taste spreads as far as Leith and (if I remember) Falkirk and Dunfermline.
Otherwise it's close to being the only single-city junk food in Britain.
Feb 1st, 2014, 09:16 AM
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I think it is simply a random thing. I put in one set of answers, got the result, logged off the computer, shut down, restarted, logged back in, put in an entirely different set of answers and got the same result. Repeated with the log off, shut down, turned back on, logged in, same set of answers and got a different result. Repeated a few times, random answers. As you say,,,,,just for fun ....and meaningless.
I would love to see a Real attempt at a quiz that told us where to live. That would be interesting!
I would love to see a Real attempt at a quiz that told us where to live. That would be interesting!
Feb 1st, 2014, 01:39 PM
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Reminds me of the guy (urban myth or true I don't know) who wanted to get away from it all and expected there to be a nuclear holocaust (in the days before the collapse of Russia). So he moved to the Falkland Islands which is about as far away from the UK as he could get.
Of course you realize what happened the year after he got there. LOL
Of course you realize what happened the year after he got there. LOL
Feb 2nd, 2014, 01:42 PM
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Otherwise it's close to being the only single-city junk food in Britain.>
What about fried Mars Bars in Glasgow?
http://www.roughguides.com/photo/dee...sgow-scotland/
What about fried Mars Bars in Glasgow?
http://www.roughguides.com/photo/dee...sgow-scotland/
Feb 2nd, 2014, 05:08 PM
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I got Newcastle, but I wonder if my lack of sports preference, forcing me to choose eating contests--which in truth would gross me out-- may have skewed my info. (I assume you could not leave an answer blank.) What a fun exercise this was, Patrick!! Thanks for posing it.
Feb 2nd, 2014, 10:25 PM
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"What about fried Mars Bars in Glasgow?"
I actually found them in Oxford about 20 years ago, though the chippy concerned did go out of business soon after.
But fried Mars bars don't share the obsessive localised insularity that typifies so much Scotch culture. I've found them in Inverness (though nothing is too disgusting for Inverness), I've found them in the naffer parts of Edinburgh (in Morningsaide, of course, it's deep-fried Valrhona chocolate) and in Dundee they're regarded as health food.
As a general rule for all food: if it rots your teeth, you'll find it everywhere in Scotland.
I actually found them in Oxford about 20 years ago, though the chippy concerned did go out of business soon after.
But fried Mars bars don't share the obsessive localised insularity that typifies so much Scotch culture. I've found them in Inverness (though nothing is too disgusting for Inverness), I've found them in the naffer parts of Edinburgh (in Morningsaide, of course, it's deep-fried Valrhona chocolate) and in Dundee they're regarded as health food.
As a general rule for all food: if it rots your teeth, you'll find it everywhere in Scotland.
