Lunch should have its own thread

[farmerbarleymow]

and a mental note to eat something fresh at some point.

Have some chips - fresh vegetables.

 

[polly]

Have some chips - fresh vegetables.

Cooked in vegetable oil too That's at least two of my five.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cooked in vegetable oil too That's at least two of my five.

Have a chip barm - wheat is a vegetable, so three of your five.

 

[polly]

Have a chip barm - wheat is a vegetable, so three of your five.

I introduced my kids to the wonders of the pie barm yesterday. I think I'm ready for my Northern accent now.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I introduced my kids to the wonders of the pie barm yesterday. I think I'm ready for my Northern accent now.

Have you booked yourself elocution lessons yet?

First lesson is - 'lunch' isn't a real word.

 

[polly]

Have you booked yourself elocution lessons yet?

First lesson is - 'lunch' isn't a real word.

What about brunch?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What about brunch?

An illegal term - mandatory minimum five year sentence.

 

[polly]

An illegal term - mandatory minimum five year sentence.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If you utter it three times you'll be exiled to Pontins. Which is a fate worse than death.

 

[neonwilderness]

Chip butty at the coast

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Veg pot from aldi with added chilli flakes. Did you go for a swim neonwilderness? The sea looks inviting.

 

[neonwilderness]

Did you go for a swim neonwilderness? The sea looks inviting.

No, I was too busy trying to keep the seagulls off my chips

 

[sojourner]

What about brunch?

We prefer 'brinner' polly

Anyway, I had a massive baked spud with tuna mayo in it, and half a bag of pea sprouts.

Cherry activia.

 

[polly]

We prefer 'brinner' polly

Thanks but in my eagerness to be down with the northerners I called a smoggie a mackem today So I'm handing the accent back.

I had nothing for lunch, feeling distinctly unhungry this week.

 

[sojourner]

Thanks but in my eagerness to be down with the northerners I called a smoggie a mackem today So I'm handing the accent back.

I had nothing for lunch, feeling distinctly unhungry this week.

I have zero idea what either a smoggie or a mackem is

 

[polly]

I have zero idea what either a smoggie or a mackem is

Guess I'm more northern than some people after all Smoggies are from Middlesborough, mackems are from Sunderland. Mixing them up is heinous, apparently.

 

[sojourner]

Guess I'm more northern than some people after all Smoggies are from Middlesborough, mackems are from Sunderland. Mixing them up is heinous, apparently.

Oh THAT North. Ahem.

 

[polly]

Oh THAT North. Ahem.

Oh man, there's more than one? I give up

 

[neonwilderness]

That's nearly the proper North

 

[polly]

That's nearly the proper North

you mean Scotland right

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mixing them up is heinous, apparently.

Deeply offensive.

I'm a smoggie but it doesn't really matter. At least we're not barbarians like those from Tyneside.

 

[moose]

Chip butty at the coast

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Is that an oven bottom, rather than a barm?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Is that an oven bottom, rather than a barm?

Oven bottoms are shit really. neonwilderness has let the side down.

 

[neonwilderness]

It’s a stottie

 

[moose]

Let you off, then. This time

 

[sojourner]

Baked spud with cheese and an undressed watercress salad (am now addicted to both watercress and pea sprouts).

Cherry Activia.

 

[neonwilderness]

Leftover fasoulia with seedy toast.

 

[TopCat]

Lentil soup.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One of those squashed date and stuff bars.

 

[polly]

Cornflakes with trail mix.