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https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/1191775828398485505

Can somebody translate this from English for me?
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https://imgur.com/gallery/g19vTEt

Should explain it.

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british cuisine is comical man it's a farce

northerners

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"Yeah, can I get some of that pea water?"


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Well, this is Northern England and I'm Scottish, so I might get this wrong but I believe it is...

Smack barm - a reference to barm cake, basically a kind of sweet roll made with barm, which is the foam of fermented beer.
Pey wet - the local dialect for pea wet, which is the water left behind from mushy peas.
Babby's yed - local dialect for steak and kidney pudding.
Wigan Kebab - a speciality of that specific area's chip shops; it's a meat and poatato pie inside butter barm cake.

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DK9292 posted...

Pey wet - the local dialect for pea wet, which is the water left behind from mushy peas.

that's gross, why is that even a thing?

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Parappa09 posted...

that's gross, why is that even a thing?

I imagine it's the way most British foods were invented; back in the days before fridges and supermarkets, people could not afford to waste food so they'd use EVERYTHING they could.

If it makes you feel better, it seems pey wet is intended to be used as a condiment, not a drink as I assumed. You either pour it over your food or you dip your food in it, to give it a pea flavour.

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