1st August 2008, 11:55 AM
"And I've never seen let alone tasted a deep-fried Mars bar either, oldgirl, but then there's not much call for them in my current corner of Surrey"
First place I ever saw them on sale was a chippy in Petersfield!
As for northerners and mushy peas - my wife likes mushy peas with her chips and she is from Essex! And by "northeners" do you mean "northern Englanders" - most of England is southern to most of Scotland (not all of it as the Border is NE-SW rather than E-W).
I think the point was rather lost by the CBA response to the comment - Scotland has a distinctive national identity within Britain and developed a Scottish "festival" in the shape of SAM when the north British and South British events were all on the same weekend. When the shorter Southern British events were moved it was, I assume, easier for the timetabled events in North Britain to stay in the SAM slot which was established. Had CBA South Britain decided to call it the "National Festival of Archaeology, rather than the Festival of British Archaeology, this would have been ambiguous enough that anyone wishing to hold events in North Britain under the FBA banner could have done so without engendering further feelings of cultural colonialism.
There's enough anti-English bampots in Scotland for other reasons without finding an excuse for a few more on this one!!
First place I ever saw them on sale was a chippy in Petersfield!
As for northerners and mushy peas - my wife likes mushy peas with her chips and she is from Essex! And by "northeners" do you mean "northern Englanders" - most of England is southern to most of Scotland (not all of it as the Border is NE-SW rather than E-W).
I think the point was rather lost by the CBA response to the comment - Scotland has a distinctive national identity within Britain and developed a Scottish "festival" in the shape of SAM when the north British and South British events were all on the same weekend. When the shorter Southern British events were moved it was, I assume, easier for the timetabled events in North Britain to stay in the SAM slot which was established. Had CBA South Britain decided to call it the "National Festival of Archaeology, rather than the Festival of British Archaeology, this would have been ambiguous enough that anyone wishing to hold events in North Britain under the FBA banner could have done so without engendering further feelings of cultural colonialism.
There's enough anti-English bampots in Scotland for other reasons without finding an excuse for a few more on this one!!