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« Reply #31050 on: September 02, 2019, 12:24:09 PM »

Whilst we are at it why are most cleaning fluids blue. Why was Esso Blue......blue?

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It was not exclusively Blue MrDickie.

Posh people had blue paraffin - usually Esso Blue (dum dum dum), whereas us peasants had cheapo Pink Paraffin. If shops still sold paraffin, Waitrose would sell blue, Aldi would sell pink.  






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« Reply #31051 on: September 02, 2019, 12:26:58 PM »


Esso Blue had better adverts though. I can still vividly recall this advert some (60 odd?) years on.



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« Reply #31052 on: September 02, 2019, 12:29:29 PM »

Whilst we are at it why are most cleaning fluids blue. Why was Esso Blue......blue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRbmfLVoWo




Because, according to the adverts, it produced a clean blue flame.


I can't really fathom why porn is associated with blue.
A very underdone steak is described as blue, I wonder if it's anything to do with being raw?


5 reasons are listed here, but I'm not sure I believe any of them.


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« Reply #31053 on: September 03, 2019, 07:49:15 AM »

Whilst we are at it why are most cleaning fluids blue. Why was Esso Blue......blue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRbmfLVoWo




Because, according to the adverts, it produced a clean blue flame.


I can't really fathom why porn is associated with blue.
A very underdone steak is described as blue, I wonder if it's anything to do with being raw?


5 reasons are listed here, but I'm not sure I believe any of them.


http://www.catchnews.com/dailyhunt/lite/what-s-in-colour-ever-wondered-why-porn-films-are-called-blue-films-here-s-the-reason-100088.html?utm_source=dailyhunt&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=website&dailyhunt-also-read




I think they are all guesses. Some things we are just never going to know.
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« Reply #31054 on: September 04, 2019, 08:35:14 AM »

You have to do it in Nantwich, it's the law.


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Miss this so much from my youth and also, if you asked for them, fish scraps sprinkled liberally on a portion of chips for those of us who couldn't afford a piece of fish. I've never seen either since I moved out of Manchester. 
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« Reply #31055 on: September 04, 2019, 09:17:03 AM »

You have to do it in Nantwich, it's the law.


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Miss this so much from my youth and also, if you asked for them, fish scraps sprinkled liberally on a portion of chips for those of us who couldn't afford a piece of fish. I've never seen either since I moved out of Manchester. 

Proper suet pies are great, and seem to be a very North Western delicacy nowadays. But most chippies worth their salt will give you a scoop of batter bits on top of your chips.
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« Reply #31056 on: September 04, 2019, 09:32:25 AM »

You have to do it in Nantwich, it's the law.


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Miss this so much from my youth and also, if you asked for them, fish scraps sprinkled liberally on a portion of chips for those of us who couldn't afford a piece of fish. I've never seen either since I moved out of Manchester. 

Proper suet pies are great, and seem to be a very North Western delicacy nowadays. But most chippies worth their salt will give you a scoop of batter bits on top of your chips.

Presumably 'batter bits' is some weird localised term for 'scraps'.  Is this going to be one of those phrases where there turns out to be about 20 names for them around the country, but each person has only ever known one name from the list?
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« Reply #31057 on: September 04, 2019, 09:36:17 AM »


I've always known then as "scraps". Jolly nice they are too. I've not seen then for years though.
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« Reply #31058 on: September 04, 2019, 09:39:00 AM »


I've always known then as "scraps". Jolly nice they are too. I've not seen then for years though.

It is a Northern thing.   They are available in my local chippie when I go "home", but you never see them down here.  Guess if people asked for them, they would save them here too.
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« Reply #31059 on: September 04, 2019, 09:54:27 AM »


I've always known then as "scraps". Jolly nice they are too. I've not seen then for years though.

It is a Northern thing.   They are available in my local chippie when I go "home", but you never see them down here.  Guess if people asked for them, they would save them here too.

Not just a Northern thing. Scraps , or crispy bits, are very popular in the Eastern Counties.
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« Reply #31060 on: September 04, 2019, 10:52:15 AM »

Bedders Chippy in Small Heath Birmingham keeps winning awards, they do scraps, a heaped scoop of them on top of the chips. Loved that chippy!
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« Reply #31061 on: September 04, 2019, 11:56:18 AM »

I talked my local chippy bloke, (who is brown and sounds Indianish but does really good British type fish and chips) into saving me some of the scraps that he used to throw away.

Now he says all his customers want them.  He'll be selling them soon.
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« Reply #31062 on: September 04, 2019, 01:05:48 PM »

They were always called batter bits in Northampton, where I spent my formative years. Four pennorth and with batter bits was a treat on the way home from swimming when I was a lad.

Up here in the North East they are scraps.
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« Reply #31063 on: September 04, 2019, 01:19:34 PM »

We used to call them 'scrippits'  Smiley
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« Reply #31064 on: September 04, 2019, 03:11:39 PM »

My excellent local chippie The Cod's Scollops has crispy bits too.
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