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Old 06-10-2012, 03:41 AM   #13 (permalink)
BoyBrumby
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Originally Posted by grecian View Post
You've obviously never been to the North of England, even though obviously they're not called fries there.....
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I have, great part of the world.
Well, clearly you haven't been then. It's dragging the rest of the country down.

&, ftr, the idea of "humble pie" comes from the pie the servants were given to eat after their masters had had first dibs so was made from the less choice cuts of meat including the entrails, archaically know as the "umbles".

So it'd be savoury, I guess.
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