Yorkshire Dales Food

With the help of Twitter, my recollections and a little bit of research I have put together a collection of Northern Food Words, food related vocabulary from the North of England, Yorkshire and Lancashire mainly, my favourite being Brossen or Brussen meaning full to bursting from over eating….

What are your favourites? or any you heard Mum, Dad, Gran, Grandad say in the past….  possibly just regional food terms like teacake, bap, bun, bread cake, barm please comment below or let me know and I will add them here..

Anything relating to Flat Caps, Greyhounds, Whippets & Ferrets does NOT count (that was for the Southerners! and to avoid any confusion!)

• Apeth – meaning a halfpenny of sweets
• Baggin – packed lunch
• Bait – as in “Bait Box” meaning packed lunch, sandwich box or snack
• Beeroff – off licence
• Bleggin – or I’s off bleggin – to go and forage blackberries
• Brew – pot or cup of tea
• Brossen or Brussen – “oh I’m reet brossen” meaning full to bursting from over eating, term of satisfaction after a good meal
• Buttie – sandwich
• Cake’ole – meaning mouth
• Char – “fancy a cuppa char”, meaning a cup of Tea
• Chip ‘ole/Chippie – fish & chip shop
• Chuddy – chewing gum
• Clem or Clemmed (see Klempt) to starve, starving hungry
• Codole – see Chip hole
• Drinking – “were oft for’t drinking”, meaning going for tea & biscuits
• Dripping – Beef Lard
• Eating irons – knife & fork
• Famished – Hungry
• Fishcake – usually 2 slices of potato with white fish filling, battered from a Chipie
• Gaspin – thirsty
• Gip – to retch or be sick
• Goosegogs: Gooseberries
• Growler – Pork pie
• Guzzle – meaning eat greedily
• Hotpot – as in Lancashire Hotpot does this count or is it just a regional dish?
• Kali – meaning sherbert
• Klempt – “I’m nearly klempt to death” meaning starving, hungry
• Lowence or Looances – a snack while working, especially for farmers.
• Mash – “mash the tea” meaning brew the tea or mashin the tea
• Mucky Dripping – lard with browned meat & fat bits usually from a roasting tin
• Nosh – Food or to Eat
• Parkin – ginger cake with oatmeal
• Pikelet – crumpet
• Pogged Out – meaning full (see brossen)
• Pop – as in fizzy soft drinks
• Potted Meat/Potted Beef – meat pate or sandwich spread
• Put you on – as in “have a buttie to put you on” a snack to keep you going until teatime
• Sarnie – sandwich
• Scran – general term for food
• Scraps – from a fish & chip shop the bits of batter that fall off the fish, “a bag o chips we scraps”
• Skeel – a Milk Pail
• Snap –  meaning packed lunch
• Snap Box – Lunch Box
• Spanish – another word for liquorice as in Spanish Liquorice
• Spew – vomit, to be sick
• Spice – meaning sweets
• Spoggs – Sweets
• Sup – “to sup your tea” meaning to drink
• Tatie Scrattin – Potato picking
• Teacake, Bap, Barm, Bun, bread cake, oven bottom cake – all regional variations on a small usually white bread teacake
• Watter – Water

A few Scottish words:-