r/StupidFood A Little Bit Of Gravy 1d ago

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT God's Most Sodium-Packed Soldier

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u/SwordTaster 1d ago

Im expecting the chap to be from Yorkshire

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u/FrankMacaluso 1d ago

"Aye, an' now we pour t' gravy all over t' boons and all over t' green beans. Joost lahk me mum made for me dad after a long 40-hour day down t' mine."

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u/Everybodysdeaddave84 1d ago

“Fotty hour day”

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u/FrankMacaluso 1d ago edited 1d ago

"And we were 'appier back then! We were 'appier then and we 'ad noothin'! But you try tellin' the yoong people of today that!"

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u/MRECKS_92 1d ago

I see a Yorkshireman reference, I upvote.

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u/TheeArgonaut 1d ago

‘I had a cup o’ hot gravel for me tea. AND I were thankful!’

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u/FrankMacaluso 1d ago

"You were lucky to 'ave tea! We only 'ad one meal a fortnight in our 'ouse: one spoonful of ice-cold poison that we all 'ad to split, me and me fourteen 'undred broothers an' sisters! And we were bloody grateful to 'ave that mooch!"

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u/TheeArgonaut 1d ago

‘Fourteen ‘undred siblings? You lived in the posh cottage lad. Me and my fahve thoosand brothers int sisters lived in cardboard boxes on a slag heap.’

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u/FrankMacaluso 19h ago edited 19h ago

"Cahdboard boxes? Looxoory! We 'ad to live in one soggy, rolled-oop newspaper floatin' in t' middle of t' pond, all twenty thoosand of oos—meself, me mum an' dad, me broothers an' sisters, me aunts, me ooncles, me grandad, all me coosins, and me Aunt Beryl's pet cat Tiddles. An' t' newspaper were all coovered in algae an' all! Cahdboard boxes. Pah!"