General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I don't know whereabouts you are 'Darn Sarf', but, on my recent travels, I have found the shortage of pies/barm cakes etc. to be a bit of a myth. I have 'savoured'(?) pie, sausage roll, etc. pastry products, in Cheshunt, 20 miles north of London, and Ashford, in Kent, 20 miles north of Dover. The girl called the barm cake a 'batch', and I saw no black puddings for sale. Mind you, I don't see black puddings for sale up here either, most Northerners would have to be force fed to eat such crap!