Southerners start at the Scottish border, just saying
Ah but… @graham it were definitely north of Watford in the days of my misspent yoof in London’s East End years before the M1 was built and Watford in Northants was still a couple of muddy fields… I yield to no-one in the etymology of this famous slur from denizens of the benighted sarf about local geography.
Yours indignantly, defiantly and breathlessly
Brummie Pete
but Gobbles… I’m a Manchester lad… none of that sarfin knats pass has pissed my lips
Boddingtons, a local pub to me was known as Boddies and was the scene of many a fight on a Friday or Saturday night. They had to take it back to the beginning and make a gastro pub in the end
Years back I knew an old Yorkshire chap whose favourite quote was “Lips that have touched kippers will never touch mine”.
I shudder to think about the provenance of the phrase though it is very memorable…
The brewery I can remember was by Strangeways Thwaites were in Blackburn until recently
Sure there was one in Moss Side… I think it was Hydes Brewery which became Boddies cask conditioning plant… but yes, Strangeways out towards Salford… at Her Majesty’s pleasure
Not advised to spray that over fellow drinkers in Salford on a busy Friday night