I want to take issue with Yorkshire Tea.

[fatrajah]

Mashing tea is analogous to mashing malted barley ie steeping in hot water. Mashing is part of the process of making beer. That said, "

let's have a proper mash" sounds all wrong.

[InigoMontoya]

"Lets have a proper brew" is what it says on its packaging.

 

Isn't Brew a Lancashire term??

 

Surely "Mash" is what we say in Yorkshire.

 

Mash is the verb, surely, and brew the noun.

 

(Lankeys probably don't have the imagination to have an extended vocabulary.)

[Bob Arctor]

Is it called mashing in the other Ridings? The West and North tend to look down on us so I can imagine they might have another word for it. I assume the East know their place and do whatever we do.

[Guest sibon]

Hmmm... now you mention it...

 

... I can't recall ever having stumbled across a tea plantation in Yorkshire either!

 

I think that there are some tea plants in the glasshouses in the Botanical Gardens.

[hush]

"Lets have a proper brew" is what it says on its packaging.

 

Isn't Brew a Lancashire term??

 

Surely "Mash" is what we say in Yorkshire.

 

But Yorkshire goes all the way ip to Middlesborough. It doesn't stop at Barnsley. I was from the border between East and North Ridings and never heard the word mash until I arrived in Sheffield.

Actuall when I think about it, it isn't even a term I encounter this side of Sheffield's great divide either.

Edited December 15, 2016 by hush

[hagrid]

Read all the posts, now time for a Cuppa.

[davyboy]

Mashing tea is analogous to mashing malted barley ie steeping in hot water.

 

Which is why it tastes like... well this is a family forum.

We also brew tea darn south.

[web1]

Can you tell im not originally from Yorkshire

 

I had an inkling

Mash..

Who's mash is it?

Brew..

Mek us a brew love, get t'brews on love...

[Daven]

I am born and bred in Sheffield and I have always mashed a pot of tea.

 

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But Yorkshire goes all the way ip to Middlesborough. It doesn't stop at Barnsley. I was from the border between East and North Ridings and never heard the word mash until I arrived in Sheffield.

Actuall when I think about it, it isn't even a term I encounter this side of Sheffield's great divide either.

 

Now - the Middlesbough issue is a problem isn't it ?

Many years ago it was in County Durham, then in Yorkshire, then Cleveland and now, strictly speaking, it is in Teeside.

It does appear that no one actually wants Middlesbrough - and I can understand why !

P.s., - my OH comes from the Boro so I am well qualified to comment !

[hush]

 

Now - the Middlesbough issue is a problem isn't it ?

Many years ago it was in County Durham, then in Yorkshire, then Cleveland and now, strictly speaking, it is in Teeside.

It does appear that no one actually wants Middlesbrough - and I can understand why !

P.s., - my OH comes from the Boro so I am well qualified to comment !

 

I don't know about that. They can muck about with administrative borders all they like but Yorkshire is the 3 ridings. So a bit of Lancashire, a bit of Teeside and a bit of Humberside belong to the real county.