World Cup

[Tarbicus]

So from what I understand is that Liverpool is the New Jersey of England? Right? Every house in Camden has a car out front on blocks!!

Oohh, not Camden mate. That's London, where all the soft southern shandy drinkers are :wink: I hail from a part of the country where real men wear t-shirts in subzero conditions. The women wear less.

The word Scouse was originally a variation of lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish Labskaus), the name of a traditional dish of scouse (food) made with lamb stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors.

Indeed, the story goes that when the Vikings were kicked out of Ireland they came across the Irish Sea and settled in the Isle of Man and the northwest coast of England. My actual homeland of the Wirral peninsula (no "woolyback" or "plastic scouser" comments please - yes there are sub-scousers if you're from Liverpool itself) still has signs of its Viking heritage, including placenames like Thurstaston. Liverpool was just a marshy bit of nastiness, hence the name alluding to its colour and condition. I once read that 'scouse' was a Viking word for 'marsh', but that's a dodgy reference.

And there's nothing like a plate of homemade scouse to warm the cockles of your heart. Delicious.