Trying to find a scouse in this area is near impossible

[Nigello]

It's too high-brow.

[LadyNorwood]

Do you mean a person or the dish?

[uncleglen]

I knew a scouse ex-social worker who ran a knitwear business in the post-office in Dulwich Village and she lived in Barry Road. However- sometime between leaving Liverpool and my meeting her she had completely obliterated any hint of Scouse by having elocution lessons to the extent that she pronounced half-term as 'half-tarm' in true posh London-style. So you never know who is a scouser unless you ask.

She has since moved to Scotland last I heard.

Meanwhile

http://www.scouser.com/scouse-recipe/

[LadyNorwood]

Or did you want blind scouse?

[ruffers]

They'll get easier to find if they win the league. Won't be able to escape them then.

[Bluerevolution]

I lived in Aintree for a few years ?????

[LadyDeliah]

Does someone from Birkenhead count? Actually whatisname McGann is a real Scouser and he lives round here.

[Otta]

Birkenhead defo counts, they were more scouse thsn scousers back in the day ;-)

[Otta]

LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> Do you mean a person or the dish?

Can anyone tell me what sets "scouse" aside from any other stew? I was often given a bowl of scouse, and whilst it was always very nice I did think to myself that it was basically just stew.

[LadyNorwood]

Otta Wrote:

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> LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> > Do you mean a person or the dish?

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> Can anyone tell me what sets "scouse" aside from

> any other stew? I was often given a bowl of

> scouse, and whilst it was always very nice I did

> think to myself that it was basically just stew.

The gravy has to be so thick you can stand your spoon up in it..... Plenty of HP sauce on the top and pickled red cabbage.......

[Atticus]

Never ever had Scouse (as described), nor did I know anyone who had it. What we did have was Irish Stew which I guess is pretty much stew as everyone had/has it.

As for Birkenhead folk, certainly not scoucers. Known largely as 'wooly backs'.

[LadyNorwood]

Woollybacks are Gogs (north Wales) and parts of Cheshire, not Birkenhead... http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/scousers-plastic-scousers-woolybacks--3366630

His Lordship is a Scouser and there's always a pot of scouse on the go at Rooney Towers - more of an Autumn/Winter dish though....

[Otta]

Always had it on bonfire night.

The wooly back thing seems to change depending on who you talk to. I was called a wooly back once by someone who basically felt that anyone not from Liverpool itself was a woomy back. I think they were kind of missing the point.

[Atticus]

Where I'm from, wooley backs are anywhere from across the Mersey, and outside of Liverpool boundaries, which certainly includes Birkenhead. Though Otta has a point, those from the area have the thickest of scouse accents.

[Otta]

According to Wikipedia (so it must be right then) Scouse (the stew) got it's name from lobscouse which was a stew eaten by sailors. So as with the accent, it's all about the days when Liverpool was a busy port.

[LadyDeliah]

We had pickled beetroot in our Scouse, until he started complaining :-)

[ratty]

I know where to find one!

[Atticus]

Pickled beetroot and crusty bread were the ideal bedfellows.

[giggirl]

Local scouse - Lisa Moss on Northcross Market on a Saturday morning.