she's corned beef hinnie

She had come to Nana's hoose for tea on Sunday. Aunty Jessie never took her hat off. I was about eight years old at the time and I was trying to talk to her, but she wasn't listening, so I talked more, which produced no results. My nana motions to her ear and tells me "she canna hear pet." Then aunt jessie screams at the top of her lungs, "aye hinnie, am corned beef." I nearly hit the other side of the room with the volume. I ask"corned beef?" "aya" nana says, "deef".
Corned Beef Deef

Listen to a bit Geordie
History of Corned Beef

A typical Sunday Tea at Nanas would be
sandwhiches (whatever meat was left over from Sunday dinner)
check out the British Sandwhich Association for some fabu sarni ideas

Cheese on Toast
scratch cake of some kind
maybe pie (either gooseberry or rhubarb)
Or
Fruit cocktail with evaporated milk
Or
Sasparilla float
AND
LOTS OF CUPS OF TEA

Comments

Leanne Pizio said…
Love it!
Can't wait to see more pages.
Sean Baker said…
hi i used to love sunday tea at my grandma's, there'd be all varieties of sandwiches, crisps in bowls, cheese, cakes, biscuits and tea of course!
Virgil Hervey said…
Very funny! Thanks for sharing this. You have just woke me from my snowy Tuesday morning funk.
Spoon of life said…
This is great!!! I always love to see your work!!!
Have a 2009 filled with dreams come true my friend!!! <3
Cat-in-a-Box said…
Oh thank you - that was my chuckle for the day. You may have introduced another 'random term' into my household... next time I don't hear what my husband says I'm going to be very tempted to should in my terribly mangled Enlish accent "WHAT'D YE SAY?? I'm corned beef!!"

* still chuckling *
Colette Amelia said…
Who would have thunk it that there would need to be english translations of English?

I remember watching some English movies that had sub titles!

Too interesting!

And loved the culinary lesson and reicipes!
Lynda Lehmann said…
i enjoyed list'nin to the snippets!

thanks for shar'in pat of ye life wit us!

do i have the ak-zent royt?

doubt it, hennie. probably more like the MAINE twang... :)
Gesa said…
What a good one, for a second I thought your nana was from Glesga :)
Shupe said…
:)
Love when words are toppled to and fro all wonkey like!
FABULOUS darling!
MadSilence said…
Corned beef, cabbage & boiled potatoes...a favorite! Especially when you make home-made hash from the left-overs.

The few weeks I spent in London I grew to love the sandwiches from Sainsbury's with chips! There's a place in NYC that supposedly does the British sandwich...expensive & not the thing.

:-)
Lynette said…
I'm going to check out some of those recipes, they sound great! My Mom used to fix us canned peaches with evaporated milk and it's really yummy. Corinne, I love the creativity flowing through these pages! Ha, my word verification is 'hephip'
Undaunted said…
Hehehe, your book just gets better and better! I had no idea that Geordie folk had their own rhyming slang! I'm not even going to attempt the accent - I can't even do a Scottish accent and my Dad's Scottish!! (I can't understand them either!)
jafabrit said…
thanks Painter girl :)

Cor Sean, that sounds delish. I used to do something on Saturday nights called the hodge podge dinner for the kids and we would all watch a movie. Kinds of a similar mix of nosh.

Virgil, how you liking the snow today, woo hoo!

Lovely to see you Maria, hope your plays are going well.

Cat in the Box, it is always fun to play with words and phrases especially on our husbands hee!hee!

colette, I was ashamed to admit I needed to read the subtitles for a Glaswegian movie, hell it was so thick the accent. And I am used to hearing Glaswegian from my Scottish born neighbour.

Lynda, yer accent is err, hum, questionable but hennie sounds better for an American. First thing my friend here said is what is a hynny and I said well it ain't a bum.

Hia gesa, aye, a lot of the Geordie dialect is a mix of lowland scots, norwegian and anglo saxon, so I can see why.
jafabrit said…
shupe, I just love wordplay and the variations of English.

Last time I went to England madsilence I was just amazed at how many variations of sandwhiches at the counter in Marks & Spensers. Not sure why they should be so expensive in New York.

Glad you like the sketchbook Lyn. The first thing I did when I got my first pay check was go and buy a can of evaporated milk and drank the whole can. UG! I didn't touch the stuff for years, but yes, I love it on pies, or canned fruit.

Sometimes I canna understand half my family undaunted lol!
deb said…
I'm a common saf londn grl meself, right cockney if ya get my drift,so when I went to Newcastle to do my masters I couldn't understand a blessed thing anyone was saying and I'm British, although I hadn't lived there for so long everyone thought I was a yank anyway! Now I describe myself as mid-atlantic doggy paddle, although no one can understand me when I ask for water even now!! The problem's not so much one's sandwiches as pickled onions and decent fish and chips,my mum's dad owned a chippy so I'm picky! and b gooseberries would be amazing, but only in crumble with custard!!
jafabrit said…
I had a right cockney accent when I lived in London for 6 years (self defense otherwise piss taking was never ending with a geordie accent).

I really miss the chippies, but I can get pickled onions over here in ohio from the brit shop. Oh and gooseberry crumble with custard, now you brought back a lovely memory.

thanks for dropping by everyone.

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