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[CLKD]

As well as the issues with the two big Clubs up North !  And Newcastle and Sunderland  apparently 

Tribal war fare.

[Ju Ju]

When my husband was a policeman and helped to police football matches, he noted that when the football ‘fans’ weren’t getting into fights with away fans, they would fight fans from other housing estates!

As regards the Scots and the English, I remember, many years back in my first teaching job in the south of England, teaching children whose fathers were in a Scottish regiment, next to 2 Scottish teachers, plus a visiting Scottish speech therapist. I seemed to be in a minority group speaking with an English accent!

What is being English? I know in more recent history that my great grandfather was from the Austrian/German border area. Just before WW1. That’s another story! My daughter tells me my blood group originates from Asia. My son, nephew and niece have married either someone from a different country or second generation here. We are all melting pots of different nationalities. I have no patience with prejudice of any kind.

[C.C.]

Believe me, CC, you’d love a doughball 
Ok, you now need to tell us “what is being Canadian?” (And remember to let us know the yummy food too)…

Hmmm...be offended when someone calls you an American?
When I say "we" I mean collectively and I'm generalizing.
 We are stereotyped as very polite, we apologize for everything, we are sometimes called America's younger sibling..which is nuts.  We love sports, especially hockey but not everyone likes it. We are a proud bunch and embrace diversity.  I guess Canada is famous for poutine, but that's more French-Canadian.  We have butter tarts (tart pastry with a filling made with brown sugar, corn syrup, eggs and vanilla, and we add raisins or walnuts/pecans or both or neither) we love our craft beer or beer in general and going to pubs so we can enjoy pub food, so I guess there's some connection to being English. 

[CLKD]

butter tarts - originate from Portugal ?  rich, moreish but too much of a good thing 

Cream Tea: Devon or Cornish; jam or cream first?

[C.C.]

Nope, butter tarts were first made by the early settlers in Canada, although there is some controversy about who exactly invented them.

[Songbird]

Lovely. Butter tart with raisins and pecans will do me nicely when we're in Vancouver. 

[C.C.]

I have a brother on V. Island...one day we'll get out there.  Vancouver is on my bucket list of Canadian cities to visit.

[getting_old]

CC is there some cake named after a place near Vancouver? I tried it once as it sounded good (chocolate!!) but wasn't a fan as it contained coconut and I don't like the texture of coconut. Ah, googled it - Nanaimo bar. I thought it was going to be like Millionaires Shortbread!
We visited Vancouver a number of years ago, and I absolutely hated it. Everyone said we should go to Granville Island and described it as the Canadian version of Covent Garden, so I was really disappointed when it was just some tiny food court with really expensive stuff. Then we somehow walked into a really dodgy area in the middle of the afternoon and people were fighting whilst the police just watched them. I found the people there really odd too, however Vancouver Island is very nice and the people there were lovely.