#places you may have experienced these include Whitby Redcar Saltburn and Darlington
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Apparently we have quite different ice cream experiences
so followup question (one which I expect to be extremely regional)
how about ye olde lemontop
you can get them in shops and kiosks but not ice cream vans
not to do a remember when mother put the kettle on post but
does anybody (UK, child of the 90s) remember ye olde Punky Penguin?
such mediocre ice cream. such thrilling packaging.
#red said#these i understand to be HIGHLY specific to the north east English coast#they are mr whippy style vanilla icecream with soft serve lemon sorbet on top#although i think the kiosk in the shopping centre when i was a kid did ones with lemon curd instead. but that's not a true lemontop.#neither are the blended whips that are the second image result i get on Google. tf is that. it's a lemonTOP not a lemonSIDE#places you may have experienced these include Whitby Redcar Saltburn and Darlington#my housemate insists that technically this makes it not the north east per se but largely North Yorkshire but NOPE. NO.#basically we have GOT to accept that culturally there's a distinct region comprising the upper end of North Yorkshire#the whole of County Durham. and a bit of Northumbria#which has a specific culture and food setup not entirely the same as either the borders or the rest of Yorkshire#i would draw it very approximately as the following line#Scarborough - Northallerton - Kirkby Steven - Penrith - Hexham - South Shields#which. uhhhh. looking at the map that's just a circle I've drawn around the North York Moors the Upper Pennines and the parallel coast#which might explain it. that's a pretty clear geographic region.#not sure that there's a direct connection between highland moors and wanting to eat chicken parmo lemontops and cornflake tart but 🤷♀️
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