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Chris, have you been keeping up with the controversy on Newscast about what the Wigan-based snack, the Smack Barm, is?

So I would, I mean, I would say it's sort of bread bun, really, the actual, the bread itself.

And then into that goes your, you know, your scraps or your bit of fish or

your chips or whatever. But these are keenly contested vocabulary, isn't it? Because, I mean, is it a tea cake maybe? Or is it a, my wife who's from the Midlands and say it was a cob. Well, we've had a message from Amanda in Wigan, who is a newscaster and quite a few newscasters messaged us, but here is Amanda's message.

A smack barm indeed also exists and is a battered sliced potato on a barme cake, about £1.20-ish bargain.

You can ask for it with or without pee-wet, the juices of mushy peas which are skimmed and served

over your choice of delicacy. But as pee wet is free, it would just be rude

not to. It is a smack barm. A smack from a chip shop is not chips. It's one big slice of potato

deep fried and crunchy batter. Essentially, one big chip on a barm. Please see the attached photo,

and there is an attached photo, usually served with peas. Love the show,

excited to have all this happening on my doorstep. And Amanda's picture, I would describe as

a potato fritter in a morning roll with some mushy pea, very juicy mushy peas on top.

Yeah, it looks great from the picture I saw. Right, let's see what we can serve up in this episode

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And I just thought it was already complicated enough without two other people from other parts of the country intervening.

So would you like to have the...

Well, I mean, I've literally just come from another studio where I've been talking to an American audience.

And I said rather casually that that Labor was making

a horlicks of something. And suddenly I had to start explaining what a haulic means to an

American audience. So I understand entirely the need to explain a regional national idiom.

Alex, any local delicacies you'd like to bring to the table metaphorically?

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