JuveJay

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Up north lol, Coventry is anything but northern.

United Kingdom
Butcher's rusk

To the British butcher rusk is a dry biscuit broken into particles, sorted by particle size and sold to butchers and others for use as a food additive in sausage manufacture. Though originally made from stale bread, now called "Bread-rusk", a yeast-free variety called simply "Rusk" is now more commonly used.

Various rusk particle sizes are used in the food industry, where uses include:

A carrier for flavours, colours and seasonings
A binding agent in hamburgers, sausages, stuffings, pies, and other compound meat products.
As an ingredient for dried stuffing mixes.

Farley's Rusks

In the United Kingdom, Farley's Rusks are a dry biscuit dating from the 1880s but manufactured by Heinz since 1994. They are usually given to infants, soaked in milk and mashed up. They have a cult following among university students.

In 2006 there was a short lived scare when it was found that some Farley's Rusks contained traces of the weedkiller chlorpropham. The affected products were recalled and the contamination was traced to a batch of flour used during the manufacturing process. The level of contamination was not high enough to be considered a health risk.
It seems that these are the two uses in the UK.
 

Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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Up north lol, Coventry is anything but northern.


It seems that these are the two uses in the UK.
"up north" or "in the north"

I live currently in cardiff but based south of london, the whole fucking country is "up north" to me, everyone gets offended by me saying it, but its how i see the country - I don't say people are "in the north" until about 50 miles north of birmingham although i'd like to include the Black Country in the north.
 

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