North West English Foodways

Subregional

LANCASHIRE, CUMBRIA, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and CHESHIRE. Lancashire hotpot, baked long with sliced potato on top; LANCASHIRE CHEESE in its crumbly, creamy and tasty forms; Eccles and Chorley cakes; butter pie, from the Catholic Friday; black peas; Bury black pudding; Morecambe Bay POTTED SHRIMPS; Liverpool SCOUSE, which gave the city’s people and speech their name; CUMBERLAND SAUSAGE, sold in a coil and now protected; Grasmere gingerbread; Herdwick mutton; and Cheshire cheese, among the oldest named English cheeses.