Babbies' Yeds

How long has that been a Wiganism for steak puddings?

Anybody got an idea.

Pre 1970's?

1895

Sod off.

Is that off a Hollands packet?

Think about it...

1851

Go on, why 1895, Jarvo?

It took them 40 years to catch on in Wiggin...True.

I reckon it's a thing that has entered the language, after some outsiders decided after hearing a few, or even one, say it, that all Wiganers call them that.

I like this:

Posted by: ©art© (5751)

Savoury(slavvery)Ducks-Faggots-Babbys Yeds, were once known as the sweepings off the butchers floor, wrapped in a pigs caul...

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Posted by: fred mason (1770)

Grew up in Norley Hall and went to Canada in 1965 when Lamberhead Green was not called Lommera Green and steak puds were not called babbies yeds.

Rock on Wiganese.......

Long live the chippies...

Replied: 14th Jun 2013 at 22:18

I worked in Yates chippy in St. Pauls Ave for 12 years and my mum had the chippy on Poolstock Lane near the Bold pub for years and I never once heard the term babbies yed.

What sort of era, Joan?.

It's from Haddock...

My Mum had the chippy in the 60s and I worked in Yates in the 80s/90s

I heard it from a lad from Earlstown actually.

True!

He told me that we Wiganers called them that.

Thirty years ago.

I think it's a skit by those funny St Helens folk.

Thanks Joan.

'I think it's a skit by those funny St Helens folk'

You could be right, Jarvo.

And like the 'Pie Eater' nonsense from the Leythers, some of us have adopted it.

I can recall going to the transport cafe near to the Amberswood Tavern in the early 50s and being told bring thi dad a babbies yed pratoes veg and a small jug oh gravy and ask the woman fot wrap um up weell int taycloth ah took wi mi, so they wouldnt get cowd ont road wom.

We used to go to Billy Seddons butchers on Darlington St for his delicious pies with a jug for gravy. And across the road to Ada's chippy with a basin for a 6 o chips with pea wet. and Billy Lunds for our toffee

aitch, gradely bit o dialect. I con remember it sixties talkin bout Monkeys yeds. Fust time I eard babbies yed wer about 1990. Also recall gooint Benthams dern Newtown for a mixture wi scrapins un a Jublee it cost 10d
Bloody spell checker not wurkin

90s for me

Beep54 would agree never heard it much more than 20yrs ago10 yrs ago went in an English chippy down south and my niece asked for a steak pudding and the owners had never heard of them Is it a Northern thing

went int chippy wi work mates one dinner time and I said that con I ave babbies yed chips peys gravy on leave helmet on she looked at mi strange a ment the tin foil lid ha ha hah a every one just brasted owt laughin women said well ave never heard that before

Like it meccy, peter they don't do them in east Anglia, think they really are a northern thing

Peter, they don't do them in Devon.(They don't know what they're missing.)

I remember when I worked in Yates chippy and a scouse guy came in and asked to throw a pie in the fat, Now that does sound disgusting.

Up Scotch if you ask for a Puddin in a chippy they ask if you want Black, Red or White
Leythers have no idea what a Smack is, if you ask for one in a chippy you'd probably ger a clout

I've heard on Radio Lancashire that the name Babbies yeds for steak puddings originally originated from Darrin, that is Darwin on the map.

It was in the early 1990s that I first heard a steak pudding referred to as a babbies yed in Wigan.

Aitch, was it a reference to steak pudding, or faggots, as suggested by ©art©?

Darwn, Ayrefield. That outs a new slant on it.

My mother used to make them from vegetable dripping, swore blind they were healthy, well, my angina is of the mild variety

Well, if all else fails, there's always Google.

In the slang of some parts of North West England, steak pudding is known as "babby's yead" ("baby's head"). Historically, "baby's head" has also occurred in the slang of the British Armed Forces.

Wiki

Another intellectual contributes to the infamous UD:

babby's yed


Also known as a steak and kidney pudding, and is used mainly in Northern England. It is pronounced exactly as it is read, and is phonetic of the way us people from Wigan say 'baby's head.' I suppose some people must think that a steak and kidney pudding must resemble a baby's head. Quite funny really.

"I'll have a babby's yed, chips and gravy please"

dustaf, they were being discussed on a Radio Lancashire programme which was about Baxenden and Holland's pies and puddings, they were on about their steak and kidney puddings being nicknamed babby's yeds in chippys, you never know though, it could well have been someone from Wigan who had called into a Darwin chippy whilst out on missionary work and asked for a babby's yed, chips, peas and gravy and they cottoned onto the name.

I'll have to get hold of Victoria Coren.

I've been using the term babbies yed since march 2002 so can rest assured that it originated before then. FACT.

I first heard it in 1982.

Only I recent years have I heard it too.

Only I recent years have I heard it too.

They repeat on you though

Flippin' eck!

Strange how you remember things.

I vividly remember who told me, and where.

Bloody google!

Rosh gadol!

Catering trade?


Most supermarkets still sell steak and kidney puddings but these "babies' heads", as they are known in the catering trade, are nowhere near as popular as pies.

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A chipy in Atherton sells rag yeds


Can you type rag yeds

" 'Ere's all 'ot, toss or buy!".

Funny folk the suvvern mankeys.

Wrapped in muslin?

Aye, best I've had for years

I can hear the sound of a diesel engine.

Please don't do the Simple Simon one.

An quiz

Well, an advert really.

Cheeky Mancs.

And the Lord alone knows what a 'babby's fot' is.

Is it summat fot babby

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So, in the end, folks, it looks like the only thing behind the term "babby's yead" is the Brits' penchant for odd names; but this shouldn’t really come as a surprise, as it's usually the case with most British cuisine. On a more normal note... Wait! I just received news via Twitter! Steak and kidney pie is called "babby's yead" because of the fact that it's cooked in a bowl and then flipped, which makes it look like a baby's head when served! Oh, well, that explains everything! Everything except for the question of why someone would want to imagine that their pudding's a baby's head, but we'll leave that for another day.

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Babies Heads


c.1931 to WW2


1960-80's


2000-2010


John Winton in his book Carrier Glorious at p.33. Acknowledge the special variety of Steak & Kidney pudding.

In General Use - The popular name for a very special type of Steak and kidney pudding in a soft suet pastry - were either in individual tins or in standard 15oz tin and halved - Never found a civilian S & K pudding to equal the pusser's variety. A1++++

An ex submariner describes this - ' (the smooth pastry rises like a shiny baby's head)'


http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/navysong/Scran.htm

Navy Scran.

Not linked (rude words)

Never heard um caud babby's yeds. Funny, though...

Bump in case ©art© may be interested.

Quoted @ 14th Jun 2013 at 22:13 ^^^^^^^

Been to the Isle of Wight (back today) found a cafe with steak & kidney pudding on the menu

Aitch, was it a reference to steak pudding, or faggots, as suggested by ©art©?
It was steak pudding Dustaf, and bloody good they were to, faggots were men walking about with very limp wrists and guilty looks on their faces.

I only remember Slavvery ducks and Faggots, I left England in 1975...

Cheers, Aitch.

More history to it than I thought.

Still don't believe it,some folk...Faggots wrapped in a caul.

Just like some new born babies heads are covered in a "Caul" at birth (and I've delivered a few)

It's something i've never done......gone into a chippy and asked for "babies yed" chips, peas and gravy.