Butter North/South devide

curiosity | 01:02 Mon 28th Feb 2005 | History

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I once read on a Lurpack Butter Promotion leaflet (obviously busy that day then!) historical facts about why it came to be that statistically people in the North of England buy silver packed butter and the south Gold packed or creamier. It was related to 1066 and William the conqueror and also Scandanavia and a north south devide. It has become a bit of a thing at work that I know useless information, but I can't remember the exact facts. It was actually very interesting Any ideas?

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landie

Cor Blimey who'd have thought it? I didn't realise that butter, in 1066, was available in gold and silver packs. You learn something every day.

WaldoMcFroog

The north south divide itself can be traced back to the Norse invasion. The south features more people with celtic ancestry, the north those with Norse - and this can be proved with DNA. It's also where the idea of northerners being uncouth and violent and southerners being soft comes from - the northerners being in invading party are associated with violence etc. Eddie Izzard did a very interesting programme on the Discovery Channel called 'Mongrel Britain' all about this kind of thing.