"I'm from Yorkshire" : anyone else notice this?

[Odilla]

Why do people from Yorkshire feel the need to tell you that? It is fairly unremarkable given that the collective Yorkshire counties form a large part of England so lots of people are from there.

Yet still they do. Repeatedly. And will shoe-horn this revelation into any given conversation. Eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't like spending money on heating". Well yes I'm sure this is true; nevertheless this is not a special circumstance given that most people do not enjoy spending money on heating. Or they take something that is particular to them and still gas on about Yorkshire eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't wear blue shoes".

Never have I met a crowd of people so keen to assert common identity yet so unaware as to how common identity actually works. Although ironically that's an identity of sorts.

This always happens on four in a bed. The B&B owners from Yorkshire always mention they have the best bed, breakfast etc in Yorkshire and serve a Yorkshire breakfast which is the same as any normal breakfast but it comes from Yorkshire so is by definition superior. Hilarious when the next B&B is also the best in Yorkshire

Never noticed this.....now Mancunians on the other hand.....

I've never noticed this before but my dad has one parent (my grandfather) from not even Yorkshire but the Durham/Yorkshire border. Yet still my dad will make comments about being a Yorkshire man. He's about as Yorkshire as my shoe!

Oh the Yorkshire breakfast reminds me of a hotel I stayed in once in Llandudno. On the brekkie menu was "Full English Breakfast" and below it "Full Welsh Breakfast". My (now ex) husband suggested it came with a lamb chop :o On investigation it turned out that the welsh breakfast had two eggs to the english nreakfast's one egg!

The hosts were English....which confused me!

We have a collectively strong identity like Scotland or Wales. Can't help it if we are just 🤩

[quote episcomama]@Pixiedust1234 North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding.[/quote]
Those aren't seperate counties. They form one county. The clue is that they all have Yorkshire in the name. East Ridings is actually East Yorkshire.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire

@mumda

Which thing would a vegan from Yorkshire tell you about first?

A vegan? From Yorkshire?? Get real please!

My DH is from Yorkshire, but you would never know. He does not mention it, and certainly never goes on about it. I prefer the West Country way of being nice to everyone and unassuming, not self-consciously Devon, Somerset or whatever. I find the northern friendliness thing quite forced and conditional on whether you agree with them that their area is best.

@mumda

Which thing would a vegan from Yorkshire tell you about first?

Whether they lived in Hebden or Todmorden.

Obvs.

DH is from Yorkshire. He doesn't have the accent and hasn't lived there for at least 20 years but he reminds me constantly!

I'm from Lancashire. Every time he mentions sodding Yorkshire I am contractually obliged to remind him who won the Wars Of The Roses, which he is still in denial about.

I dated a slightly odd chap for a while who was from Yorkshire. He'd not lived there for over 20 years but managed to slip it into every conversation.

He invited me out for a meal and said he'd like to treat me. His words. He then went on to order me a tap water to drink, and commented that "you can take the boy out of Yorkshire, he he he." I don't mind dating someone who is cautious with spending money, but he was loaded.

This entire thread reminds me of why the classic (Lancastrian - but I won't write it in dialect) phrase came out:

You can always tell a Yorkshireman but you can't tell him much.

I’ve noticed this and I don’t even live in the UK 😂

I just accept it as a thing. People from Yorkshire will tell you, people from elsewhere won’t.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say “I’m from Kent” (Somerset, Lincolnshire wherever), unless you specifically ask them about where they grew up. Even then they are more likely to say the area or to name the nearest big town than the county.

Doesn’t bother me, it’s just a quirk 😂

DO IT FOR YORKSHIRE

(At least I think it’s Sean Bean. The shouty man in the Yorkshire tea ad).

Oooh Sean Bean....wouldnt kick him out of bed for being a professional Yorkshireman!

Dh was from Yorkshire. He was forever throwing words into conversations which I had no idea of the meaning of. I had to counteract by strategic use of Welsh colloquialisms and, on occasion (if he was being particularly Yorkshire), actual Welsh words. Neither of us had the least idea what the other was saying sometimes :)

"Tiny-bootteed Brontes" 😂

I’m from Yorkshire, and if someone asks me where I’m from I would say that. Is that weird? What do you say @Odilla when someone asks where you’re from (Cloud Cuckooland presumably)

If they announce they're from Yorkshire, they're from South Yorkshire

DH was born and raised in South Yorkshire (we live in SW coast) and would never announce it. He has a very slight accent which generally is only picked up on by other Yorkshire born folk so occasionally gets the "where are you from then?" (always accompanied with a slight inquisitive narrowing of the eyes as they ascertain if their suspicion is correct). He doesn't particularly identify with the area, much less so than his mother who was a southerner who moved there in her 20's!

@Pixiedust1234 that's incorrect. The historical county of Yorkshire is divided into four counties. The article you linked states that East Riding is a county in the first sentence

My stepdad was always telling people he was from Yorkshire. He was adopted so had lived in Lincolnshire since he was 6 days old!

@Pixiedust1234 They are separate counties according to every available official resource.

And what you’ve just linked begins The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a county in Northern England.

They even have their own day.
1st August, Yorkshire day.
We lived there 20 years.
I was still an incomer when I left!

Every time someone at work said something inappropriate it would be I’m from Yorkshire, I tell it like it is.
I learned to say
No, you’re just bloody rude.

My dgf always said they don’t eat bananas in Yorkshire because they’d have to throw the peel away.

It’s a stunning place though. A mix of mill towns and moors.
When we left a Yorkshire acquaintance asked how we could bear to leave.
She was serious!