To think the BBC needs to look at a map?

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North East contestants for the Great British Menu... From Huddersfield, Harrogate and London. It's a fucking joke.

I agree ! I didn’t watch much of it to find out if they work in NE restaurants.

Am bad at gerography but there's not the northeast I agree bcc need look at a map

Was it north AND east rather than north-east?

Nope, listed as North East. It's a joke.

Yeah they also tend to forget that bit at the top of the map....Scotland!

Yeah they also tend to forget that bit at the top of the map....Scotland!

Yep - cos all of those places would be south to a Scot!

I don't know about the other two, but Tom Anglesea is from Durham I'm sure. I know he works in London, but I'm 99% sure he is from the North East.

Yeah he was born in Durham but works in London so it's not exactly representative. There are so many really great chefs in the NE and it's typical for them to be ignored. I'm so sick of the NE being treated like the poor relation!

YANBU.

They're frequently terrible with northern and central England, but they're even worse with the other home nations.

The number of times a person's origin or the location of an event is just given as 'Scotland', 'Wales' or 'NI' - or if a town or city is given, they still feel the need to add the nation after it, even if it's Cardiff or Glasgow.

If it's elsewhere in England apart from the south-east, they usually give the county or region; if it's in London, they often just give the borough.

Even gameshows are often the same. The other day, I heard a question (I think it was on The Chase or another such quiz show where questions are not graded for difficulty as with, say, WWTBAM) asking in which London borough could you visit Portobello Road Market. Not infrequently, a TV quiz will ask where Robert Burns was born and they're never looking for Alloway or even Ayrshire - just 'Scotland' is all they ever assume anybody could (or should) possibly know.

They're frequently terrible

....by which I mean the BBC, but also most other national broadcasters and media outlets.

Ex DH was interviewed years ago at a Midlands Beer festival. He was named as "Joe Bloggs in Burton on Trent, London, England". Which might have been understandable if it had been an American interviewer but it was ITV news!

I'm still annoyed about it now.

So this Durham born lad now works in London, any ideas as to why a talented individual would want to up sticks if the north east wasn't the poor relation?
IF the north east was the seat of British cuisine then were are those people? Like every other MacLean, Geordie and monkey hanger with a spot of talent and nouse....somewhere else.

Mackem not maclean

I laugh every time some says Liverpool, Leeds or Manchester are in the North. Miles and miles and miles from being northern.

God's own country is not part of the north east.

Good try Buster72

www.greatbritishchefs.com/maps/michelin-star-restaurants-map-2019

There are more people in London, therefore more restaurants, therefore more Michelin-starred chefs? Does not mean there are not lots of fantastic chefs(some with Michelin stars) outside London. Presumably Tom Anglesea identifies as a Durham lad?

However, BBC is horrifically London-biased, again partly due to population. London tube map is regarded as general knowledge but I've been on the Paris Metro more often.

Totally agree. Quite often regional HQs seem to be based in Leeds, which as far as I'm concerned is not the NE (I live in County Durham) Why not be based in Newcastle?

I originate from Croydon, which is a London borough. It annoys me that when there is South London news reported on national networks (usually crime ) it is only referred to as taking place in South London. South London is huge! If similar is reported in North London, the location given is much more specific.

Try living in Lincolnshire - they don’t even believe we exist unless it’s to say that Maggie Thatcher came from there.....

@Buster72 I was born in monkey hanger land and have plenty of rope left. 😉😂

Try living a little though. There's plenty of culture outside of London.

I have visited hartlepool, still recovering.
I notice that you left....reasons?

Where are Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds if not in the north?

But I agree re looking at a map. The most frustrating is the weather forecast. It gives a summary for Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Belfast. I live at least 200 miles from any of these places. What's the point?

I'm inclined to accept Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds as being in the North of England as they have the Midlands to the south .

@thatmustbenigelwiththebrie they're closer to the middle for me. If you can't pop to Scotland for lunch without setting off before pop master you are not in the North.