what is "harrogate" and should I eat it?

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I'm eating mackintosh toffees, its making my jaw ache, but I just can't stop.

So what is this thing called harrogate? It tastes sort of mediciney.

Dunedin people, if you want to help me eat my sweets, come and find me. You can only have coconut, mint or "harrogate" though.

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or malt. they tastes like malt, y'understand.

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy are you in the main library?

― , Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like mackintosh's toffees, especially harrogate.

― di, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Duane: yeah I'm by the cross-looking guy in the blue shirt.

Di: BUT WHAT IS IT?

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

food?

― di, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but what else is there thats harrogate flavoured? Nothing that I've ever met.

(come over and eat the harrogatey ones if you like)

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thank you for the invitation. i shan't keep you waiting.

― di, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Harrogate is the bitch of the turnip

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike puts it so poignantly, as always. The little dickens.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nono, its poison. I feel as if I am dying...

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my teeth are rotting.

― di, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

too many sweets, too few pals.

― rainy, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

its true. i'm afraid of the dentist. i can't hardly eat sweets anymore without writhing in agony.

― di, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my teeth are fine, but theres a beach holiday going on in my guts.
I'm leaving the rest of these sweets under the mouse pad. they're all coconut, so its more aa of a punishment than a treat for whoever finds them.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

. . . which mousepad? Off hunting now . . .

― Ess Kay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lady Godiva, how does your bagina feel?

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

by a sign that says fire hose, emergency use only, by the west entry.

Theres egg and cream too. For the love of all things holy, come and get them.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How will I enjoy the products of the fine Cadbury company down there if you people all have rotting teeth? That won't be fun.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought harrogate was a town in Yorkshire. i wouldn't eat it, or anything flavoured of it, if i were you!

― katie, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

only if it asks you nicely

― Queen G, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

an outpost of the south in the north

― gareth, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Chester.

And Durham.

― Anna, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but not grimethorpe

― gareth, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If those places were outposts of the South in the North, they'd be nice. But they're not.

― Tim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Harrogate. Well, twelve years ago I liked it when I went on holiday there.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I drank Harrogate spa water, it smelt of rotten eggs. But, I drank it all, as I am simply that damn good.

― jel --, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

. . . by the time I got there, only a solitary (oops, redundancy) Coconut toffee remained. Given that it'd probably been there for a few hours, even that was a pleasantly glucose-boosting surprise.

― Ess Kay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Rainy That Ate Harrogate:

Its like a Japanese Monster Movie meets Ken Loach.

― Pete, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lets try to own a aby

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And Skipton.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How dare you! I will not be owned!

― aby, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother was born in Harrogate.

― A Yorkshire Lad, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jel was closest!!

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got skill.

― jel --, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Harrogate is a nice & pretty little town in North Yorkshire wot will always have a place in my heart because:

1./ mrs k-rad was born there

2./ there is a pretty good bicycle trade fair there every year, and the late ron kitching used to base his excellent "everything cycling" bike parts distribution firm there

Also "harry ramsdens's" fish & chip shop originated there, FWIW
I haf NO IDEA why someone would describe it (as well as other places) as a bit odf the south in the north. Sorry, that's a bit cobblers. The whole place has an air of prosperous mill owner gone to seed a bit. I like it a lot

I can only assume that Rainy's harrogate toffee is so-called because it was invented there, somewhat like kendal mint cake or pontefract cakes (vile) we await "kippax Krunchies" w/great agogness (that'z a j0ke for u yorkshire folk) aha pizza is here :)

― |\|0|2|\/|/-\|\| PHAy, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

read my link norman fay for all is explained therein by the use of google

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pah I have no need of google to anwer this I have my mentalist yorkshire in laws.

― Norman Phay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

answer, even

― Norman Phay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you lot even ate the coconut ones? wow! are you ok?

― petra jane, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

. . . my right shoulderblade is inexplicably bruised. I explicate the coconut toffee in lieu of actually knowing why I'm typing in pain.

I wonder if all British-colony kids have been geographically primed for relocation to England by things like Mackintosh toffees & Monopoly & suchlike?

― Ess Kay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ess Kay, do I know you?
also I wonder who ate the rest of the toffees... there were five left.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy can not aby!

― mike hanle y, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can so!!

― rainy, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

At school I am doing a survey on mackintoshs toffees. And i am finding out who likes what and why (you get it?) and i have surveyed 132 people and i found out that only 4% out of 100% people actually like harrogate

― Michelle Taylor, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lol

― Michelle Taylor, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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