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Interestingly, as a Brit I've never in my life heard of "Brown Windsor soup". Admittedly I've never watched the Goon Show but it's hardly "deep...into the Briti
by milliams 5y ago
Interestingly, as a Brit I've never in my life heard of "Brown Windsor soup". Admittedly I've never watched the Goon Show but it's hardly "deep...into the British psyche". Perhaps it's a generational thing (I'm in my 30s)?
- JulianMorrison 5y agoYup, same, I'm 45 and I never heard of the stuff. At a guess, you had to be in the generation that actually watched the Goon Show.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoSame, I've never head of it either.
- Veen 5y agoI'm in my early 40s and have never heard of it either. Maybe it's a Southern thing.
- YawningAngel 5y agoI'm from the South, it isn't. Ironically, the notion that Brown Windsor Soup is famous itself appears to be a hilarious lie
- glassneedles 5y agoI’m Scottish but moved down to Sussex as a kid and have been here for almost 3 decades. I’ve never heard of it either. Seems a generational thing as both my parents were familiar with it as an old dish.
- darrenf 5y ago47, lived in Surrey my whole life, never heard of it.
- cm2012 5y agoIt's more of a Utica expression
- JackFr 5y agoReference: https://youtu.be/4jXEuIHY9ic https://youtu.be/4jXEuIHY9ic
- ChrisSD 5y agoI've done a small straw poll from a range of ages (20's to 70's). Only the older people (60's+) seem to have vaguely heard of it but none knew what it is or had any particular reaction to me mentioning it. Note though that my sample size for older people is very small due to the lack of 50's+ in my immediate vicinity (one person in their 60's and one person in their 70's).
- mattbee 5y agoI'd never heard of it (42) but I asked my wife and she figured it must exist because the Major orders it in Fawlty Towers.
- jsmith99 5y agoI've never watched the Goon Show either, but I've listened to most extant episodes. Perhaps that's why the name seemed so familiar.
- milliams 5y agoI guess that shows what I know about my country's cultural history :)
- bazzargh 5y agoWeirdly, I have watched the Goon Show. But only one episode - the last episode of the radio show was on tv too. (I grew up listening to my dad's tapes of the others) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Goon_Show_of_All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Goon_Show_of_All It is, of course, on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF745ywyvVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF745ywyvVY FWIW, I hadn't heard of Brown Windsor Soup till I watched the recent adaptation of Around The World in 80 Days.
- dgellow 5y ago1. create a myth 2. debunk it 3. everybody click and complain 4. profit?
- helsinkiandrew 5y ago
- gadders 5y ago50, UK born and bred (southern). I think I have heard the name, but no idea what it's like or ever eaten anything that claimed to be it.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> Admittedly I've never watched the Goon Show Being a radio show, you could watch it with your eyes closed. As radio shows go, it was actually very visual.
- technothrasher 5y agoAs an American, I'm pretty much on my own for even knowing what the Goon Show is, let alone Brown Windsor Soup. I even met Harry Secombe once in the late 90's at a hotel in Bournemouth, and nobody knows who the heck I'm talking about when I mention it.