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What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by case_when to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was talking with a friend who mentioned "taking tea to India". It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. "Taking coals to Newcastle" is the UK's.

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Kind of an odd saying, I'm 100% sure Newcastle uses gas for their grill and not a single fast food place uses charcoal grills. If you brought coal to Newcastle, they would have no use for such a thing.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you mean White Castle?

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Oh shit I got confused...

In my defense, I've never heard of Newcastle until today.

[–] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

That is the funniest response I've seen all week.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Holy shit 😬

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's an archaic saying but that doesn't mean that the meaning has been lost.

Almost the entire industrial revolution was coal powered and the most common fuel for heating homes was coal. Coal used to be an extremely popular and useful commodity.

Edit: I now see that you thought the town of Newcastle was the fast food chain White Castle lol. I did wonder why you were going on about grills!

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

What??