[madcat]

Both parents raised in Burton on trent and goosegog crumble for pudding ....

[Goldfinger]

Just start one of those poll thingys, to end the argument....

It's not an argument, it's an intelligent discussion.

Sorry, 'argument' was too strong a word.  . Would be nice to see in a poll though, how many people call them by which name....

[mumofstig]

Just read the thread..it's obvious which name is most used 

[wighty]

I've been running a 'poll' in my shop today (what must my customers think!) and we here in the 'refined south' say Gooseberries, then Goosegogs and none mentioned Goosegobs.  That must surely decide the question!

[Livinhope]

I'm from the refined south and always refer to them as goosegogs.

[solway cropper]

I'm starting to feel a bit picked on for calling them goosegobs when I was a lad.

My mother, a west London girl who married a Yorkshireman, insisted that we called them gooseberries but then she got a bit panicky whenever we said owt, nowt and summat.

[Livinhope]

I'm starting to feel a bit picked on for calling them goosegobs when I was a lad.

My mother, a west London girl who married a Yorkshireman, insisted that we called them gooseberries but then she got a bit panicky whenever we said owt, nowt and summat.

If you want to call them goosegobs then you do so.  Regional differences  .

[chris23005]

I'm starting to feel a bit picked on for calling them goosegobs when I was a lad.

My mother, a west London girl who married a Yorkshireman, insisted that we called them gooseberries but then she got a bit panicky whenever we said owt, nowt and summat.

Ever so slightly off topic - my Mum was a Londoner who married a Yorkshireman. I grew up in Hertfordshire saying Yorkshire-isms in a southern accent which totally confused my teachers and friends! e.g. I got told off for writing "We took the dog a walk" - I didn't know it was supposed to be "took the dog FOR a walk" ........... also "I'll go to the foot of our stairs", "His eyes were like chapel 'at pegs", "he could run like skopididle"! I also used to assume a sing song yorkshire type of accent whenever I visited my Grandparents in Sheffield so that I didn't feel out of place when talking to my cousins. It must have sounded really weird.  :blink:

I do remember one occasion when I just didn't get the joke - my brother asked "where's the bin" and my grandfather remarked "I don't know lad, where 'as t' bin?"  

However, from memory gooseberries in Yorkshire were definitely goooooooooosegogs or even goooooooooooosebries!

[Ruby Red]

My family are fond of quoting " Whoworry way ? Worryway issen ? Meaning " Was he with anyone or was he on his own ?"

[colleensj]

Tut..after all that my mum just got in phoned me to say all the goosegogs/gobs/bobs/berries have gone from her bush....
They was ready for picking when I gave it to her the other day....grrrrrrrrrrrrr  

bloomin birds!