Brown Windsor soup beans (broad beans), perhaps the origin of the name. Quinion adds that fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey mentioned eating it on the Great Western Railway in a book of short stories dated 1978 although Quinion questions whether this is an endorsement of the soup, "the extract confirms that the soup was at one time a staple of the restaurant menus of British Railways." Dr Malcolm Timperley, a researcher in the National Railway Museum's library and archives, reports that their team has specifically researched the existence of brown Windsor soup in British dining cars. After checking scores of menus dating
Scouse (food) to bone dealers after being used and for the same price as originally purchased from the butcher ). The dish is also popular in Leigh with local residents sometimes being referred to as 'Lobbygobblers'. A variant, "lobscaws" or "lobsgaws", is a traditional dish in North Wales, normally made with braising or stewing steak, potatoes and any other vegetable available; when made with mutton, it is known as "cawl". The food was traditionally regarded as food for farmers and the working-class people of North Wales, but is now popular as a dish throughout Wales. The recipe was brought by the canal