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<b>Are you black cabs and Michael Caine, or cupcakes and Coupling?</b>

Are you black cabs and Michael Caine, or cupcakes and Coupling?

How Cockney Are You?

China is short for china plate, which rhymes with mate.

It's a cockney term meaning "friend"

Let's start small. Is this a real or fake Cockney term?

Barnet is short for barnet fair...

This is a real Cockney term.

Making him a true Cockney. Jamie Oliver is just an Essex pretender from Clavering.

Dizzee Rascal was born in Bow in Tower Hamlets.

Which of these men is the true Cockney?

You might also hear people now call it "Going for an Andy", after a certain tennis player.

Short for a Ruby Murray, a ruby means going for a curry.

What are you being offered here?

As Tod is short for Tod Sloan, an American jockey who was known for riding out in front by himself. Rhymes with alone too.

This one takes an historical cue. Tod means by yourself...

People used to have fob watches, so that's how a kettle is a wristwatch. Phew.

Kettle = kettle and hob. Kettle and hob rhyme with fob.

What's being complimented?

But which Cockney actor plays the main character Harold?

Michael Caine played a Cockney gangster in "The Italian Job."

The late Bob Hoskins was the main character in "The Long Good Friday."

British crime film "The Long Good Friday" sees a Cockney gangster having a weekend from hell.

As bread is short for "bread and honey" which rhymes with money.  
A pony means £25 and a ton is £100.

Boot was the odd one out...

Which of the following terms ISN'T Cockney for money?

Butcher = butcher's hook, which of course rhymes with look. Easy.

This one a classic.

What do when want when we say this?

Specifically, we want you to put on a suit.   
Whistle & flute = suit.   
You might still hear this one in a few tailors around London.

We want to put some clothes on.

What are we asking you to do here?

As it references the boat race. Which of course makes boat mean face.  
Ouch

One for the Cambridge and Oxford mob.

Berk is short for "Berkshire Hunt". We'll leave it to you to figure out what swear word that means.

A classic bit of swearing here.

And finally... how you should you react when someone says this to you?

You wouldn't last a minute in the Queen Vic. You complete mug.

You're not cockney at all, you berk

Like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins, while you may be able to stick on a bad accent, you're not a true Cockney.

You're a Home Counties pretender.

You eat your pie and mash with a spoon, but you're still not keen on having liquor.

Not Cockney, but we'll have you.

The special child of Barbara Windsor and Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, you're as Cockney as they come.

You are a true Cockney

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