A meat and vegetable stew known variously as lobscaus, lobscous or simply scous. Hence the nickname for people from Liverpool "scousers" (skowcer approximates to the pronunciation). The dish is thought to have originated with Liverpool based merchant seamen. Though Norwegian seamen enjoy the same dish with same name.
Everton, Liverpool's neighbour town and great football rival was famous in the UK for the production of boiled sugar sweets and caramels. Probably because of the West Indian sugar trade. Hence the team's nickname "The Toffees".
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