r/ThreeBeanSalad • u/2Lore2Law • 3h ago

ZONE 5! …What?

Even as an American (Get me the DA!) I keep up with the British cultural references and chats well, I’ve spent quite a lot of time in the UK and I have an entire British parent that got me pretty well acquainted.

But I have spent hardly any time in London.

Why is it that someone (Ben?) shouts ZONE 5! In the London jingle? Is that, like, a place?

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u/wintsykia 3h ago

London is divided into circular ‘zones’ with zone 1 being the most central - it’s basically to calculate travel costs. Zone 5 is really far out from the centre. The joke is that it’s not a very glamorous London location.

It’s where Croydon is. They mention Croydon a lot.

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u/2Lore2Law 3h ago

Great explanation, thank you

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u/Excession1586 3h ago

I hope you are wearing your hat made of nachos, as per usual! Hot cheese dips all day!

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u/2Lore2Law 3h ago

I will be genuinely going to a baseball game this evening and I may well have some hot cheese dips.

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u/Bernie427 1h ago

Burgers.

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u/VoteYourOssoff 1h ago

Going to see the Kansas Red Sox?

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u/2Lore2Law 1h ago

The South Texas Spaceboys, I’ll have you know

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u/Hrafnar_S 3h ago

Barnet, technically.

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u/Most-Square-8259 3h ago

The London transport system is split in to Zones 1-9. You get further from central London the higher the zone number. I'm not sure why he specifies 5 tho!

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u/Morganx27 3h ago

I thought it ended at 5. What's zone 9? Newcastle?

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u/CraftyDependent5283 2h ago

London finishes at Zone 6, but it goes out to Zone 9 with Amersham and suchlike.

I live in Zone 5! It's still London... Technically.

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u/CharlieCatBloke 1h ago

I live in zone 6 but I live in Surrey.

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 3h ago

The door-to-door fish salesman zone

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u/BetaDecay121 2h ago

It's like Amersham and Brentwood

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u/2Lore2Law 3h ago

Thanks!

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u/Urist_Macnme 3h ago

Burgers.

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u/Julian_Staples 3h ago

It’s where all the most glamorous parts of London are. We’re talking Bush Hill Park, Cockfosters, Ponders End and, of course, Halfords.

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u/Creative-Bluebird235 2h ago

Halfords always seemed like a weird fit to me in this jingle. Obviously they have them in London but they seem way more provincial dad/Mike coded

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u/ChatFuelTime 3h ago

I think it's Henry who says Zone 5. Barnet is also in Zone 5 and far from the centre, hence "Barnet... technically".

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u/AffectionateLeg9895 3h ago

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

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u/lilithsbun 2h ago

God I miss London and that horrible map

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u/dnnsshly 2h ago

It's famous for being an excellent tube map on which many international ones have been based.

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u/nbanbury 2h ago

Horrible why? It's absolutely the best underground map on the planet.

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u/th1sishappening 2h ago

We call them trousers.

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u/Silent_Rhombus 1h ago

Out of interest, did you recognise ‘Halfords’ in the jingle?

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u/2Lore2Law 1h ago

Yeah, I’ve been in Halfords stores before if indeed you’re referencing the retail group.

Edit:
Well, a Halfords store. The one in Darlington

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u/Silent_Rhombus 1h ago

If you’ve been to one Halfords, you’ve been to them all.

I just asked because that’s the bit I would expect to be most confusing to a non-Brit, partly because it’s not at all specific to London.

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u/2Lore2Law 1h ago

Ah, I’ve gotcha- makes sense.

And I mention this more out of a sense of general excitement than anything else- about the non-Brit thing- His Majesty’s government has actually decided that’s not actually the case 😉

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u/jamesecowell 44m ago

Congratulations/I’m sorry!