As the new drug sensation "Spice" makes national news, Barnsley is to keen to remind people that they had it first.
Spice in Barnsley used to mean "sweets", as in, "let's gu' shop furra bag o' spice", or "giz ten pence-w'rth o' spice", but in recent years it has acquired a darker connotation.
Since the demise of Holgate School and its popular heroin-addiction programme in 2012, binners in Barnsley have been forced to seek alternative methods to justify their criminality, resulting in the invention of Spice - an ill-informed choice of name that has led to children as young as 3 getting hooked on the drug when all they wanted was a quarter of kopp kops.
Critics are divided on the matter, with some saying that if children were taught to speak properly in the first place they wouldn't end up purchasing drugs instead of sweets, while others argue that nicotine is a drug and yet no-one has managed to prevent Barnsley's under 5's from acquiring them along with their daily purchase of Mad Dog 20/20.
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