I from the US, just learned about these today, and had a chuckle.
an essex girl was driving down the A13 when her car phone rang. it was her boyfriend, urgently warning her “treacle, i just heard on the news that theres a car going the wrong way on the A13. please be careful!” “its not just one car!” said the essex girl “theres hundreds of them!”
There used to be a UK clothes shop called C&A. The joke was -
Why did the Essex girl have C&A knickers?
So she could tell which way round to put them on
C&A still exists though and it’s Dutch, not British.
All the high street stores closed in 2000.
Not in the Netherlands
Essex is in the UK, so kind of irrelevant