I think it's regional differences...

We had to say pardon, which I've since learned can be seen as rude.

I can't imagine saying anything else though.

Aveline

We were never allowed to say, 'pardon'. Only, 'I beg your pardon' or if necessary, 'Sorry?'

Me too!

MissAdventure

Chook?
It's chicken here.

Chooks live in Australia.

My mother used to sing Chick chick chick chick chicken etc

Actually, hens lay eggs .....

Never heard the Mrs Arden thing.
Egg and chips here. (Outer London childhood)

One difference I used to notice, a friend from Sheffield used to refer to what I would call fairy cakes, as buns. To me buns would be made from a yeast mix, not a sponge cake mix.

We were never allowed to say, 'pardon'. Only, 'I beg your pardon' or if necessary, 'Sorry?'

I ever say pardon, I say “what was that?” …if I didn’t hear 👂
Excuse me …if I sneeze/hiccup (burp 🫢)

Chook?
It's chicken here.

Chook chook chook chook chooken, lay a little egg for me
Chook chook chook chook chooken. I want one for my tea
I haven't had an egg since Easter, and now it's half past three
So - chook chook chook chook chooken, lay a little egg for me.

Don't know whose song it is, but my mother used to sing it.

I've never heard of Mrs Arden, but I love it!

Egg and chips
Bread and butter
Knife and fork (DH from NE Scotland says fork and knife)

I'm from central Scotland originally but my DM was from NE England.

Egg and chips.
Um and ah.

Not heard of the rest

Esmay

Fish and chips
Bread and butter
Bread and jam
Sausages or bangers and mash
Pie and mash

Don't know the Mrs Arden kitten and chicken one .
I'm from London originally .

Ditto, Esmay
And I'm not from London.

I've never heard of that phrase until this thread.

lizzypopbottle

Bread cakes in Sheffield, I think, Dee1012

Sacrilege lizzypopbottle

A Liverpudlian here and it is chips and egg!

And don't even get me started on "scraps" haha

Pardon Mrs. Arden, there's a piggy in my garden. (When someone burps)

I didn't hear this until I was in my 30s, though.

Egg and Chips
Bread and jam
I'm North West
Never heard the chicken thingy but must say its enormously good fun.!!!!
It's not a rhyme obv but one of my favourite sayings of my late mother ( who was actually a very sweet lovely woman )was that someone was
"neither use nor ornament " which , when you think about it, is pretty thoroughly damning......
Re chickens my OH sings a little ditty
"chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken...... lay a little egg for me"
don't know where he got that.
Scunthorpe.....
my friend's mum had a lovely saying about her daughter(my friend)
" she's a rum lass.......I don't know where she gets it........"

Vito ! we are from the NW originally, I well remember Shirley Valentine saying chips and egg, thinking, what? its egg and chips, who wrote this? of course it was Willy Russell, NW born and bred, also wrote the screenplay.
I never heard ‘chips and egg’ before or since, it just doesn’t scan, drove us mad too.

The standout regional differences Ive noticed are bread and cakes, as in barmcakes/baps, breakfast rolls/cobs, oven bottoms/muffins (of course now my brain has seized so that I cannot think of any others, help!)
On visiting friends in Yorkshire, into the chippy, friend ordered a ‘breadcake’ I thought, that is a bap!

Fish and chips
Bread and butter
Bread and jam
Sausages or bangers and mash
Pie and mash

Don't know the Mrs Arden kitten and chicken one .
I'm from London originally .

Bread cakes in Sheffield, I think, Dee1012

On moving to the North East and asking for a couple of Barm Cakes....I needed to ask for Stotties!

Vito! Ha! Liverpool! My mother's family all from there and Shirley Valentine too! Chips and egg!

I’m west.

Mrs Arden & Chicken
Egg & Chips
Bread & Jam
Hum & Hah
I'm from Chester.

I only knew the first bit of Pardon Mrs Arden. Nothing about the chicken or kittens.

Egg and chips
Bread and jam
Peanut butter and jam
Sausage and mash

Vito

I say, the same as you, Arden and Chicken, but always egg and chips. I'm from East Anglia, my family Suffolk/Norfolk .
Shirley Valentine said chips and egg,first time I'd ever heard it, drove me mad 😀

I have never heard this expression!

It is kitten in the version that I know, but that's because that's what it said in a nursery rhyme book that my son had when he was little. I didn't know that particular rhyme before that, so it has nothing to do with the fact that I am from Yorkshire.

Egg and chips

lizzypopbottle,
I say 'bread and jam' but jam ^on bread'.

I say, the same as you, Arden and Chicken, but always egg and chips. I'm from East Anglia, my family Suffolk/Norfolk .
Shirley Valentine said chips and egg,first time I'd ever heard it, drove me mad 😀

Jam and bread (NE) or bread and jam?