The different regional variants for a spheroid of bread is really quite remarkable,

 

Blackburn -"tea cake"

 

Lancaster - "bun"

 

Hyde - "muffin"

 

it changes from area to area with no real explanation.

Mansfield = Cob.

Simply a bread roll darn sarf.

I can cope with the other regional variations, but what the fuck does Blackburn call a barm with cinnamon and raisins?

In Stockport it's a muffin or barmcake

 

Our resident Jackburn fan is of the teacake persuasion - fucking oddballs

 

I think it's cob in Stoke too - must be a Midlands thing me duck

I can cope with the other regional variations, but what the fuck does Blackburn call a barm with cinnamon and raisins?

 

 

Fruit Teacake. It's a simple language for simple folk. The less words the better.

I had a fish barm in Cleckheaton a while ago and we had this discussion with the proprietor of the chipshop; which happens to be a fish shop in those areas. He asked me if I wanted it on a Fish Teacake.

 

A what?

 

A fish teacake is a barm but slightly elongated widthways in order to get the whole fish within the bread.

 

Well, you learn sommat new eery day!

Very good debate this!!! When I head south to the office in reading and ask for a ham salad on a White barm I get looks as if I've just dropped down from mars!!!!

 

Teacake is certainly nit right, that's the one with currents in!!

It's fuckin' stupid. It's a barm. End of debate. Everyone else is wrong. We're right.

A fish teacake is a barm but slightly elongated widthways in order to get the whole fish within the bread.

I like it.

 

Do they have specialist bread products for chips and jumbo sausages, too?

Err Flour Cake, or is that just Farnworth?

It's a flour cake !!!!

Barm

Bap

Flour cake

Muffin

Roll

 

I'm cofuseddotcom

 

I reckon it's a barm to most Bowtners

 

Wonder what Boltys Aussie colleagues call 'em?

In Bolton with out doubt it is flour cake,barm is Manc.

Should be a census vote, to clear it up once and for all.

For my lunch today I shall be having a Beef Salad Barm. Yum

 

Girl I used to work with was from Bury and she called a barm a muffin

In Bolton with out doubt it is flour cake,barm is Manc.

 

wash your mouth out!

Always a flour cake when i was a lad.

Don't recall anyone saying flour cake, and to be honest, it sounds a bit pansy.

Flour Cake is a barm rolled in flour; end of.

 

Oven Bottom is a barm baked on; wait for it; the bottom of the oven.

Are you sure you notrights are from Bolton?

Fruit Teacake. It's a simple language for simple folk. The less words the better.

they do acknowledge "barm cakes", but, apparently, they are "different, more rustic"

 

he's from Darren

remember some scouse lad at uni asking for a binlid

Err Flour Cake, or is that just Farnworth?

 

 

As someone from the opposite end of the Borough on border control I have never heard it called that.

remember some scouse lad at uni asking for a binlid

 

 

known as a stephen hawkins round here.