Snow_white Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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.
enzo gambaro Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 I can cope with the other regional variations, but what the fuck does Blackburn call a barm with cinnamon and raisins?
jules_darby Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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
no balls Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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.
MickyD Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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!
The True Marple White Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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!!
Boothy Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 It's fuckin' stupid. It's a barm. End of debate. Everyone else is wrong. We're right.
enzo gambaro Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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?
Boby Brno Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Err Flour Cake, or is that just Farnworth?
Burndens Bogs Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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?
oggybwfc Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 In Bolton with out doubt it is flour cake,barm is Manc.
Boothy Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Should be a census vote, to clear it up once and for all.
Athywhite_Mike Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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
HomerJay Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 In Bolton with out doubt it is flour cake,barm is Manc. wash your mouth out!
Boothy Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Don't recall anyone saying flour cake, and to be honest, it sounds a bit pansy.
MickyD Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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.
oggybwfc Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Are you sure you notrights are from Bolton?
Guest Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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
whiteboy Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 remember some scouse lad at uni asking for a binlid
no balls Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 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.
Ani Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 remember some scouse lad at uni asking for a binlid known as a stephen hawkins round here.
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