bolton va va Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 In Bolton, it's a barm. In Newcastle on Saturday, i think they're called stotty's. (There may also be a brown ale bread !!!)
superbobby Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Nan always called flour cakes, had to ask for a batch after we moved Now call it a roll (and butter)
Crawley Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 My Nana in Farnworth called it a flour cake, always a barm to me. Rollsl down here, but rolls are crusty and you have them with soup. Went out with a girl from Northwich and they call it a Batch, had to double take when she asked me to try her mum's hot beef batch.
gonzo Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 dunno if anyone has said but in coventry its a batch.
HomerJay Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Why is it that we know every name under the sun, yet turn up in bloody lincoln or southend and we pretty much have to point to the fucking thing?
Danny G Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Flour cake if your an old Boltonian, Barm if your under 45
Casino Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 too many wannabe mancs corrupting our language, thats why casino, grandson of a baker
Guest Biff Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 too many wannabe mancs corrupting our language, thats why casino, grandson of a baker He were a grand baker was Casino's grandad and Casino always knew when it were time to get up because he could smell him coming up the stairs.
Casino Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 very good it was my grandma actually and she sold flour cakes in bury
athywhite1958 Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 My Nana in Farnworth called it a flour cake, always a barm to me. Rollsl down here, but rolls are crusty and you have them with soup. Went out with a girl from Northwich and they call it a Batch, had to double take when she asked me to try her mum's hot beef batch. That is quite funny actually Crawley, I'm sure Bolty will be pleased you are developing a sense of humour
TheWanderer1958 Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 Undoubtedly it is a flour cake in Bolton....... The word "barm" is used by want to be Mancs and people that wear hoods...... Breadcake in Hull by the way...... Makes sense.
bolty58 Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 [/b]That is quite funny actually Crawley, I'm sure Bolty will be pleased you are developing a sense of humour Oh, I am beside myself
Crawley Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 Oh, I am beside myself Don't worry, every post you write makes me piss me sides.
Totty Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Always been a muffin in our house. Pasty in a muffin, chip muffin, steak & onion muffin... I asked for a chip muffin at a chippy in Bristol, the woman looked at me like id just done a shit on the counter!... Turns out it's a chip roll there. Freaks. Edited February 24, 2011 by Totty
Sweep Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 I asked for a chip muffin at a chippy in Bristol, the woman looked at me like id just done a shit on the counter!... Turns out it's a chip roll there. Freaks. At least you can get a chip barm/muffin/roll in Bristol. If you ask for such a thing where I live, they'll look at you like you're an alien. None of the chip emporiums around where I live sell any bread based products at all, which is rubbish. None of them do gravy either, but that's another story
blackleywhite Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 Is it fish between 2 slices of potato dipped in batter? Morris on Highfield Rd, Farnworth was a Yorkie and that's how his fishcakes were in the 80's. I know a chippy in Bolton that sells this very product....
Ani Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 I know a chippy in Bolton that sells this very product.... You might make good fish and chips but you are shit at marketing. Keeping the location secret is not good for generating trade.
Sweep Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 I'll be back in BOlton for a couple of days next week, tell me where this fine chippy is, and I'll sample the goods
blackleywhite Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 You might make good fish and chips but you are shit at marketing. Keeping the location secret is not good for generating trade. If you insist.... Tonge Old Rd, Tonge Fold, next to the co-op.
HomerJay Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 Always been a muffin in our house. Pasty in a muffin, chip muffin, steak & onion muffin... I asked for a chip muffin at a chippy in Bristol, the woman looked at me like id just done a shit on the counter!... Turns out it's a chip roll there. Freaks. i vividly remember going round to a mates house for tea when i was a boy. he lived in garstang, so not a million miles away. i wouldnt say they were posh but they had a big house and obviously plenty of dough (see what i did there?) anyway, his mam dished up and chips were on the menu, she then brought a plate of bread and butter to the centre of the table. i then did what any man/woman/boy/girl would do in this situation, i made a big fat chip butty. or at least started to. you'd think i'd stuck my hand in their fish tank and proceed to eat their fish one by one by the look of 1st amazement then disgust on their faces. very odd.
Big City Girl Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 My other half is from Yorkshire and he can't understand the butty bit either
Sweep Posted February 24, 2011 Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) i then did what any man/woman/boy/girl would do in this situation, i made a big fat chip butty. or at least started to. you'd think i'd stuck my hand in their fish tank and proceed to eat their fish one by one by the look of 1st amazement then disgust on their faces. My mum tells a story that when she first came to Bolton to meet my Grandad (c1972), he decided to make tea for himself, my Dad and my Mum. He then produced a plate of pie and chips or whatever for each of them and then placed in the middle of the table a massive pile of buttered bread (actually it was margarine, but you get the point). My mum was horrified to see my Dad and Grandad then start to make chip butties and ram them down their throats, she had never seen this sort of thing before and was absolutely mortified. Wehn she went round the next day, My Grandad was eating a bowl of chips covered in tomato soup, which was another querky thing she had never seen before. For the first few years, she really did think that Bolton was full of savages.... Edit: I forgot to add, she had come from Belfast, where clearly the "butty" hadn't yet arrived Edited February 24, 2011 by CWP
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