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Barm was always barmcake when I were a lad. So in Manchester it would have been a bacon barmcake. Barm' was an occasional abbreviation from over-busy shop worke

Barm was always barmcake when I were a lad. So in Manchester it would have been a bacon barmcake. Barm' was an occasional abbreviation from over-busy shop workers. As someone who's travelled around some with work this can get confusing real quick. You just want some sort of bread with bacon, egg and black pudding on your way to work without recruiting an interpreter. That's quite apart from ending up in uncivilised parts that don't feel black pud is necessary. :)

jib 8y ago
What got me in Ireland was the difference between a sausage roll and a breakfast roll. You’d expect them to be roughly the same, but not at all.
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  Not just Ireland my friend, that's all of the UK. Although a hot sausage roll[1] is perfectly acceptable as a breakfast food, it is not a breakfast roll. :) Edit: Mis-read 'Ireland' as Northern Ireland (Oops!), which is of course not part of the UK! -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll
  - jwdunne 8y ago
    No haha both evoke two very different images. Sausage roll: puff pastry filled with sausage meat (no skin). Breakfast roll (with clarity for non-Brits): half a full English on a roll i.e sausage (with skin, perhaps halved for convenience), bacon (back not streaky) and fried egg ("sunny side up" and "over easy" - a fried egg not done this way is very poor form).
    - clappski 8y ago
      My SO manages a popular bakery chain store down south. Being from Lancastershire when someone asks for a sausage roll she always has to ask for clarification (‘bread or pastry?).
clappski 8y ago
I have regular arguments with my SO over the technical differences between barmcakes and, what I call all small round bread, bread rolls. Never heard barm until I came to Lancastershire but it’s probably my favourite synonym for it. Get funny looks when ordering a bacon barm in London, however.
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  I best stay out of that one other than to observe there are differences. :D

jib 8y ago

What got me in Ireland was the difference between a sausage roll and a breakfast roll. You’d expect them to be roughly the same, but not at all.

Jaruzel 8y ago
Not just Ireland my friend, that's all of the UK. Although a hot sausage roll[1] is perfectly acceptable as a breakfast food, it is not a breakfast roll. :) Edit: Mis-read 'Ireland' as Northern Ireland (Oops!), which is of course not part of the UK! -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll
- jwdunne 8y ago
  No haha both evoke two very different images. Sausage roll: puff pastry filled with sausage meat (no skin). Breakfast roll (with clarity for non-Brits): half a full English on a roll i.e sausage (with skin, perhaps halved for convenience), bacon (back not streaky) and fried egg ("sunny side up" and "over easy" - a fried egg not done this way is very poor form).
  - clappski 8y ago
    My SO manages a popular bakery chain store down south. Being from Lancastershire when someone asks for a sausage roll she always has to ask for clarification (‘bread or pastry?).

clappski 8y ago

I have regular arguments with my SO over the technical differences between barmcakes and, what I call all small round bread, bread rolls. Never heard barm until I came to Lancastershire but it’s probably my favourite synonym for it. Get funny looks when ordering a bacon barm in London, however.

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
I best stay out of that one other than to observe there are differences. :D