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> the bread pictured here no bread is pictured
by fnord77 2y ago
> the bread pictured here
no bread is pictured
- PaulRobinson 2y agoYeah, that seems to have been lost at some point. From memory they used a picture of what Americans might call a soft dinner roll. To me it would be more a roll than a bap or a barm, but they're almost synonyms. The weird one for me was when a mate insisted it was a teacake, and I suggested that would only apply if it had raisins in it. What I was describing, he insisted, was a fruit teacake, and without fruit it became a teacake. This is contrary to what the rest of the country believes outside of North Manchester, but has become a running joke for many years between us.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoWhen I asked for a bag of scraps in the chippy tonight the lady asked if I wanted "any breadcakes luv" showing me they were an 'outsider' (from about 30 miles away I reckon). Also, no-one has called me 'duck' in the last week; which just feels wrong.
- ljm 2y agoThe general unawareness of what a barmcake (barm) is outside of Bolton/east lancs, particularly in London, never ceases to amuse me. “What the hell is a chip/bacon/sausage/pastie/pie barm!?”
- deanishe 2y agoTo be fair, it was nearly 50 years before I knew what the "liquor" Cockneys put on their pie and mash is.
- ninalanyon 2y agoMy wife was from Orkney and we spent a few months in the US. So we had US biscuits which are not the same as UK biscuits, US cookies which are not Orcadian cookies, West Country English buns which are definitely not US buns. Your (Yorkshire?) teacakes are almost but not exactly like my buns. You can imagine the confusion when the children asked for a cookie, a bun, or a biscuit while in the US.