Not the dialect meme

[lnr]

[Poll #1164580]

Edit: Others so far: teacake, breadcake, farl, barmcake, batch, stottie, flour cake, stotty cake, kaiser.

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Teacakes round here; breadcakes as soon as you hit South Yorkshire, where teacakes have fruit in them.

And in Keighley, where there are weird people (as we both know!), a teacake with a fishcake in it is called a scone bopper and the green stuff sold in the chip shops is not guacamole :)

Lovely to see you again at the weekend!

[lnr]

Oh a teacake definitely has fruit in for me, and my family are all West and North Yorkshire - actually that's a lie, they lived in Doncaster for a while, that might explain it. I'd forgotten breadcake though, too long since I've heard it used.

I'm glad to see someone has not ticked "bun" though, when we first moved to Allerton Bywater the people in the local bakers didn't know what we meant when we asked for bread buns, and we didn't know what they meant when they offered scufflers!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Same here on the teacake front, but both my parents were from the other side of the Pennines.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

This is surely just not a Yorkshire thing but a SANE THING, of COURSE a teacake has fruit in it FOR GOODNESS SAKE.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Not in Bradford they don't. Round here, teacakes are what we put the chips in chip butties in.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Tut tut, but can we at least agree that a 'bap' definitively means a soft, POSSIBLY floury but not always roll? You can't get a 'crusty' bap.

And a 'bun' is ALWAYS sweet.

[lnr]

Even the bun on a burger?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

American perversion = calling it a 'bun', it is not canon bcz RLY burgers should go on baps!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

(even THOUGH they always fall apart and you get greasy fingers etc but THAT IS THE NATURE OF THE GREBT BRITISH BBQ - oh man, bbq... I want bbq so much).

[lnr]

Oooh, wonder if it will be nice at the w/e?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Sure! IF YOU LIKE SNOW (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008). Wtf is going ON!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Remember February? Remember the glorious weather and lack of snow?

Yes.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Sausage inna bun?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

It's called a "dog" XD

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I do hope you're referring to the sausage and not the bun.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Flat-ish, round, dried fruit. Slice in half, pop both under grill. Put butter on.

Pictures! (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=toasted+teacake&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2)

Anything else is a perversion.

[imc.livejournal.com]

To my mind a teacake has fruit in it, but I happened to be in a supermarket in Keswick not long ago where they were selling packets of soft bread rolls with the word "teacake" on the label. I was terribly confused, not least because it was next to a packet which said "fruited teacakes".

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Tea cakes here too. And now I want a Fat Rascal from Betty's Tea Shop in York. Although we renamed them Fat Bastards...

[k425.livejournal.com]

I was surprised the first time I was offered the choice of a brown or white teacake for my chip butty, in Hebden Bridge. No fruit in that, thank you!

[wendym.livejournal.com]

Teacakes have fruit in as far as I've seen round Warrington/Manchester/Liverpool way. Though my enthusiasm for (fruited) teacakes comes from my Mum, who is from north London...

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I was in north Birmingham, and Nanny (mum's mum) often served us toasted teacakes. Her side of the family were all from the southern Staffordshire sort of region - Walsall, Brownhills, Aldridge.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Of *course* teacakes have fruit in them. But then I claim Yorkshireness.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

and the green stuff sold in the chip shops is not guacamole :)

Now, whilst I'm a Northerner and have to have mushy peas when they're on offer* with my chips, I have to say that there is other (nicer) green stuff that gets used with fish that isn't guacamole. Wasabi for instance. I can see huge scope for practical jokes.

*Even if I don't think it's particularly nice. It's traditional.