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!

Other bread product

[lnr]

I forgot to include farl (as in soda farl).

[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.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

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

[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...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

technically obv it is a BARMCAKE.

[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.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I think a bun is a cake-type thing not a bread-type thing. Then again I know some people use it for what I think of as baps. So confusing.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Other bread product

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know that one. But it's a large flat bread product that gets quartered, and not really quite the same as a roll, is it?

(Not that the others are synonymous with roll, of course, but they're ones where you eat the whole lot and aren't considered greedy for doing so ;-).)

[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!

[keris.livejournal.com]

Batch!!!
(I had to learn that one when I moved to Cov, you ask for a chip batch not a butty)

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

From my Geordie connections, I give you 'stottie'.

[lnr]

Even the bun on a burger?

[lnr]

I knew there were some more I was forgetting!

I wonder why so many of them begin with B?

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Under the bread product thing, I would *use* roll or bap, but I'm also *familiar with* bun, because that's what skordh always says (I'm Southern, he's Yorkshire.) Personally, I consider bun to be a sweet cakey thing, as in iced bun or bath bun. I have also heard cob and barm used in various contexts, but not enough to say I'm familiar with them. I also ticked other because I'm sure I do know of/use other terms, but my brain is too woolly to think what they might be right now. Not teacake though - I agree with the view that that has fruit in.

Re: Other bread product

[lnr]

It tends to be sold in the small bits, rather than whole, at least when you buy it from the supermarket. Scufflers are very very similar, also triangular.

[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?