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| ▲ | PaulRobinson 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you call it a teacake, and I say no those have raisins in, and you protest that's a fruit teacake, I know you're probably from Burnley: https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/ |
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| ▲ | makerofthings 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's definitely chip muffin. I have no patience for those heretics up the road with their chip barms. |
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| ▲ | basisword 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >> I used to think everyone called (cobs|bread cakes|rolls|barns) muffins UK regional dialects are summed up really well here because despite listing five different names for a specific thing you still neglected the word I use (baps). |
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| ▲ | serf 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| does that area have a textile manufacturing history? I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that. |
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| ▲ | wrboyce 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It’s barm, with an m, from barm cakes. Barm is the frothy scummy stuff you get on top of fermented beer, and it contains yeast. Back in the day bakers would take the barm from local brewers to make weakly fermented bread rolls… barm cakes. (So obviously those calling them cobs or rolls or whatever else are just wrong!) |
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| ▲ | podgietaru 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think that was just autocorrect to be fair. Barm isn't in the standard dictionary | | |
| ▲ | wrboyce 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I suspected that might be the case, but I wasn’t about to turn down an opportunity to share one of my fun facts! |
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