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[JohnD]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Tea cake in east Lancs, though ‘barmcake’ does seem to becoming more prominent over this side.

 

Teacakes and barm cakes are two different animals.

A tea cake is similar in shape to a currant bun with a slightly domed, brown top.

A barm cake is flatter and paler.

[Mattyblue]

They may be baker definitions, but in reality any bread roll type thing in Blackburn would be called a tea cake, a barmcake in say, Preston.

[Guest]

Important thing is when Mrs JDT opens her chippy in Whalley, she can either go with a JDT-cake, or a Barmy Army cake. Something for everyone.

Edit: Also applies if she opens a fancy cake shop.

Edited May 27, 2023 by goozburger

[Gav]

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Don’t think you even get John Bull’s in Darwen, nevermind any other non-Blackburn area. My local chippy as a kid at Four Lane Ends used to do a cracking one.

Holly Tree Chippy @Mattyblue, even comes with scraps!

I'm starving now.......

 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

Oven bottoms are the best😊 are they just a Lancashire thing?

[Armchair supporter supremo]

1 minute ago, Gav said:

Holly Tree Chippy @Mattyblue, even comes with scraps!

I'm starving now.......

 

Ey! And they'd probably charge you a tenner for them 😄

[tomphil]

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

I take it you haven't spent much time in the Blackburn area. 

Plenty, there was a row on twiiter a few years ago and some guy went round chippies in Lancashire doing his own survey.

Chip barm won the day.

[Mattyblue]

It would do, teacake is only very niche to parts of east Lancs.

[tomphil]

51 minutes ago, Gav said:

Holly Tree Chippy @Mattyblue, even comes with scraps!

I'm starving now.......

 

Chip butty - i see what they did there to swerve any controversy.

Served on a barmcake though no doubt.....

[Mattyblue]

It says teacake in the Extras…

[OldEwoodBlue]

Look its a tea cake.

 

Just because you go in the chippy and the generic menu says chip barm, you still ask for a couple of chip tea cakes.

Same as scoffing a dab whilst you wait. Potato scallop my arse.

Which leads onto the 'owd Dab Tea Cake

[roverandout]

Haven't been to a chippy for years or McDonald's or burger King. They just don't appeal to me

[J*B]

If there’s ever something to symbolise BRFCS in the off-season it’s the u-turn this thread has taken. 

[Mattyblue]

To be fair this happens *everywhere* online when someone asks the question ’sooo, what do you call this bread roll type thing?’

Edited May 27, 2023 by Mattyblue

[chaddyrovers]

38 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Haven't been to a chippy for years or McDonald's or burger King. They just don't appeal to me

what does appeal to you? 

[lraC]

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

what does appeal to you? 

An orange 

[windymiller7]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Chip butty - i see what they did there to swerve any controversy.

Served on a barmcake though no doubt.....

Now there's another debate - for me, a chip butty would be on normal white sliced bread.

Barm all day long though, teacake has currants!

Dying to try a John Bull though, sounds superb! 

I'd always called them potato scallops until I went to school in Blackburn & have called them dabs ever since. Chippy I used to go in also did chip 'barms' with either peas, curry or gravy on them. Just the right amount so they weren't soggy. Absolutely loved ones with curry on, so much so, to this day I always order a small tub of curry & add my own.

[roverandout]

17 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

what does appeal to you? 

What appeals to you 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Haven't been to a chippy for years or McDonald's or burger King. They just don't appeal to me

I can't believe the gall of mentioning McDonald's and Burger King in the same sentence as a chippy. Get out! 👉

(My profile pic lends well to this)

Edited May 27, 2023 by goozburger

[simongarnerisgod]

does anyone like a steak pudding barmcake,absolute heaven🙂

[Guest]

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

does anyone like a steak pudding barmcake,absolute heaven🙂

OK. You can get out as well. That's worse than fish finger butties. Out you dirty b*stard! 👉

[rigger]

2 hours ago, JohnD said:

Teacakes and barm cakes are two different animals.

A tea cake is similar in shape to a currant bun with a slightly domed, brown top.

A barm cake is flatter and paler.

like southern beer.

[Mattyblue]

Long live the sparkler!

[DeeCee]

I grew up in Ossy it was always a tea cake. Then there were currant tea cakes which were usually toasted and buttered.

I haven't had a John Bull for over 30 years but I'm now going on line to source them in Cornwall.

[chaddyrovers]

26 minutes ago, roverandout said:

What appeals to you 

Not KFC or Mcds. I like Nando's or chippy tea the most, but I prefer to make my own at home whether its Indian, Nando's or Chinese or etc.