What is it with Manchester people?

[elmarko]

Roll/Bun/Cob = Small bead product, usually served in a similar fashion to bread (with ham/cheese).

(all of which can come in standard/crusty variety)

Tea-cake - Usually raisins, usually toasted.

Sub - Long roll, sliced in the middle ala subway style.

Muffin - Pendent on if it's the McDonalds breakfast style muffin, or the blueberry muffin style.

That's how it was for me in the Midlands growing up.

 

[Abraham]

A sub is always a long roll, it's short for submarine, that's what shape they are.
It's not a regional thing, it's a specific type of roll.

 

[kitkat9933]

I'm from Manchester it is either a butty or balm cake, maybe even a roll.

It was wierd when I moved to leicester and they call it a cob...

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Roll or Bap. Occasionally Butty if its filled with bacon, sausages or chips.

 

[~>Dg<~]

i say cob

and balm makes me think of this barn/balm loaf but that is more like a teacake loaf with currents in you toast and is amazing

 

[kitkat9933]

i say cob

and balm makes me think of this barn/balm loaf but that is more like a teacake loaf with currents in you toast and is amazing

Well technically all the different regions have different types of bread.

For example balm cakes are normally more flat and soft and oven baked, whereas a Cob is normally crunchy and firm.

Also a strange one to add the mix, when I was at uni their was a guy from Norwich who called them a 'batch', anyone ever heard of this term?

 

[Gilly]

Never heard of balm. It's definitely barm in Manc.

 

[estebanrey]

i say cob

and balm makes me think of this barn/balm loaf but that is more like a teacake loaf with currents in you toast and is amazing

So when you see a woman with a nice set of melons do you say 'nice cobs' as opposed to 'nice baps'?