What is it with Manchester people?

[willhub]

Most look at me strange when I want a "bread bun"

 

[Guerrilla]

They call them "barm cakes"... strange I know.

 

[StriderX]

What?



On second thought, maybe it is fine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barm

 

[Pav89]

Google is your friend. I googled it - Barmcake or Barm in Manchester, not bread bun.

 

[willhub]

That is illogical.

It's bread and it's bun shaped.

 

[BoonMonkey]

Must be because they're...

Barmy.

 

[Stretch]

They call them "barm cakes"... strange I know.

Or butty. Apparently northern people are always sticking chips in their butty.

 

[Abraham]

A bread bun
Seems an odd phrase to me (and I'm not originally from manchester) although I suppose hotdog or burger bun isn't uncommon.
Pretty much everywhere in the country seems to call a bread roll/bun/barm/muffin a different thing.

 

[Abraham]

Or butty. Apparently northern people are always sticking chips in their butty.

Butty is by no means northern specific, bacon butty is universal.

 

[Voltar]

What's a bread bun lol

 

[BoonMonkey]

Thinking about it... I did say "I'm just going to make a bread roll" to a friend of mine who is from Southport. He got really confused and then started telling me I was going to make a sub, not a roll.


Crusty roll made him loopy.

 

[StriderX]

Spheroidal baked bread.

THERE I WINS.

 

[Maccapacca]

It's because it's easier to say baaaaaarm cake innit than brrrrread rrrrroll

It's just class

 

[Mark A]

That's because they're called teacakes .

 

[Kutter]

ohh come on everyone knows its a tea-cake.

 

[SkodaMart]

Muffin where I come from.

Barm cake in Oldham though.

 

[rogan]

wtf is a bread bun?

bread roll or barm cake

 

[JBuk]

Nothing like a nice couple of buns and a good muffin

 

[SkodaMart]

Try Yorkshire!

Breadcake, teacake, bread bun, scoff-le.

Ask for a Muffin - you get an American one.

 

[Voltar]

Is this a sweet or savoury product? It's still pretty unclear what's being discussed here