Barmcakes

[shaunie_louise]

I went to Birmingham earlier this year and I went to a cafe.

I asked for a tuna mayo barmcake, to which the waitress looked at me like I was crazy and said she'd never heard of them.

Anyway, my question is? Is barmcake just a manchester thing?

Anyone else been in a emberessing situation because of regional differences???

xx

 

[Hazel]

I call a gherkin a walley. The man in the fish and chip shop didn't know what I meant when I asked for a walley and chips .

 

[monster_munch]

erm... what's a barm cake??

 

[melissa5317]

Oh, honey, be thankful that it's only regional. I still can't stop saying 'pants' instead of 'trousers' and get funny looks all the time for that one! You'd think the accent would excuse me from those sort of mistakes, but apparently not!

And what is a barmcake??

 

[nickilubs]

My OH calls a plate of Gravy and chips a gravy chip. Hehe he also couldn't quite believe what he was seeing when on the board in the chippy it said "faggot in gravy" he had a weird image going on in his head with that one!!!! And I have asked for a pea ball before and got a very strange look!!!

 

[shaunie_louise]

I say pants too! Mancunians very rarely say trousers!

And let me introduce you to the barmcake:

I think you might call it a bread roll??

xx

 

[Squiglet]

I've had some very embarressing things happen when I was learning Spanish.

I was talking to a bloke once and he said something...I wanted to say what a shame (Qué pena) but said Qué pene (what a penis )... I also once went to buy ice cream and wanted it in a cone.. (cono) but said coño (er... C**t) God can't believe I brought that up...

 

[Sugarhigh]

that pic you posted is a roll shaunie or a bap or cob in birminghamish

 

[Kimbo]

teacake
pilkers back me up

 

[monster_munch]

Ah the humble bread roll!

The phrase barmcake made me think it was going to be something sweet!

Thank you for enlightening me

 

[muppetmummy]

never heard them called that before Up here they call bread rolls 'softies'

 

[shaunie_louise]

Nope thats a good ol' barmcake my friends!

xx

 

[melissa5317]

I say pants too! Mancunians very rarely say trousers!

I think you might call it a bread roll??

xx

Ah, so It's NOT just me - snotty southern English! j/k

I'd just call it a roll, I suppose. I suppose my issues aren't so much the things that I say that mean something else here but my Southern accent and my 'American-isms'.

 

[*pud01*]

i call it a barm (leave off the cake bit up here)
an something that annoys my OH is i call a sandwich a butty

 

[MrsU]

shaunie_louise I totally agree... Its a barmcake!
OR as my mum would say... Muffin!!!!!!! you can't beat a chip muffin (Lancashire thing)

 

[Lola's Mummy]

I'd call it a breadcake or a bap

No one ever seems to know what patties are outside of Hull

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patties

 

[Misslarue]

Never heard of Barmcakes hun

But cultural differences, yes!
I was in Thailand in a village in the middle of the main land (no where near bangkok!).
I was holding a cigarette for my boyfriend when he went into a shop. This old guy came out of nowhere shouting at me.
'You cannot smoke Your son, or husband can but you cannot. How dare you.....'
I put it out right away! I've travelled enough to respect other cultures.
I wouldn't have minded but it wasn't even my fag!

 

[widowwadman]

I'd call it a breadcake or a bap

No one ever seems to know what patties are outside of Hull

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patties

My chippy sells patties and we're a good 40 miles from Hull!

 

[Lou]

Jed's from Bolton and they have barmcakes. I have a chip barm when we visit

When I met Jed he had never heard of a savaloy

 

[greendayrock]

oh dont get me started on barm cakes my sister lives in blackpool and the first time i went up there i said to her when we was in town i want a bacon roll and she said its a bacon barm i was like what the f**k is a bacon barm, and she said its a bacon roll and cause she is origianally from warwickshire she knew what i was on about. She had to get my bacon ROLL cause i felt silly asking for a bacon barm I still cant get my head around the barm cake thing. And another thing her husband calls a cup of tea or coffee a BREW.

But i love the accent in blackpool.