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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Coincidentally enough, I was sitting there this morning consuming a large sausage barmcake purchased from Martins, esteemed family bakers,  when I noticed what looked like a set of stocks. Is this where non-Gobbiners were pelted with lumps of coal by their Gobbiner neighbours? |
I used to look bewildered when I worked there as a nipper, and someone asked for a 'barm cake'.
I still view it as a suspiciously foreign Accy word.
Hope you enjoyed your sausage teacake.
We were talking about the stocks today.
I think they are just Victorian whimsey, and were never used.
Though since they're there, never say never.
Seems a shame if they're never used for their intended purpose.
