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Isnt it strange that although we all live in good old Blighty that we have different names for the same things, I went into a chip shop not too long ago and asked for a 'chip muffin', she looked at me very strangely and said 'huh' lol..
Coming from Bury i've always known it as a chip muffin, what different words have you come across?

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In scotland its different, if you ask for a chip t-cake they would look at you strange, a t-cake has fruit in it up there. It confuses me when asking for a "chip butty" in a different town, dont know whether its a t-cake, muffin, barm cake, bap etc

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Yeah emzy i know a teacake as having fruit in it, where i live here in blackpool a barm cake is a muffin, a muffin to some is a choc muffin...

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spins the mind doesnt it lmao

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A muffin is a plain tea cake but here where I live it's a barm cake and a tea cake always has sultanas in. In Durham a muffin/whatever is called a stotty cake but a bit further North, in Northumberland, it's a bap. Go to South Yorkshire/Derbyshire and it's a flour cake.

Anyway, what I want to know is - what happened to the Sally Lunn? My aunt used to bake them for her shop and I haven't seen one for donkey's years.

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its a bit like broth then, down south they havent a clue what it means, they think its soup

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yeah, i noticed that... ty's dad is from kent and wouldnt eat broth unless i called it soup cos he ssaid he didnt like it :rolleyes:

theres dinner and tea as well...... he used to argue with about that!

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i know what you mean about dinner and tea, although i must admit, i call dinner lunch and tea dinner sometimes

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its funny, yes and no seem to have the same meaning in my house, no seems to mean yes to my boys :rolleyes:

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that seems to be the same for all the male population, dont worry about it

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I love the different meanings to things .. My ex was from yorkshire and we always had long debates about Muffins t cakes bam cakes etc .. its like crumpets . they were know as pikelets to him, whenever i went to see his family we had some weird and wonderfuls chats..

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So, I guess we're not talking about the kind of muffins that are made out of bran, often with raisins in, or whole wheat and carrot, or chocolate, or blueberry ... you know, the kind that you grab to go with your morning cup of mud:confused:

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My husband was from Bradford and he called crumpets - crumpets - but when we lived in the Midlands they called them pikelets. I always found it odd that in Bradford they call a chip shop a "fish shop" and a shop that sells fresh fish is a "wet fish shop". :confused:

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muffins-t-cakes-baps-rolls are all the same thing around here, they are what you make a butty out of ;)

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Strange, my gran called crumpets, "Pikelets", and she was from Ossy:eek:

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I love winding the Mrs up by referring to Teacakes over here in Bolton. They're barms over here, and similar to the "barm" is the "flour cake". I actually managed to prove a point last year when the canteen where we both worked had a big bag of "Hollands Teacakes" behind the counter and not a currant in sight:)

Ian

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He was doncaster way .. and all his family called em pikelets .. strange!!:)
But know what ya mean with the fish shop.. used to make me laugh.

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chips and gravy don't exist down south either

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What about oven bottoms, what do they get called elsewhere?

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My fella is from Essex and is forever winding the kids up with his foreign language:D
He said there is no such word as butty!:eek: how rude!

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I allways thought the difference between a Tea-cake and a muffin was that a muffin is a bit bigger and has a dimple in the middle.

Another which causes confusion is mincemeat .....it can either be ground meat (beef, pork etc.) or the sweet stuff made of fruit used in pies at Christmastime

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Well there is AccyLas we've got one on here:D he comes from Darwen:rolleyes:

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It's certainly confused you. The ground meat is minced meat or mince. The stuff made of fruit is mincemeat.:D:D

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faggots to me, is meat balls:D but to some means......???

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Do you say SCONS (lanky OR SCONES,acent on the o,southern...

either way i love em,plastered with Lurpak

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And don't foreget the jam GC:rolleyes:

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its got to strawberry for me....

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what about the cream??:eek:

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ooh Panther i am putting on weight just thinking of them,,,,yummy

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I used to buy mixed vegetables when I lived in Accy to make broth, they were tied with string around them and referred to as a "Broth Posy". I moved to Bury and I couldn't get a broth posy for love nor money, but what they did have was "Pot Herbs", which were the same thing but cut up in little pieces and placed in a plastic bag, but they dont include a sprig of thyme as the broth posy in Accy.

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We have the same problem with the dinner/tea and lunch/dinner, my hubby is from the south too and i always say's tea and he says its not tea its dinner,oh well.
We also have different meanings for words here like butties and packed lunches are called Bait, well bait to me is something you would use for fishing, also a brew is a cuppa thats if you ever get offered one, people dont seem to know what a brew is here, maybe they think it means homebrew.

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see women always complicate things, all are just "Feeding Time" to fellas.:D

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Right .. as long as it is dead and it is on a plate or between two slices of bread, it doesn't matter what you call it:)

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In birmingham once, the lady of the house commented that the neighbours were 'having it off' in the garden, there was a mad rush of northerners to take a peek, only to find the neighbours were having a row! In birmingham, apparently, having an argument is termed having it off!

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I had problems when I first came to Canada ... once asked someone to knock me up in the morning .... culture shock!

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Well a different meaning just heard on the radio, Mugabe, spelt backwards. Is E ba Gum, no wonder he dosnt like the the British.

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In class a few weeks ago we had a long chat about the same meaning different words and because I go to a school in Haslingden they all say different things than I do, it's weird how even though it's only half an hour away people from Haslingden speak so differently then we do down here! Confusing!!!! :hehetable