Different words,same meaning....

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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?
 
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
 
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...
 
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.
 
its a bit like broth then, down south they havent a clue what it means, they think its soup
 
flashytart said:
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!
 
i know what you mean about dinner and tea, although i must admit, i call dinner lunch and tea dinner sometimes
 
its funny, yes and no seem to have the same meaning in my house, no seems to mean yes to my boys :rolleyes:
 
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..
 
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:
 
cherokee said:
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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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:
 
Eric said:
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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muffins-t-cakes-baps-rolls are all the same thing around here, they are what you make a butty out of ;)
 
West Ender said:
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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Strange, my gran called crumpets, "Pikelets", and she was from Ossy:eek:
 
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
 
West Ender said:
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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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.
 
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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