Off Topic The Christmas Thread

To Tickles

 

You are a northerner, aren't you,Happy? Crumpets often get called pikelets oop North whether they are crumpets or pikelets, down south they are just about always referred to as crumpets. Though pikelets supposedly originated in Wales.
My dad and grandad were bakers. My grandad always called them pikelets, whether they were technically crumpets or not, as did my mother. Always preferred the thinner pikelet personally.Yet my mother always pronounced scone to rhyme with stone whilst her dad pronounced it to rhyme with gone. Then there is the vexed question of what constitutes a bread cake...Fiendishly complex business this...

Have a good one.

 

They call breadcakes buns in Grimsby. Weirdos.

 

My wife & in-laws call breadcakes ''rolls''. More (southern) weirdos!

 

Stotties. Baps. Barm cakes. It's a minefield.

Scousers always query folks calling a bread cake full of chips a chip butty as to them a butty is two slices of bread.

 

Apropos the crumpet and pikelet debate: Although I'm fairly ambivalent towards the nomenclature of either breaded product, I am less intolerant towards the naming of the muffin. It's not an English muffin. A muffin is English anyway and cannot be confused with any other baked product. A muffin that's not an English muffin isn't a muffin at all, it's a ****ing big cup cake. Or a large bun. Or maybe a small plain gateux. But it's not a muffin so there's no need to deliniate another breaded comestible otherwise called a muffin as pertaining from any particular country, England or otherwise.


Just wanted to clear this up.

 

Mainly barmcakes over here but some refer to a breadcake as a batch.

Crumpets for me, think my old man used to use pikelets though.

 

Well my family's never used that word, only crumpet. I'll ask me dad on boxing day before he starts on about bloody foreign managers.

We've also always pronounced it "skerrn".

I'm more relaxed about bread cakes/rolls etc, having lived all over, does seem to upset some mind.

 

You need to read this Ernie.
https://www.indy100.com/article/stop-eating-crumpets-now-please-salt-7489021

 

"Anyone who tries to live a moderately healthy lifestyle wouldn’t consider three bags of crisps a sensible start to the day."


Since when?

 

Going in town first thing tomorrow for a bit of last minute shopping, promised the kids a full English. So any recommendations??

 

Sausage, bacon, black pudding, fried eggs, beans, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, toast, butter, tea - 2 sugars.




Hope this helps.

Edit: No hash browns as obviously not English.


Edit edit: And a English muffin.

 

Salt and now sugar!! Ernie sort yourself out

 

My

The cafe near my in laws in Mundesley in Norfolk does the best full English I've ever had.

£5.50 and it takes the piss, you can't finish it and it's all top quality clobber. Not a Richmond to be seen and the beans are Heinz.

If you're not prepared to go that far then I'm ****ed if I know.

Soz pal.

 

Have a word Ern. 2 sugars????

 

I have it on good authority that the Missus has got us a nutribullet for Christmas.

Now, I got quite excited 'cos I believed this to be a high powered adult style toy as seen on a dirty Pulse and Cocktails leaflet what I found in a hedge but a bit of surreptitious Googling revealed that it is infact something called a smoothie maker.

Now I'm already a smoothie but I'm beginning to worry that the days of full English may be over.


2017. The year of the peach, grape, kale and flaxseed delight as Ernie's start to the day.

 

I'd go but you know what kids are like in a car for 4 hours. Selfish little gits.

 

I'll give it a week and you'll bin that malarkey off.

Max.

 

Her indoors recommended English Muse on Newland.

Looks a bit poncey for the likes of me and you though.

 

There's is a good one in Driffield. One of the lasses who works there is a City fan as a bonus.