Teacake or breadcake

Small scufflers are still called teacakes

 

Breadcake, you sick f.cks.

Currant teacake my arse.

 

Teacake.

 

Give over.

 

Birds a Manc, I don't even bother asking what she calls it, strange them Mancs.

 

I'm from just over the border in Wath and they've always been called breadcakes, on a Saturday we sometimes had toasted teacakes with currants.

The Barnsley teacake area must be quite small.

There's been similar arguments about "ginnel" as well.

Another two that are different is the pronunciation of tea as "tia" (should it be "tiacake?") and calling chewing gum "choddy" instead of "chuddy" which is what it's called our way.

 

Dyson............task for you...........

Go down to Pott's Bakery on Wombwell High Street and ask for a teak cake and see what you get?

Pound-to-a-penny it's a white round piece of bread with NO CURRANTS IN SIGHT !

There speaks a "Wombweller".........

 

I work in Barnsley and have bought numerous sandwiches on brown breadcakes, who says brown teacake, it's not even alliterative.

 

When asking for a sarnie you normally state your filling and then they ask "white or brown".

There's no tea cake or bread cake comes into the discussion?

Believe me......in Wombwell it's a tea cake.......but your comments on tea and chewing gum are a classic debating point.......a little bit like "is it Wath or Woth" !!!!

 

What he said.

And in Morrison's they have signs saying breadcake.

 

Re: So in conclusion

there's no conclusion! Other than to say that even within the same town there are differences in terminology for the exact same thing. No wonder some people think that Barnsley folk are strange!

 

This is the man! ^

 

Bread roll, teacakes have currants. Scufflers are just massive bread rolls.

 

This has always been my understanding too.

 

Re: Teacake

I was brought up in Barnsley.

I did once get a shock in Sheffield though when my ham salad teacake had currants in it.

 

Turovers are two slices of tatey with a bit of fish in between, dipped in batter and fried. the tatey dipped in batter and fried without the fish in between is called a scollop..
I came from that area..

 

I once called in a bread shop in Scotland and asked for a ham salad sandwich. The young ladys said I`m sorry we dont have any bread to make a sandwich... The shop was full of breadcakes,teacakes barms, rolls, scufflers, oven bottom cakes,cobs,,, I said are you kidding me... she said no sandwiches are made with sliced bread and we dont have any sliced bread... So I said mek us a corn beef stottie then... that buggered her..

 

Depends where you're from - but to me, from Barnsley and for that matter my dad who was from Wakey and my mum from Dewsbury - a teacake is a plain breadcake....if it's got currants in it's called a currant teacake.

For Calgary tyke about "English muffins", we do have them over here, they are simply called muffins, and that was before we started getting buns called muffins - when did that happen?!

 

I like baps.