Comment by podgietaru
17 hours ago
As with most things on the UK, probably. I definitely used Bobbins.
I used to think everyone called (cobs|bread cakes|rolls|barns) muffins, and it turns out it was just my small town that did it. As in, just my small town, not region, county, etc.
It's definitely chip muffin. I have no patience for those heretics up the road with their chip barms.
Hahaha. Chip butty
Extra vinegar please, I want my muffin drenched.
If you call it a teacake, and I say no those have raisins in, and you protest that's a fruit teacake, I know you're probably from Burnley: https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
>> I used to think everyone called (cobs|bread cakes|rolls|barns) muffins
UK regional dialects are summed up really well here because despite listing five different names for a specific thing you still neglected the word I use (baps).
And mine! (batch)
does that area have a textile manufacturing history?
I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
Yes. The North West and the midlands was where it all started. Cotton, mills, Industrial Revolution etc
It does indeed, probably the heart of it.
It’s barm, with an m, from barm cakes. Barm is the frothy scummy stuff you get on top of fermented beer, and it contains yeast. Back in the day bakers would take the barm from local brewers to make weakly fermented bread rolls… barm cakes.
(So obviously those calling them cobs or rolls or whatever else are just wrong!)
I think that was just autocorrect to be fair. Barm isn't in the standard dictionary
I suspected that might be the case, but I wasn’t about to turn down an opportunity to share one of my fun facts!