I am certain I would have liked yer Dad 'n Grandad. I reckon it's people from Didsbury who asked at their chippy (if they ever had chippies in Didsbury) for a chip barm to avoid asking for chip muffin and then being told "What! Chip muffin! Yer from Moston, Blackley, 'Apper'ay aren't yer?!As I have said before, Barm Cake is for the upper class, Muffin for the working class.
My Grandad and dad had two Chippies in Gorton, on occations they sold buttered Muffins so people could have a Chip Muffin.
Chip Barm doesnt have the same ring.
I can go with a 'chip cob' rather than 'barm'! But muffin encapsulates the very essence of its qualities - it's almost onomatopoeic! Come to think, didn't it appear in Shakespeare's Richard III - "A muffin, a muffin, my kingdom for a muffin"? And that sonnet wot he wrote - A muffin by any other name would be the stuff of puke!"In Leicester they call it a Cob
As I have said before, Barm Cake is for the upper class, Muffin for the working class.
My Grandad and dad had two Chippies in Gorton, on occations they sold buttered Muffins so people could have a Chip Muffin.
Chip Barm doesnt have the same ring.
Fuckin’ell, they’re off again...As I have said before, Barm Cake is for the upper class, Muffin for the working class.
My Grandad and dad had two Chippies in Gorton, on occations they sold buttered Muffins so people could have a Chip Muffin.
Chip Barm doesnt have the same ring.
Your loose grasp of the English language tells me all I need to know.As I have said before, Barm Cake is for the upper class, Muffin for the working class.
My Grandad and dad had two Chippies in Gorton, on occations they sold buttered Muffins so people could have a Chip Muffin.
Chip Barm doesnt have the same ring.
Think you'll find you are confusing barm cake with barm pot.A muffin, can be toasted, or buttered with some chips for a great butty.
A barm cake, someone off his head. (only having a laugh lads and lasses).
They even do muffins in Morocco, although the indigenous berber people don't know how close theirs look and taste to a staple Ashton market hall oven bottom muffin. They were especially tasty when dipping into a meat n' veg tagine.
What about baps? I recommend Katie's baps in Barnsley.
The trouble with muffin is it could be misconstrued as a lady part... (a bit like 'growler' - Yorkshire slang for pork pie).
You sir are correctBaps? There is no room in this thread for fence sitters. It’s either a barm or you’re wrong.
I agree with the first part, its a bit like how posh people have breakfast, lunch and dinner, whereas I have breakfast, me dinner and then me tea.As I have said before, Barm Cake is for the upper class, Muffin for the working class.
My Grandad and dad had two Chippies in Gorton, on occations they sold buttered Muffins so people could have a Chip Muffin.
Chip Barm doesnt have the same ring.
Breakfast and lunch? Bollocks to that..... I have brunchI agree with the first part, its a bit like how posh people have breakfast, lunch and dinner, whereas I have breakfast, me dinner and then me tea.
However, as regards the second part: chip muffin vs chip barm, I'd have to put forward the obvious: chip butty.