Muffin or Barm

[CitizenTID]

What do they sell in Tony's chippy ? A fucking chip barm that's what

Martin's Bakery is Manchester's longest running and they call 'em Manchester Muffins! No debate.

 

[heavymetalboy]

Bacon barm, sausage barm, egg barm, chip barm, blueberry or chocalate chip muffin. Nuff said you southern nonces ;-)

Unless it's a burger. EGG BURGER

 

[unexpected item]

Womble Inn, Sale. Anything you like as long as it's a barm.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Womble Inn, Sale. Anything you like as long as it's a barm.

The Womble eh cock or Wimbledon common its a Lancashire Oven Bottom chuffin MUFFIN.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Bacon barm, sausage barm, egg barm, chip barm, blueberry or chocalate chip muffin. Nuff said you southern nonces ;-)

Unless it's a burger. EGG BURGER

classic schoolboy error there

 

[Helmet Cole]

Barm

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Womble Inn, Sale. Anything you like as long as it's a barm.

The Womble Inn, Sale???? Tells yer everything yer want to know. Moston Lane, a muffin!

 

[mancityvstoke]

fuck the match day thread................MUFFIN

 

[CitizenTID]

Do you reckon we could map out what terms the areas of Manchester use? I think we all agree on crusty cob, roll etc. (the other varieties)... but after 841 pages it might be worth concluding something.

I think all central and east North Manchester (to Failsworth and I'd think Newton Heath) use Muffin from what I can tell? Collyhurst being right next to town and under the influence of international words like Barm may be otherwise.

Does this sound about right?

Manchester City Centre - Mix
North Manchester area - Muffin
East Manchester area - Barm
South Manchester area - Barm
Salford area - Barm
Outer N. area (e.g. Rochdale) - Muffin
Outer N.W area (e.g. Bury) - Muffin
Outer N.E area (e.g. Oldham) - Muffin
Outer S. area (e.g. Wilmslow) - Barm
Outer S.W area (e.g. Altrincham) - Barm
Outer S.E area (e.g. Stockport) - Barm

 

[andyhinch]

I don't care anymore as long as it tracks back

 

[CitizenTID]

I don't care anymore as long as it tracks back

Ha, best answer on the thread!

 

[Kippax.]

Muffin

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Guardiola

 

[Carver]

I'd say east Manchester mix and outer east Manchester muffin.

I think you may find that the traditional cotton weaving and mining areas use muffin, the rest are barmpots. Then the areas in the suburbs that were populated after slum clearance in the centre brought their word with them.

Anyway, a muffin is an oven bottom muffin and barms are a bit bigger, thicker and fluffier but not as nice.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Gorton was muffin.....Shelmerdines shop near Gorton Lane post office (Clay St) sold MUFFINS

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I'd say east Manchester mix and outer east Manchester muffin.

I think you may find that the traditional cotton weaving and mining areas use muffin, the rest are barmpots. Then the areas in the suburbs that were populated after slum clearance in the centre brought their word with them.

Anyway, a muffin is an oven bottom muffin and barms are a bit bigger, thicker and fluffier but not as nice.

I like this. I often said that the 'Ewing's' were aristocrats - aristocrats of the cotton mill and the coal mine, so it was always a muffin. Wards on Moston Lane. Anyone walk in there and ask for anything other than a muffin would have been marched down to the Lewis Rec or Boggart Hole Clough and lynched. Bloody foreigners and their foreign muck!

 

[urban genie]

 

[Zubrman]

In the absence of anything more pleasing on this entire forum, I declare it National Barm Day.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Definitely Oven Bottom Muffin.

Anyone who says different is a barmpot.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Dani Alves or Bruno marrs