Muffin or Barm

Re: Barm or Muffin

johnmc said:
If you walked into any chippy I know and asked for a Chip "muffin" they would look at you blankly. Then they would twat you. Or batter you even.

Its Manchester, its Barm.

Muffin is for people from yorkshire
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I've never so much bullshit in all my life. I'm North Manchester (proper Manchester) born and bred. Round here it's a muffin, there is such a thing as a barm cake that I'm aware of, but from what I can gather they are the choice of gays and general pussies.

Yourkshire people haven't a clue what fucking day it is never mind what a muffin is.
 
Re: Barm or Muffin

PistonBlue said:
I've never so much bullshit in all my life. I'm North Manchester (proper Manchester) born and bred. Round here it's a muffin, there is such a thing as a barm cake that I'm aware of, but from what I can gather they are the choice of gays and general pussies.

Yourkshire people haven't a clue what fucking day it is never mind what a muffin is.
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From South Manchester and living in the city centre now - you will find no chippies in town or south manchester with a price board that says muffin. Must be a North Manchester thing then.


And Yorkshire.
 
Re: Barm or Muffin

johnmc said:
PistonBlue said:
I've never so much bullshit in all my life. I'm North Manchester (proper Manchester) born and bred. Round here it's a muffin, there is such a thing as a barm cake that I'm aware of, but from what I can gather they are the choice of gays and general pussies.

Yourkshire people haven't a clue what fucking day it is never mind what a muffin is.
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From South Manchester and living in the city centre now - you will find no chippies in town or south manchester with a price board that says muffin. Must be a North Manchester thing then.


And Yorkshire.
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I think it is a North Manc thing to be fair. But certainly not Yorkshire, they have all sorts of silly names. Bread cakes, tea cakes, barm cakes. Batty the lot of em.
 
Re: Barm or Muffin

Found this:

A traditional Barm Cake, still available in Southeast Lancashire, England, from certain bakers, butchers and Sandwich shops is quite distinct from a simple bread roll. It is flat like an American Hamburger bun and floured on top. It has a characteristic, strong flavour that comes from the traditional barm leaven made from a natural leaven with the addition of mashed hops. It is not just another name for a bread roll; this false idea has come about by the introduction of cheaper non-traditional imitations.
Barm
Barm (a word common to Teutonic languages), the scum formed on the top of malt liquor when fermenting; yeast used to leaven bread, or to set up fermentation in liquor.
In some parts of the Northwest of England - namely the more affluent and sophisticated South of the region/Cheshire - a Barm (or Barm Cake to give it its full name) is a soft, flat, round bread roll, commonly used to make a variation of the Chip butty. However, it is generally considered by many Mancunians - usually in the more rural, disadvantaged and inbred regions to the North and East of Manchester - that a Muffin is the true word for such a bread product - Chip Muffin, Sausage Muffin etc. Indeed ALL MAJOR SUPERMARKETS stores in the region have such a product on sale called an "oven bottom Muffin".
The Barm/Muffin debate is one that is likely to run & run in the Manchester area for an indefinite period of time. However, recent debates has seen the "two sides" agree that perhaps there is no right or wrong and that both products are very "similar in design", as it were.
One thing that the two opposing sides tend to agree on; the type of product is definitely not a Teacake, which is considered to be a completely different bread product altogether and is generally found in the Sheffield area, "across the Pennines" from Manchester.
It is just possible that neither barm nor muffin may be the definitive term for a bread roll; in some parts of the UK, the word "bap" is used.

I'm not disadvantaged or inbred so its a BARM end of story
 
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