The cookie monster said:
Ive had this before with you, if i walk in my local chippy and ask for a chip barm i would get a funny look..
Then they would point to the wall where it says chip muffin £1.20 or what ever it is.......Fucking barms my arse!
An again a pic of a packet of MUFFINS sold in all the supermarkets.
A barm cake is a type of bun with flour on top. The original barm cake is found in areas of Lancashire, North West England. In wider northern England, a similar bread roll would be known instead as a "breadbun", "breadcake", "bap", "cob" (an East Midland term), "teacake" (West Yorkshire/some parts of Cumbria; without currants or currant teacake with currants) or even (in the enlarged form of Tyneside) a "stotty".
Chips are a popular filling, sold in most fish and chip shops in the North West of England often called simply a 'chip barm'. Another popular filling in the North West, particularly Bolton, is the pasty barm