Oh yeah...
One other thing. Northerners, I love your part of England, but there is one thing we have to make clear:

It is not a barm cake, it is a bread roll.

Sorry, not strictly in context, but I'm guessing the lists of Kerry Catona, mobile phones with speakers (whoever thought that one up needs to be locked in a cage with Michael winner) etc are wearing thin.
(impossibly witty twat No, YOUR Mum etc etc, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 11:46, 13 replies)

Sorry
But you're wrong.

You can't get much more Northern than me before you reach the porridge-wogs and I can tell you that it's actually called a bread-bun.

The Southeners from Lancashire with their poncy Barm Cakes can stick them up their arses.

And the French (anyone South of Manchester) can just fuck off.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 11:55, closed)

you get a click in the face
for 'porridge wogs'....and i am a fully paid up one myself. And with that in mind, it definitely isn't fucking 'barm cake' or even 'stott', as they called it in Derby. its just a fucking ROLL, regardless of size, circumference or height.


....and another thing, its called a 'Potato Scone', not a Potato Cake, or Potato Slice, or any other idiotic oral arse gravy that them suffern pooves would care to call them
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:07, closed)

Further to legless' response;
Brm cakes, Stotties, Pasties, Door-stops and every other regional foodstuff accurately described by appropriate dialect is completely and perfectly valid.

Get back inside the M25 you bigoted, London-centric twat.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:08, closed)

And while you're at it...
Those tasty little baked snacks made with eggs, flour and sugar and often topped with icing, chocolate or other sweet things, that people bring into the office on their birthday, are "cakes". Not "buns", which are bread-based comestibles.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:12, closed)

BOLLOCKS!
I'm not having that!
Cakes are large affairs with much more icing and usually in two layers with buttercream etc in the middle. They are cut into portions and served.

"Buns" is used to equally describe small, individual-portion bread loaves and the type of sponge-cake-in-a-paper-case you describe.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:17, closed)

A small sponge cake
in a little paper case is still a cake, just a small one. A bun is more bready and may contain currants and be iced and have glace cherries on top
( Bazongaloid, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:52, closed)

I think you're all forgetting...
About cobs.
(syz, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:47, closed)

Nah..
They're Baps.
(Ott3r, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:52, closed)

I think you'll find
that there is a big diffeence between baps and cobs. Baps are floury and soft, cobs are crusty and delicious.

Yours, syz the cob connoisseur.
(syz, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:20, closed)

You're bloody right.
I am a Northerner and I refuse to call a bread roll a "barm cake" or a "bun"

Cakes and buns are sweet, bread rolls are not.
(brainwrong, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:01, closed)

Your all bloody barmpots.
.
( girlinthehole, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:14, closed)

Bread rolls
Round where I live (South Manchester) they call them "muffins", as in "chip muffin please felloh". Back home, it'd be "chip barm please la"

I had never heard them called anything other than "bread rolls" until I heard my grandmother's butler call one a "barmcake" (out of earshot of my grandparents, obviously).
(ScousersPet, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:25, closed)

Cob
Is all.
( rofl harris, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:36, closed)