We need to get together on this.

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I remember ordering a sausage sarnie in Coventry and it came on two slices of bread. Apparently I should have asked for a "batch" if I wanted it on a bread cake (cob, roll etc)

I live in Coventry and once caused chaos in a cafe in Dudley by asking for a bacon batch.

 

[Jody]

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Don't do it.

Not true. Cupcakes were around when I was a kid and was about 1/8th the size of the modern monstrosity that is the standard offering these days. No wonder there's so many fat arses about

Including mine.

They were around years ago but I was more pointing at cup cakes sold by the enterprising youth and wedding planners. It's basically a small muffin with a bit of butter cream on the top but 4x the price it should be.

 

[T4tomo]

I was more pointing at cup cakes sold by the enterprising youth and wedding planners. It's basically a small muffin with a bit an excess of butter cream on the top but 4x the price it should be.

...and generally the cake bit is stale and tasteless. A triumph of marketing over product. Give me my mam's "Butterfly buns" any day

 

[Willd]

Not seen any batches round here (must be in the posh south of Warwickshire), we do have stotties though

 

[colly]

And it was a sodding tenner.

I knew you were loaded. Just knew it.

 

[dan_bo]

I knew you were loaded. Just knew it.

Not any more I'm not!

 

[figbat]

PS it's union flag on land or union Jack if on the Jack post of a vessel at sea. So it can't be called union Jack cafe really but union flag cafe. Pedantry matters!

Good attempt at pedantry but this is an often-held myth; both terms are equally applicable to the flag of the UK.

 

[Hover Fly]

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords...jack should be regarded as the national flag"

...But, of course, a very different state of things applies to the Union Jack. I think it may fairly be stated, in reply to the noble Earl, that the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag,...

 

[colly]

Not any more I'm nit!

You are the policeman from 'Allo Allo' and I claim my five pounds.

 

[Jody]

Give me my mam's "Butterfly buns" any day

Now you're talking. I've not had a good home made butterfly bun for years.

 

[Alex321]

Don't be silly. the clue is in the name ending in muffin. Savoury cup cake? I think not.


I was merely explaining Muffins.

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The really confusing thing being that many of those words mean something else in another part of the country.

"Cob" for instance means a hard crusty roll to me (even though I was brought up mainly in the East Midlands) rather than the soft "bap" type roll. And "Roll" encompasses all types of small bread product below the size of a baton while "batch" is often a small to medium sized loaf.

Teacake in many areas is a soft roll with raisins in it, usually eaten toasted.

 

[annedonnelly]

But shouldn't we celebrate our regional differences? Do we want everything to be the same wherever you go?

 

[Alex321]

But shouldn't we celebrate our regional differences? Do we want everything to be the same wherever you go?

Agreed, in general terms. It is just a bit awkward when a word you know from home means something else where you are now, so you don't get what you expect when you order it.

 

[dan_bo]

But shouldn't we celebrate our regional differences? Do we want everything to be the same wherever you go?

We just need to know what we're asking for!

 

[Time Waster]

Good attempt at pedantry but this is an often-held myth; both terms are equally applicable to the flag of the UK.

Aaah not if you believe in keeping it with the original names. Union Jack started to be used interchangeably in the 1700s iirc but originally it had a different use for naval use on a certain pole at the front of the vessel and for certain uses I think. Jack post or Jack pole i think it's called. Hence the switch from union flag to union Jack.

Personally I actually prefer the look of the first union flag without the saltire of Saint Patrick. For no other reason than I think it looks better, less cluttered if you ask me.

Quiz question on flags. What us state still has a foreign flag as part of it?