As per the above; tell us where you are geographically, and what you term those round, soft, baked bread-related goods that you cut in half and add savoury fillings to.
If you go into Gregg’s and order a product which is sausage meat wrapped in pastry, what do you call it?
Now, if yopu wanted that sausage in a bread covering, you’d need another name to avoid confusion. Hence, sausage cob because a sausage roll already exists.
Considering how regional the terms are, this could go on for a LOOONNGG time…
I will confirm that IN YORKSHIRE it’s a bread cake. call it what you will elsewhere 😛
When I was little, growing up in East Lancashire, they were teacakes. The ones with raisins in were “fruit teacakes” as opposed to plain ones. We also had muffins, though I’m not sure exactly what the differentiation ever was; size or density, perhaps – they come out differently in different parts of the oven, giving rise to “bottom muffins” done in a Lancashire oven.
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When I started Uni in Preston, everyone called them barms. I’d never come across this term before. Ex-students of a certain age will have fond memories of Mama’s Wonderbarm Shop.