Muffins are for breakfast, English Breakfast Muffins. Morrison's do cracking cheese ones that go amazingly well with marmite.

We also have a malt loaf here.  The popular brand is Veda by Sunblest but they can also be bought loose on a bakery. They are God like.

Goes exceptionally well with cheese.

Stotties are cakes.

I hadn't heard of Pikelets until last weekend, now it appears I can't move for the bastards.

Bun in NI = cupcake. But can mean anything close to that.

A doughnut for example - not a ring doughnut - which we call a gravy ring.

Here in North East Scotland, using the word ‘roll’ has traditionally referred to things also called rowies, butteries, Aberdeen rolls or morning rolls. I once encountered a Peterhead turnkey who called them ‘cookies’. People would also say “Aitken’s roll” after the chain of bakeries across the city that many (wrongly) asserted were the best rolls, but the company has been broken up under, um, unusual circumstances.

A bread roll has been traditionally referred to as a ‘Glasgow roll’ (crustier top) or a softy (softer bread, soft smooth top). We use the word bap occasionally, or buttie if the filling is chips, crisps, or (sometimes) bacon. We don’t use words like barm or batch.

The thing is, these days it’s generally just ‘roll’. It’s been a few years since I saw the words ‘Glasgow Roll’ on a packet and ‘softies’ is less frequent too. People have generally shifted to only using the less ambiguous ‘rowie’ or ‘buttery’, which only describe one thing.

Here, the word ‘muffins’ refer to a round bread roll with squidgier bread in the middle, and flat, thick, almost burned top and bottom (English muffin) or a large fluffy cupcake thing (American muffin).

Teacakes are like hot cross buns without the cross; sweeter than a standard bread roll, with spices and dried fruit.

Tunnock’s Teacakes, on the other hand...

Edit: Up here, ‘bun’ is only described to use a single portion thing. It’s a more generic coverall word for any bread roll, sweet or savoury. You wouldn’t be slicing up a bun here.

Aye - we would have teacakes here that seem to be the same as the Scots.

Use of the word roll is creeping in here to usurp bap - that's probably more to do with the influx of English chains such as Tesco & Sainsburys who crawled over here and took over after 1998 when the ceasefire kicked in.

Confusingly, I once had a roll and buttery when I lived up in Aberdeen. That was nice.

It was, as was the buttery in all likelihood. I'd probably had a lot to drink the previous night.

At least butteries are self-descriptive. Although they’re quite flaky and pastry-like for a bread roll derivative.

poprock wrote:

At least butteries are self-descriptive. Although they’re quite flaky and pastry-like for a bread roll derivative.

I dunno. There’s no butter in them.

Andy wrote:

Confusingly, I had a roll and buttery once when I lived up in Aberdeen. That was nice.

A buttery in a ‘normal’ bread roll? I’m assuming a well-fired, crispier buttery for a bit of contrast.

I think I had fired it through a toaster. I remember it hitting the spot, although that might have been the pre-heart attack psychosis setting in.

When I was up at the weekend my GF and I were considering the concept of an Aberdeen burger chain introducing a special that replaced the burger bun with two butteries. Call it something like the Kittybrewster Killer or the Fittie Fitbuster for bonus cred.

Tempy wrote:

Remember when we were all young and in love?

I don’t remember being young.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I'm confused then, what do the English call a cake?

A lemon polenta cake.

This is the best thread we’ve had on this forum for months, BTW.

You sure them yorkshires with jam/ice cream aren't Dutch Babies?