M&S Teacakes

[Hopkirk]

I know there have been problems recently, but this trumps it all.

M&S boss is forced to step in to row back on controversial teacake ban https://mol.im/a/11550413 via https://dailym.ai/android

Teacakes are not a breakfast item.
Do you agree?

[TheWinner]

Captain2, I googled it, and found this
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/ShowUserReviews-g499507-d3858800-r180246779-Minshulls_Garden_Centre_Cheshire-Crewe_Cheshire_England.html
First review. We don't use cheddar, it has to be Cheshire, which is funny as the review WAS somewhere in Cheshire. They should try their own cheese.

[THECORBYLOON]

I was a wee bit confused because what I know as a tea cake is what other folk would know as a fairy cake or a cupcake so I wondered why folk were toasting them...

[TheWinner]

TBC these are Warburtons
https://www.warburtons.co.uk/products/fruit-loaves-and-teacakes/teacakes/

[TheWinner]

meant TCL (not Tbc).

[THECORBYLOON]

When my mum used to make tea cakes I got to scrape the bowl so it was always a battle to convince her she had filled enough tea cakes to leave as much for me as possible.

[TheWinner]

That's another part of the problem TCL, different parts of the country have different names for stuff.

[zebo]

//I was a wee bit confused because what I know as a tea cake is what other folk would know as a fairy cake or a cupcake so I wondered why folk were toasting them...//

It must vary around the country, I remember being asked by my future MIL if I would like a tea-cake with boiled ham on it. Across the Pennines, in Lancashire we had the fruit version, toasted with lot of butter. Those Tunnock things were chocolate teacakes to us.

[THECORBYLOON]

My mum made tea cakes, put icing on some of them and gave a few to the wee girl next door who later returnt them, minus the icing.

[TheWinner]

zebo, that's probably the best example. Plain tea-cake to some, (meaning no fruit) to others it may be: barmcake, oven bottom, bread roll, muffin, baps etc etc