Can You Please Settle An Arguement???

[has]

If you go to a sit down cafe or a coffe bar & ask for a 'Teacake', what would you expect to be brought to your tabel?

Many thanks & hopefully you will settle an arguement.

[hc4361]

Like a burger bun without the seeds?

[Alston]

Whilst my wife is pouring the tea, I have enough time to say that this thread really takes the biscuit.

Ron.

[douglas9401]

Agreed Ron, I'm a wafer a lie down.

[Maydup]

Mouth watering thread of the day, put the kettle on "has" while I toast the teacakes. Which flavour jam do you prefer?

[pretty_snowdrop]

I would expect a plain bread soft roll, no currants or anything sweet in there. If i wanted it to have currants in it i would order a 'currant teacake'.

[aelmpvw]

the waitress in our local cafe is called kate, if i asked her for a teacake i'd get a tea

[Alston]

Would that be Kate Ace who is your waitress?. I'm trying now to impress DTC who will see the anagram.

[mikey4444]

I agree...said boyfriend is a numpty.

Afternoon Tea is the way forward. Dainty little sandwiches...might be cucumber, might be ham.....one of those 2-3 tier cakes stands with iced daintys...perhaps a chocolate eclair...all washed down with tea in proper cups with saucers ( Royal Albert preferably) out of a Tea Pot, NOT RUDDY TEABAGS THAT DRIP ALL OVER THE BLOODY PLACE EVERY TIME YOU TAKE THE THINGS OUT OF THE CUP !

Doilies may also play a part in the ritual...not essential but a nice finishing touch. Alas waitresses with little aprons on are getting rare nowadays....Bring back Lyons Corner Houses !

Sorry...got a bit carried away there !

This meal should under no circumstances be eaten in the same place they serve burgers. A Proper Tea Shop is what is required. They are still out there you know...you just have to look for them ( Easy to find in the Cotswolds of course, but you might not live near enough I suppose. Yorkshire Dales perhaps ? )

[netibiza]

I would expect a bun with raisins, and hopefully butter.

[pretty_snowdrop]

Isn't a bun the same as a cupcake/fairy cake and nothing to do with a teacake?

[nescio]

I am from Bradford and agree with pretty snowdrop.
A tea cake is a plain soft bread bun. If you want one with currants in, you ask for a currant teacake .
We know what's what in Yorkshire :0)

[DJHawkes]

I'm from Yorkshire and I know what's what and it's definately wrong to expect a cafe to sell tunnocks teacakes which are not sold in singles anyway and are not toastable

[mikey4444]

Well, its often said that you can always tell a Yorkshireman, although you can never tell him much !

[vodkancoke]

I'm from Glasgow and I know what's what and I know there are two (very different) types of teacake! I'll say it again....it's how it is done up here Dot. If you go into a cafe in Glasgow and say "Hi woman/man behind counter (or "Ow hen") , please can I have a teacake (gonnae gie me a teacake)?" you would get a Tunnocks one. They do sell them individually as they buy them bulk in boxes from the cash and carry. It's different for different parts of the country. No-one is right or wrong, it's just different!
If "has" lives in Glasgow, that's what she/he would get.

[vodkancoke]

I will agree you can't toast them, that would be silly ;)

[DJHawkes]

and messy

[Alston]

DJ...Just 'wave' anything which I have said.