Pikelet Or Crumpet

[Bobbisox1]

You decide
I asked my OH to pop a couple of Pikelets in the toaster for me
EH?
He’d never heard crumpets called this
Is it a northern thing?

[Cloverjo]

I guess so. I’m from the SW and have only heard Yorkshire relatives call them pikelets.

[Bobbisox1]

CJ , his face was a picture, and he’s older , lol

[bednobs]

isnt he northern too?
in he south crumpets are about 10cm thick and pikelets 1 cm.

[Captain2]

North West - Pikelets and crumpets are different albeit similar.

A pikelet is much thinner than a crumpet

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/285246935

[Bobbisox1]

Yes he is Bednobs but spent a lot of years in the RAF

[Mamyalynne]

Tehey are different, crumpets are thick - pikelets thin.

[Mamyalynne]

*they

[Bobbisox1]

Like a drop scone Mamya?

[Togo]

Pikelets have currants in them. I know....I used to deliver them with oatcakes on Saturday and Sunday mornings after my paper rounds.

[Mamyalynne]

See Captain's link for a pikelet.

[Bobbisox1]

Maybe I should have asked for two crumpets then:0/
Not telling him tho

[Buenchico]

I was brought up here in Suffolk, where I only ever heard the term 'crumpet' (and not 'pikelet'). I then spent twenty years in Sheffield though, where I found that everyone knew what a pikelet was.

However I've long been of the opinion that pikelets are thinner than crumpets, which seems to be confirmed by all of the big supermarkets, e.g. Tesco:
https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/314da229-b337-487a-abc2-748f89a277f8/8887a420-0fe2-40a2-a84b-515fcbbd7e1a.jpeg?h=540&w=540
and
https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/3e2503bf-954c-4617-a649-76fe8e4b82a9/287d026b-3765-406e-9543-1b57aafa8f4f.jpeg?h=540&w=540
(Those crumpets are much thicker than their pikelets, with definite 'edges' to them)

[Mamyalynne]

left crumpet - right pikelet

https://tinyurl.com/u6ju2sr

[Captain2]

Warburtons' pikelets certainly don't have currants in them Togo - I know, I put them on the shelf most days - are you thinking of scottish pancakes?

[Togo]

We were very health conscious in Stoke Capito, and as a nod to the local authority, one a week, drive designed to encourage healthy eating the pikelete makers were compelled to add fruit to a product. The only thing that the locals would eat in them was currants because it reminded them of when the bread was full of dead flies.

[Buenchico]

I'm happy to go along with Mamya's illustration but perhaps up in the north-east (where Bobbi is) they actually use the term 'pikelet' to describe what the rest of the country calls a 'crumpet'?

It would be similar to the way that Yorkshire folk refer to these as 'fish rissoles', and not 'fishcakes':
https://assets.iceland.co.uk/i/iceland/iceland_30_breaded_cod_fishcakes_126kg_76763.jpg?$pdpzoom$
If you ask for a 'fishcake' in a Sheffield chippy you'll be served a slice of fish, sandwiched between two slices of potato and cooked in batter:
https://dawesindoors.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/p1020021.jpg

[sadielady]

My husband was from Lancashire and he always called them pikelets to me (born in London) they have always been crumpets

[Mamyalynne]

I'm in Lancashire and to me they've always been different sometimes I buy pikelets, other times crumpets.

Bakeries and supermarkets sell both.

[tonyav]

When I was a kid ( West Mids ) we used to call crumpets pikelets but now call crumpets crumpets ( or maybe that was just my mom ).

[Togo]

Here you are Capito. Honest.....I used to deliver them early morning, still warm. Used to scoff the odd one from an order that was to the dotty folk.

https://thumbsnap.com/i/8m6Cj8Z2.jpg