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has | 14:58 Sun 17th Feb 2013 | ChatterBank

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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.

Sea

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DJHawkes

well southern softies would expect a toasted current bun with butter but up here we'd ask for a toasted current bun and know what we meant

yogasun

Aren't they bun type things with currants that you butter and have toasted?

jd_1984

A teacake is a light yeast-based sweet bun containing dried fruit, typically served toasted and buttered

vodkancoke

Here in Scottyland there are 2 types of teacakes. One is like a currant bun that comes toasted with butter, or the other is a chocolate thing filled with mallow on a biscuit base made by Tunnocks.

muchlovex

I'd expect a toasted teacake

hc4361

Large, round flattish currant bun, split in two horizontally, toasted and buttered.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/14-Jul-2012/1805-teacake.jpg

hc4361

We get those Tunnocks teacakes and caramacs in the English Midlands, too.

grasscarp

something like this
http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/tea-cakes.html#comp.asp?recid=54442674&xtra=

friedgreentomato

with V&C it depends on where you are in the country - if I was in England I would expect a current bun - if I was in scottyland then I would expect the mallow.

has

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Thanks so much for your answers so far....however, my boyfriend still thinks that's not right...aarggghhhhh!!!!! But I have told him it's because he is not getting the answers he is looking for....

He wants to know that if you go into a cafe/coffee bar & asked for a 'Teacake', would you expect a cup of tea with it?

........no I thought not....... :-)

DJHawkes

no he's a numpty tell him so and move on

grasscarp

If he slurred his words and said tea 'n cake then he would get tea too. I think he is winding you up. Nobody in their right mind thinks any kind of cake involves tea as well.

erin-x

My first and only thought was a Tunnocks Tea Cake... Yummy :)

MadMen

A totoasted bun with raisins. Served with butter, and sometimes jam. Mmm lush!

DJHawkes

yes but they are really just chunky marsh mallows and to sell them in a cafe the owners would actually have to have them on display in their foil wrappers so that customers could select them, you wouldn;t walk into a randon cafe and expect them to sell tunnocks tea cakes, and if you were a tunnocks tea cake fanatic (which you would have to be) you would have to be specific about your choice and also visit an awful lot of cafe's to actually find one that has them on the menu.

vodkancoke

Not in Glasgow Dot. If you go in and just ask for a teacake, you would get a lovely little foil-wrapped bundle of yum :)

Alston