Eccles cakes are nice.

[RED-DOG]

Poppycock!

What would you know about it? You still think Google, (and the earth probably) is flat.

Birmingham is one if those places that doesn't even have it's own cake.

[tikay]

Pontefract cakes are better.


Did you know that 87% of all liquorice grown in the UK is grown in Pontefract & the surrounding areas?

And almost all of that liquorice is used in the manufacture of........cigarettes?

Incred, & that MANTIS fella thinks we don't have interesting stuff on blonde. Outrageous, we have a whole wall of it. Proper wall, too. THATS a wall sunshine.

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Pontefract cakes aren't even cakes, and lol at anyone who falls for the old 'growing liquorice' gag. That one was past it's prime when Esther Ranzen used it as an April Fools joke on That's Life is 1972.

Esther was never wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice

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[The_nun]

Eccles cakes heated with custard.

[bagel]

Northern shite

[tikay]

Northern shite

Ha, top work Sir, top work.

[Doobs]

Northern shite

Each to their own, but doesn't sound very tasty to me.

Bakewell tart ftw

[david3103]

available nationally. Though probably not in Belgium

[Graham C]

available nationally. Though probably not in Belgium

Love these, but I do remove and bin the cherry.

[Knottikay]

Little known fact about the Eccles cake, and it may possibly be just a myth, but in the early 1800's the recipe was stolen by a Staffordshire  baker from its original location from a bakery in Manchester. He then produced this cake on mass. However, he could not sell his wares as word had got out that the recipe had been stolen and only genuine cakes from the Eccles area should be purchased and eaten. The baker, whose name was Tom Biscuitman, then had a dilemma on what to do with the ones he had produced. He decided to put them in storage for the time being in a massive hall outside his village. When his crime was discovered, the whole hall was burnt down and the cakes destroyed.
This is how the historic village of Eccleshall in Staffordshire  was created.

Anyway....I dont like them.

STAFFORDSHIRE OATCAKES are so much better

[RED-DOG]

If we're getting competitive, I give you Yorkshire puddings.

Let's see those Southern softies beat that.

[baldock92]

Little known fact about the Eccles cake, and it may possibly be just a myth, but in the early 1800's the recipe was stolen by a Staffordshire  baker from its original location from a bakery in Manchester. He then produced this cake on mass. However, he could not sell his wares as word had got out that the recipe had been stolen and only genuine cakes from the Eccles area should be purchased and eaten. The baker, whose name was Tom Biscuitman, then had a dilemma on what to do with the ones he had produced. He decided to put them in storage for the time being in a massive hall outside his village. When his crime was discovered, the whole hall was burnt down and the cakes destroyed.
This is how the historic village of Eccleshall in Staffordshire  was created.

Anyway....I dont like them.

STAFFORDSHIRE OATCAKES are so much better

AMEN!

[Nakor]

Never eaten an Eccles cake - are they Mincemeat?
Has taken me 40 years to learn I like Mincemeat - looking forward to mince pies for the first time ever this year.

[bobAlike]

If we're getting competitive, I give you Yorkshire puddings.

Let's see those Southern softies beat that.

I'll call your Yorkshite pudding and raise you a Faggot

[RED-DOG]

Never eaten an Eccles cake - are they Mincemeat?

More or less, but nicer.

[RED-DOG]

If we're getting competitive, I give you Yorkshire puddings.

Let's see those Southern softies beat that.

I'll call your Yorkshite pudding and raise you a Faggot

You won't find many who would swap a good Yorkshire pudding for a faggot. Good shout though, I haven't had a faggot in ages.