We had one for the Diamond Jubilee: https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/24684/ So we ought to have one for the Platinum Jubilee. Much like Max Miller, there'll never be another.
West Sussex County Council is giving all its Meals on Wheels customers a lemon drizzle cake to celebrate the occasion.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 26th May 2022, 9:04 PMWest Sussex County Council is giving all its Meals on Wheels customers a lemon drizzle cake to celebrate the occasion.
Is that a lemon drizzle cup cake?
Cup cake?..... Oh you must mean buns
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 27th May 2022, 8:19 AMCup cake?..... Oh you must mean buns
No. Cup cakes. Didn't you have them in the 60s up Norff?
I think cupcakes were originally from America, so we'll have a furious Herc along any minute telling us off for talking about them..
Buns lad. Me mother cooked thousands. Butterfly buns, iced buns and some with a smartie on top.
Butterfly buns sound marvellous!
Ours were called butterfly cakes. Buns are bread.
The Cup Cakes near me are the Women's Institute.
The ones who are knitting all the nice hats for the post boxes round the country.
Down here but not up north, traditionally anyway. Buns are sweet things up there, as are proper sized cakes. The Eccles cake I believe caused consternation with its naming (probably with northern bakers only), which owed its erroneous cake label to the convenience of spoken English, namely alliteration. So many famous sweet things were created in the north, I'd give them the right to call small cakes and pastries buns and bread buns rolls.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 28th May 2022, 3:52 PMDown here but not up north, traditionally anyway. Buns are sweet things up there, as are proper sized cakes. The Eccles cake I believe caused consternation with its naming (probably with northern bakers only), which owed its erroneous cake label to the convenience of spoken English, namely alliteration. So many famous sweet things were created in the north, I'd give them the right to call small cakes and pastries buns and bread buns rolls.
A cake is something which goes hard if a lot of air gets to it. A biscuit is something which goes soft if a lot of air gets to it.
In 16 days time, the Queen becomes the second longest reigning monarch, beating Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand but it will be another 2 years exactly until she becomes the longest reigning monarch, overtaking Louis XIV.
Muffin the Mule was invented by Punch and Judy people in the 1940s although he didn't debut on British TV until 1955.
The tallest marzipan sculpture was 11 feet 9 inches - it is of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
One of the Queen's nicknames is Cabbage.
Any other questions?
Quote: A Horseradish @ 28th May 2022, 4:03 PMA cake is something which goes hard if a lot of air gets to it. A biscuit is something which goes soft if a lot of air gets to it.
Which is the ruling the Court made when the Inland Revenue wanted to classify Jaffa Cakes as biscuits for VAT purposes.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 28th May 2022, 3:52 PMThe Eccles cake I believe caused consternation with its naming (probably with northern bakers only), which owed its erroneous cake label to the convenience of spoken English, namely alliteration.
Eccles Cakes? Alliteration?
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 28th May 2022, 4:28 PMWhich is the ruling the Court made when the Inland Revenue wanted to classify Jaffa Cakes as biscuits for VAT purposes.
Yus.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 28th May 2022, 4:28 PMWhich is the ruling the Court made when the Inland Revenue wanted to classify Jaffa Cakes as biscuits for VAT purposes.
Eccles Cakes? Alliteration?
Oh my bad ? A common cock up to make, I meant consonance of course.
This Jubilee bullshit makes me vomit.