I have been to Bakewell. Took the bus from Sheffield there to visit Thornbridge brewery. So many hills and turns I felt so sick. The partner did have Bakewell tart with warm custard before we headed to Thornbridge which was just a short walk from the town centre.
I have asked Brits in my travels what they call a bread roll they all told me different names. They are surprised to learn different names for a simple bread roll around the country. A lovely English I met on my Namibian safari/tour calls it “batch”, if I remember it correctly.
When I was working on an own-brand product offering, it took us three weeks to decide whether to use 'brush or ‘broom’ in the instructions we rewrote for the UK market. Marketing director was from the south, product director from the north.
We ended up using ‘brush or broom’ as it was the only way to settle it.
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Harters
(John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)
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Well, I never knew that was a difference.
I’ve always used a brush. Does that recognise my northernness or has something southern crept in to the Harters gene base?
For the rest…we were talking about what to call the long handled object with bristles with which one sweeps the debris from a dirty floor.
In general, Harters, in the colonies at least, a brush has a short handle (toothbrush, hairbrush, paintbrush)
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Harters
(John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)
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Only just spotted this. The “oven bottom” - or oven bottom muffin to give its full title - is unusual. Whilst the bread rolls are pretty much the same light product everywhere, regardless of regional name, the “OB” is different. Rounder, flatter, more dense. Holds the ketchup better on your bacon butty. Very much a Lancashire product - the baker whose product you see in the supermarket is from Ashton under Lyne (the town where I worked before I retired)
I always thought “broom” was the term for a large type of floor floor brush, whilst brush tended to be used for a version like a tooth brush or hair brush.
Lived down scarf for a few years and none of my pals used tooth brooms or hair brooms…
Although thinking about it I wonder if there is more to it than a north/south divide. Brooms are technically the old fashioned witches brooms whilst floor brushes are a different design. I wonder if a broom is the old fashioned tool (I know in Australia we only have one old fashioned millet broom manufacturer left) whilst a floor brush is far more modern.
I also wonder is there an element of class in it. Big houses would have “broom cupboards” (obviously the place to keep the Dyson) but more humble houses wouldn’t. So wealthier people retained the work broom for a floor brush and others evolved into using the work brush.
Nope. Oddly, I ran into a lady in Target here at home whose accent told me she was from the north of England…by sheer quirk, she had what is called a broom in the US in her cart (red O’Cedar). I quickly explained my dilemma, and asked what she called it…It was a brush in her eyes.
Thus “brush or broom” it was.
Harters
(John Hartley - a culinary patriot eating & cooking in Northwest England)
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When we remodelled the kitchen, we created a space that we also call the “broom cupboard”. It’s where we keep the brushes.
