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snoopysue wrote:

Rob wrote: Why is it funny Loopy Lou?
All the best Bakers are men.In fact the word itself Baker has to be masculine. I reckon it's the kneading that makes it attractive to men,the energy that comes out of your finger tips!!! Exhillarating and strangely sensual or should that be sexual ! Sexual kneading!! Didn't Marvin Gaye record that?

Cos it was you who said it Rob!

How did you know I was Loopy???
(some might say that to be interested in genealogy you have to be loopy)

Thomas Warburton - 1837 - 1909

Thomas Warburton? Les aigles sur les bords du Gange et du Caystre
Sont effrayants;
Rien de grand qui ne soit confusement sinistre;
Les noirs paeans,
Les psaumes, la chanson monstrueuse du mage
Ezechiel,
Font devant notre oeil fixe errer la vague image
D'un affreux ciel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9yJsuJ-5yk

Rob wrote:Thomas Warburton? Les aigles sur les bords du Gange et du Caystre
Sont effrayants;
Rien de grand qui ne soit confusement sinistre;
Les noirs paeans,
Les psaumes, la chanson monstrueuse du mage
Ezechiel,
Font devant notre oeil fixe errer la vague image
D'un affreux ciel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9yJsuJ-5yk

Where do you find em ????

Talking of Ronnie Hilton,who probably was the most sucessful English vocalist in the '50's,he made his debut at Dudley Hippodrome in 1954!!
It seems the Hippodrome was one of the principal theatres in England for variety.
Maybe we ought to have a separate thread for memories of Dudley Hippodrome? I used to go to see the pantomines there, he's behind you!!!

Rob wrote:Talking of Ronnie Hilton,who probably was the most sucessful English vocalist in the '50's,he made his debut at Dudley Hippodrome in 1954!!
It seems the Hippodrome was one of the principal theatres in England for variety.
Maybe we ought to have a separate thread for memories of Dudley Hippodrome? I used to go to see the pantomines there, he's behind you!!!

Never missed one - absolutely brilliant. But what did Ronnie have to do with Warburtons Bread

Warburtons bread?
I thought you were on about one of my fave philosphers of the 19th century.Thomas Warburton.
Conection with Ronnie? There is one.If you look hard enough.

Rob wrote::o Warburtons bread?

What a coincidence! My daughter is living in London for a year and I asked her to bring a couple of packets of Warburtons crumpets for me when she came for Easter. She gave them to me yesterday but said she didn't understand why I wanted they as they are so dry... she had tried eating one cold without toasting it!

gardener wrote:

Rob wrote::o Warburtons bread?

What a coincidence! My daughter is living in London for a year and I asked her to bring a couple of packets of Warburtons crumpets for me when she came for Easter. She gave them to me yesterday but said she didn't understand why I wanted they as they are so dry... she had tried eating one cold without toasting it!

Tried others - but I do think they're the best. Mom calls them pikelets - wonder if that's black country

Antie Em wrote:

gardener wrote:

Rob wrote::o Warburtons bread?

What a coincidence! My daughter is living in London for a year and I asked her to bring a couple of packets of Warburtons crumpets for me when she came for Easter. She gave them to me yesterday but said she didn't understand why I wanted they as they are so dry... she had tried eating one cold without toasting it!

Tried others - but I do think they're the best. Mom calls them pikelets - wonder if that's black country

We call them Pikelets also Auntie Em.

Annie

Pikelets is different to crumpets in some places, although I seem to recall my Grandmother calling crumpets pikelets, Pikelets are thinner, more like Scotch pancakes, and floppier.

I think there is a hierachy of words.

Thickest to thinnest
Crumpets -Pikelets- Scotch pancakes

it depends on where you are in the country -- most places only use two of the words but it varies as to which two are used and therefore which bakery product they refer to.

Maths girl wrote:I think there is a hierachy of words.

Thickest to thinnest
Crumpets -Pikelets- Scotch pancakes

it depends on where you are in the country -- most places only use two of the words but it varies as to which two are used and therefore which bakery product they refer to.

I remember having "pikelets" when I was a kid and they always looked like crumpets. The thin ones we had were scotch pancakes - and my mom made our own welsh cakes - not like crumpets at all but lovely.

Antie Em wrote:

gardener wrote:

Rob wrote::o Warburtons bread?

What a coincidence! My daughter is living in London for a year and I asked her to bring a couple of packets of Warburtons crumpets for me when she came for Easter. She gave them to me yesterday but said she didn't understand why I wanted they as they are so dry... she had tried eating one cold without toasting it!

Tried others - but I do think they're the best. Mom calls them pikelets - wonder if that's black country

My mom calls them pikelets too! I had a couple at the hotel we stayed in in Kingswinford, only thing wrong was I had to toast then on one of those conveyer belt industrial jobbies, so they weren't as warm as I'd have liked! Don't fancy them totally cold though!!

I'd say the thick ones with the holes in are crumpets (that's what it says on the packet!), and the thin ones scotch pancakes, but it does depend on where you're from!