Is this the beginning of the end?

[wayneyboy1942]

Now it seems that we have stopped eating the Eccles Cake!
It's been on the news. People have stopped buying them and now big chain bakers will no longer sell them. We would rather buy muffins instead.I am rather sad about this. It sounds a bit daft getting upset about it but just think that we are now eating less British food and more Alien food.
I am all for choice but when good old tackle like the Eccles cake goes what next?
Kids would rather go for a burger and pizza than have fish and chips. We are very slowly loseing our Britishness this is the beginning of the end! :( :stop:

Not surprised this is happening, it started with EU guidelines that they couldn't be called Eccles Cakes unless they were actually made in Eccles. They have said the same about Bakewell Tarts and Melton Mowbury pies and any other foodstuff that has a place name. I suppose the next will be Yorkshire Puddings
Their twisted reasoning is that it is deception if they are not made in the place in the name. No wonder the manufacturers are stopping making them, the next step will be the same old favourites appearing under another name.

[Mattylad]

I like the odd eccles cake now & then, about - oh maybe once a quarter. :D

I think that they will still be made & sold because there will still be those that ask for them. Maybe the big companies will stop selling them, but other smaller ones won't stop.

I'm glad that you think that we eat more alien food, thats what I've always thought of curries - only fit for space monsters. :D

[Digsyboy]

You think you have it bad? Since moving over to the west coast of Lancy, am buggered if I can get a teacake - it's a pigging barmcake or nowt. they look at me daft when I ask for a teacake, and give me a currant teacake instead!!!! Surely a currant teacake without the currents in, is a TEACAKE!
What makes things worse is, my missus don't say teacake or Barmcake; she calls them baps - well she is from Herefordshire lol

[TMC]

Well you,ve all heard that saying (your a current short of a T cake )

[Digsyboy]

made up saying!!!!!!!!!! hehehe

Many a mickle macks a muckle - now there's a saying

Don't know what it means though

[Mattylad]

Hmm, now "baps" has another connotation thats best not repeated, but also best in two's :D

Baps, Buns, Teacakes whatever, it's all bread rolls to me.

Now an Eccles cake is an Eccles cake no matter where it is.

[grannyclaret]

IT WAS ON THE TELLE THAT KENDLE MINT CAKE COULD ONLY BE MADE IN KENDLE ,(more claims are us jobs ) i wonder what will happen to blackpool rock ? we bought rock in the isle of man that said made in blackpool, even though it had the three legs all the way through .(once again this rediculas political correctness) gone mad. :stop:

[Kiki]

My mum used to make sad cakes which were like Eccles cakes instead of the puff pastry it was shortcrust and the same filling currants with chopped mint they were delicious!

[Kiki]

I like oven bottom cakesand jammy scone cakes and specially rasberry buns ,the day they are made

[grannyclaret]

i still make sad cakes if i have pastry left over ,( yum )best when still warm and smothered with lurpac

[Kiki]

I cant eat much pastry as i get get indigestion and have cut a lot of dairy produce out too and feel so much better!Soya milk takes some getting used to! :)

[Quazi Washboard]

Originally Posted by dellym

lol...ive never understood the appeal of an eccles cake...now, if they do away with an egg custard then expect a campaign started by me!!! :yelrotflm

I'll second that! :thumbsup:

[Mattylad]

Funnily enough, now when I'm in oddies etc, I'll have an eccles cake instead of a danish... lol

[wayneyboy1942]

Originally Posted by Mattylad

Funnily enough, now when I'm in oddies etc, I'll have an eccles cake instead of a danish... lol

Good lad Matty! We'll save the Eccles cake! We could ask for a lottery grant! :yelrotflm