View Full Version : Pikelet or crumpet
Fruity-ya-ya
13-03-10, 07:53 AM
Okay, not trying to start a war but just want to know if it's regional or just how you are dragged up.
Even if the packet/recipe shows Crumpets, do you, like me, refer to them as Pikelets ???:smt017???
This sparked an office 'debate' that lasted several months but tbh the lads in the office can't ever decide on owt so I hope a vote on here can settle the argument once & for all.
Your help on this important issue would be greatly appreciated.
p.s. I know a Pikelet is technically different (the web can help clear this up for anyone who has not heard of a Pikelt) but everyone in my village appart from the posh peeps call um Pikelets (yes, Tubbs does sell Pikelets with I can I cant's). It's a bit like calling a vacuum cleaner a Hoover, you known you do it.
Nobbylad
13-03-10, 08:36 AM
WTF?! I mean, who's ever heard of a 'pikelet'?
Retarded...that's what that is!
:smt017
maviczap
13-03-10, 08:37 AM
No, they're crumpets here
Pikelets are crumpets on a low fat diet :p
Both are yummy, but if I can get them I prefer pikelets
Drew Carey
13-03-10, 09:02 AM
There is a difference. Although the same ingredients, traditionally a crumpet is thicker and a pikelet is thinner......according to my wife and google. lol :D
There is a difference. Although the same ingredients, traditionally a crumpet is thicker and a pikelet is thinner......according to my wife and google. lol :D
that's what i thought
wyrdness
13-03-10, 09:41 AM
I have a definite preference for crumpet.
Bluefish
13-03-10, 09:47 AM
thought you was on about baby pikey's, lol.
SoulKiss
13-03-10, 09:49 AM
I think you need to post a pic...
Crumpets taste great with marmite, ham & cheese...
or on their own with butter.
or with jam...
dizzyblonde
13-03-10, 09:53 AM
Whats a pikelet:smt017 sounds like a baby fish..
Crumpets man, crumpets with plenty of butter drippin off!
Specialone
13-03-10, 10:13 AM
When i was a lad, they were known as pikelets tbh my mom always called them that.
But i call them the crumpets now cos i like saying crumpet, i love crumpet(s);)
thedonal
13-03-10, 10:21 AM
Whut the bluddy hell is a pikelet?!
BernardBikerchick
13-03-10, 10:40 AM
dunno don't care but crumpets with butter ( said in northerns accent) and lemon shread hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm perfection
Good god people do you know nothing.
They are pikeletīs !!!!!!!
yorkie_chris
13-03-10, 01:14 PM
And they taste like eating a sponge. Yuck.
Cheese on toast with worcestershire FTW
Which are you refering to though cos I eat both and they're different things.
Crumpets are about an inch thick, with a flat base and holes in the top surface where the butter and peanut butter melt into.
Pikelets are smaller and thinner - more like little pancakes really and have to be eaten with maple syrup. IMO, of course
Fruity-ya-ya
13-03-10, 09:48 PM
Which are you refering to though cos I eat both and they're different things.
Crumpets are about an inch thick, with a flat base and holes in the top surface where the butter and peanut butter melt into.
Pikelets are smaller and thinner - more like little pancakes really and have to be eaten with maple syrup. IMO, of course
I mean crumpets (but they get called Pikelets in our house) hence this poll.
The lads at work are split 50/50 but do concede they are two different things (ingredients being the same).
And yes, they are amazing with peanut butter (crumpets...i mean pikelets..well you know what i mean).
slark01
13-03-10, 09:56 PM
The wife allows me a bit of crumpet now and again. ;-)
Especially with strawbarry jam.
Ste.
the_lone_wolf
13-03-10, 09:58 PM
WTF is a pikelet?
It sounds like the illegitimate offspring watching the exits while it's father burgles my house...
Ive never heard of a pickelet either
Mmmm crumpets, and the food type aint too bad either :wink:
keith_d
13-03-10, 10:11 PM
Mmmm, crumpets with butter and home made damson jam. Delicious!
I thought piklets went out in the middle ages. :-D
Fruity-ya-ya
13-03-10, 10:13 PM
WTF is a pikelet?
It sounds like the illegitimate offspring watching the exits while it's father burgles my house...
www.whitewings.com.au/.../shaker-pancakes.html (http://www.whitewings.com.au/get-creative/desserts-and-pancakes/shaker-pancakes.html)
HOWEVER, in my gaff a crumpet is a pikelet (backwards yes,:smt118 wrong, no).
I was a towny as a child but I've been brainwashed by the village folk.
Small price to pay to have hanky panky with one of their fair maidens.
Don't even get me started on the great fishcake debate of 93':silent:
CheGuevara
13-03-10, 10:28 PM
Eh?!
It's the first I've ever heard of a pikelet, but isn't a crumpet just an English muffin?
Then again, isn't an English muffin just a muffin in the UK? On the other hand a Nanaimo Bar is still a Nanaimo Bar in Nanaimo (the town I grew up in) and not just a Bar.
In any case, an English muffin is a poor excuse for a muffin (just call it what it is - round toast), much like an English pancake is a poor excuse for a pancake. How the hell is it that everybody here seems to ignore the fact that it's really just a crepe?! Want a real pancake? Go to Canada.
Cynical perhaps, but I'm in a foul mood having been subjected to nearly 2hrs of epic boredom while watching Antichrist.
tigersaw
13-03-10, 10:38 PM
Crumpets are pretty much just fat, but just to be certain we used to pour dripping on them.
Specialone
13-03-10, 11:22 PM
Eh?!
It's the first I've ever heard of a pikelet, but isn't a crumpet just an English muffin?
Then again, isn't an English muffin just a muffin in the UK? On the other hand a Nanaimo Bar is still a Nanaimo Bar in Nanaimo (the town I grew up in) and not just a Bar.
In any case, an English muffin is a poor excuse for a muffin (just call it what it is - round toast), much like an English pancake is a poor excuse for a pancake. How the hell is it that everybody here seems to ignore the fact that it's really just a crepe?! Want a real pancake? Go to Canada.
Cynical perhaps, but I'm in a foul mood having been subjected to nearly 2hrs of epic boredom while watching Antichrist.
English muffins and Crumpets are 2 totally different things, english muffins are more bread like.
Mmmmmmmmmmm, im hungry.
CheGuevara
13-03-10, 11:40 PM
English muffins and Crumpets are 2 totally different things, english muffins are more bread like.
Mmmmmmmmmmm, im hungry.
Ahh I see, more bread than bread. But round.
maviczap
14-03-10, 08:38 AM
Ahh I see, more bread than bread. But round.
Close but crumpets have hundreds of holes and a different texture.
Muffins have no holes, although this is getting close to breaking the U rating :p:smt003
I think the fishcake is a purely regional thing - haven't seen what they call a fishcake up here anywhere else so far, just the orange breadcrumb-coated things.
Fruity-ya-ya
14-03-10, 11:29 AM
You're trying to lure me Orose ain't ya.
We all know you're describing a rissole.
A fishcake has batter on the outside, a sice of potato then fish then potato (perfect for a fishcake butty).
:rant:
I admit this is a 'Sheffield' fishcake & anyone who doubts they are superior to any other regional fishcake can come here & I'll gladly meet up & devour one with them (not buying, I am after all a Yorkshireman).
:offtopic:
Back to the current crumpet crisis or progressive pikelet problem , I think it's looking like this is a Sheffield thing as the 50% at work who agree with the current results of the poll are from out of town.
Maybe I need to rethink things, maybe this is a turning point in my life or maybe , just maybe, I'm right and everyone who voted crumpet are wrong?
I'll admit I'm wrong if the pikelet vote stays under 10 (I'm not too proud to say I'm wrong but only if I'm not right).
They're two different things though, so how can you ever be right? You've mistakenly been calling crumpets pikelets...! :p
Fruity-ya-ya
14-03-10, 11:49 AM
They're two different things though, so how can you ever be right? You've mistakenly been calling crumpets pikelets...! :p
Yes, that's the point, I need the org to decide/help resolve this ongoing quandary.
We had a 'debate' at work (we do find time to do some work every now and again) about what an allyway is called locally i.e. ginnel, jitty or snickett.:smt003
In the end it was agreed, because they are the same thing we were all right BUT a crumpet differs from a pikelet.
In and around Sheffield, in some homes, a crumpet is known as a pikelet.
I need you valuable input to decide.
This is why you've all been enrolled in this earth shattering survey, it's outcome will be up there with such decisions as 'where does your lap go when you stand up' and 'why do we drive on a parkway & park on a driveway'.:smt120
I wanted to be clear to non-locals what I meant. Anyway, lurid orange fits better with the average late night snack food :p
This is probably a good point to bring up the desk at which the idea was thought up, and its similarity to other stations...
Fruity-ya-ya
14-03-10, 12:01 PM
I wanted to be clear to non-locals what I meant. Anyway, lurid orange fits better with the average late night snack food :p
This is probably a good point to bring up the desk at which the idea was thought up, and its similarity to other stations...
+1
Dave20046
14-03-10, 12:11 PM
Yes, that's the point, I need the org to decide/help resolve this ongoing quandary.
We had a 'debate' at work (we do find time to do some work every now and again) about what an allyway is called locally i.e. ginnel, jitty or snickett.:smt003
In the end it was agreed, because they are the same thing we were all right BUT a crumpet differs from a pikelet.
In and around Sheffield, in some homes, a crumpet is known as a pikelet.
I need you valuable input to decide.
This is why you've all been enrolled in this earth shattering survey, it's outcome will be up there with such decisions as 'where does your lap go when you stand up' and 'why do we drive on a parkway & park on a driveway'.:smt120
It's a gennel you bellend :p(pronounced 'jennel'...unless you're from barnsley :smt120)
Hand's up if you've sent someone in stoke to find you a bread cake with no luck.
( he suggested oatcakes though???)
Fruity-ya-ya
15-03-10, 11:14 PM
It's a gennel you bellend :p(pronounced 'jennel'...unless you're from barnsley :smt120)
Hand's up if you've sent someone in stoke to find you a bread cake with no luck.
( he suggested oatcakes though???)
Gennel = Correct, I was simply trying to appeal to the more Southerly orgers.
I did once ask for a chip butty & got a puka pie :confused: (seriously).
I just handed it back and explained (calmly) that I'd asked for chips on a bread cake.
This seemed to confuse matters and the 'lady' told me that's what I ordered so that's what I'd get.
So I said forget it, didn't even ask for a refund and marched out of the shop (mistake).
The shop owner chased round the corner with the pie insisting she had mis heard me and it was my fault for not speaking clearly however I couldn't have a refund as she'd cooked the food (not that I'd asked for one).
I took the pie (to end the conflict) and then she offered me a bag of chips for free!!?!??! (took it and I said sorry although It was mainly because I was confused as hell).
Maybe she felt bad in front of the others in the shop (who agreed I never asked for a pie and no I didn't know them from Adam) or maybe I look like a pie muncher?
dizzyblonde
15-03-10, 11:29 PM
I did once ask for a chip butty & got a puka pie :confused: (seriously).
I just handed it back and explained (calmly) that I'd asked for chips on a bread cake.
This seemed to confuse matters and the 'lady' told me that's what I ordered so that's what I'd get.
So I said forget it, didn't even ask for a refund and marched out of the shop (mistake).
well if you were in Salford, and you asked for a good old yorkie Chip buttie, they would look at you very oddly. Its like talking a different language. Down Manc way they call em chip barms. A teacake is not a teacake, tiz a barmcake. Barmy I know:rolleyes:
And as fer other foreigners to Yorkshire, they seem to think teacakes have fruit in em...well yes I know some do, but they are called just that 'fruit teacakes'.
I agree that they are two different things. I prefer Pikelets.
well if you were in Salford, and you asked for a good old yorkie Chip buttie, they would look at you very oddly. Its like talking a different language. Down Manc way they call em chip barms. A teacake is not a teacake, tiz a barmcake. Barmy I know:rolleyes:
Eeeeee......... you'll be talking about chips with babbie's 'ead and peas wet next :-D
My dad always called them pikelets.
Ah, and talking about teacakes, I went to a bbq with my brother who now lives near Accrington Stanley, and the lady told me to grab a teacake. A what? I couldn't see any fruity buns anywhere! She did have to explain! And that the others were fruit teacakes! WTF! They're bread rolls for goodness sake! LOL!
Fruity-ya-ya
30-03-10, 03:53 PM
Okay, I know when I'm beat :smt047
I concede the org has confirmed more people call them crumpets than pikelets.
I'm still not convinced your all right but I'm willing to, at least within the realms of the org community, now refer to crumpets as crumpets.
Moderators out there feel free to wipe this whole thread as although I submit to the might of the org it still remains an injustice to the backward people of Sheffield.:sad:
No no let it stand!
A Northerner backing down - whatever next? LOL xx
Fruity-ya-ya
30-03-10, 04:35 PM
No no let it stand!
A Northerner backing down - whatever next? LOL xx
:kiss:Thanks love you too, just add to the shame why don't ya :-({|=
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