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I didn't say it was wrong, just I hadn't seen it before. I just feel that if you have pastry you don't need the bun (and that's coming from a confirmed breadoholic).

What's wrong is that there's bread AND pastry. There's a redundancy.

That is A LOT of bread! Looks good though.

How come you're so thin?

Pie wivvout gravy?  Shouldn't be allowed :-)

I grew up in Somerset and moved up north about seven years ago.  

I remember going into a fish and chip shop and thinking this:

1)  What the hell is a barm?

2)  Who has gravy on their chips?

Well, I found out what a barm was, and quite a lot of people up here have gravy on their chips (strange.)

But then I met you Phil.  Let's clear up one thing:

THIS IS WRONG and it fills me with DISGUST.

I've never seen one before, but now that I do, you're right I want to try one ...

No British person is ever going to mock me for having gravy on a roast meat sandwhich ever again.

Mmmm. What kind of pie is that?

*sigh*. Heathen. It's a *"pie buttie"*. Barm indeed.

( ;OP )

I don't want to take a bite of it because you already have.....

Oh man! I've not had a pie barm or pie butty for ages. Down 'ere in't south, there ain't many good pies. I get my mum to send me Wigan pies every so often :) Gravy on chips is the only true gourmet way to eat chips.

That's a hamburger bun. Can't fool a new yorker.

Wow-i want one!

I used to live up north with normal people who knew what barms were, then moved south where no-one knew what i was talking about.

@dunsel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barm, its only similar to a hamburger bun...

Barmcakes rule!

Late reply, but...

Pie Barms are ace. Also known colloquially as Pie Butty or Wigan Kebab.

Just had my pie barm cherry popped. Mmmmm.

A ha, now I know where the expression "barmy" comes from. You like that?, you must be barmy!!!

That looks more like a muffin than a barm cake. That papery skin and light aeriated interior is a sure sign of low quality muffinery. A true barm cake has a flatter, doughier, denser texture and often has a dark well done ring on the top.

I know a barm cake when I see one...

Nowt up with a pie barm though, my friend.....stuff your rops and enjoy it, that's what I say!

I was grow up in the north, north lincolnshire to be persist but I now lived in the north west for 8 years.

When I first came over the M62 I did not have a clue what a Barm was but I soon found out they meant a bap or bun. I also got my first experience of pie 'barms'.

I think the best it about the bread is that it catches the pastry crumbs and gravy when you are eating on the move. Especially important when you are suited and booted!

You northerners are weird.  Pie in a bread roll, but no battered sausages.  Oh how I miss the south.  And don't get me started on the total wrongness which is pea-wet.

I'm from the south, but wish i lived in the north. Anywhere south of Birmingham - the pies are substandard. Unless anybody can point out a good pie shop for me.

i cannot believe how many people i test with the question "do you know what a barm is?" that come back with "dunno".  i work with some scousers and woolibacks and none of them have had a pie barm either, they are all nearly sick when i suggest it.  its horrible, it brings a tear to my eye knowing what they are missing out on.  and i will never understadn why southerners cannot fathom gravy on chips

the chips look horrible-so does the pieeeeeeeeuuuuuuum but i have heard off my friend chaz that pie barms are the............best!!! that was the best describing word he could come up with?!?!? maybe its all the pie barms goig to his head xx

Im from yorkshire and never heard of them till I moved to lancashire but have been very intrigued and think I must try one really.

I do love the word barm too. Its taken place of bread cake in my vocab.

I'm from Bolton and regularly went to watch Wigan RL when I lived up that way.  Pie barms were at least a weekly occurance.  I went to Aberytwyth Uni and ordered a Pie Barm at a chippy and they were very confused. After trying to make them understand, they wrapped a pie and a 'bun' up separately - I had to unwrap them and show them what I meant. And of course I smothered it in ketchup.  A big problem in Wales is that nowhere does meat and potato pies! I now live in Cardiff and the problem is the same.  I have successfully introduced Pie Barms to 'Chip off the Old Block' cafe in Maesteg though... By the way - Lancashre Pasties knock the socks off a Cornish anyday - more filling, sloppier and less pastry - available at Greenhalghs's.

ive been in lincolnshire now for 15 years,when i go back to chorley,the first stop is joey halls on eaves lane to get my spud pie and barm,god i miss them,

Wow - I've gotta try one of these - I'm off to educate the local chippy in the Nuneaton!

i'd probably go for beef and onion first though...

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this is a wigan thing ......... bunch of pie eaters!

I could murder a pie barm after seeing that photo. Gotta have gravy though!

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