What do you call these in your neck of the woods?
This post was edited by Mal Ware at August 9, 2013 6:32 PM BST

I used to call them barm cakes but now I call them batches!

yahoooo i still call em barms or barm cakes nice one mal

i do use slang to like barm joe's or jimmy ruffins ha ha

but barm cakes or a chip barm (not butty )

as butty is with slices of bread xxxxxx

Ive always called them "buns"

Well in Liverpool and the Northwest they are called balm cakes and here in Coventry they are called batches but I know they have all sorts of names in different parts of the country.

In Canada we call these scones. I wonder if 2 stale ones in the back pockets of my jeans would be an improvement?

Lol, Rita. In the UK there are many different names for these things depending on which part of the country you are from. In the UK, however, the word scone is widely used for something similar.

Or barmpots even - that wonderful word describing silly people. Do they eat barm cakes when auditioning for the Ministry of Silly Walks?

http://nerdlywaifu.com/2012/08/04/a-nation-of-barmpots/

I've been called a barmpot by a local friend because I told her what they call batches here, we called barmcakes in the North West. And I think you're right about Ministry of Silly Walks.

I think barmpot could be a NW ( Lancashire??) expression originally. This weekend in Ramsbottom is the black pudding throwing world championships. Its believed to orginated from the Wars of The Roses, as the contestants throw black puddings wrapped in tights at a stack of Yorkshire puddings. You can travel from Bury to Ramsbottom on the East Lancashire railway (steam)...http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/visit-us/timetables-calendar-2013/yellow-timetable-2013/

They may even serve barm cakes !!!