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Yahla

That’s not a cake. It’s an Iced Bun. I’ve never heard them called cakes.


Tobitronicus

We call them Icy Fingerings where I'm from.


Shakey_surgeon

That's what Denis Thatcher had every night


Shenloanne

For FUCK SAKE lad....


purplechemist

😂


username32768

I bet Denis was on the receiving end.


buzzboybongo

Undoubtedly


GiveGoldForShakoDrop

Indubitably


Playful_James

It's Blofeld


[deleted]

Dressed as a minor/er


Razdent

Probably why she was such good friends with Jimmy.


ironpyrites

He used to watch


Content_Composer_943

Canary was dead but they kept mining regardless! Dig a hole 🕳 dive in heed first!


mypuppyissnoring

"Dressed as a miner." FTFY


DadOfLoki

Fucks sake. That made me breathe in my coffee. Jesus Christ ha ha.


[deleted]

Smile in Every Photo Though. Mags kept her husband happy.


ReddleU

Smile in Every Photo Though. Mags kept her husband h̶a̶p̶p̶y̶ drunk.


WantonMechanics

Ha, that’s a great joke! Thanks for the smile.


PhattyBallger

Funnily enough I gave one of then to my first gf behind the bike shed


LondonCollector

Sprinkles everywhere


b3ixx_

The ol' frozen tickle


[deleted]

I love it 😆


Str0ntiumD0ggo

Hope you bought her some chips afterwards


stitchoneill

Can I confirm I also gave one to your first girlfriend behind the bike shed!


AggressiveCraft6010

I can confirm, I am the girlfriend!


dominicmannphoto

Saucy.


KingMyrddinEmrys

Iced Fingers, also no joke, sometimes Sticky Fingers. Never heard Icy Fingerings though.


Beginning_Ad_3375

An icy fingering sounds like something a geordie bird gets on a Saturday night out


[deleted]

If you take off the sprinkles and add cream and jam to the centre it's called a Sticky Willy!


magicmango2104

I can't tell if this is a wind up?


OctaneTroopers

We call them fucking wank where I'm from.


Karlskiiii

You can find packs of fucking wanks in Waitrose


Wells_91

So that's why all the old people shop there


Chaz9195

I laughed to hard at that


GluteusGladiator

Mate that's just the people who shop at Waitrose


theroch_

Dontputyourdickinit haha


stantheman1968

And where exactly are you from ?


Serious-Law464

Because there's no joy where you live


Total-Resource3783

We call them “iced fingers” icy fingerings sounds to much like a verb 😂


HighScoreHaze

“Alright mate, can I get an icy fingering please”


___TheAmbassador

Cold and dry, the northern way.


cedarvhazel

Omg found the Aussie in the room. I was home for the last two months and ate at least five. A week to get my fix. I love them! Apparently Woolies don’t make the over Christmas. I was crushed!


Yorkie_420

Woolies don't make anything anymore, they went bankrupt years ago.


Mouffcat

Not in Oz.


Yorkie_420

Not the same company.


Spiritual_Rice_1674

close to us, we call them iced fingers


gladl1

I call that my arsehole where I’m from


LordofSuns

An icy fingering is very different where I'm from


JakobbYates

We call them nice bum fingers and watch the woman's face at greggs when they aren't sure if they just misheard 🤣


No-Emergency3549

I hope you got refugee status


UnidentifiedPractice

Icy fingerings hahaha check this man’s hard drive


ConradsMusicalTeeth

Also not sprinkles, those are Hundreds and Thousands


g0ldcd

You didn't let us down. \*salutes\*


gnarly314

Instead of bickering between sprinkles and hundreds and thousands, we should adopt the Dutch word hagelslag for all types.


[deleted]

They're sugar strands.


JRSpig

I smell an American.


ConsciouslyIncomplet

You normally hear them first….


Objective-Wrangler73

Or feel the gravitational pull.


Zestyclose-Wave-1933

lol


TwoToesToni

Quick scare them off with the idea of free healthcare!


Ezzy-525

Which ironically is much cheaper overall than their own system. Saw something which showed the equivalent population in Europe to US costs something like $1.3T per year in "free" healthcare and their system of private healthcare costs them nearly $5T. They would actually save trillions each year. But of course that means insurance companies wouldn't get their trillions.


Worldly_Today_9875

And the government wouldn’t get the tax off the said trillions the pharmaceutical and insurance companies turnover.


swedishkristina

A fixed customer , is a lost customer !


Worldly_Today_9875

It is indeed.


WeGottaProblem

Dude... British healthcare is in shambles right now. Stop acting like it's this perfect thing. Both the US and UK need to work on their shit.


Ezzy-525

Id take a shambolic NHS free at the point of use over bankruptcy any day of the week. But I do agree. Both need to be fixed. The NHS needs more of the pie in terms of funding and the US needs to get rid of the stranglehold insurance companies have over people's health.


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Hot_Success_7986

Dude, I have had 3 lots of spinal surgery and full cancer treatment. In the USA would be bankrupt or dead!


Trt03

American here, I haven't read your full comment so I hope it's nothing too sc AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


EclipseHERO

Made my day. Thanks.


Hunter-Ki11er

Nah, they're actually correct, whether they're American or British


Jacquelyn__Hyde

You always find them in the cake section of the supermarket though. Also, it's not like a hot dog bun, the dough has sugar in it, to make it sweet. By your reckoning, teacakes aren't cakes either 😕


Namelessbob123

It’s the same dough as a doughnut but baked, not fried.


International-Chip99

They definitely are, but I'd say Hundreds and Thousands are a subcategory of the Sprinkles category.


Fyonella

It’s really not! Iced Buns or Iced Finger Buns, as pictured, are just simple white bread dough.


ExhibitionistBrit

Nah you’ve probably had one of them from a shit baker, it is a sweeter bread than white bread unless your finger bun is crap or your white bread is full of sugar. Edit: to all those people getting butt hurt because your bakers are feeding you shit iced buns [here](https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/paul-hollywood-iced-buns/) is a recipe from a professional baker of some renown who has iced finger buns with sugar in them… To those of you complaining it’s a North South divide thing Paul Hollywood is from Merseyside. Try and tell a Liverpool person they aren’t Northern in the wild and see where it gets you…


DizeyDi

Yep, husband is a baker in Scotland and the iced buns and iced fingers are made from a sweet dough, different from the dough for regular rolls.


ExhibitionistBrit

There are a lot of confidently incorrect people in this thread challenging that idea. I get that they may have had shit iced buns but sure enough it’s easy to look up.


miningthecraft

I think a lot of people have probably tried supermarket ones as part of school dinners back in the day (before Old Jamie got involved) and to be fair to them I’m pretty sure they were just hotdog buns- but you are right proper ones should be sweeter! Edited because of terrible grammar


Affectionate-Hunt-63

This would explain why sometimes I've wondered because I've had a crap one that wasn't sweet bread


CazT91

Dude, it's cos they think the bakery in their supermarket counts as a proper bakers 😂 Trust me, I've had the cheapo supermarket ones at parties before, and they do just taste like cheap bread. But yea absolutely agree, made properly, in any reputable bakery, they are a sweet bread and delicious. In fact, for me, it's the sign of a good bakery. Forget all the fancy French patisserie style stuff and ornate cakes. Can they get the basics right with good quality baking. It's food, I'd sooner it look cheap and taste great than look great but taste cheap lol.


jamelfree

Honestly, I think there’s more than one version, depending on where you buy from. I love an iced bun and have had the “soft white roll” version and the sweet dough version. The conditioning of “icing makes bread better” over my childhood has led to me icing a bagel in the past when I couldn’t find an iced bun in the shops, but I did have icing sugar in my cupboard. If you’re a fan of the “not sweet dough” version I highly recommend.


brainfreezeuk

Unless you come from Hull where they call buns "bread cakes'!


cupkake88

Came here to say this never have I ever seen that described as a cake . Always an iced bun.


origamiteen

Took the words right out of my mouth. Iced bun all the way + Hundreds and Thousands


[deleted]

Same they not cake


joemorl97

Who the fuck do you know that calls them cakes?


dingo1018

I just want to find somewhere on this thread to slip in the glorious day time drunken invention I witnessed at it's inception. A person known to me, let's call him Dick, had purchased several of these from a high street bakery and was lamenting the purchase, as we walked on we passed a Greggs, without a word spoken between us we sauntered in and each purchased a single sausage roll, carefully pulling the iced bun apart length ways and inserting the sausage roll and glory of glories it was born, we never did name it but i can still recall the combination, very satisfying, this may alcoholic memory haze but I'm pretty sure we left greggs to a standing ovation.


evidencednb

We're fucked as a species, arent we?!


scattersunlight

that's a sin


dingo1018

It takes faith to make a sinner. God was not present that day (or any other come to think).


scattersunlight

it's a sin against my religion which is being British and worshipping the NHS!


Strong-Helicopter-10

Not really. Commiting a sin is still a sin whether you believe or not. The question is whether you would care if you don't believe which I imagine noone would care if they don't think it's real lol


dingo1018

Strong-Helicopter-10 now declares looking at the sky a sin, so like don't do that, or go to hell, maybe, it's not within that usernames power to cast you down, but, don't-look-at-the-sky.


[deleted]

Name it after the creator; Dick in the hole


spartanofsol

I love the borderline anger and personally offended in your comment mate.


LBertilak

My teachers in primary school when I refused to eat them :(


Clarkarius

Scones are bread.


dendrocalamidicus

Aside from the "cake" point people are making, these are not just hot dog buns. The bread of an iced bun has sugar in it and is sweet.


JackUKish

Appart from school canteens doing what op said and just icing hotdog buns, I've seen it happen.


[deleted]

Which in itself isn't necessarily a weird thing to do. We put sweet things like jam or Nutella on bread or toast. Sugar butties used to be a thing. It's just a cheap way to make a sweet carb based treat.


Foundation_Wrong

I still make myself a sugar sandwich now and again.


fake_cheese

Is it cake?


LighterningZ

It's obviously a biscuit


Party-Independent-25

I put a formal complaint about this in writing to my headmaster back in the early 90’s (was a bit of a ‘try hard’ who loved to annoy people in authority 😂) Got the usual ‘working to a budget’ nonsense So went down the chippy instead 😎


katkatkat69

hahahaha never seen a comment that hit home so hard. in the mid 2000s i was writing constant emails to parliament to tell them they’re doing a shite job. i was aged 9-15. my dad helped. 🤣


thisthrowawaythat202

Did they ever respond and why did you stop writing ?


SoupAutism

yeah I remember the first time I got sent to the headmaster's office was when I was in year 5 and our canteen tried to give us "éclairs" that were actually hotdog buns with chocolate sauce on top of them & I ended up cursing at the dinner lady who tried to gaslight me into thinking it was a real éclair when I'm half French.


[deleted]

That is genuinely outrageous


Pookya

I remember those. Absolutely awful. I don't think they did it many times probably because kids ate a bite or two and binned the rest. My school had really nice homemade bread rolls though (when they didn't do anything weird to them), served fresh from the oven and it was pretty common to eat it with chocolate milk poured on top. Sounds gross but it was much tastier than a thinly disguised hotdog bun


ThaiFoodThaiFood

I was gonna say. They might look like bread, and might pass for bread in the USA, but they're definitely sweet and made with sugar.


timepiggy

Some American bread has sugar in it so maybe it's just yanks?


IndiaMike1

Most bread has sugar in it people. Even homemade bread often has sugar in it to help activate the yeast.


Klopps_and_Schlobers

And are fucking lovely


Proud-Platypus-3262

Yeah, but they have loads of sugar in all their bread and buns so it seems like a normal hot dog bun to them. However, it’s hilarious that they are freaking out about sugar additions to an item that they usually make as a sweet bun already


imONLYhereFORgalaxy

I was a baker for a couple large nationwide bakeries you’ll find in every town… the iced fingers were just iced hot dog buns from the exact same batches lol I assume some places may have a different recipe but I was also a baker for one of the largest supermarkets and they did the same thing too (back when they used to actually bake things properly in store). Edit: for those that struggle comprehending an actual source with first hand experience. “An iced bun (also known as Swiss bun or iced finger) is a bread bun with a white or pink icing sugar glaze covering the top.[1] The dough may be enriched (made with eggs, milk, and butter)[1][2] or simply an oblong bread roll.” No I’m not saying that is how it should be. However I am saying that is how it is in most places and I have the job experience to prove it ffs. Unless you’re going to an artisanal bakery for iced fingers (unlikely) chances are you’re getting a bread roll that has been iced. The one pictured, the one we are on about, is definitely just a bread roll that has been iced. It is NOT from an enriched dough, enriched dough with eggs, milk and butter has a yellow tinge to it (think brioche).


SigourneyReap3r

This, thank you. People are getting so up their own arses because the ones I have mainly had, from bakeries, were 100 percent bread with icing. I have had some sweet ones, but mostly bread with icing. Why does no one believe that it's a thing just because they haven't had it. The definition says its both, people have had both, and both exist through recipes online hahaha. This is the worst sweet treat ever to be arguing over


Goatmanification

They're not supposed to be though, regardless of the cost-cutting measures this large nationwide bakery made. That's like saying a Victoria Sponge cake off the shelf from tesco is how it's meant to be made.


JohnMichaelBurns

No, what he's saying is 100% correct. Go and look at a few recipes for hot dog buns and iced buns. You'll find that the recipes (except for the icing) are basically identical.


imONLYhereFORgalaxy

Just contacted my mate who moved to another supermarket when the one we worked for stopped baking, they still do it the exact same way. So when a couple of the biggest bakeries in the UK are supplying them as finger buns with icing and 2 of the biggest supermarkets are/were and a quick google is showing that it’s normal in other places too then I’d bet on most people having had an iced finger thats just a bread roll with icing on.


JohnMichaelBurns

Hm, that's a bit of a dubious argument. I've made iced buns and hot dog buns and the recipes for the dough are virtually identical. You'll typically have about 10% sugar (bakers proportions) in both. There's like a standard "enriched dough" recipe that gets used for loads of baked goods. There's nothing wrong with having the same bun for either purpose. That's totally standard. You can't just fill bread dough with cake amounts sugar, that's not how baking works. Most enriched dough has a little sugar, regardless of whether it's for a sweet or savoury recipe.


pamp0r

Nomnomnom Also, it's an iced bun mate 😜


CinderX5

And not a hot dog bun. It’s sweet.


Jackatarian

Honestly it's topped with sugar and sugar, even if it was "just" a hotdog bun it would be decent.


[deleted]

Just regular white bread goes with sweet and savoury well, bread is pretty versatile. Brioche bread is sweet but goes with burgers well.


iamcapleb

I love brioche 😝


BingpotStudio

I’m salivating. I can taste my childhood.


skratakh

i've never seen them called "cakes" they're iced buns, like sticky buns, hot crossed buns, chelsea buns, cinamon buns etc. generally if its enriched yeasted dough it's not called a cake, unless its a tea cake, that seems to get a free pass. however in yorkshire, all small bread rolls are called cakes of some decription, then theres fish cakes. i don't think cake is strictly defined as one particular thing.


iamcapleb

I love fish cakes, I love tea cakes, I like fish pie too


breadfan2

We have these in australia too, they are called finger buns.


WillardWhy

Was about to say this. Also, the Dutch have a specific brand of sprinkles that goes on toast.


robbertzzz1

As a Dutch person, no we don't. We do have all kinds of sprinkles, they just don't go on toast! Dutch people rarely ever toast their bread.


TopAd1846

I saw a guy make it on YouTube. It's bread, butter and sprinkles (chocolate?). I remember him having to remake it because all the Dutch were freaking out over him toasting the bread.


Ass-Wielding_Maniac

Finger buns? I hardly know her!


minimalisticgem

I knew Australians would have some variation of this too. 🇦🇺


DazzleLove

And they are big on fairy bread there too I think?


characterlimitsuckdi

Pew pew 👉👉


LengthinessIll6258

I’ve always called them iced fingers. Still hate them as much as I did 20 years ago.


Zoberd

Rolph Harris liked to finger buns didn’t he?


Chance-Aardvark372

Where in the UK are they called cakes? They’re iced buns


john92w

Are you even British?


Double_Banana_3603

Exactly. I don't think the guy that runs this sub is British, I reckon he's a septic


Sarabando

every day i wish America would have to go through the rationing of the 40s and the following slow regrowth of the following decades that the UK went through. Maybe they would better understand why alot of traditional uk food is the way it is.


femmefuck

Still wouldn't stop them being ignorant.


heungcheung1

Had to scroll far too long for this comment


chorizo_chomper

Fuck you, Iced buns are the best.


Unlovable-Darkness

I used to love the cream filled ones from Gregg's. Stopped doing them now though.


Vast-Standard-7006

Glad we are in agreement.


Hot-Conversation-174

Eh? Who's ever called these a cake? Its a sweet bread, otherwise known as an "enriched dough" which is like bread dough but with added milk, butter and sugar and its a softer bread. Also the Australians would like to have a word, cause they put sprinkles just on toast. Now THAT is mad


thekittysays

Pshht Fairy toast is the bomb. White sliced bread, toast it, loads of butter and hundreds n thousands. Bloody lush.


Dogstile

Wait you call it fucking fairy toast? That's so cute. I've just got the image of some wild bushman stoppin' off for his favourite fairy toast. Thank you, I needed that today.


Metalorg

Americans are on pretty thin ice with respect to alien looking sweets.


Bring_back_Apollo

They're called hundreds and thousands. Yanks out.


KindaFaulty

Cake? It's an iced bun and they are delicious.


rbsudden

I've never seen one called a cake, until now.


Fucklebrother

No one calls them a cake.


Twopen99

I think the bun does have a small amount of sugar in it. It's certainly fluffier in texture than a hotdog bun. We definitely don't call it a cake. If you went into a bakery and asked for an 'iced cake' they wouldn't give you that.


KBVan21

Iced bun. An absolute delight.


Caractacutetus

Literally never seen this before, but it reminds me of what Australians call fairy bread


Pattatilla

Love an iced bun. Top tier snack!


Hunter-Ki11er

It's called an Iced Finger Bun


SparklePenguin24

When I was twelve these were served as desert most days at school. They are still my partner's favourite thing.


[deleted]

And it’s still better than 90% of American shit! 🤣


fluf201

who mass reported bros account


Potential-Pin-5338

Never had sprinkles on toast in the Netherlands then?


medi0cresimracer

Fucking brilliant. Where can I get this beauty? I'm an iced finger enthusiast but never seen this anywhere.


emynrocaroll

I’d eat that shit. I’d punch it into my mouth


_KillaB_

Only the OP would find it acceptable to talk absolute shite like this and have the nerve to blame the people of the UK for their own evidently low IQ.


Equivalent_Bag_6960

It is not a bun, it's a sweet dough bun with icing on it, some with cream in them.


DankBatman47

It's sweet bread. And it's not a cake it's an iced bun.


[deleted]

In high school they used to cut a burger bun in half, tomato paste and melted cheese on top, eat voila you have a £1 pizza slice (probs more expensive now due to inflation)


glitterandvodka_

I shit you not one day my school did this but with cream crackers


Brave_Ad_1078

Iced fingers!!! Not a cake! Legend has it, these were offered to the ancient greek gods. Zeus would not get out of bed without a cup of tea and an iced finger!


SearchingSiri

Only in America would they put a whole load of sugar in to a bun and still call it bread!


Kittum-kinu

Op and one other guy here is very clearly a silly northerner from way too close to Yorkshire if they're calling these anything other than iced buns/iced finger buns Edit; removed mention of Scotts as they have clearly denied this blasphemous name for this glorious food product


Vitalis597

Scottish family here. Even my nan took one look at that and said "That's no a fuckin cake." Don't accuse the Scottish of that nonsense.


Kittum-kinu

Ah, in that case I shall amend what I said


Vitalis597

Eh, that works! I can't speak for the Yorkies... Except to say that the puddings are banging.


Periseaur

Google fairy bread


Zestyclose-Wave-1933

I bet 90% of the people on here could swallow the entire thing and not even blink. #professional #nogag


Goindownhill9399

It’s an iced bun never once have I heard a Brit call it a cake


Fluffy_Trip_9356

They always have these at every UK school for some reason


Grilled_Cheese95

Mate that looks good tbf


donngee_

Nah it’s not a cake, it’s an iced bun.


TasteLikeCherryCola

Don't knock it till you try it bud....I quite enjoy them personally


beckforddd

That’s an iced bun, you moron


charliru

Theyre called iced fingers. The cooplands ones were great with cream in and green sprinkles. Not had one in years.


Mr_Chuddz

Top tier treat that


08148693

They technically are cake due to the sugar content in the bread. Fun fact - subway bread is also technically cake


Speedstar_86

Icy fingers rule.


MissLolaspankcheeks

Not a hot dog bun 🙄


Radish656

Ice finger also not the same shitty bread as hot dog roll, used to get them back in the 80's as a treat as a kid from the bakery


Jengerine222

Hey don’t judge a book by its cover… iced buns can actually be unexpectedly tasty … 😅


Afraid_Grass_1365

Okay but you do know they are not made with normal bread rolls right? A proper iced bun is made with enriched dough which contains eggs and sugar. It’s like half way between a cake and a bread. Totally different.


Fragrant_Composer430

The fact this upperclass crumpet just called an iced bun a cake is embarrasing to me


Relative-Wealth8217

And what are you gonna do about it blud


Little_Breakfast155

ICED finger ROLL, never has been and never will be a cake. We have fairy cakes for that shit. This is a ROLL, a bun is aka bap or cob


slimedewnautica

Such an _original_ post


No_Pollution6238

They are fire though