h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They're all locationally named, like yorkshire pudding, everton mints and sponge fingers

Accusations of pedantry from you, Pheroneus, smack of the pot calling the kettle black. No bunnies in Mr.McGregor's garden indeed!
Pontefract cakes (?)
Which of you are familiar with lardy cake? It seems to be absent from my current part of England. Is it a relic of my youth?

Yes. From Lancashire if I'm not mistaken, and especially nice when a little bit crunchy on top. I'm sure I have had some in London.

What's a lardy cake then?

And I want to add Lancashire Hotpot.

All right mlover.

Where's this place called sponge, Nikki?

Through the alphabet and through the gastronomic world

A.
Bristol Cream,
Cornish Pasties,
Dundee Cake,
E.
French toast, Frankfurters
G.
Hamburgers
Irish Stew
J.
K.
Lancashire Hotpot, Lincolnshire Poacher (cheese)
Mississippi mud pie
N.
O.
Pontyfract Cakes (Plymouth rock ? )
Q.
R.
S.
T.
U.
V.
Worcestershire Sauce
X.
Yorkshire Pudding
Z.

Its a sort of soggy sponge/bread cake, round, but divided into quarters or eight sections, very sugary, with, if you're lucky, some crispy bits on top and round the edges. There might be bits of peel on top as well. Presumably lard and brown sugar or treacle figure large in the recipe, which I shall now go and look up somewhere and find that I am completely wrong.

No rock is from blackpool

Rock can come from any sea side town

Edinburgh Rock

How about "Ulster Fry"

Heres your recipe for Lardy Cake

http://www.aboutfood.co.uk/articles/recipes/recipe-14.html

Hows that for speedy research. It seemed that most entries referred to the South, so maybe I'm wrong. My mother was from lancashire but we lived in Sussex. She used to make it.

Edinburgh Rock is distinct and different and is a poper name for the list.

Spot-on about lardy cake, but I did not know that it was available over the hill.
Anybody for Bakewell tarts, Norfolk broads and Spanish fly?
Gulp! Will I get away with that?

Arbroath smokies
Bath buns
Cottleston pie
Devonshire splits
Edinburgh shortbread
Freshwater shrimps
I too have stuck at G. This may be an answer to the insomniac thread

Bath buns?
Your having us on
whats special about them?

Just off the M25 ...

(actually, I've just searched the world map http://uk2.multimap.com/home.html and there isn't anywhere on the globe called Sponge - I was rather expecting somewhere in the US to be called that)

Bath buns?
Your having us on
whats special about them?

Freshwater is a place?

German sausage,Greek Salad

Yes. It's on the Isle of Wight and a very few freshwater shrimps may come from there. You didn't spot the fictitious one