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joeSoap
18/08/2006, 9:59 AM
Listening to the Ray D'Arcy show this morning and they had a huge debate about whether or not those lovely things are known as:
a). Rice Krispie Buns
b). Rice Krispie Cakes.
To me they're buns....always have been, always will be. But a lot of people think they're cakes.....
What do you think??
Raheny Red
18/08/2006, 10:05 AM
Oh cakes for sure. For me a bun is like sponge :)
The Stars
18/08/2006, 10:09 AM
Bun.....that is what they are called so no need to complicate the situation.
sligoman
18/08/2006, 10:10 AM
Definitely cakes. Now you've made me think of them, I want one:).
Gonna add a poll to get a true reflection.
$Leon$
18/08/2006, 10:11 AM
They are buns, always have been always will
Raheny Red
18/08/2006, 10:12 AM
Bun.....that is what they are called so no need to complicate the situation.
You get 5 times as many results with cakes on google :p
We need a poll for this btw!
Rice Krispie Buns.
They're served in those little bun cases/wrappers so they're buns
FACT ;)
joeSoap
18/08/2006, 10:16 AM
The dictionary doesn't help, with its two definitions;
A). a solid food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, etc.
B). a solid block of a particular substance, eg soap, chocolate, etc.
A would mean its a bun, but B would mean its a cake.
Of course the fookers at Rice Krispies only complicate matters even more....they call them 'Treats' (http://www.ricekrispies.com/brand/rk/index.shtml)
drinkfeckarse
18/08/2006, 10:24 AM
It's always been a "cake" for me. Bun just sounds wrong...
babydol
18/08/2006, 10:31 AM
definately a bun!
Bun, surely. If someone offered me a Rice Krispie cake, I would expect something with at least an 8" diamater, and would be very disappointed at only getting a bun.
For me, cakes are big, buns are small (with the exception of queen cakes, and jaffa cakes).
dahamsta
18/08/2006, 10:37 AM
I can honestly say that before that ad, I had never heard of a Rice Crispy Bun. The entire idea of it being anything other than a Rice Crispy Cake is simply preposterous.
adam
Terry
18/08/2006, 10:44 AM
alway has been a bun and always will be
Always called them cakes.
Of course Kellogg’s call them Treats.
Real ale Madrid
18/08/2006, 10:47 AM
Whats a rice Krispie cake could anyone tell me. Really lads its bun and ye all know it.
Whats a rice Krispie cake could anyone tell me.
This:
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=154
Definitely a bun, it's blasphemy to insult them with the term 'cake'..
Dricky
18/08/2006, 11:33 AM
ohhhh this is a can of worms!! cake or bun could have huge ramifications right across the treat world.
Is it a fairy cake, fairy bun or a fairy cake bun???
See if they had only been around a few years the copyright would help decided..
pineapple stu
18/08/2006, 12:31 PM
Never heard the phrase "Rice Krispie Cake" in my life! Definitely a bun.
carrickharp
18/08/2006, 12:34 PM
Its called a bun I tells ya, a BUN!!! never heard of a "Rise Crispy Cake" until it was discused on Today FM this morning.
Raheny Red
18/08/2006, 1:23 PM
Never heard the phrase "Rice Krispie Bun" in my life! Definitely a Cake.
joeSoap
18/08/2006, 1:45 PM
I think this is probably a lot to do with how old people are,and heir geographical location.
I know people in Limerick of my age (35+) all call them buns...
BohsPartisan
18/08/2006, 1:54 PM
Cakes are big buns are small and my ma always made rice crispy buns and never rice crispy cakes. Therefore they are buns.
My geographical age profile is thus - 30 yrs old, grew up in Navan.
Schumi
18/08/2006, 2:07 PM
Buns obviously. 26 grew up in Dublin if this is considered important.
Is it a fairy cake, fairy bun or a fairy cake bun???
It's Fairy Cake which is a type of bun. :D
sligoman
18/08/2006, 2:11 PM
Cake, 18 and Sligo if that helps:D.
Raheny Red
18/08/2006, 2:21 PM
My asl is :p 19, Cake, Dublin
BohsPartisan
18/08/2006, 2:42 PM
Your s is cake? :eek:
Weird.
Anyway we've been talking here at work and decided that only English people and west brits call Buns "cakes".
Buns always and forever and I'm 24
cakes just sound wrong!
A bun is confectionery & you do not bake rice krispie cakes.
DmanDmythDledge
18/08/2006, 7:37 PM
I have never heard rice krispie bun until this thread.
aberharp
18/08/2006, 8:34 PM
i've always called them Rice Krispie buns
pineapple stu
19/08/2006, 2:34 AM
I have never heard rice krispie bun until this thread.
F***ing jackeen!!!!
If age and location are important, than I (who say bun) am 26, grew up in Dublin (though from Kerry originally) but with a strong Tipp background.
Any sort of trend developing there?
*loses patience*
There's no need for profiling of the answers - it's simple. Nineteen of us are right and ten of us are wrong.:p
(22, Dublin incidentally)
Is it as clear as a rural-urban divide.
Urbanistes have cakes & boggers have buns :D
dahamsta
19/08/2006, 12:35 PM
I think it's more of a social divide pete. I can't decide whether buns or cakes or more pretentious though. I'm leaning towards buns at the moment, but then I really like buns. And cakes.
UPDATE: My gf agrees with pete, although she's brought it down a level -- "culshies call cakes buns".
So there you have it bun-lovers: you're all culshies.
adam
The only buns i can remember are sticky buns, other than you have fairy cakes...
ccfcman
19/08/2006, 2:05 PM
Cake, bun sounds too close to bum, so as i in nibble this chockie bun ¬_¬
Jon'o
20/08/2006, 10:06 AM
noooooo its like the jaffa cake thing all over again
Aberdonian Stu
20/08/2006, 10:36 AM
It's cakes obviously although I have heard the odd person refer to them as buns.
Oh and I'm 25, from Dublin.
If age and location are important, than I (who say bun) am 26, grew up in Dublin (though from Kerry originally) but with a strong Tipp background.
So you've narrowed it down to two counties then have you?
soccerc
20/08/2006, 12:36 PM
They're 'bleedin' cakes and have been for more years than I care to remember.
Magicme
20/08/2006, 5:12 PM
BUNS BUNS BUNS.....Old Monaghan Person.....
Jaysus its the dubs that confuse things with their "Jockey Backs" instead of Piggy Backs, their "Presses" instead of cupboards etc......god am glad am a nordy who calls it Boxing Day and not St Stephens day.
Its called a bun I tells ya, a BUN!!! never heard of a "Rise Crispy Cake" until it was discused on Today FM this morning.
That's it exactly!!! That's what D'Arcy does, and that's the main reason why I hate him so much.
He takes a stone-wall, buttoned-down, known-by-all concept like the Rice Krispie Bun, and whether through his own ****wittery or a more devious desire to create more inane 'debate', introduces this dilemma that has half the easily-led gob****es in the country suddenly always remembering things that never were.
There is not, nor ever was, any such thing as a Rice Krispy Cake!!!!
I effing HATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
dahamsta
20/08/2006, 6:12 PM
Bit of calm there stann, it's not the end of the world. And besides, they're called Rice Crispy Cakes. This whole "bun" malarkey is a figment of your imagination.
adam
Never! Will never give in. Buns! Buns! Buns!!!!!!!!
All the way 'til Judgement Day.
But, on a side note, just noticed you said Crispy. I also always thought it was Crispy, am convinced of it. On the Kellogg's website though it's Krispy!
Has there been a quiet Ulay-Olay-type switch in recent years?
This is a more profitable direction for enquiring minds, rather than sticking to an argument ye can't win!
Aberdonian Stu
20/08/2006, 10:51 PM
It's always had a K
paul_oshea
21/08/2006, 12:27 PM
has anyone noticed those of us from the west of ireland think its a BUN!!!!!
therefore we must be right. that link posted by joesoap, are we not on about the chocolate rice krispies i.e.
rice krispie buns?
god am glad am a nordy who calls it Boxing Day and not St Stephens day.
had a big argument with the missus over this, it didnt help when i called her a nordie prodie ( derry border ), but its FCUKEN ST STEPHENS DAY!!!!!! dont even think of bringing that one in.........
pineapple stu
21/08/2006, 12:37 PM
god am glad am a nordy who calls it Boxing Day and not St Stephens day.
Boxing Day is English/British and Stephen's Day is Irish. No debate over that!
They're served in those little bun cases/wrappers so they're buns
Like fairy cakes? :confused:
It's Rice Krispie Cakes, and it is a FACT. And I used to work for Kellogg's in the factory that makes Rice Krispies, obviously lending weight to my view point. :D
And btw Stann, D'Arcy was actually not doing the show last week, so a bit of an uncalled for rant!
Schumi
21/08/2006, 1:31 PM
Like fairy cakes? :confused:
As said above, fairy cakes are a type of bun.
As said above, fairy cakes are a type of bun.
But I thought if they were baked they were a cake not a bun?
It's cake not bun, just as it's barm not muffin.
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