Paris Buns or Flies Graveyards..

[sandyRoe]

Two types of buns we ate as children, are they still on sale?

[NazNomad]

Paris buns are popular in poorer areas of Scotland and Ireland for being cheap and filling.



<deep fried, no doubt, lol>

[anneasquith]

paris buns, yes dry and wee bits on top.............

[welshlibranr]

I think I have heard of Paris Buns, but never Flies Graveyards!.........

[sandyRoe]

We never fried the Paris Buns, plenty of butter on them though.

[welshlibranr]

Are they a bit like a teacake?..........

[mike11111]

I've never heard ofFflies' Graveyards, but it reminds me of Garibaldi biscuits.

[sandyRoe]

Flies Graveyards were a layer of currants between two slices of some sort of pastry. Maybe a bit like an Eccles cake?

[boxtops]

Flies graveyards when I was a child were Garibaldi biscuits, you can still buy them and I still like them.

[anneasquith]

"poorer areas of scotland and ireland " fried ?????????

[douglas9401]

Flies Graveyards aka fruit slice available in Scotland

Can't get enough of that "deep fried" thing by the way.

[craft1948]

I've had flies graveyards, but I've never heard of paris buns....

[welshlibranr]

Oh! yes garibaldi biscuits!.....I love them!.......

[anneasquith]

douglas, like me do you deep fry everything ?

[karenmac60]

I've not seen a Paris Bun in a long time, but fruit slices are abundant here - supermarkets, bakers and Greggs always have them.

[douglas9401]

anneasquith, on the contrary, I no more deep fry eveything than NazNomad is forever found hanging out of a sheep and smoking laver bread but generalisations and stereotypes are all around us.

[douglas9401]

lol

[craft1948]

flies graveyards are currants with golden syrup, in shortcrust pastry sprinkled with caster sugar.

[anneasquith]

:)

[NazNomad]

For the record ... despite my 'love' for sheep and my insatiable appetite for seaweed, I'm not Welsh.

[douglas9401]

What, like Ian Hislop? You may be stuck with it now. Mars Bar? :)