fionamw

Actually, the sponge cake with the top cut off and wings in butter cream icing etc is a butterfly cake/bun. A fairy cake is basically the thing before you lopped the top off. Though fairy cakes can also be iced to taste/look nicer.

HBG

I watched a business start up in Benidorm. A retired baker from Devon bought a tiny bar right in the heart of it. He worked his heart out but couldn't make any money from his venture.

Then he bought a fancy new oven and went back to his old trade, baking cakes. It turned the place round, he was on the edge of the pink zone and they prefer fancy little cakes to countless pints of lager.

He became a good friend but I could never get used to a Devon cream tea with a pint of lager.

steviedeluxe

Pie-Thagoras in Madrid still appears to be plying his pies. I see he even tried a "Haggis-pie". If I get out to Madrid this year I may sample one of his pies. Unless of course that new fish and chip place puts him out of business

http://great-british-food.com/

HBG

I think that's the answer. In difficult financial times you need a gimmick to succeed in business. Fish and chips in the UK and tapas in Spain are not enough any more, the market is saturated.

Pies, fairy cakes, jellied eels, haggis, deep fried Mars bars might be the next phase. Or talking cash points, I read about them today.

Imagine putting your card in and a loud voice starts laughing?

GCM

In my town of Javea some Brit couple started to hire those scooter things along the promenade that have 2 wheels on the bottom and handlebars on the top. To make it go you lean forward and left and right.

Not sure what they are called but they were gone before the summer was over!

Mark

JLFS

I think they are called "wally trollies".

Lynn R

In Torrox Costa, not far from where I live, for the past couple of years there has been a fish and chip restaurant and an Indian restaurht, both owned by the same people. They are now running both businesses in the same premises - is it just me or does this smack of desperation? If I wanted a decent curry I wouldn't go to a fish and chip shop for it, nor vice versa if I wanted fish and chips.

Fredbargate

Cod mix and curry sauce,

jackytoo

What is it that makes people who have never run a business think they can move abroad and run a successful business as a Brit food shop/bar

JLFS

Sheer bloodymindedness?????.

lynnxa

I must have blinked & missed them!!!

lynnxa

nope - this is the Jávea Wally Trolley

fionamw

They're called a Segway. Bizarrely the inventor died accidentally driving one of his own vehicles off a cliff (sorry can't help it..... )

jackytoo

Not nice

Lynn R

After the Great Cupcake Furore - this may be the next big thing. I read an article in a magazine yesterday about two women from Yorkshire who have started a business selling cake pops???? Turns out they are cakes on lollipop sticks - what will they think of next (and why)?

At first I thought it might be an April Fool as it was the April issue, but having Googled cake pops, there is information out there.

Coming soon to a high street near you!