It's a staple of many Salfordian diets.
But the Tory hoping to be the city's next MP had 'no idea' what it was called.
Asked during a hustings with the five candidates for the Salford and Eccles constituency she was asked what the local slang is for a bread roll.
Attika Choudhary, a former mayoress of Rushmoor, and a BBC broadcast journalist was stumped, and suggested "a roller".
The answer, obviously, was barm cake.
She was not the only candidate tripped up by some final 'whimsical' questions put by the local electorate during a debate staged by the University of Salford.
Green candidate, Bryan Blears, who hopes to benefit from a surge in support for his party in Greater Manchester, according to a recent poll, was asked which division Salford City FC play in.
The club, nicknamed The Ammies, and part owned by Manchester United Class of 92 stars, Gary and Phil Neville, David Beckham, Nicky Butt, and Ryan Giggs, has been striving for the last few years to get into the Football League.
Bryan, nephew of former Labour Minister, Hazel Blears, answered "Vauxhall Conference". The answer is Football League Division 2.
The Brexit Party candidate, Matt Mickler, was spot on however when asked which Metrolink zone the Salford and Eccles stops are in. He correctly answered Zone 2.
Labour's Rebecca Long Bailey, former Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy was up to speed when it came to another local delicacy. She rightly replied that a 'Wigan kebab' was a pie between two slices of bread.
Liberal Democrat, Jake Overend, also knows his stuff when he comes to the identity of Salford's biggest landowner - Peel Holdings.
Ms Long Bailey had been scheduled to miss the debate as her husband was due to undergo surgery.
But his surgery was cancelled and she made the most of it, pointing out that he was among 4.4m people nationally waiting for an operation due to the pressure the NHS was under.
The candidates were also quizzed about the lack of policing in Salford.
Ms Choudhary said under the Tory government stop and search had been brought back as well the pledge of 20,000 extra officers for the UK.
She added: "There are certain areas like Ordsall and Langworthy where we are not seeing enough police presence."
Mr Overend said it was 'bizarre' that the Tories were promising an extra 20,000 police officers when it was Tory governments which had cut 20,000 officers.
"That's insane, and an insult to the public, he said. He added that the Liberal Democrats would take a 'public health approach'
Mr Mickler said more Police Community Support Officers were needed 'on the ground' and that the respect with which police were once regarded needed to be restored.
Ms Long Bailey said: "Our local police are really struggling but doing a great job." She said communities were losing faith with the ability of GMP to police due to cuts to front line officers. She added it was important to invest in education and youth services so young people could be steered from antisocial behaviour.
Mr Blears called for investment in community centres including boxing gyms for young people 'to take out their anger instead of picking up a knife'.
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