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A food writer has discovered a surprising new dish at Symphony Hall - the legendary Brummie bacon cake.

一位美食作家在交响乐厅发现了一道令人惊讶的新菜肴——传奇的布鲁米培根蛋糕。

The heavy, scone-like bakes, made with ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and bacon and topped with cheese, are said to date back to the 1860s, though no one really knows who first started making them.

这种像烤饼一样的厚重烤饼由番茄酱、伍斯特沙司和培根制成，上面撒上奶酪，据说可以追溯到 1860 年代，但没有人真正知道是谁第一个开始制作它们的。

Now they're serving them up warm at the B:Eats cafe, which is at the Symphony Hall, though you don't need a ticket to a show to try it out.

现在，他们在位于交响乐厅的 B:Eats 咖啡馆为您提供热腾腾的美食，不过您无需购买演出门票即可尝试。

I was trip-trapping over the bridge at Brindleyplace, trying to make a decision on what to have for lunch, when the sign promising the classic Birmingham bake winked at me from the ICC spot.

当我在 Brindleyplace 的桥上迷迷糊糊地想决定午餐吃什么时，ICC 地点上承诺经典伯明翰烘焙的标志向我眨了眨眼。

As well as bacon cakes, the cafe menu features a few distinctly Brummie dishes. The Birmingham Soup (£9.50), a spin on that broth Matthew Boulton made for city workers in the 18th century, wasn't quite what I was looking for on a hot day, but the veggie version of the bacon cake (£6.50) was too alluring to resist.

除了培根蛋糕外，咖啡馆的菜单上还提供一些独特的布鲁米菜肴。伯明翰汤（9.50英镑）是马修·博尔顿（Matthew Boulton）在18世纪为城市工人制作的肉汤的改良版，不太符合我在炎热的天气里想要的东西，但素食版的培根蛋糕（6.50英镑）太诱人了，无法抗拒。

Given it was such a beautiful day, I ordered my bacon cake to go. There's a big risk when you're in B:Eats on your lunch hour that some amazing musician is going to start playing music and the next thing you know, you've lost hours of your life being happy and your boss is ready to flog your earhole off. That's my warning, keep your wits about you.

鉴于天气如此美好，我点了培根蛋糕外卖。当你在 B: 午餐时间吃饭时，有一个很大的风险，一些出色的音乐家将开始演奏音乐，接下来你知道，你已经失去了生活中快乐的时间，而你的老板已经准备好鞭打你了你的耳孔关闭了。这是我的警告，保持理智。

When they handed over the to-go box, it weighed significantly more than I'd imagined. The massive whopper looks like the rock cake of my dreams, but it was still warm and giving off the smoked scent of bacon.

当他们把外带盒子交给我时，它的重量比我想象的要重得多。巨大的皇堡看起来就像我梦想中的岩石蛋糕，但它仍然温暖，散发着培根的烟熏香味。

I took it and stood in the glow of the Golden Boys, that statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch outside the cafe. "Cop a load of this," I said to Boulton, but he didn't react. I imagine he's seen a lot of bacon cakes. Cheese was baked into the top, as golden as his face.

我接过它，站在金童奖的光芒下，金童奖是咖啡馆外博尔顿、瓦特和默多克的雕像。 “请注意这一点，”我对博尔顿说，但他没有反应。我想他见过很多培根蛋糕。上面烤的是奶酪，和他的脸一样金黄。

Though the cake is normally served with butter, they'd forgotten to put mine in. It could have done with it but even without, it was ace. It really was like a savoury rock cake, beautifully crisp on the outside and bouncy and flavourful inside, I felt like a proper Brummie eating it.

虽然蛋糕通常是配黄油的，但他们忘了把我的放进去。本来可以用它做的，但即使没有，它也是王牌。它真的就像一块美味的岩石蛋糕，外面酥脆，里面有弹性，味道鲜美，我感觉就像一个真正的布鲁米人吃它。

It took about an hour for me to finish the thing, that's how big it was. I nibbled it in the ICC, scoffed another chunk near that cloud sculpture beside the canal, stood snacking looking over at Black Sabbath Bridge while a passing narrowboat played The Cure and had another mouthful on Brindleyplace where a toddler wobbled near the fountain, sparkling in the sunshine.

我花了大约一个小时才完成这个东西，就是这么大。我在国际刑事法院啃了一口，在运河旁的云雕塑附近又嚼了一大块，站着吃零食，看着黑色安息日桥，一艘路过的窄船正在演奏《治愈》，在布林德利广场又吃了一口，那里有一个小孩在喷泉附近摇摇晃晃，在灯光下闪闪发光。阳光。

B:Eats is at the ICC, Broad Street, B1 2EA. This review was conducted at random and food and drink was paid for by the reporter.

B:Eats 位于 ICC，Broad Street，B1 2EA。本次审查是随机进行的，食物和饮料均由记者支付。