Boiled eggs and buppy soldiers

[Seziah]

Does anyone else say buppy soldiers? It’s what everyone said when I was a kid but I haven’t heard it for years. My boyfriend from near Oxford had no clue what I was making to dip into my eggs

I assume it comes from bap as in bacon bap, which I think I’ve heard called a bacon bappy??

Dippy soldiers...

Or, in our case dippy marmite soldiers 😋

boiled egg and soldier fingers. Not heard “fingers” mentioned yet.

@KatieKat88 yes we let the fairies out!

My Mum used to say bread and buppy so I thought buppy was butter?

Just boiled egg and soldiers in our house always.

I don't like the term dippy egg, sounds really childish, see also picky tea or picky bits.

I’ve just googled and it says it’s a regional word from the south east around London and Kent (I’m on the south coast).

It also says buppy is a traditional baby-talk or regional dialect word for bread and butter, so I guess bread and buppy kind of works. Just sounds like bread and bread to me though!

Just soldiers! In fact I’ve just eaten them..

When did boiled eggs (and soldiers) become dippy eggs?

Can’t bear it - akin to an adult referring to their tummy!

Never heard of buppy

I thought buppy was butter too

I've never heard of it. I’m from London but West and Northwest

Dippy or toasty soldiers in Yorkshire.

♥️it that's very clear and concise
No confusion no matter where in the UK you hail from.

Boiled eggs and buppy was a regular at tea time when I was a little girl.

Scotland- have never said buppy, dippy eggs or soldiers.

Just plain old boiled eggs and toast.

@RaraRachael Ne Scottish upbringing
Born mid 60s none of the childish language of dippy eggs etc.
Mums were a bit sterner back then.

Chunky egg and soldiers in Newcastle

Yes! cockney family and they say “buppy eggs” meaning what nowadays is dippy soliders

Buppy was bread and milk when I grew up in the olden days. Like sloppy porridge.

Mum use to give us Egg and Buppy ( bread and butter either as soldiers or in triangles ) for breakfast or tea to us as kids and I still think of it as that. She was born in Hastings but lived most of her life in (and we grew up) in Hampshire ..

Dippy egg and soldiers where I came from...NE Scotland

Never heard of it (South London).

No no no. You bash the end of the egg to stop witches using it as a boat. Not nonsense about fairies.

As did my grandmother. "Still hungry? have some bread and bup."

Same location but don't say either - I'm probably much older than you!

Dippy egg and soldiers.

east Scotland

My husband says bread and buppy for buttered bread. He’s 61 and from the outskirts of Cambridge