It’s frigging BREAD!!!

[MrsA2015]

I have a friend that refers to sliced bread as “toast” it’s starting to REALLY get on my nerves. Born and bred in England with absolutely no issues with the English language but can not distinguish between sliced bread and the end result of it being toasted being TWO DIFFERENT BLOODY THINGS.

“I had two toasts for breakfast”
“I have cheese toasts” (instead of cheese sandwiches).

Aaaaaaaaaarghhhh ffs , no amount of addressing it has made a difference in 15 poxy years.

@Theoldwrinkley do you mean Mrs Beeton ...

@MrsA2015 have you asked her why she calls them toasts when its clearly bread, marketed as bread, sold as bread. The Sandwich was invented as a convenient way of holding a meal in one hand, named after its inventor if I recollect correctly

Wait! The toast sandwich wasnt recent. It was back in season 5; years ago! I remembered that from a long time ago when someone did a lecture on toast, so I went to google and they re-used the toast sandwich fact in season 24 in a lecture about bread.
They shouldnt re-use facts
Cheeky unbelievable truth.

Can I add the trend here for grown-women to call their parents "the rents", dogs "doggos", and their holidays their "holibobs". It's like the word equivalent of putting on a baby voice.

As with those such as @MadameMeursault who mentioned dough:

Thank you for spelling it in full, so we are spared those awful spellings of "Donuts" and "Play-doh".

Surely it should be called pre-toast?

‘Givemestrendthorahobby’ you are correct. I didn’t think it was quite right when I wrote it, but the fish fingers were burning!

Ridiculous. It is bread until its been toasted. I would definitely have to avoid any food related conversations with her or not speak to her at all!
The end of the bread is a knobby where I'm from. That's raised some eyebrows now I live in a different part of the country 🤣.
I refer to the toilet as the loo or the toilet, never the bathroom or restroom. Or in a restaurant I ask where the ladies is.
I like to wind a certain friend up and tell her I'm going for a piss, because she hates it 😂

But Germans all call sliced bread 'Toastbrot'

Yes, as in 'bread for toasting'. They're very clearly acknowledging that it's currently bread with the intention/potential of transforming it into toast in the future!

@lakeswimmer oh they definitely are softies 👍

A toaster is very much required in order to convert what is unequivocally bread into toast.

To deny this is to denigrate said appliance's entire life's purpose. Its single assigned post is to give up the toast until such time as it reaches the end of its life, will go no more a-toastin' and then finally gives up the ghost.

Incidentally, does she ever eat fried bread or does she prefer roast toast?

oh they definitely are softies

That's a horrible sweeping slur on an entire proud nation

I'm NE Scotland but not as NE as buttery land (you still get butteries but you have to ask for a buttery, we're not north enough for them to be called a rowie either.) Ask for a roll here you get a normal bread roll.

As for mixed up words. I know someone who mixes up text and texted so will say she "text a friend" which I've seen discussions about in here, but she will also use texted as in she "sent a texted to a friend".

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

You do know I’m going to be tremendously upset when my toaster packs in now!

“And I will go toasting no more”- poor soul

😂😂😂

This annoys me way more than it should. I don't think I'd be able to stop myself from constantly correcting her

It's not even a colloquialism is it? Literally nowhere in the UK says this?

Have you corrected her and asked why she says this when it is so clearly inaccurate?

I think she's trying to be unique.

YANBU she is being a prat.

@Trickortreacle...That person was either American,spent a lot of time here or is married to.an American

@MitziK I have one of those lily-livered heathens too!! We called the bread/toast hybrid scared bread and make him do it again.

@Theoldwrinkley

On ‘the incredible truth’, R4 comedy programme hosted by David Mitchell (very good, radio 4, 12.00 Sunday mornings) the players have to give a short lecture on a given subject. One of the recent subjects was ‘bread’ and included a recipe from Mrs Beeston which was a toast sandwich, ie slice of bread, slice of toast, slice of bread. And it was a truth!

You should have heard his diatribe upon the subject of berries not being taxonomically berries in the next episode.

It was magnificent.

I don't think I could put up with this. I suspect if this person was my friend, I would look at her blankly every time she mentioned toast in the wrong context and say "Do you mean grilled bread?" or "No, I don't want toast, thanks, I want bread", or whatever.

IVe corrected time and time again! I give up, definitely no German heritage there either.

I had a teacher once who used to say “stood up” instead of “stand up” and it used to piss me off so much.

You do know I’m going to be tremendously upset when my toaster packs in now!

Ours did the other day. It went on two final two trips - the electric fuse box - and we knew that its time had come Still a much more dignified departure than its predecessor-but-one, which actually caught fire in the kitchen and had to be grabbed with a wet tea-towel and flung out the door

@Malin52

I have a friend who calls the ground the 'floor'. I've explained to him that floor is reserved for indoor only and outside would be the 'ground' or pavement, grass etc. he still insists on saying things like 'I'm happy to sit on the floor' or ' ooh you've dropped your scarf on the floor' when we are outside. Drives me bonkers.

Also have a friend that 'washes' her teeth! You clean a teeth!!

Thank goodness I'm not the only one that gets irrationality wound up about this! For there to be a floor there has to be flooring of some sort, right?!

There was a comedian who used to say "stood up" so your teacher was probably quoting him.