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.

The UK bread map seems to suggest there aren't any small round bread products in the Highlands. Surely that can't be right

Loving the map :)

The 'teacake' area is larger than I expected. When I first left home I got some very funny looks for calling them teacakes.

@Nightshifter

"Born and toast in England..."

Corrected it for you.

Snort

Wouldn’t raw toast would just be dough?

That friendship would be toast for me I’m afraid OP 😂

Highly, highly disappointed with the lack of stottie on that map.

I love a good stottie. And although I live in Yorkshire they can all sod off, teacakes HAVE CURRANTS IN.

@MadameMeursault

Wouldn’t raw toast would just be dough?

That friendship would be toast for me I’m afraid OP 😂

Raw toast is BREAD

"I'm hoping he can differentiate between bread products by adulthood.."

Age of majority when you can differentiate crumpets from pikelets (and know what a muffin is when it isn't american!).

The bread roll map is fantastic, but I think someone will have to invent a new snack so we can have the intersection of the bread-roll map with the great swede/turnip divide..............

What IS the difference between a crumpet and a pikelet? In my world the only difference is that pikelets fit in my camping toaster.

OP - what does your friend call toast?

Pikelets don't use yeast, crumpets do. Also, crumpets are cooked in a ring and pikelets arent.

Thank you Grandma!

A similarity between pikelet and crumpet is that they are both one of those words that sound weird the more often you say them...

I make crumpets (with yeast) but cook them without a ring.....

This is a little funny because I have several times tried to find “toast” when doing my online shopping and then I remember it’s just bread in English! I am not born or bread 🥖 here so will get things wrong sometimes but sliced bread in a plastic bag is referred to as toast in a lot of other countries as very few people would eat it untoasted, bread is not square and mostly has a crust. This obviously doesn’t explain why your English friend calls it toast but maybe she picked it up somewhere..?

@Mothership4two

My Mum will stick an H at the beginning of words beginning with a vowel which is not only irritating but embarrassing when she does it to names (ie Anna = Hannah). She used to call my ex neighbour H-Adrian no matter how many times I corrected her

Did she ever talk about Hadrian's Wall?

@KatyMac

I make crumpets (with yeast) but cook them without a ring.....

Pikepets? Crumplets?

I am going for Crumplets!

@PyongyangKipperbang

Pikelets don't use yeast, crumpets do. Also, crumpets are cooked in a ring and pikelets arent.

Thank you Grandma!

So crumpets are inflated pikelets?

I like pikelets but our house they are called initially delicious and then they are referred to as 'gone'

pikelets = pikepets

@Thecazelets

On a tangential bread-related point...Dry bread to me means stale bread. But to my MIL it is fresh bread that isn't buttered. I only found this out when she accused me of giving the dc 'dry bread' with their soup. I was outraged that she thought I was feeding them out of date food. She just meant that I hadn't buttered it first.

Please tell me I'm right and she's wrong.

She's right and you're wrong. Sorry!

Teacakes are buns, the current variety.

Calling rolls teacakes is just mad.

I am Irish and I say bathroom, I mean I say toilet too but say and see nothing wrong with saying "I just need to go to the bathroom", surely I am not alone, doesn't everyone do this??? Irish mn'ers??

I can't believe people in other countries wouldn't eat bread from a packet without toasting it. There's nowt better than a piece of plastic white bread.

Do people in other countries not eat sandwiches then? Or only sandwiches on a bap/roll thingy??

Will call cheese on toast “cheese on toastS” and a cheese sandwhich “cheese toast” I could cry.

The times I’ve corrected she’s responded with “yeah but toast is bread slices...”

I give up but had-to get it off my chest

Argh hate stuff like that haha! My brother’s girlfriend calls tortilla wraps “pancakes”...they just aren’t are they?