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.

Does anyone else remember having non fitted carpet?

And carpet up the stairs held in place with stair rods that wasn't full width and held in place with stair rods

@diddl we moved into a house that had stair rods. I wanted to keep them but there had been a number of horrific paint jobs on the wooden stairs and I didn't have the patience for sanding back and painting/varnishing. Rest of the house was fitted carpets though.

Go NC!

So what does she think the word "bread" means, particularly as featuring on the wrapping of a standard loaf, sliced or unsliced?

If she was in one of those artisan bakers where you have to ask for what you want off the shelves, would she still ask for a loaf of toast?

Oh, and what does she think s expressions like "warm as toast" or "toasting your toes" mean? How about activities like toasting marshmallows and chestnuts on a fire, does she think you're somehow magicking them to become bread?

[quote BikeRunSki]@Periodprob, sounds like you need this[/quote]
Bikerunski

Why have they missed out half of Scotland? What on earth do Highlanders call a roll?

@JasperRising I remember having them in the house we grew up in-they really suited it, but mum & dad thinking how old fashioned they were & saving for fitted carpet.

I remember dad covering the stair spindles & panelled doors.

They did eventually get uncovered again, but going back a runner & rods on the stairs was a step too far!

Argh don't give any suggestion that my ex husband was right in calling a rug "a carpet". He definitely wasn't talking historically and was referring to a £15 rug from B&Q as "a carpet" grrr my blood is boiling just thinking about it! I do have other issues with him than just this though, I must admit!!

In the 1990s, my mum and dad and us kids moved into a house that had 1960s carpet that came in long strips so you could swap the sections around when they got worn out. Posh or what! It was red with giant flowers on. Never seen that concept anywhere else but the former owners assured us it was expensive!

breathmiller

Re the map, please see what I wrote earlier in the thread:

^...Traditionally (well, until about 100 years or so ago) bread rolls were fairly unusual in the Highlands. People in poor cottages lived many miles from the shops and often had no ovens (or indeed gas or electricity) so they made oatcakes or scones (pron: skonns) and little pancakes on a griddle.
From around 1900, railways and mobile shops and 'puffers' (little coastal cargo boats) brought bread and rolls from from town or city bakeries to outlying villages.^

That's interesting about the north of Scotland. Makes sense.

@Pobblebonk

The way we’d say “loaf of bread” she says “packet of toast” or “I need to buy toast”

[quote MsEllany]@Mothership4two

Needs rest bite and mischeevious. IT’S MISCHEVOUS! [/quote]
Oh dear - you got caught by Muphry's Law

It's 'mischievous' pronounced 'mis - chee - vus

[quote MrsA2015]@Pobblebonk

The way we’d say “loaf of bread” she says “packet of toast” or “I need to buy toast”[/quote]
But what does she say the word "bread" means?

Just to chip in, in NE Scotland a bread roll is called a softie. If you just ask for a roll you get a local delicacy known as a buttery or rowie which is kind of like a hard round croissant, tasty but not healthy

Interesting about the Highlanders - but do those in the tip of Cornwall eschew bread rolls too? Do they just have pasties?!

@Pobblebonk bread just covers the type of food, but specifically sliced pieces of bread is referred to as “toast” even if it’s cut off a whole loaf

[quote BikeRunSki]@Periodprob, sounds like you need this[/quote]
I'm Lincs and say roll/bun.
A teacake has sultanas in and gets toasted🤷🏼‍♀️

My dad calls apples arpels

She must have some very redeeming qualities to have kept you from poking her in the eye.

I always thought it was “butt naked”, luckily I don’t really use the phrase.

One that makes me cringe is “off his own back” rather than bat. I hear it a lot.

The way we’d say “loaf of bread” she says “packet of toast” or “I need to buy toast”

You have to be making that up.

If you went to her house and asked for cheese toastie would you get...
A. Cheese on toast (incorrect)
B. A cheese toastie made in a pan or brevile
Or

A cold cheese sandwich

practically all the other words for the shithole are euphemisms - privy, garderobe, water closet, lavatory, convenience, littlest room, ladies'

according to Merriam-Webster online, there's only a few decades between buck naked and butt naked: Buck is the older of the twain, but given the linguistic register in which such words are typically found you should really just choose the one that brings you the most [sic] joy.

@GloriousTechnicolour

Oh I wish I were.

@Imbloodyannoyed ah but toastIE Has it’s own ranking. That would be made in the breville. But if I said “may I have cheese on toast” it would be sliced cheese, on toast and you’re asked if you want it melted.

Really is bizarre! I don’t know how it all came about as she’s been at mine plenty of times where it’s all served correctly and she’s not questioned it