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Original poster

To hate the word “brew”

233 replies

DinoHat · 03/03/2021 14:17

Fancy a brew?

Makes my skin crawl. I can’t put my finger on it but it’s just an awful phrase.

Am I unhinged?

OP posts:
sashh · 04/03/2021 09:23

Barbara mashing the tea is a highly specialised art involving boiling water,teapot and delicate china. If you're from the right side of the Pennines it's passed down the generations wink

Brew's Lancastrian.

I totally agree. I was dragged kicking and screaming from God's own county to the wrong side of the pennines aged 10.

I picked up the 'have you not...' instead of 'haven't you..." and I can't get rid of it.

TheJerkStore · 04/03/2021 09:23

@HeathIns

Who knew that bread rolls could be so interesting?! 😄 I think I might have derailed the thread!
It's a regular discussion point in our house 😂😂
eggandonion · 04/03/2021 09:24

When I moved from Ireland to England I had to point to the bread I wanted in the bakery, all the names are different.

angieloumc · 04/03/2021 09:28

I'm in Yorkshire and I can't stand brew, cuppa, butty or sarnie, all said here.
One of the worst IMO was many years ago when I was seeing someone, he used to say cuppa if he was having tea or potta for coffee. Put me right off him, though to be fair I was a fickle 16 year old 🙂

HeathIns · 04/03/2021 09:30

I was dragged kicking and screaming from God's own county to the wrong side of the pennines aged 10.

Haha!! So funny!
I never knew there was a wrong side!!!

HeathIns · 04/03/2021 09:31

@eggandonion

When I moved from Ireland to England I had to point to the bread I wanted in the bakery, all the names are different.
We need a list. I bet someone has already written a book on it...
Twobrews · 04/03/2021 09:35

YABU
Hmm

BarbaraofSeville · 04/03/2021 09:43

@eggandonion

When I moved from Ireland to England I had to point to the bread I wanted in the bakery, all the names are different.
I had quite a distressing experience in a bakery in Birmingham. I wanted a sandwich in a breadcake of the type I could see behind the counter but they only wanted to sell me one made with sliced bread.

This was some years ago and at the time, bakeries in Yorkshire used breadcakes to make sandwiches and I was totally unaware that this was not the done thing elsewhere.

HeathIns · 04/03/2021 09:45

Although, got to say, the pictures are wrong!

BarbaraofSeville · 04/03/2021 09:46

This image should clarify things on the complicated matter of small bread item nomenclature.

To hate the word “brew”
HeathIns · 04/03/2021 09:49

@BarbaraofSeville

This image should clarify things on the complicated matter of small bread item nomenclature.
Very useful thank you!! 😂
HairboStrawb · 04/03/2021 09:54

I say a lot of these things! It's a bread cake on the right side of the Pennines, I lived on the wrong side for a while and got confused looks when I was for a chip butty with scraps from the chippy, my OH informed me it was a chip barn with bits I needed to ask for! I didn't ask for one again as it felt wrong!

Fifthtimelucky · 04/03/2021 11:12

@JengaCupboard

I hate 'stew' as a description of a casserole-type dish. Just makes me think of boiled, watery, grey soggy overcooked...whatever... also maybe derived from 'stewed' tea in our house meaning ruined/old.

Causes slight confusion with some American influences in my life as casserole is basically anything produced in a baking dish... pasta etc...

I agree that the words 'stew' and 'casserole' conjure up different things. To me, a stew is the sort of thing my mother used to make in my childhood in the 1960s. It contains a bit of meat, lots of root vegetables, pearl barley and is best served with dumplings. A casserole, being French, is much more sophisticated. The sauce is probably thicker and might well have wine in it, and there will be mushrooms and tomato purée.

However I gather that the only 'official' difference between the two is that stews are cooked in a pan in the hob and casseroles are cooked in a casserole dish in the oven!

Original poster
DinoHat · 04/03/2021 11:45

See I have beef stew and chicken casserole, I’m not even sure why but those are the rules!

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IBelieveInAThingCalledScience · 04/03/2021 11:50

"Picky lunch/dinner/tea"

Conjures the MOST disgusting images in my head. I am foreign though, so perhaps it's completely acceptable to a native English speaker.

VegetarianDeathCult · 04/03/2021 12:21

@IBelieveInAThingCalledScience

"Picky lunch/dinner/tea"

Conjures the MOST disgusting images in my head. I am foreign though, so perhaps it's completely acceptable to a native English speaker.

I'm a native English speaker and it conjures up images of someone consuming a buffet of toe pickings and earwax.
Fifthtimelucky · 04/03/2021 12:24

@DinoHat

See I have beef stew and chicken casserole, I’m not even sure why but those are the rules!
I'm sort of with you on this. Chicken has to be casserole. Beef could be either. Lamb has to be stew. Pork isn't either!
Bloodypunkrockers · 04/03/2021 14:46

@IBelieveInAThingCalledScience

"Picky lunch/dinner/tea"

Conjures the MOST disgusting images in my head. I am foreign though, so perhaps it's completely acceptable to a native English speaker.

I'm an English speaker and it is the worst kind of twee, disgusting terminology
felineflutter · 04/03/2021 14:49

Yes hate brew, cuppa, poorly tummy passed away and pardon.

HeathIns · 04/03/2021 15:01

@IBelieveInAThingCalledScience

"Picky lunch/dinner/tea"

Conjures the MOST disgusting images in my head. I am foreign though, so perhaps it's completely acceptable to a native English speaker.

No! I’m British and ‘picky tea’ or ‘picky bits’ make me think of the most unappetising beige, out of the freezer into the oven buffet food ever.
Blueberries0112 · 04/03/2021 15:08

This is a muffin where I am from. It’s a mixture of cupcake and bread : www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6865/to-die-for-blueberry-muffins/

stampsurprise · 04/03/2021 15:14

I suppose picky eaters eat picky teas Grin

knackeredcat · 04/03/2021 15:50

Anyone for a cup of splash? Or did only Pete Beale say that? Grin

Hotzenplotz · 04/03/2021 15:52

You're all mad.