Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Killer point? There's no argument that needs killing, just you being wrong, which is demonstrated by a banal fact being stated within a Wikipedia article.
Monte
You can't say lavatory without saying tory.
The North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.
Is that map implying that East Sussex is in the south-west? Looks like the line goes all the way to Hastings. A bold assertion indeed.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
No, but happy for them to claim it.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I was brought up in the white bit of Scotland. We had rolls and called them rolls. Interested to hear from West Cornish posters too, and those from Tyrone/Fermanagh.The North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.
I thought you had clooties and neeps.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
We do, but those are not names for rolls.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Hmmm...contraversial; I've always regarded Cardiff as part of Southern England.
I don’t think you’re quite following this conversation, danny, and I do understand why, because it’s all a bit new-fangled.
What we call “rolls” are something made from the ground down residue of this new plant that we in the lowlands call “wheat”. It gets added to a tiny little beastie called “yeast” and, believe it or not, that causes the mixture to fill with gas and rise into a palatable food.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.
Hold on!
Teacakes are the same as bread rolls?
That's bollocks isn't it?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Is Cardiff not in Wales?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
No, I've been there; not at all Welsh.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
In Scotland, bread rolls are called rolls. If you asked for half a dozen baps you are likely to be punched in the face six times.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I'm not seeing a defence of your claim. After all, you say above in the op you're not talking about the state great britain. Now you say you are. You're all over the fucking place. again.
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Bless you, learning the word “bread” and even using it apparently properly in a sentence.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
They also have square sausages in Scotland. We had an entire thread about this exciting phenomenon a few years ago back.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Now that’s where the South starts: where proper, civilised square sausages are no longer available.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Sadly I’ve still not had the experience of the right angled variant but I’ll take your word for it.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
They’re actually more of an isocèles trapezoid.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
ska invita
back on the other side
A roll is a roll (a round bread) and its reassuring to see Scottish sense on thisThe North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.
A bap is a larger, squarer version of a roll and is not a roll
A cob is a small loaf and not a roll
A muffin is as the name suggests a muffin. Same goes for tea cakes.
A barm is also a loaf
As to a bun, what do you call a bun if you're calling a roll a bun? Bun sounds a lot like a bun to me.
Is selling plain "cookies" (ie cream buns / cream cookies without the cream filling) as a regular bread item a thing elsewhere, or is that a unique bit of Orkney madness like the monstrosities that pass for rowies here and calling black bun "currant bun"?
LakieLady
Well-Known Member
I'm only a few hundred yards to the west of it. There's a plaque on the pavement in the high street showing exactly where it is.
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