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[killer_clank]

This is a roll...

See how it's longer than it is thick?

Roll.

That's a mini baguette.

 

[123rl]

No, that's a crusty roll Ikea sell them in a pack of 9 and they are amazing!

 

[killer_clank]

No, that's a crusty roll Ikea sell them in a pack of 9 and they are amazing!

I could live with calling them crusty rolls, but just "roll"? Nah.

This is a roll:

Not a bap, or a barm, or a cobb.

A ROLL.

 

[SmokyDave]

And thusly, The Great Breadish Civil War was born.

We need a Greggs employee to comment. Someone with a bit of authority. And a hairnet.


Edit: I fucking love square sausage cobs in Scotland. Especially when you slip a cheeky slice of fried bread in the middle.

 

[Kentpaul]

Kin ah get two roll oan square sausage please , and a can eh irn bru.

 

[JustAnotherOtaku]

Northern Ireland, Belfast slang is the slang to end all slang.

Threatening, charming, offensive and unique all at the same time :lol

 

[123rl]

That's how I feel around scousers Everything they say sounds like they're pissed off and want to kill me, even if they're saying something completely harmless.

And thusly, The Great Breadish Civil War was born.

We need a Greggs employee to comment. Someone with a bit of authority. And a hairnet.


Edit: I fucking love square sausage cobs in Scotland. Especially when you slip a cheeky slice of fried bread in the middle.

I haven't had fried bread for years! That's my lunch for today then - fried bread, bacon, sausage, fried egg, beans, and a hash brown

 

[J Tourettes]

GUYS

the most important thing is this. what do you call these?

it's a fucking BARM

line = drawn

East London born and bred and that's a bap.

 

[Numpt3]

Not a bap, or a barm, or a cobb.

A ROLL.

Don't be daft, you know it's a barm.

Edit: Manc here.

 

[jambo]

My favourite Aussie slang is one I use when leaving

"Well, I'm off like a bucket of prawns in the sun!"

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Where did that come from? British is the nationality of people and things from the UK.

Title of thread: "British slang"
Meadow's post you replied to: "I'm a Brit"

Neither of those include "Britain," as you put it.

UK = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 

[louis89]

GUYS

the most important thing is this. what do you call these?

it's a fucking BARM

line = drawn

Kent.

Roll.

fake edit: look at the image URL :lol

 

[Salazar]

This thread has made me dig out my Porridge dvds.

Good work.

 

[Cindres]

Yorkshire rules i call it a teacake!

It's insane how many different things there are for it.

 

[JonathanEx]

Clearly is a roll. My flatmate calls things "cobs". What the fuck's that shit, you get corn on a cob, that's no bread roll.


And right now I'm having a baked roll (or crusty roll) of bacon.

 

[Cindres]

Yeah also i have actually NEVER heard "Cob" before, what region is that?

 

[BGBW]

GUYS

the most important thing is this. what do you call these?

Just had one for lunch and the shop used the term soft roll. I'm in South London.

 

[JonathanEx]

My cob-calling friend is from Leicester.

Also I love the length of this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_roll

 

[SmokyDave]

Yeah also i have actually NEVER heard "Cob" before, what region is that?

Midlands. Notts, Derby, Leicester, those kinda places.

I always wondered if it comes from 'Cobble'.

 

[Hixx]

I could live with calling them crusty rolls, but just "roll"? Nah.

This is a roll:

Not a bap, or a barm, or a cobb.

A ROLL.

It's a bun.

 

[BGBW]

It's a bun.

I thought buns were sweet, like a currant bun.

 

[Sh1ner]

From Yorkshire, if ya ever visit and you hear:

no thnx/thnx love
what can I do for you love?
alright love!

directed towards ya, you haven't scored/don't freak if its a grandma with a missing eye. Its normal here!

Just don't do what my dad does (he is Indian) and say it to other guys, its not the same :\

I love the sound of gaffer in a sentance.

 

[killer_clank]

And thusly, The Great Breadish Civil War was born.

We need a Greggs employee to comment. Someone with a bit of authority. And a hairnet.


Edit: I fucking love square sausage cobs in Scotland. Especially when you slip a cheeky slice of fried bread in the middle.

Fried Tattie scone is a better item to put in a Roll, but both are still good.

 

[Sipowicz]

STOTTIE REPRESENT

 

[industrian]

Glasgow slang > Embra pish.

Salt and vinegar > Salt and sauce.

That's a Roll.

In Scotland we put square sausage in them and call it "Roll on Sausage", which makes no sense, but you have to differentiate it from a Sausage Roll.

Fried Tattie scone is a better item to put in a Roll, but both are still good.

I'm dead serious when I say I'd suck dick for a Scottish fry up right about now. East Asian food - whilst awesome - is getting on my nerves. I miss my square sausage and tattie scones. Nae wan kens wit they are aer here. If someone wants to airmail me a pizza supper and some fritters from the Chip Chik Inn in Anniesland then I'll pay postage.

 

[Scythian Empire]

You guys have rinsed British slang in this thread.

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

s. Nae wan kens wit they are aer here.

Is that Latin?

 

[CHEEZMO™]

From Yorkshire, if ya ever visit and you hear:

no thnx/thnx love
what can I do for you love?
alright love!

directed towards ya, you haven't scored/don't freak if its a grandma with a missing eye. Its normal here!

Just don't do what my dad does (he is Indian) and say it to other guys, its not the same :\

I love the sound of gaffer in a sentance.

This is true to most of the North.

It can be used by anyone over a certain age, and directed to almost anyone.

 

[jerrymaguire]

i could murder a chip barm right now.

 

[SmokyDave]

i could murder a chip barm right now.

Is that when you put chips into a cob?

That's a chip butty, you crazy cat.

 

[Hixx]

STOTTIE REPRESENT

This with fish and chips, food of gods.

 

[Meadows]

Clearly is a roll. My flatmate calls things "cobs". What the fuck's that shit, you get corn on a cob, that's no bread roll.


And right now I'm having a baked roll (or crusty roll) of bacon.

oh you mean a bacon barm (dicked)

 

[supermackem]

STOTTIE REPRESENT

Greatest bread known to man, ohhh and those other things are called buns in my neck of the woods.

 

[elseanio]

Is that when you put chips into a cob?

That's a chip butty, you crazy cat.

Chip butty is with slices of bread..

I once asked for a curry chip barm, and they gave it to me on an American style seeded bun. Was not impressed.

 

[jerrymaguire]

oh you mean a bacon barm (dicked)

me o' mucker here knows what he's talking about.

 

[Meadows]

Is that when you put chips into a cob?

That's a chip butty, you crazy cat.

Agreed, in Warrington it was always a chip butty

 

[industrian]

Is that Latin?

Naw man, am a Weegie.

Awbeit a grew up in Galashiels so a ken hoo tae talk properly tae the polis.

 

[Jonnyram]

I had no idea there were so many Brits on GAF :lol
I'm from Yorkshire and that was a teacake when I was younger, but as I grew older it became known as a cobb. Weird huh. Probably has something to do with my ex, who was from Humberside, though.

 

[Gowans]

STOTTIE REPRESENT

Lovley stuff, yup best with some marge for chip butty, mmmm...

 

[frankie_baby]

Chip butty is with slices of bread..

I once asked for a curry chip barm, and they gave it to me on an American style seeded bun. Was not impressed.

the chip shop I used to work in did that just so they didn't have to order 2 different types of bread

 

[ACESandEIGHTS]

I had no idea there were so many Brits on GAF :lol
I'm from Yorkshire and that was a teacake when I was younger, but as I grew older it became known as a cobb. Weird huh. Probably has something to do with my ex, who was from Humberside, though.

She was probably fleeing the panic on the streets of London, Dublin, Dundee and Humberside. You see, they burned down the disco and hanged the blessed DJ.

We tend to get all of our Anglo-news from this man. Just passing it on.

THIS JUST IN: Morrissey is now quite fat.

 

[sadaiyappan]

I stopped using slang after high school. I still occasionally swear. Here are some American slang terms I remember:

My bad
I got next
I would hit that
she's cute
she's hot

 

[Trent Strong]

I stopped using slang after high school. I still occasionally swear. Here are some American slang terms I remember:

My bad
I got next
I would hit that
she's cute
she's hot

I'm thinking 'she's cute' doesn't qualify as slang.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

bollocks

 

[Angry Fork]

I generally dislike british slang but there's a few words I like, most of them having been said on the xfm/podcast ricky gervais stuff. I think "man alive" said by stephen marchant is a cool phrase. Also 'knicked' which means stolen I guess, "tosser" is funny as well. There's probably a couple more that I would personally say as an American. But in the clockwork orange for example (the film), even though it's an amazing film I couldn't stand the slang a lot of times since it's hard to figure out what they're saying.

 

[Uchip]

root and fag have such...different meanings

 

[Drewsky]

Is biscuit slang for a cookie? I always here them saying it on the Ricky Gervais Show and I don't think they can be talking about the biscuits and gravy variety all the time.

 

[gerg]

But in the clockwork orange for example (the film), even though it's an amazing film I couldn't stand the slang a lot of times since it's hard to figure out what they're saying.

The slang in A Clockwork Orange isn't really British slang though - Anthony Burgess created the terminology used throughout, and I believe that in the edition of the book that I read there was even an appendix explaining how he came up with it all. No one I know says "droogs".

Is biscuit slang for a cookie? I always here them saying it on the Ricky Gervais Show and I don't think they can be talking about the biscuits and gravy variety all the time.

No, a biscuit isn't a cookie. They're different things.

Biscuit

Cookie

Edit: Hmm... I see this thread was another victim to Sadaiyappan's recent bumpings.

 

[-Eddman-]

I'm mexican, so most of my english knowledge comes from the USA, but recently, I'm listening to the british accent and slang almost all day. I really like it.

A co-worker who is becoming a very good friend of mine is from Manchester. His accent is obviously quite different from americans, but also different from the british stereotype I hear in the movies and stuff. Not so long ago, I met a girl from Bristol who studies spanish here in Guadalajara. She speaks with another accent.

Right now, i'm becoming a fan of saying goodbye with "sinabit".

 

[BlazingDarkness]

GUYS

the most important thing is this. what do you call these?

it's a fucking BARM

line = drawn

I am from Manchester and that is a muffin.