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Where I live (Salford) the SI unit of bread is the Round. As in "how many rounds of bread do you want with your soup?" just wondering if this is a local term. What do you call a slice of bread - apart from the obvious?
That sounds like perhaps an indicator of how poor mancunians are.. in the developed world 'how many rounds' refers to how many sandwiches you want..
"Rounds of toast" used in Essex.
I'm confused now by yunki as up in scotchland I used round but now can't decide if it was for a slice or sandwich. Help
I've never understood if a "round" referred to one slice of bread or a sandwich made of two slices?
But it depends... 2 slices is a round of sandwiches; 1 slice is a round of bread.
And rolls go with soup not slices 😉
Heard of rounds of toast but not untoasted bread.
Round of sandwiches here in Harrogate - ie two slices.
Oh and yes round of sandwiches come to think of it. So no then bread in it's naked for then, that's slices.
But it depends... 2 slices is a round of sandwiches; 1 slice is a round of bread.
So it's a pretty useless term then, as it can mean different things!
In Devon we would have said rounds for toast and sarnies but slices for naked bread.. my Nan would have definitely said rounds though..
In the West Midlands a round is 2 slices of bread, in the South West its 1 slice, in London its WTF?
In Surrey its slices of focaccia, rounds of ciabatta.
General use as that renowned Northerner Enid Blyton used to refer to rounds along with lashings of ginger beer.
rounds? beer?
Well its a bit early but if you're buying it would be rude to refuse
Round of bread in brum is 2 slices
Coming from the West Mids to North Wales was a bit of a shock. A round up here seems to be one slice, tight ****ers. 75p for a slice of bread! (so 'half a round,' but 'a slice' works best in that instance to express the outrage of it all.)
my Nan would have definitely said rounds though..
Nans should tear drop shaped not round.
a round is what you buy in the pub.
a loaf of sliced bread comes in slices, toasted or not.
(Bradford, a small suburb of Leeds)
I don't think the meaning is location specific. My dad and I have different meanings for the term (both from N Ireland). He is of course wrong, as a round of bread can only be one slice. Two slices are two rounds and so on.
However, fold a round of bread in half and it magically becomes a piece. Cut it in half and can become a sandwich. The humble round is incredibly versatile, probably the best thing since sliced bread.
Only ever used rounds for sandwiches, bread was always pieces.
(Bristol, though parents from London).
Rounds for sandwiches, pieces for bread.
Confused of bournemouth ( but originally from brizzle)
Northerner here. Rounds are "smallest normal sized pieces"
So it's a pretty useless term then, as it can mean different things!
Not really, a round is a slice of bread, or (to me and mine at least) a sandwich made from a single piece of bread (i.e. folded). You can make two rounds of sandwiches from two rounds of bread. Some people use rounds for the quantity of sandwiches made from two slices of bread, which is a bit confusing. A round is also one beer/drink at a pub. Or one sweet from a tub (which does "the rounds"). Simple, but might as well just use "piece/drink/sweet" I guess.
Aye, rounds were common parlance in Sheffield, I have imported it to the unwitting and frankly lingually challenged Scots, mainly the weegies I have to work with. 😉
My wife believes that a sandwich is a single slice of bread with topping 🙄
slices.
rounds of bread is stupid
Round of bread always mean't a slice round my way. I thought it might have had something to do with Milk roll.
Deepest, darkest, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: Round of sandwiches (or even better, beer) and a slice of bread.
From Manchester and a round was always one slice.
Now in Scotland and I will leave it to a local to elaborate on what pieces and ginger or chits and juice mean up here.
My wife believes that a sandwich is a single slice of bread with topping
That would be an 'open' or 'unfinished' sandwich
Rounds for sandwiches, pieces for bread.
Completely wrong. Yer piece is of course your sandwich.
No, your piece here is bait down there.
You lot are wierd. 1 bit of bread is a round. 2 is 2 rounds etc. And thats here in the FoD so it must be right. After all it has been proven that its the site of the Garden of Eden.Thats what Adam tucked into.
A sandwich is the bit you pick up. So 2 rounds of bread stuck together with venison is a sandwich. Cut it in two and you have two sandwichs. The term sandwich is the single unit.
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