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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 15:40
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:48:18AM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> BTW, by sweet, I don't mean like a Swiss roll, I mean like very sugarry > bread, like Maccas rolls. Though even applying bun to that seems a bit > funny...
I don't know what a Maccas roll is, and the only Swiss roll I know of is the chocolate-cake-and-creme variety sold under the trade name Little Debbie over here. :)
> > Ah. With certain exceptions such as a "Kaiser roll", the larger > > breads which are used for sandwiches are all "buns" over here,
> You realise how funny that sentence sounds to me, considering I know what > you mean, but that I'd never use (or expect to hear) those words for it? > 'Larger bread' makes me think of a really big loaf of bread...
Well, what I meant was larger than a normal *roll*, such as a dinner roll, not large as in a big loaf. That bit was probably equally confusing to native American ears; I just worded it poorly. :)
> I guess the distinction is of being sliced. You cut slices of bread, > and if you take two of these slices and put something in between them, you > have a sandwich.
But if you cut a roll in half and put something between the halves - which, as I recall, was how the eponymous Earl made the first sandwich - you don't have a "sandwich"? What do you have, then? A "burger", no matter what the "something" in the middle is? -Mark

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Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>