Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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. :)
Maccas==McDonalds, sorry about that. So I was referring to the rolls/buns
they use for their burgers. And so long as you get what I'm talking about
when I say 'Swiss roll', I guess that's good enough :) (Though the ones
with the plainer cake-and-jam are nicer IMHO :)

> >  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?
A roll (e.g. a salad roll, chicken roll or something). The exception is if
it comes from a place like McDonalds, when it may well be a burger. (Also,
coming from a fish-n-chips shop would probably make it a hamburger if it
had a patty made of ground beef, whereas coming from McDonalds and it
wouldn't get the ham- bit.) A sandwich is definitely between slices of
bread, which can be sliced, and not between halves of rolls, which normal
people at least wouldn't slice :)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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