Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

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

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:21:45PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > And for most usual circumstances, I'd probably call it a 'roll' rather than
> > a 'bun' (which to me sounds like it should be sweet).
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...

> Ah.  With certain exceptions such as a "Kaiser roll", the larger breads which
> are used for sandwiches are all "buns" over here, whereas the archetypical
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... (BTW,
French breadsticks count as bread, and you can even make sandwich out of
them. 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.


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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.
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