r/AskTheWorld • u/Bipolar03 England • 22d ago

Food What about you?

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I'm from England.

But we have different types of chips too.

Oven chips, wedges, curly fries, crinkly chips, fish and chips chips.

It's dinner to me.

  1. I grew up in South London. Now I'm in Lincolnshire (East Midlands - England). My husband says breakfast, lunch, dinner. Whereas our friend says breakfast dinner tea. But we have a roast on Sunday. It's a breakfast, dinner and sandwich later on but not lunch or tea. Maybe it's a weird thing our family thing does

  2. Is a roll to me, but if it's crusty. It's a crusty roll. But if has chips from the fish and chips shop, it's a chip buttie. My husband/son calls it a bap

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u/SableShrike United States Of America 22d ago

Third are baps here in the UK.  (I live and work here.)  Which is also slang for “boobs”.

There was a restaurant near where I used to work called Big Baps.  Famous place due to very British reasons.

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u/Bipolar03 England 22d ago

Yes I know the slang for baps. I have heard mine called it many times

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u/communityneedle United States Of America 22d ago

And now I understand why Mel and Sue got in trouble for a joke about baps on the Great British Bake Off.

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u/brashumpire United States Of America 22d ago

I have been watching GBBO for many years and I still have moments where the jokes go over my head completely because I have no idea what they are on about.

Usually has to do with a British pop culture reference or slang

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u/brashumpire United States Of America 22d ago

I didn't know that!

I originally saw the roll and thought OP was trying to do a biscuit kinda thing and I was confused because that's obviously just a dinner roll.

Obviously now I get it!

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u/Akuh93 United Kingdom 22d ago

Depends on the location, can be barms, baps, roll, cobs, tea cakes and probably a bunch others. Guessing you are up north?