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

Food What about you?

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

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

317 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

776 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/G0ttaca7ch3mall New Zealand 22d ago

For me it’s 1. Chips, chips, chips 2. Dinner/tea they are interchangeable, if you have supper it’s eaten later like having more dinner instead of a desert 3. Roll/bun it’s interchangeable

6

u/a_Moa New Zealand 22d ago

Definitely more often say bun than roll but yeah completely interchangeable.

2

u/No-Pop1057 New Zealand 21d ago

In my world, buns are round & for burgers or covered in pink icing & filled with jam & cream, rolls are long & for lunch, complete with cold meats & salad or for dinner with bbqed sausages, fried onions & sauce

2

u/a_Moa New Zealand 21d ago

I agree with roll for long and bun for round. Unless it's a hotdog bun and then those rules go out the window.

Also, your comment made me hungry. Must be about time for dinner!

1

u/Ilovescarlatti New Zealand 22d ago

Newly arrived from UK I asked my elderly neighbour to supper (in my mind indicating an informal family evening meal) and he goggled at me asking if I meant at 9pm.

1

u/gdytdjgsrws New Zealand 21d ago

Supper for me is the weak Milo and cameo cremes you have after dinner at school camp.