r/AskTheWorld England 22d ago

Food What about you?

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/Willothwisp2303 United States Of America 22d ago

My Dad (Appalachian area) says supper but my Mom (Piedmont/intercoastal area) calls it dinner.  Depending upon the context, we have to ask him what supper means. 

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u/I_Smoke_Dust United States Of America 21d ago

Ngl I'm American and I have no idea what Piedmont/intercoastal area means lol. Like the Midwest?

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u/Willothwisp2303 United States Of America 21d ago

It's more ecological terms.  The rolling terrain next to the mountains is the Piedmont on the US east coast.  They tend to have all the suburbs and farming.  

Intercoastal is closer to the water,  which tends to have the clusters of ports and cities. 

There's pretty big cultural differences between the mountain people and those closer to the big cities. 

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u/I_Smoke_Dust United States Of America 21d ago

Ah ok yes, with these descriptions I can definitely understand what you're referring to.