What's For Breakfast? - Page 13

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-01-2011, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

A round of sandwiches is just one sandwich. A round of toast is just one slice of toast, unless you're going to make two slices of toast into a sandwich I guess.

My mum used to use that phrase quite often, and that was always the context.

If there were a few kids over and Mum was making sandwiches for us, she'd say, "I'll just make a few rounds of sandwiches.", meaning more than one sandwich.

I don't know for a fact, but I suspect the term is quite old and from the days prior to bread tins when most loaves were rounder rather than square.

Maybe the idea is like a round of ammunition. The whole requires two or more components to actually do its job: shot ain't much without powder, and vice versa. Bread plus peanut butter plus jelly.

Aliantha · 07-31-2011, 05:45 PM

Oh, and a wine spritzer over here is usually half half of wine and soda water.

Aliantha · 07-31-2011, 11:47 PM

Plenty of PB gets eaten over here. My boys go through half a kg a week sometimes. And of course, I eat it sometimes too.

I'm not that fond of vegemite, although it's nice on toast when you're feeling a bit seedy. I think it's all the vit B.

monster · 08-01-2011, 12:20 AM

Breakfast will be explanations to the kids about the theft of my bike and the effect of that on our biking vacation to Yellowstone. Like hey, guess what, we can't go yet

grynch · 08-01-2011, 02:30 AM

todays breakfast was coffee , croissant and butter
yesterdays breakfast was coffee, croissant and butter
tomorrows breakfast will be coffee, croissant and butter

I do get tired of this country some days... would someone like to come over and open an IHOP near me?

Lola Bunny · 08-07-2011, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grynch

todays breakfast was coffee , croissant and butter
yesterdays breakfast was coffee, croissant and butter
tomorrows breakfast will be coffee, croissant and butter

I do get tired of this country some days... would someone like to come over and open an IHOP near me?

Me want some croissant and coffee. Just had a bowl of Cheerios and 4 strawberries. Will drink my espresso then off to do chores.

Aliantha · 08-01-2011, 02:57 AM

Why don't you have something else if you're bored with the same thing?

grynch · 08-01-2011, 03:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Why don't you have something else if you're bored with the same thing?

you've never been to Switzeland have you?... it's the law..

croissants and coffee or they take you away.. lock you up.. and make you eat Muesli

Gawds Honest truth.

Aliantha · 08-01-2011, 03:02 AM

I don't believe you.

grynch · 08-01-2011, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I don't believe you.

have I ever lied to you before?

Aliantha · 08-01-2011, 03:10 AM

Time will tell.

grynch · 08-01-2011, 03:14 AM

Aliantha · 08-01-2011, 05:20 AM

I couldn't be bothered either, hence the 'I don't know but I reckon'.

Sundae · 08-01-2011, 05:54 AM

I assume we both skipped the "Rounds; Toast and Sandwiches" class at finishing school. And just went down the pub to experience "Rounds; Drinking in and Paying For".

DanaC · 08-01-2011, 06:19 AM

Apparently, if this person is right, rounded loaves were the norm until around 60 years ago, and the oblong tins we use were once called sandwich tins.

Apparently one meaning of 'round' is a circular slice.

So, the meaning of 'round' for sharing has stuck with sandwiches, whilst the meaning of 'round' as a circular slice has stuck with toast.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...9061310AAhw4Ld

07-31-2011, 05:45 PM	#2
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Oh, and a wine spritzer over here is usually half half of wine and soda water. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-31-2011, 11:47 PM	#3
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Plenty of PB gets eaten over here. My boys go through half a kg a week sometimes. And of course, I eat it sometimes too. I'm not that fond of vegemite, although it's nice on toast when you're feeling a bit seedy. I think it's all the vit B. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-01-2011, 12:20 AM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Breakfast will be explanations to the kids about the theft of my bike and the effect of that on our biking vacation to Yellowstone. Like hey, guess what, we can't go yet __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-01-2011, 02:57 AM	#7
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Why don't you have something else if you're bored with the same thing? __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-01-2011, 03:02 AM	#9
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I don't believe you. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-01-2011, 02:30 AM	#5
grynch the big Cheese Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Switzerland Posts: 390	todays breakfast was coffee , croissant and butter yesterdays breakfast was coffee, croissant and butter tomorrows breakfast will be coffee, croissant and butter I do get tired of this country some days... would someone like to come over and open an IHOP near me?

08-01-2011, 03:10 AM	#11
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Time will tell. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-01-2011, 03:14 AM	#12
grynch the big Cheese Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Switzerland Posts: 390

08-01-2011, 05:20 AM	#13
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I couldn't be bothered either, hence the 'I don't know but I reckon'. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-01-2011, 05:54 AM	#14
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I assume we both skipped the "Rounds; Toast and Sandwiches" class at finishing school. And just went down the pub to experience "Rounds; Drinking in and Paying For".

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