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Now you do know I am going to have to admit to an error to Mrs. Greedo on this...

I'll never hear the end of it.

It's always been two slices in my neck of the woods.

1 slice = one piece
1 round = two pieces

A round of sandwich for example will mean 2 slices of bread with a filling.

I think to compare it with buying drinks at a bar is to jump to the conclusion that the same terminology applies.

greedoniz wrote:Now you do know I am going to have to admit to an error to Mrs. Greedo on this...I'll never hear the end of it

Just get in there like a man, admit you were wrong this time, grovel a little and take what's coming without flinching. You'll not only be seen in an honest, caring and loveable light, you'll accrue loads of brownie points rather than looking someone trying to take and defend the high ground. Besides, she'll have already assumed she's right anyway so it's quicker to 'fess up and move on !

A round is a sarnie, I learnt that during my catering days. there was 4 of them count them 4.

I would elbow the mrs, Greedo and go find that law type woman she is going be minted. And I have a plan on how to find her. I shall walk around the local pubs using words that would make a sailor blush.

Okay now I am laughing. I've never heard of a Round when it comes to sandwhiches. Perhaps it is because I am Canadian. But just to hear a view from the other side of the water. A slice of bread is just that, a slice of bread. A sandwich implies 2 slices of bread with something between them. However you can also make a sandwich by using one piece of bread and folding it in half, although I'm not sure if that constitutes a sandwhich.

Now I bought a book on baking, (published in England) yes I bake, I don't cook but I like to bake. I had to call my cousin who lives in London to figure out the measurments, (I need to measure I just can't do the 'a pinch here' type thing) As they called for things like a "knob" of butter, or a 'dallop' of creme. My cousin had to explain that a dallop is when you pick up a big spoonfull and give it a flick with the wrist, what comes off is a dallop. Here that would be a heaping spoonfull, but whatever.

A round may refer to a single slice of bread, or to a single serving of something (eg a sandwich). Two rounds of bread would be two slices, two rounds of sandwiches would require the use of four slices of bread, as you don't normally make a sandwich from one slice of bread.

I never use the word 'round' to refer to a slice of bread. Why do that, when there's a perfectly good, descriptive, and unconfusing word you could use instead?

I'm so confused... All my bread is square.

I'm afraid the word is alien to me in this sense...

i wouldnt ever use the word "round" for toast or sarnies...

a 'round' indeed!

what's wrong with the humble "would you like one or two sarnies?"

or how many slices of toast...

a round...pffft....meh...and indeed, pah...

I never use the word either, abraxus. As this thread shows, it's far too confusing!

Ahem ... the term only makes sense when you're talking about sandwiches. A "round of sandwiches" is where you make a sandwich using two slices of bread and a filling ... and then cut it in half - thus making two sandwiches.

Objectively you're using one half of two different slices of bread to make each sandwich - but each sandwich totals one slice of bread. However for it to be a round, then you have to have two sandwiches that were once one whole sandwich.

I dunno if that solves your little argument - but it may at least baffle you into never bringing it up again.

Edit: After a little more thought, the term "round" usually implies that everyone in a group gets a share ... so a round of toast/cake/drinks would mean that everyone gets the same amount. The point of dividing a sandwich in half would imply an equal share between two people. If you eat them both yourself then it's still a round, so long as no-one catches you.

abraxus wrote:I'm afraid the word is alien to me in this sense...

I wouldnt ever use the word "round" for toast or sarnies...

a 'round' indeed!

what's wrong with the humble "would you like one or two sarnies?"

I'm with you about being unfamiliar with the term "round" being applied to bread products, but I would not use the word "sarnies", either. This is not surprising given that I am not British.

Apparently when my family and I lived in Scotland (a time during which I played in the snow, watched Paul Daniels and started school), we tried to introduce the locals to fairy bread and they absolutely would not take to it! No Australian child ever had a birthday party without fairy bread on the menu, yet our Scottish friends thought we were insane.

Fairy bread, for those of you who don't know, consists of a slice of bread (usually a triangular quarter-slice of white bread) which is buttered and has lots of hundreds-and-thousands sprinkled all over it. It's crunchy.

fairy bread??? Sounds horrible

Fairy bread? Sarnies? I think I'll just remain happily ignorant.

Also known as 'Butties' !

Lady of Mystery wrote:fairy bread??? Sounds horrible

Not if you pull the wings off before your grind them.

But seriously, fairy bread is exactly as I described it. What sounds horrible about that?

I was with Lady of Mystery in that a round is two slices - buttered of course but that was until I read Bananafish's post which seemed pretty good reasoning to me.

Then, Tomo came up with the regional debate which I also agree with and this leaves me not sure where.

mrs dat says that it's two slices in the same way that a single sandwich is - a sandwich but a round of sandwiches is one for each person - which sort of agrees with Lady of Mystery AND Bananafish.

I'm even more confused now