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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Since it's my thread, I'll hijack it further to say that I was confused at British mention of making sandwiches with brown bread? Here, that's eaten hot dogs and baked beans! We have no generic term for non-white bread that I know of, but would specify the type (whole wheat, rye, etc.). |
Whole wheat bread is called wholemeal bread in Britain.
Brown bread can be used to mean wholemeal bread, but if you go to a supermarket and buy brown bread, you're actually buying white bread with brown colouring. In the supermarkets it's very hard to find rye bread. I've tried. The closest is Sainsburys which has a freshly baked half rye and half wholemeal loaf. Though there's just been something in the papers recently about freshly baked supermarket bread actually being made from frozen dough which can be years old, and so shouldn't really be called fresh bread.
As others have said I was also taught that you never cut a bread roll with a knife, you break it with your fingers.
One eating habit my last American girlfriend had which I could never understand was holding your fork with your left hand, your knife with the right hand, cutting up some of your food, putting the knife down, transferring the fork to your right hand, eating with your right hand, and then transferring the fork back to your left hand, picking up the knife and cutting up a bit more of your food, then repeating the process as many times as necessary until you have finished. That always seemed overcomplicated to me. But then I guess it's no stranger than watching a right handed English person try to eat a plate of peas off the back of a fork held in their left hand.
