FabSwingers.com forum: A question as old as the hills

By *andVB OP Couple
over a year ago

Wrexham

How many slices of toast in a round of toast?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

One ?

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

2 we would say.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

Is that a full slice or 2 slices cut in half?

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By *andVB OP Couple
over a year ago

Wrexham

"Is that a full slice or 2 slices cut in half?"

Cut in half? You monster. Toast should either be full slice or triangles.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

One..

surely the phrase, a 'round' of toast stems from back in the day when tins were expensive and bread was made in cob or round shaped..

and when sliced was round and fitted easily in the toaster..

maybe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread is traditionally circular, not square.

A round of bread is a single slice.

Or that's what the internet says (so it must be fact!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2 for me please, anaemic with plenty of butter.

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By *andVB OP Couple
over a year ago

Wrexham

Well, this isn't working.

Half of you are answering correctly (no bias here, honest) and half of you are being stingy with the toast.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How many slices of toast in a round of toast?"

Social conventions dictates a round of toast served in a domestic environment constitutes one slice whereas a round of toast served in a commercial situation involves two slices,,,,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One. If you ask for a round of toast here you get a slice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2.7

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By *andVB OP Couple
over a year ago

Wrexham

"2.7"

Is that three slices with the crusts cut off?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One.. I have thus argument with customers every morning.

A portion of toast is 2 slices.

A round of toast is 1 slice.

If you wanted 2 slices, you should've asked for a portion not a round, now shut up and eat it

It's a touchy subject, apologies for the waitress rage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toast is evil!! But yeah...2 in a round please!

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

2 slices.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I prefer to refer to one as a slice and a round as two. If I make, or order, a round then I expect two and the ability to share.

You wouldn't say a round of drinks is one drink, would you?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"One "

How many times do you get a round of 1 drink from a bar on a Friday?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or can't we just talk in slices?

'I would like 1 slice/ 2 slices please'. This would make it easier.. people seem to get really upset when they are missing a slice of toast

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never talk rounds with toast. Only with alcohol. That may be a sign of being a functioning alcoholic though. I think I should stop drinking.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Or can't we just talk in slices?

'I would like 1 slice/ 2 slices please'. This would make it easier.. people seem to get really upset when they are missing a slice of toast

I understand why. If you've set your mouth for two and only one is presented you're disappointed and then angry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've never heard of toast in rounds.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or can't we just talk in slices?

'I would like 1 slice/ 2 slices please'. This would make it easier.. people seem to get really upset when they are missing a slice of toast

I understand why. If you've set your mouth for two and only one is presented you're disappointed and then angry.

I understand that but sometimes its not clear if they mean one or two and when I ask they look at me like im missing a brain cell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Or can't we just talk in slices?

'I would like 1 slice/ 2 slices please'. This would make it easier.. people seem to get really upset when they are missing a slice of toast

I understand why. If you've set your mouth for two and only one is presented you're disappointed and then angry.

If I have a full English I can only manage one slice. If it's to dip in soup, I have two.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

If I get asked how many rounds of toast I want I say two since that's two slices. One round, one piece of toast.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A slice cut in half

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never knew there was such an issue here.

Surely, in a commercial environment, where there is a common ambiguity which leads to customers getting cross, it's in the interests of the establishment and the staff to simply ask if they'd like one slice or two.

And on a menu to use the word "slice".

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I never knew this was such a controversial subject. The ketchup debate was another one. It's almost as big as the gravy or fish and chips ones.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd expect 2 slices of toast.

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By *rumsforlifeMan
over a year ago

hull

Got to be two. ..

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

A "round of toast" is, by definition in Hotel and culinary terms, 2 slices.

Traditionally, toast racks were always made to a minimum size, to accommodate two slices, each cut in half, so that the four halves fitted into the four slots in the rack.

Simples!

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By *histler21Man
over a year ago

Ipswich

"One "

That would mean that a round was a slice. As slice is already in existence - it would be a waste of a word.

And - everyone knows that the proper word is 'there' - their, theyre, they're etc. are unnecessary. *Greengrocers apostrophes* are unnecessary as well... (I was going to put apostrophes around that - but decided that that violated the rule)...

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By *andVB OP Couple
over a year ago

Wrexham

Having tallied the results we get...

9 for two slices.

7 for one slice and 1 for a single slice cut in half (one assumes diagonally and not across-wise).

We also discover that in most commercial environments a round is considered two slices. Apart from where Raspberry Smoothie works where a round is one and a portion is two!

Toast, it's serious business.

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Just give me the toast I'm starving forgot to bring my food with me to work

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By *andy_tomMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Depends on how many people are round the table wanting toast,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends on the bread

Warbies, 2 slices

Weightwatchers 'bread', half a loaf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surely 2 slices is a sandwich

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Legend has it that its two but heavens who only has just two slices of scrumptious toast .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two

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