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When i worked on the pots (potteries)always took snapping for B+D minerS called it that as well cold tea is good for clearing the throat of dust don't know why Val xxx

Never heard of buppy - in Liverpool we had butties as in chip butties, also sarnies for the same thing. My Mum used the expression bread and scrape for bread and margarine, I think because it was spread as thinly as possible with the edge of the knife. I remember her also calling bread and hot milk with sugar pobs. I have heard snap used for a miners meal carried in a snap tin, round at one end and metal because of the rats and mice down the pit. Try reading 'Talking for Britain' a journey through the Nation's dialects by Simon Elmes. :-) Keith

Just mentioned it to Hubby now he's home and he says he'd use it for Bread in general - like having a Chip Buppy! I have to admit I thought it was just some daft word he had made up and was very surprised to read this thread earlier today - you learn something new every day. lol Kaye x

yes my mum always used to call it buppy - I knew as soon as I saw the thread title what it would be about! Maz. XX

I tell him that all the time Fred lol I've got my Mum and Sister locally to gang up on him, so he doesn't get away with it. Something weird his family do say is that one piece of bread makes a Sandwich - if they want a filling between two pieces of bread ( one Sandwich to me ) then they say they want TWO Sandwiches! It's taken me years to convince him that there is absoloutely no logic in that at all - he's come around to my way of thinking now. lol Kaye x

Tell hubby it's he that talks funny.Kaye I am from wycombe as well and it was years before the Geordies could understand me,geordies ,now they DO sound funny lol.Fred.[heading for cover]

My grandad used to take his 'snap' with him when he worked in the fields (still ag labs and a tied cottage in the 50s). He also took cold black sweetened tea in a bottle. Christina

Bread and buppy … yes :-)

Mum used to give us a cup of hot milk with lumps of bread in it and sweetened with sugar - called it buppies. Stella

I've heard my Husband say 'Bread & Buppy' - his family are from London/High Wycombe. We always had Soldiers when I was a kid and I honestly thought that was a Nationwide thing! I'm always getting told off by Husband for saying odd things - I'm from the West Country and he thinks we talk funny. lol We had 'Daps' when I was in Somerset, then when I was in Derbyshire they called them 'Pumps' - they're names for what I suppose are Tennis Shoes - things we used to wear as kids for doing PE. Kaye x

Well used word in our family for years! AL

yes us former Sarf East Lundenners used to say buppy for a piece of bread and marge!!(couldn't afford butter) sixty years ago especially to the younger members of the family

Cheese was always called 'bung-hole', never knew why. Christine x

Fred, I really dont mind.....

My Mother and Father also refered to bread and butter as Buppy. They were from Surrey. C x

scot's call them pieces ,any more sayings?. not intending to hijack thead .Rosi xxxFred.

No buppy for me, ( Hampshire-born but with Welsh Mum) We did have 'soldiers' though. Mine were always bread but hubby said his Mum made them from toast. Interesting about a packed lunch. I've always called them that-..... packed lunch.. but here near Folkestone, my local friends call them.. Pack Ups. Gwyn

G'day from an Aussie, geez you Poms talk funny...lol

Yes, I used to call it that when I was small.....

How about that other old one from the war ,bread and scratch it,? a term in our house when there was not much to be had and mum used to smear dripping on the bread with a little added salt,i can still taste it after all these years mmmmmmmm.Fred.