Rashers?

PaddyBomb

Are we the only nation to use this word?

This morning, I went into a spar to get a breckie roll.

"Just sausages and rashers and a bit of ketchup, please"
"Rashers?"

Foreign girl behind the counter hadn't a clue what a rasher was. I taught to myself that I couldn't be the first person to call bacon rashers to her, could I?

It didnt feel right saying bacon.

11:11

You're right there

Just got back from 3 year in Aus and totally got used to 'bacon'......now it's rashers!

chin_grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Cuts_of_bacon

Rashers are slices of bacon? There are new smells, new colours in the world! So much to do, so much to see!

I'm too used to callin' it bacon. So I'M wrong then!

Back in Monaghan I never even heard of a rasher before.. I still try use bacon most of the time five years later.

MidlandsM

You said have said "HAIRY RASHERS" and she'd have understood.

hidinginthebush

I love streaky bacon, but I HATE rashers :mad:

anniehoo

Ye have bacon for your dinner and rashers for brekkie...simples!

BLACKEN

Deleted User wrote: »

Back in Monaghan I never even heard of a rasher before.. I still try use bacon most of the time five years later.

Really??? thats all i ever hear in monaghan! :pac::pac::pac:

cson

Can also be used as a name in some cases.

kfallon

The only time I don't say rashers is in the scenario posted by the OP, if I am waiting to be served a breakfast roll I'm always thinking, "I better say bacon in case I'm the only one who knows what a rasher is!!!"

pickarooney

Rashers - the thing I miss most in the world.

Sykk

Of course rasher is a word.. For delicious meat, also the name of a guy I know who's bald as a coot.

FUNKY LOVER

keep saying rashers OP,dont let those foreigners change our unique irish slang:p

Columc

Was over in America last year. After maybe 3 weeks, you settle in and want to have that taste of home. Went up the the house mate and asked "Where would you get a nice pack of rashers" Que the strange look he gave. Took like 5 minutes trying to describe what I was looking for, ended up saying **** it and getting the streaky bacon... not the same

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Sykk wrote: »

Of course rasher is a word.. For delicious meat, also the name of a guy I know who's bald as a coot.

'Tis also the name for a deft skimming flick on the arse cheek from the corner of a steel ruler, usually administered in maths class, through the gap in the seats, by the pupil sitting directly behind you, with the sole aim of making your eyes water whilst trying to recite pytagoras' theorem.

El Horseboxo

If i'm going back to the same place i always say the word i use in Ireland for whatever i'm looking for. At times in the US i will explain it 3 days in a row to the same person who usually calls other people over. But on the 4th and remaining days they know what i'm on about.

Hank_Jones

pickarooney wrote: »

Rashers - the thing I miss most in the world.

That's quite a fulfilled life you've got there.

ScumLord

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I love streaky bacon, but I HATE rashers :mad:

That's like saying I like licking the carpet at my local whore house but hate chocolate cake. That's just weird.

Chochese

I don't think 'rashers' is exclusively an Irish word.

When I think about it, wasn't Dennis the Menace's pet pig called Rasher?

Banji

anniehoo wrote: »

Ye have bacon for your dinner and rashers for brekkie...simples!

Exactly!

Banned Account

Chochese wrote: »

I don't think 'rashers' is exclusively an Irish word.

When I think about it, wasn't Dennis the Menace's pet pig called Rasher?

Nope - that was Gnasher - he had a pet pig called rasher though.

Chochese

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

Nope - that was Gnasher - he had a pet pig called rasher though.

Um............ did you actually read my post?

the purple tin

Have heard people say rashers in Scotland and London.

LenaClaire

Columc wrote: »

Was over in America last year. After maybe 3 weeks, you settle in and want to have that taste of home. Went up the the house mate and asked "Where would you get a nice pack of rashers" Que the strange look he gave. Took like 5 minutes trying to describe what I was looking for, ended up saying **** it and getting the streaky bacon... not the same

In American you need to ask for Canadian Bacon to get Irish style bacon.

Wazdakka

This thread is making me hungry :mad:

Banned Account

Chochese wrote: »

Um............ did you actually read my post?

Did you post something

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*puts hands in pocket, whistles*

cosmic

Mmmmmm, Matt the Rashers... :pac::pac::pac:

Chochese

jujibee wrote: »

In American you need to ask for Canadian Bacon to get Irish style bacon.

..and if you want Irish style Canadian bacon you have to ask for some cats to be taped together.

Banned Account

Chochese wrote: »

..and if you want Irish style Canadian bacon you have to ask for some cats to be taped together.

Surely you mean cats taped together?

akila

God dammit.. Can't think of anything except a rasher sandwich now... Is it lunchtime yet??

alwaysadub

cosmic wrote: »

Mmmmmm, Matt the Rashers... :pac::pac::pac:

Mmm. Home of the best breakfast rolls in the world!

Did that place close down? Heard a rumour.

jackiebaron

Columc wrote: »

Was over in America last year. After maybe 3 weeks, you settle in and want to have that taste of home. Went up the the house mate and asked "Where would you get a nice pack of rashers" Que the strange look he gave. Took like 5 minutes trying to describe what I was looking for, ended up saying **** it and getting the streaky bacon... not the same

The bacon you get in America is complete crap. Not a molecule of meat on the things. Only good for sticking on a cheeseburger. Might as well be eating scratchings.
Gimme a Brennan's Bread and Galtee Rasher toasted rasher sambo with chef sauce and a steaming mug of Barry's anyday. Breakfast of champions. America, yez can stuff your vomitous pancakes and maple syrup up your holes.

jackiebaron

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

Nope - that was Gnasher - he had a pet pig called rasher though.

Ya dopey pig!

Dr. Feelgood

so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?

PaddyBomb

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?

Anyone elses mouth water reading this?

Banned Account

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

so what are the best rashers? and how do you cook them so the fat crisps up just the right amount?

Fermanagh black bacon and grill them till you get crackling ... yummmmm

Run_to_da_hills

I hate American Bacon. :mad:

TPD

I love streaky bacon when I can get it. Might be a bit sickening all the time though.

A V A

rashers have always been the Irish way and slang, from where i half grew up between summer hill/south circular road and blanch , everybody i have ever spoken to or had a general conversation with have sad rashers not bacon!! its great with all the foreign nationals in ireland but sometimes i think to my self the irish way of life and the slang is going slowly out the window!! even now it in blanch some foreign people in a deli or behind a meat/poultry bar don't understand you , even in a butchers and things alike!


your were defo right in using the word rashers she must of been new to the job becuase i hear nothing but "rashers and sausages and sum brown/red sauce der love " hahaha

pickarooney

What's the confusion? They are rashers of bacon just like you have slices of toast and glasses of milk.

Apparently 'rasher' is a type of fish in North America.

BaRcOe

jackiebaron wrote: »

Gimme a Brennan's Bread and Galtee Rasher toasted rasher sambo with chef sauce and a steaming mug of Barry's anyday. Breakfast of champions. America, yez can stuff your vomitous pancakes and maple syrup up your holes.

CHEF? Are you Serious? HEINZ all the way!!


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055997755

Pace2008

Bad and all as we might think Ireland is, count yourself lucky you live in the only country in the world that has good milk and rashers.

Wazdakka

Brown sauce is far superior to ketchup on a rasher sambo..

Reggae reggae sauce is always the preferred option.


That is all...

NoHornJan

Angels on Horseback is the way go...

Be sure they are Irish oysters, though...

Procasinator

According to an dictionaries I look at the place of origin is unknown. Been around since the 16th century, however.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rasher

rossie1977

here is what i don't understand, ok we call em rashers and the yanks/brits/aussies etc call them bacon, fair enough but what do other countries call what we call bacon then??

Sergeant

I have seen the word rasher written on plenty of menus in greasy spoons in London, Bath etc.

pickarooney

As in bacon and cabbage? That's also bacon. Why is so hard for people to understand that the meat is called bacon and that a slice of this meat is called a rasher?

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pickarooney wrote: »

As in bacon and cabbage? That's also bacon. Why is so hard for people to understand that the meat is called bacon and that a slice of this meat is called a rasher?

"Can I haz a rasher of bacon please good sir."


"Sorry bud, a what? I haven't a rashers what you're on about"

chosen1

Sergeant wrote: »

I have seen the word rasher written on plenty of menus in greasy spoons in London, Bath etc.

Yea seen it plenty of times too across the water. Usually called a rasher of bacon. Have seen turkey rashers on sale too, probably meaning it refers to a slice of meat

NoHornJan

My OH calls thinly sliced rashers cats ears ...