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Rashers?

  • 12-08-2010 10:07AM
    #1
    PaddyBomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    11:11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭11:11


    You're right there :)

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


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #5
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


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


  • #6
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


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


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  • #7
    anniehoo
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    Ye have bacon for your dinner and rashers for brekkie...simples!


  • #8
    BLACKEN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭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:


  • #9
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,573 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Can also be used as a name in some cases.


  • #10
    kfallon
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    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!!!"


  • #11
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Rashers - the thing I miss most in the world.


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  • #12
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


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


  • #13
    FUNKY LOVER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 905 ✭✭✭FUNKY LOVER


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


  • #14
    Columc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭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 :(


  • #15
    Banned Account
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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.


  • #16
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Rashers - the thing I miss most in the world.

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


  • #18
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    Chochese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭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?


  • #20
    Banji
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭Banji


    anniehoo wrote: »
    Ye have bacon for your dinner and rashers for brekkie...simples!

    Exactly!


  • #21
    Banned Account
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Chochese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭Chochese


    Fitzcaraldo wrote: »
    Nope - that was Gnasher - he had a pet pig called rasher though.

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


  • #23
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Have heard people say rashers in Scotland and London.


  • #24
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    This thread is making me hungry :mad:


  • #26
    Banned Account
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    Chochese wrote: »
    Um............ did you actually read my post? :D

    Did you post something

    <---<
    >--->

    *puts hands in pocket, whistles*


  • #27
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭cosmic


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


  • #28
    Chochese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭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.


  • #29
    Banned Account
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭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?


  • #30
    akila
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭akila


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


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  • #31
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭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.


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