End piece is used often in the UK and I have heard end crust, but nobby is more commonly heard. UK bread is generally a heavy bread with a hard crust, especially at the ends, hence the term nobby.
We obviously need a committee to arrive at the truth of this matter, but I'm opting out of participating. However I'll be happy to find government support for a research study to make findings & perhaps a recommendation...
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Hey Bef, I wonder if you do another thing I do. I very carefully break off those horrid plastic clips and replace with a twist tie. Those plastic clips put holes in the bag!
They are everywhere, usually around ironing boards and stuff like that.
I use them for everything- closing cereal bags, chips, pet food bags, non food stuff in the bathroom and garage, etc. I use them to hook sheets together to make forts under tables for grandkids. I use them every day for all kinds of random things. They are my go-to kitchen thingie.
(I also save, reuse and hoard twist ties, but I usually end up using them in the yard.)
I also use these paper binders for closing stuff. I have them in all sizes. They are stronger and smaller than the clothes pins and don't fall off anything.
I use those for everything: the little and medium-sized ones for documents, the large ones for very big documents and for holding bags of food closed, and the very very big ones for what I like to term "enhanced" time-outs.
When I lived in the UK, I admit I never heard "nobby" used for what I now (in France) call a "croûton". "Nobby" (presumably from "noble" in the aristocratic sense) was often used to describe my rather posh accent, however.
I think we probably called the ends of bread the crust...
I don't think it is anything so grand, SM. Just nobby for the nobbly bit found at the end of British hard crust bread. French bread would likekly qualify on that basis but not much bread in the average US supermarket.
Sarnie (butty) is a sandwich. The sandwich was named after the Earl of Sandwich. A bap is a type of bread roll. In my experience usually square. Biffy might be regional too.
Clearly no more guesses. Biffy is toilet, bathroom. What they don't have in the UK is rest rooms. Asking for one would be met by a puzzled stare and perhaps a question: "Oh, are you ill?"