Alison, thanks - we can get potato farls, and soda farls over here. Also Staffordshire oatcakes which are like pancakes, and are wrapped around the bacon and dipped in the runny egg yolks. And on your principle of it fits, fried bread, and yesterdays' cunningly planned leftover potatoes, mashed or sliced, and bubble-and-squeak (would this be acceptable if called fried colcannon?). I think all those ands should read or.

So, basically, its not so much what you fry as where you fry it.

Penny