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Thread #19270   Message #195963
Posted By: GUEST,murray@mpce.mq.edu.au
16-Mar-00 - 06:25 AM
Thread Name: Help: What's a 'penny bap'?
Subject: RE: Help: What's a 'penny bap'?
Alison. I have been buying baps in Australia since I came here in '75. Before that I had only heard of them in Josephine Tey book in which her Inspector Grant goes to Scotland and is given a bap; but is told that since the war they no longer have "chew".

A bap does not look like a hamburger bun! It looks like a scone that has taken to overeating and doing no exercise.

By the way, what is the origin of the word "bap"?

Murray