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Bear bread?
Takae
01-09-2014
We provide food for clients who travel a long way to our offices. In this case, one client from Scotland only wants a cuppa and 'buttered slices of bear bread'.

Our usual caterer hasn't heard of it, so we Googled 'bear bread' but haven't any luck.

The client was quite irritated when a colleague rang back and asked if he meant 'beer bread', so we couldn't ask him any more questions. For what it's worth, he is in his mid-70s, and born and raised in the southern area of Sutherland in Scotland. Perhaps those details offer some clues?

Suggestions on what 'bear bread' might be, please? Thanks.
JulesF
01-09-2014
Could he have been saying 'bare bread'? I Googled and found this:

http://www.fooducate.com/app#page=pr...9-893F09FBECFA

Seems a rather obscure request though! Maybe he meant 'bare bread' as in 'just plain old bread with nothing on it'? I don't know. It's a bit odd!
Takae
01-09-2014
Thanks, JulesF. No, that's not the one.

Someone in the building immediately recognised 'bear bread' - it's actually bere bread, a lesser-known loaf version of bere bannocks.

Huh. Things we learn every day. Thanks for the help, anyhow.
frootysalad
05-09-2014
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...74649129,d.ZGU

could it be this ?
Shrike
05-09-2014
So its a sort of barley - very obscure though, shame on him for getting chippy that no one knew what he was banging on about.
DevoidDroid
05-09-2014
Originally Posted by Takae:
“The client was quite irritated when a colleague rang back and asked if he meant 'beer bread', so we couldn't ask him any more questions.”

What a miserable old git, at least you figured it out, not that he deserves it.
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