"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

>
> You need to let go of the word slice as we know it. They don't
> mean it the way we do.

Just to confuse matters further, we do use the word the way you do (e.g. we
slice a tomato, we eat a slice of toast) it's just that it's _also_ the
word used as the name for a particular type of baked good.


I think Rhonda explained it. It's a
> bar cookie.
>

Yep. I never cease to be fascinated by these differences in what we call
things - both within and between countries.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia