Interesting Facts

A survey carried out by linguistics researchers at Manchester University found there were 7 different words for a bread roll in the UK. (In the South it was generally called a roll. In the North a bap or a bun. In the North-west a barm, or a muffin. In the Midlands a cob. In Yorkshire a tea cake! Now I'll go along with roll or a cob, but to me a bap is a softer, more floury bread roll, a muffin is an American cake, a bun is sweet and hopefully full of cream, and a tea cake is full of dried fruit and has to be toasted and served with lots of butter.)

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, in 2011 43,069 cosmetic operations took place in the UK. (Breast implants remained the most popular procedure for women, with more than 10,000 boosting their cup size, which is why the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, BAAPS for short, has the most appropriate acronym possible.  In British English, a bap is a type of floury soft bread roll, a bit like a hamburger bun. The term is often used affectionately to describe breasts.)   Source