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toastie-toastie


another name for a jaffle: I love toastie-toasties. Compare Breville, jaffle, popit, tasty toastie.

Contributor's comments: [Victorian informant] Never heard this. Jaffles or Brevilles, after the Breville-branded sandwich makers.

Contributor's comments: [Victorian informant] Never heard of it. Always referred to as "jaffle" or "toasted sandwich".

Contributor's comments: I'm a Victorian and I've never heard of a jaffle referred to as a 'toastie-toastie'.

Contributor's comments: We used this word as children growing up in the 1950's in Perth.

Contributor's comments: My mother, a South Australian, used this term for a jaffle-maker.

Contributor's comments: Lived here [Victoria] all my life and never heard it used.

Contributor's comments: I spent the first 26 years of my life 100km north of, or in Adelaide, and we called them toastie-toasties too.

Contributor's comments: After considerable investigation with my family and friends NONE of us have ever heard of a jaffle being called a toastie-toastie in Victoria in my life - I think you've been had on that one!

Contributor's comments: I have grown up in Victoria and have never heard this expression.

Contributor's comments: I'm now living in S.A. and was bemused the first time I heard this. We never, never, never said or heard this word in Victoria (where I lived for 29 years)

Contributor's comments: I recall that in Adelaide in 1950s 60s, 70s, the implement was called a toastie roastie. I think the resultant food item was called by the same name.

Contributor's comments: Yes, in wide use here in Perth from at least the 60s --- but only ever heard it as the singular "toastie".

Contributor's comments: [Adelaide informant] My family has always called these "poppets". You cooked them on the stove in a "poppet iron".

Contributor's comments: I'm from SA, and we always made "toastie-toasties" in the "toastie-toaster"!

Contributor's comments: In East Gippsland used this term, describes toasted sandwiches cooked on the stove top of the slow combustion stove. Also used the terms of just 'Toasties', as well as 'Toastie-woasties'.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Adelaide and was 31 before I heard the term in Sydney in reference to its use in SA. I have always known them as toasted sandwiches.

Contributor's comments: I live in Adelaide and "toasted sandwich" seems the more common term to me. Toastie (singular) is also very common.