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OUTSIDER, n. also ootsider. A thick end slice of a loaf; a sandwich made from such.Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 32:
Gauny make ma piece an ootsider. Will you make my sandwich from the thick, outside slices of the bread.Sc. 1993 Herald 16 Nov 14:
It was the mother and father of all outsiders, doorsteps, or heels of plain bread (one and a half inches, or four centimetres, high to be exact) and Davy asks: "I have been eating outsiders man and boy for very near 48 years now and I have never seen anything like this in my life. Have youse?Sc. 1994 Sunday Mail 19 Jun 34:
After 25 years in America, I still get homesick for Scotland and right now I'd give my eye teeth for an "ootsider" and butter.Uls. 1997 Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (1998) 203:
She made a large cheese and tomato sandwich with the two heels of the loaf — on the island they called them outsiders — and wrapped it in tin-foil.Sc. 1999 Sunday Herald 31 Oct 12:
Gran Brady is giving us school lunch in her house above the shopping centre, in the mid-Seventies. It's our total favourite — Pender's slice sausage, fried in a pan with Heinz beans, mopped up with a plain loaf outsider.