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Jamaican Patois · Food and cooking

Hard dough bread

Hard dough bread (dense white loaf)

Say itHARD doh BRED

Also written
Hardo, Hardo bread, Hard dough

What “Hard dough bread” means

Hard dough bread is a dense, slightly sweet white loaf, usually sold sliced. It's the everyday sandwich and toast bread in Jamaica.

Examples

Mi want two slice a hard dough bread wid butter.

I want two slices of hard dough bread with butter.

How to use it

Everyday word. People often shorten it to "hardo".