Bantams are small, brightly coloured fowl which produces small eggs.
A type of Scottish breakfast roll of soft white bread, eaten hot, made from yeast dough and a little fat, with a characteristic dusting of flour. In England has come to mean a soft roll of brown or white bread with a dusting of flour.
A bar is a café selling drinks, or a place where drinks alone are sold, from behind a long counter or bar. In some cultures these are still the preserve of men. I always think of those bars as having high ceilings and neon lights with men playing chequers or backgammon, or low ceilings and practically no lights at all and isolated men drinking alone. In some places different rates will be charged for drinks in different parts of the bar, the cheapest being at the bar, the next at a table inside and the highest on the terrace or pavement outside.
Acerola. A small, thin-skinned, cherry-like fruit, smaller and sweeter than a loquat or medlar, and is rich in vitamin C. The fruits have five stones which clump together so they can seem like one, orange-yellow flesh and grow on a tree originally from Brazil and the West Indies. They have a slightly acidic, raspberry-like flavour and are usually used in desserts, preserves and purées. They can be dried for later use and, where the climate is sunny and warm, may ripen well for eating out of hand.
The small, round, tart fruit of a cactus with a red to yellow skin.
