What do you call a bread roll?

We call them morning rolls usually

When I was a child in West Yorkshire there were plain teacakes, currant teacakes and bridge rolls - long and thin. I guess mobility has transferred in terms from other parts of the country.

I call a bread roll exactly that.

Taichinan

Up here in NE Scotland we have Morning Rolls or flouries, and Aberdeen is famed for its butteries which are a sturdier version of round croissants. Other than that they're just rolls - no need to say bread. Amazing how many different terms and versions there are around Britain!

I thought I knew what I called them till I heard all the variations on here! I’ve lived in different parts of the UK so I guess I just called them whatever everyone else did. But - here in the NE of Scotland there are exactly what Taichinan says plus what my lovely friend used to call “safties”.

Baps here in the Potteries (that’s Staffordshire)

Whatever it wants to be called. If a roll wants to self-identify, then that's fine by me.

Seriously, I'd call it a roll if it's basically round and quite thick, a bap if it's soft and floury and a baguette if it's longer and crusty.

Breadcake - I hail from Yorkshire (DH insists there is no such word as breadcake and its a bap - he though is from the Midlands)

NE Scotland - a softie. A bap if it’s slightly more crisp, and floury on top.

I don't mind bap (for soft crust) or roll but as others have said I think of a teacake as having dried fruit in it.

I call it a roll, but bap is a good Scots word.

A roll...🤣🤣

When I was little we called it a flour cake but that has died out now and it's a barm cake or just bread roll.

Here in NI they are baps. If long thin for a hot dog then they are finger rolls.

A cob here too. That’s what they’ve always been called in my house (ex East Midland's) however relocated to East Yorkshire and here they are bread cakes.

Cob.

A bread roll is a bread roll wherever you are! Baps, cobs, bread cake, teacakes are a different shape to a roll.

A roll is round. A bap is also round but it has flour on top. A crusty roll is also round but it’s hard and hurts your gums. A long roll is a bridge roll.
Oh. Whatever! It’s bread in different shapes. Which reminds me - lunchtime 😉

Jane43

The long ones, such as the ones used to make hamburgers, we call rolls, the round, soft ones we call baps and the round, crusty ones we call cobs. To us anything called a tea cake has dried fruit in it.

Exactly. Rolls are long and thin. Anything round is a bap if it's soft, or a cob if it's crusty. (Black Country)

In Scotland there are variations of different types of bread, shape and so on, but generally just a roll.

A bap and I am a Yorkshire girl!

For me bap is round, a roll is rectangularish.

MissInterpreted

I thought American 'biscuits' were more like a flaky scone than a roll?

The shape was like a scone, but the texture a tad more doughy and without wishing to cause offence to the traditional breakfast - I didn't like the white gravy, not because it was white but because I didn't know what was in it.

... but that applies to any eatery, anywhere in the world.

The 'biscwit' was more like a crumpet - maybe it varies according to locality / diners.

I thought American 'biscuits' were more like a flaky scone than a roll?

Oreo

Rolls are called biscuits in the US😲

Yes - that puzzled me when I went into a breakfast diner in the US and was offered biscuits with gravy...

I had this image of custard creams floating like little barges in a river of gravy.

And the chap sitting next to us in the diner with his wife, referred to them as "biscwits".

Up here in NE Scotland we have Morning Rolls or flouries, and Aberdeen is famed for its butteries which are a sturdier version of round croissants. Other than that they're just rolls - no need to say bread. Amazing how many different terms and versions there are around Britain!