What do you call a bread roll?

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

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.

For me bap is round, a roll is rectangularish.

A bap and I am a Yorkshire girl!

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

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)

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 😉

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

Cob.

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.

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

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.

A roll...🤣🤣

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

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.

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

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

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.

Baps here in the Potteries (that’s Staffordshire)

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”.

I call a bread roll exactly that.

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.

We call them morning rolls usually

We call them rolls in SW Scotland though I notice the packaged ones in supermarkets are labelled morning rolls. When I was at university in Glasgow one of the uni cafes used to sell dolly rolls. I have no idea why they were called dolly rolls as they were just ordinary rolls and none of my Glaswegian friends had ever heard of them being called that before! The supermarket rolls are never as good as the bakery ones.

In the South West where a roll is a roll, there is one shop called Big Baps. Makes me smile every time! Does everyone else think it sounds a bit Benny Hill smutty?