What do you call a bread roll?

LilyoftheValley

Eric.

Well why not? A carrot can be called Kevin after all 😄

Long soft rolls for hot dog sausages we called finger rolls.

I've never understood why they're called hamburgers when they're made from beef, MissInterpreted.

Invented in Hamburg?

If it’s crusty it’s a cob, if not it’s a barm.

Hang on - dinner rolls are another one! I always feel that using the word 'bread' is unnecessary- if it's in front of you on the table, bakers' counter, prepacked in supermarkets you can see that it's bread without saying it. If you're talking about it without a visual reference then does the context not give it away?

MissInterpreted

Allira

MissInterpreted

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.

I'm curious as to what kind of 'long' roll you use for hamburgers? I've never seen a burger on anything other than a round roll of one kind or another.

The soft ones filled with sausages and fried onions.
A hamburger roll.

The round ones are filled with meat burgers, not sausages.

Is that not a hot dog roll? A hamburger is a burger - it's round!

I've never understood why they're called hamburgers when they're made from beef, MissInterpreted.

Did they originate in Hamburg?

Baps if they're soft and squishy.

But what did the muffin man sell (the one in the song)? Was it some kind of bread roll/bun/crumpet?
Muffins seem to have morphed into over large fairy cakes with butter icing on top.

Allira

MissInterpreted

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.

I'm curious as to what kind of 'long' roll you use for hamburgers? I've never seen a burger on anything other than a round roll of one kind or another.

The soft ones filled with sausages and fried onions.
A hamburger roll.

The round ones are filled with meat burgers, not sausages.

Is that not a hot dog roll? A hamburger is a burger - it's round!

I buy them as 'scotch morning rolls' or 'baps' from Tesco. If I am at home with friends I say "do you want a roll with butter?"
My boy friend long ago said " I want a roll with honey in bed".

It's a roll where I'm from - sometimes well fired. Where I live you can have Glasgow rolls, softies, rowies or butteries. Rowies/butteries are cholesterol on a plate as they're traditionally made with lard, originally to provide sustenance for fishermen.

I cll it a bread roll but that covers everything that is amde of bread and can be held in the hand, It could be sour dough, granary, soft, crusty, floury, foccaccio, mini-baguettes.

If it is made from bread and too small to slice like n ordinary loaf. It is a bread roll.

MissInterpreted

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.

I'm curious as to what kind of 'long' roll you use for hamburgers? I've never seen a burger on anything other than a round roll of one kind or another.

The soft ones filled with sausages and fried onions.
A hamburger roll.

The round ones are filled with meat burgers, not sausages.

BlueSapphire

Always a bread roll, but my lovely Lancashire DM-in-law called them tea-cakes.

Yes, we call them teacakes in Lancashire, the ones with fruit in, we call currant or fruited tea cakes.

Here in East Midlands, it`s a bap. When we lived in Lancashire we called it a tea cake.

It depends on the shape, crustiness and finish! 😁

Bread roll, bap, cob, burger bun, crusty roll, bridge roll, muffin
Etc

In Canada we call them buns.

We are in Sussex and call them Baps

I call a bread roll a bread roll.

A bread roll?
It’s just a tiny, baked individual portion of a completely ordinary and unadulterated bread dough. Same mix as for loaves.
It isn’t enriched with eggs, fruit, sugar, fat, seeds or other stuff. That would allow it to have endless different names and regional variations.
It’s just (small) bread, piled in baskets in cafeterias, served at tables in restaurants and standard fare.
Anything else, other names which are legion, can only be due to different recipes or just wonderful, regional names.
A bread roll, whatever its shape, is just that. One’s own portion of the staff of life.

I call it a bread roll

On the other hand, there are a number of different types of bread roll

Rolls, barm cakes, buns, home-made naan dollops, teacakes if they have currants in and you eat them toasted, cobs.

I know the word baps but it's not one I've used..

That's novel.

Eric.

I thought tea cakes had currants in them. Here a bread roll is a bread roll though there are ‘dinner rolls’ which are smaller and Turkish rolls which are bigger and made from Turkish bread. Then there’s hamburger rolls (usually softer white bread) and brioche rolls, the sweeter ones with a glaze on top.

Always a bread roll, but my lovely Lancashire DM-in-law called them tea-cakes.