What do you call a bread roll?

Bread bun (me, North East).
Teacake (DH, West Yorkshire).

He’s wrong, of course - a teacake has dried fruit in it.

Have lived in the north, south, east and west and have always called them bread cakes. Never had a problem being understood whatever they happened to be called by locals.

It's a cob here in Nottingham

You'd be stared at blankly up here if you asked for a 'breadcake' knspol!

Where are they bridge rolls? Those are the long ones. Is it obsolete now?

gulliver12

Where are they bridge rolls? Those are the long ones. Is it obsolete now?

Bridge rolls are the small ones, we always had them for Christmas afternoon tea when I was a child.
I haven't seen them for years.

gulliver12

Where are they bridge rolls? Those are the long ones. Is it obsolete now?

Good news - I found some bridge rolls! 🙂

Bad news- the nearest outet is over 100 miles away from where I live. ☹

My SIL calls them a cob. She is from Warwickshire.

Allira

gulliver12

Where are they bridge rolls? Those are the long ones. Is it obsolete now?

Bridge rolls are the small ones, we always had them for Christmas afternoon tea when I was a child.
I haven't seen them for years.

Our local Tesco instore bakery department sells them.

MissInterpreted

Allira

gulliver12

Where are they bridge rolls? Those are the long ones. Is it obsolete now?

Bridge rolls are the small ones, we always had them for Christmas afternoon tea when I was a child.
I haven't seen them for years.

Our local Tesco instore bakery department sells them.

Thanks, I'll look.

Mind you, no-one manages much tea after Christmas dinner nowadays.

How did we eat so much? I suppose we were growing children.
My DGC could manage them 😁

Here in NW England I call them rolls, but the term bap is vaguely familiar. The long ones were bridge rolls in my youth, and I haven’t come across the since I grew up.

Aveline

You'd be stared at blankly up here if you asked for a 'breadcake' knspol!

You’d be stared at blankly down here if you asked for a breadcake too😁

Oreo

Aveline

You'd be stared at blankly up here if you asked for a 'breadcake' knspol!

You’d be stared at blankly down here if you asked for a breadcake too😁

And here, never heard of it.

Is it like brioche?

Where I live we call a bread roll a roll if soft, if crusty a cob. Baps to us can mean something entirely different 🤣

It's a cob in the East Midlands, you go to the Cob Shop to buy a filled cob for lunch.

Definitely, if you’re from Coventry it’s a batch!

Thanks everyone. I think this has become the longest thread I have ever started.

HeavenLeigh

Where I live we call a bread roll a roll if soft, if crusty a cob. Baps to us can mean something entirely different 🤣

Baps are large, round, soft and flattish 😀

Cabbie21

Thanks everyone. I think this has become the longest thread I have ever started.

Have you heard about the "Oasis Special" soup they do now?

You get a roll with it...

Barm cake or just barm here in the NW. Barm was the term for foam generated by the brewing process and traditionally used as a raising agent in bread making round these 'ere parts.

"Like a piffy on a barmcake" 👍

My mum ( West Yorks) called them scufflers!

Never heard that one.