What do you call a bread roll?

Never heard that one.

My mum ( West Yorks) called them scufflers!

"Like a piffy on a barmcake" 👍

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.

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...

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 😀

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

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

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

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

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?

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😁

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.

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 😁

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.

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

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. ☹

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.

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

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

It's a cob here in Nottingham

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.

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

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

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?

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.