Paper towel or kitchen roll? What do you call it?

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I was visiting my SIL recently and while helping clean up after dinner I asked her where she kept her kitchen roll. She looked at me blankly and said 'what?'. I figured she just didn't hear me properly so asked again where the kitchen roll was and was again met with a confused look. I asked if she had any kitchen roll or if she had run out and she really didn't know what I was asking her for. It was only when I started searching and found the roll in the cupboard under the sink that she said 'Ah, you were looking for PAPER TOWEL!'
Now I don't think I'm the unreasonable one here, surely everyone knows that kitchen roll is another name for paper towel?
What do you call it in your house?

kitchen roll.

Kitchen roll. I think of 'paper towel' as those blue sheets that you pull from a dispenser that are actually more papery.

Kitchen towel

Both!

Kitchen roll. Agree with @ZoraMipha paper towel is those blue sheets in dispensers in public toilets

I call it kitchen paper. DH calls it Carlton Towel as that was the brand name when he was growing up.

This.

She was being obtuse deliberately. I refuse to believe anyone could get to adulthood without knowing kitchen roll and paper towel are basically synonyms.

Me too!

Kitchen roll

Polly roll

Kitchen roll

Kitchen towel

I am not from the UK. Paper towel (which is what the object is) makes more sense than Kitchen Roll.
Roll of what? Roll of kitchen?

SIL was gaslighting you.

Kitchen roll is the white stuff on a roll, paper towels are those individual slightly thinker paper towels that you sometimes get in public toilets where you pull out one at a time to dry your hands.

And yes I would think that paper towel was the blue stuff

Kitchen roll, paper towel is the American term

Kitchen roll. I’m sure they’re called Kitchen Towels on Asdas grocery website though, which irritates me.

Kitchen roll. It’s a bit weird she didn’t understand tbh.

Kitchen paper here. But she was being difficult

Is your SIL often deliberately obtuse with things like that? I know some people do enjoy being like that.

I call it kitchen paper or kitchen roll but if someone visiting asked me for paper towel I'd get them the kitchen roll.

Kitchen roll.

This made me chuckle, just yesterday my teen ds said 'pass some paper towel' I just looked at him and said 'did you forget you were not at school'

@WhiteCatmas I guess it's 'kitchen' roll as opposed to 'toilet' roll