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

[ScotInExile]

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?

So by that logic toilet roll/ loo roll makes no sense?

Kitchen roll

That’s why I call it bathroom/toilet tissue. 😅

Question- what do you call a single sheet of kitchen roll.

Do you call it a kitchen towel (in which case, the pack I posted should actually say "kitchen towels")?

I think I call it "a piece of kitchen roll". As in when I say to my husband "can you not use a proper napkin when eating instead of a piece of kitchen roll you peasant?"

DH calls it polly roll. I've no idea why and have never been bothered enough to ask him.

I call it kitchen roll.

Kitchen roll
DP says paper towel

This!

For me, 'paper towel' in any other context only exists in the US.

Kitchen roll as in the roll of paper that lives in the kitchen for kitchen related tasks. As opposed to toilet/loo roll which lives in the loo and is used for toilet related purposes.

Paper towel to me would be the separate sheets that live in a dispenser in a public loo for drying your hands on.

Kitchen towel would make me ask whether they mean the hand towel or the tea towel as I would think of a fabric towel.

Kitchen roll.

Paper towels are what you dry your hands on in public toilets & at school.

Kitchen roll.

Someone else just mentioned this- where does that come from?

I'm American so I call a roll of it "paper towels." One off the roll is a paper towel.

We call it "culinary mittens"

Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Waitrose all list it as kitchen roll

Waitrose packaging says kitchen towel. Tesco packaging says kitchen towel. Sainsbury packaging says kitchen towel. Asda packaging says kitchen towels. Morrisons packaging says kitchen towels. So I think we can conclusively say the product's 'official' name is kitchen towel/s. But it is listed as kitchen roll on some of the shopping interfaces.

For whoever said it's not paper, of course it's paper - it's a type of tissue paper. What do you think it's made of? Just like the paper towels in public toilets are made of paper. And toilet paper is made of paper. Just looking at toilet paper packaging and Andrex doesn't name the product at all, Waitrose calls it 'toilet tissue' and the bamboo/green ones call it toilet paper.

It's kitchen paper and boggo in this house

‘Gaslighting is a manipulative tactic in which a person plants seeds of uncertainty in another person's mind. The self-doubt and constant questioning slowly cause the individual to question their reality.’

The reality in this case being that the roll of paper that is used primarily in the kitchen, is called Kitchen Roll! Seeds of doubt, op. Seeds of doubt….

Yes I do. By pretending that she didn't understand what the OP was after she was most definitely using a manipulative tactic in which so she could gain power and control of the OP and plants seeds of uncertainty in OP's mind. Classic gaslighting.

Scottex but I'm in Italy ( Scottex is the Italian Andrex)

Kitchen paper here.

Toilet roll is the whole thing, the sheets are toilet paper.

Paper towel is North American. Kitchen roll is British.

I say to my husband "can you not use a proper napkin when eating instead of a piece of kitchen roll you peasant?"

😳

Why the shocked face? What are you trying to say?

I'm not talking about cloth napkins, paper ones are fine. But just having a bit of kitchen roll on the table beside you during a meal is pretty skanky.

Sorry for the confusion
I do the same so thought it was pretty normal, did it when guests came over too so I feel ashamed. I'll switch to napkins I guess!

I do it all the time with dc.

As an adult with standard table manners do you even need a napkin normally? I’m pretty capable of eating without smearing my face or hands and if I do there’s always kitchen roll 😉