What do you call a small round bread item?

[mrspaulhollywood]

What do you usually call the small round bread item sometimes known as roll / cob / bun etc? Comment if I've missed your option off the poll but I can only add 6 options!

Roll! Unless I'm eating one of these...
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sheldons-white-oven-bottom-muffins-x6

Batch

Bun

Cob. I'm from the east midlands.

Paul Hollywood confirmed its a cob! 😆

I'm a northern gal. It's muffin or nuffin

It's a cob here in the East Midlands

Teacake. And no, I don't mean the thing with currants in.

I call it a roll (or a bap if it's big) but I did once work with a delightful chap from Sunderland who called them breadcakes.

How small? - Globule?

Didn’t we just have this thread 3 weeks ago 🤦🏾‍♀️ I call it a blaa

An obvious linguistics trap

Bap or cob. I use both. E Mids with Northern parents

Also, you forgot Batch and Breadcake

Definitely a roll......unless it's for a burger, then it's a bun. SE

It's a cob if it's crusty, and a barm cake if it's soft. Ffs. Paul Hollywood is a scouser, he should know that.

A roll is not round, it is sausage shaped, like a bridge roll.

Bun or roll.

I'm talking about north of the Watford gap.

Barm cake, bread cake or bread roll. (Manc with Yorkshire leanings now living on Merseyside).

Cobs are crusty.

I never use the words cob or barm cake. I wouldn't even know what they were. Buns and rolls are different things to me. A bun would be soft, sometimes sweet, usually an enriched dough. Like a hot dog bun or a burger bun, or a Chelsea bun, or brioche bun.

A roll might be soft or crusty, but it would be a plain yeast dough, not enriched with egg, and not sweet. You would put butter on a roll and perhaps use it to make a sandwich but you probably wouldn't with a bun.

A bap is just a roll that is soft and large and flat.

@HeadDeskHeadDesk I'm from the south coast and this is how I describe them too but didn't manage to explain it as well as you have here! I love all the regional variations!

@Bananadramallamas we are chatting about this in the office and someone else said that about PH too!

Muffin! Some are even labeled oven bottom muffins! Rolls are what you put hot dogs In

Snap to both!

Bun - northern