What do you call a small round bread item?

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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!

Breadcake. And yes it is a sandwich if you slice it up, butter the insides and fill it with ham, despite someone on here claiming otherwise last week.

Southerner.

Generally a bread roll, but if it's big and soft then it could be a bap, and if it's for a burger its a bun.

@ManchesterBeatrice very surprised you call it a bun. Assuming you're in South Manchester?

Roll unless it's got seeds on it with a burger inside in which case it's a bun. Occasionally I use bap when purchasing breakfast to distinguish from a pastry sausage roll

Roll.
Muffins are for toasting.
Bun is only for a burger bun.

All that said, I love "breadcake" it sounds so tasty, and I shall use it from now on.

Barmcake, barms, cob (if crusty), roll.

Barm cake. Manchester.

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

Why the need to have a specific word for 'bridge roll' then? To me, a roll is a small bread item of no specific shape (though usually round). A bridge roll is a sausage-shaped one.

Barm.

It's a breadcake. But if I'm somewhere that doesn't know what a breadcake is, then I'll explain that it's a bread roll and hope they understand :)

White, fairly flat and very floury: Bap

brown or granary: roll

white fortified/sweet dough with a smooth brown finish: brioche

white with sesame seeds on top: bun

long and oblong ish rather than round: hot dog bun

Roll or bun

It’s a Barm cake!

Roll, bap, cob or muffin, depending on which it is.

Locally a roll, at my dad's a Barm Cake, at my aunt's a Stottie Love all the regional variations.

Barm cake from Preston but now live in
North Tyneside and it's a stottie

Breadcake - South Yorkshire.

I can't vote because I use most of those terms but they are for different things. I don't use barm or cob, though I have heard those names

Roll: a plain small round or shaped bit of bread. The most general term which would encompass many kinds of bread product
Bap: a particular type of large, flattish, very soft, floured roll
Bun: usually sweet, like a Chelsea bun, currant bun, Belgian bun, hot cross bun or cinnamon bun, but also used to refer to specific types of enriched sweetish rolls used for burgers and sausages (burger bun, hotdog bun - probably originally US usage)
Muffin: a particular type of small flat bread roll, not as soft as a bap, usually eaten sliced and toasted (not the same as American-style sweet muffins which are basically large fairy cakes).

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Same
Delighted that 71% call it a roll
teacake my arse

It’s a cob, mi duck.

A muffin as in English muffin is absolutely nothing like a bread roll .

I feel if an alien was visiting Earth, this would be the definitive answer

It's obviously a barm.