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!

I would say either roll or cob, depending on mood, and what’s in it. (I’ve lived all over the country).

I have to say though when I was working in a food hall in Yorkshire and a man asked me where the breadcakes were, I had absolutely no fucking idea what he was talking about.

oh I am a softie woman too.
I can live with roll
or Bap if it’s white and floury,
or bun if it’s anything a burger could go in.

But generically, it’s a softie.

@Clawdy it must be a north and south mcr divide.... chip butty if its on bread made at home for example but chip muffin in our chippys

Bun

Someone I used to know, from Yorkshire, used to make what she called ‘buns’ and I called (still do) fairy cakes.
I do find regional differences interesting.

Truthfully a roll at home but a cob locally (also East Midlands). In Warwickshire it’s a batch.

A roll. I'm from the south east. My best mate is from East Yorkshire and calls it a bread cake,

Cob - East Midlands

Roll

Glasgow

Batch in Coventry

Bap
NI

Bun

Bun and I’m from Lancashire.

This reminds me of being in a sandwich shop in the midlands. Queue had come to a complete standstill. Confirmed with the Northern guy at the front that the cob he was trying to order was the item also know as a roll. Told the lady serving he wanted a batch. Both thought I was the crazy one 🤣 Northern guy staring thinking wtf is a batch. Shop lady wondering why anyone was suggesting a batch was called anything other than a batch.

I had a similar experience @easilydistracted1

In Yorkshire, sandwiches are made with breadcakes, sandwich shops do not have sliced bread on the premises.

I went in a Greggs in the West Midlands because that's what was available and I could see breadcakes behind the counter, but they would not make me a sandwich with one. They insisted that I have one of the horrible sliced bread ones from the fridge. I do not eat fridge cold food, if I can help it.

I genuinely had no idea that, in other parts of the country, a sandwich is made from sliced bread, and if it's made from a breadcake, it's not a sandwich

Softie

Burgers go in buns and hot dogs go in rolls.

I've lived / worked in different parts of the country.

So depending on who I'm talking to.

A teacake
A soft roll or a crusty roll or just a roll
A barm / barm cake
A breadcake
A batch - if it has a filling
A butty, again if it has a filling
A sandwich if it has a filling, but I have also lived where a sandwich is made with sliced bread only
A cob if it is crispy
A muffin or oven bottom if it has a flat top and bottom, although I would expect an oven bottom cake to be wider than an average..
A bun / burger bun

I saw in Greggs earlier they call fairy cakes buns - thought of this thread 😂

A roll.

Never, ever a "bread roll"

Why not ever a bread roll @CurlewKate ? 😂

@mrspaulhollywood oh, bread roll is one of those ridiculous class signifiers. Like loo and toilet and lounge and living room. It's so engrained in me that I can't get rid or it!

Teacake. West Yorkshire.

If it has currents in it, then it is a current teacake (obviously).

Softie, or roll.