What do you call bread?

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When used as a filling holder?!

I’m in the west mids and my colleagues (from the north west and east mids) wet themselves every time I order a sandwich for lunch and call it a bap, as in ‘I’m having bacon baps!’

Everyone I know round here calls them baps...

If it was made with bread then I’d call it a bacon sandwich or a bacon butty. If it was made with something else I’d call it whatever it was, eg bacon bap, bacon bun, bacon stottie (I’m in north east England)

A bap is a roll to me too. A sandwich is two pieces of bread with a filling.

I also occasionally use 'butty', but only use it when the filling is chips. For anything else, butty just sounds all kinds of wrong when I say it. 'I'm just making DC's packed lunch. What butty filling shall I use? A salad butty? A peanut butter butty?". Just no.

Sliced bread is a sandwich.
Then either a roll, nap, cob or barm depending on where I am and in what company.

A piece

When children take food to school to eat in the middle of the day what do you all call that?

I've heard a packed lunch but also a 'packed sandwich from home'

Two pieces of sliced bread is a sandwich. A bap is a round floury bread roll e.g a bacon bap.

butty

Sliced bread is a sandwich

Round bread is a roll.

A bap is a specific roll, a big enough soft roll. A bap has bacon, or sausage in it. A hot filling. You wouldn't have a tuna bap but you could have a bacon bap.

A butty again is a sandwich with a hot, greasy filling in. You could have a sausage butty, a chip butty or a bacon butty. But not a cuicken salad butty.

A sausage butty has hot sausage, lots of butter (which has melted into the bread). A sausage sandwich has cold left over sausages in it.

It's a roll.

I am in Scotland- I don't think there is an English equivalent.

Rolls are not soft, they can be crispy, quite a rough texture, can be floury or even "well fired" . Often sold loose in newsagents.

Two slices of bread is a sandwich (I'm in Ireland) a roll is just a roll, unless you're in Co Waterford where it's a bla.

A bap is a common word in the UK for a breast.
It is also the word for large floury rolls.

Two slices of bread is a sandwich. I live in the Midlands and we say cobs for rolls but I grew up in the North East and we called them buns. But in both places, two slices of bread with a filling is a sandwich.

@floraloctopus

We call it a packed lunch. What if you don't put sandwiches in? Sometimes DC has cheese and crackers or breadsticks, carrots and hummus pot or something.

Barm (NW)
Cob is crusty, tea cake has currants in it, muffins are toasted.
And I'll fight anyone that says otherwise

I’d go with piece Eg piece n’ jam ( sometimes it’d even be a kitchen piece < which meant you couldn’t be arsed or didn’t have butter to put in > ) Scottish language childhood.

Why are people answering 'sandwich'? That's not what the bread is called. It's the name for the whole thing including the filing. Can't believe I am explaining what a sandwich is...

A filling between two slices of bread is a sandwich. A round floury lump of bread is a bread roll, a crusty baked lump of bread is a cob. Children take a packed lunch to eat at school.

If in sliced bread it is a sandwich.
Bap would be a roll.

Baps is another name for boobs!

A sandwich or a sarnie,or a butty if it contains something hot and delicious like bacon or chippy chips.

It's a roll. I am in Scotland- I don't think there is an English equivalent
Yes I always wonder how they make them. Tesco now sell rolls loose.
Also known as a 'morning roll'. Yum

Actually re reading the OP they have asked one thing in the title and another thing in the content so I see where people are coming from now.

Why are people answering 'sandwich'? That's not what the bread is called. It's the name for the whole thing including the filing. Can't believe I am explaining what a sandwich is...

Look at the original post. It’s obvious that despite the thread title, that’s what the op wants to know.

Rolls have all kinds of regional names, but I've never heard anyone call a sandwich made out of two slices of bread anything but a sandwich, or occasionally a sarnie or a butty.

sarnie and butty are terms which annoy me irrationally. I'll get over it...

Around Sheffield area they call a soft bap a bread cake.
Around Bradford area - where I was working over 20 years ago - they call it a tea cake which I found strange as I always thought tea cake had currants in it.

I am now in North Derbyshire and they call it a cob which to me is a crusty roll.

We are a strange nation really. 😂