What do you call a bread roll?

[charlotte86]

Hi. I am doing an essay at university on the different words which are used to refer to a bread roll? I'm from Lancashire and I call them teacakes.

What does everybody else call them?

[Homer55]

Baps, Cobbler, roll,

[Bewlay Bros]

I am from North London and its the good old Bread Roll.

I know somebody from Oxford who calls them "hoagies"????

[4GS]

In Leicester they are called cobs

[Bewlay Bros]

in corrie (Manchester) I think they call them Barn Cakes. It might be BarM cakes however.

[B00]

Baps, barms and muffins here in NW Lancashire. Alot depends on the size too? I always thought a teacake was large bap, barm muffin etc.

[Psychick]

From coming from down south, I call the bread rolls but having lived in Derbyshire, I have been known to also call them cobs or baps.

[Bewlay Bros]

Geordies have stottie bread. Is that a roll type thing?

[carrust]

In S Yorks we call them bread cakes.

[mrs_overall]

When I was young the small ones were called teacakes (you had to specify if you wanted plain or currant teacakes in the bakers) and the larger ones were called breadcakes. Mr O is from near the borders and he called the small ones bread buns and the large ones stotties.

[naomi24]

As far as I know, a bread roll is made from bread dough, the same as a loaf of bread, whereas a teacake is a sweet bun with currants in it which you eat toasted and spread with butter. Two totally different things.

[Octavius]

I agree with Naomi. In my world, a tea cake is something similar to a hot cross bun. A bread roll is a roll or a bap, sometimes a (burger) bun.

[Bewlay Bros]

I shall add a further argument.

To me a tea cake is a little chocolate covered marshmallow and bicuit bonbon.

[stewey]

Wow, university courses seem to be a lot more challenging these days. I don't recall having to perform such rigorous research when I went.

[burnhal]

agree with Bewley Bros description of a tea-cake. Cant add any more alternatives for a bread roll other than thse already here..... but you may not have heard of Oasis Soup?? So called because 'you get a roll with it!!'

[jno]

note the official stance

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/337f87be-a9d9-11dc-a a8b-0000779fd2ac.html

biscuits go soft, cakes go hard

[Yellow Peril]

A Bread Roll is one of those small crispy crusted round lumps of bread that you have with soup and a Tea Cake is a lump of bread with sultanas in it, that is usually toasted. A Barm Cake is what you use to make a sandwich eg a steak barmcake, salad barmcake. South Lancashire.

[halcyon days]

Also heard them called bread buns

[dot.hawkes]

I am in west lancs and teacakes are like toasted current buns here. we have barm cakes, but the co-op insist on calling them 'oven bottom muffins' pretentious gits

[Octavius]

The 'tea cakes' that BB refers to above are known to me as chocolate tea cakes, and are different to your general tea cakes, and of course your jaffa 'cakes'.

[SWDORAN21]

muffin or barm cake