Bread Rolls

[hairyhandedfool]

....Bun

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Hot Cross Bun

....Muffin

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(American) Muffin.

....Gets on my wick when people call these muffins!

(British) Muffin/Breakfast Muffin.

....This is what I know as a barm

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That's a bread roll to me.

....Bread roll

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That is a bun or bap (depending on size, baps are flatter and wider), though since moving north I have discovered the Mancs call a bap a barm (or, even more strangely, a barm cake), because baps are.... something very different....

 

[deltic1989]

As it seems I opened this can of worms it seems oly fair I should add my 2p.
It depends on who Im talking to as to what this particular item is called.
Dad (lancastrian): barm
Mam (south yorkshire): bread cake
Mrs (nottingham): cob
Me (lincoln): bap or roll
A friend once told me if you want to start a riot put a bread roll in a room and ask 100 people what its called.

 

[JackClare]

Walk into a chippy round'ere in Oldham and ask for a chip muffin/butty and they'll give you something like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3OaReWOvxOQ/T_6fNlVEJnI/AAAAAAAAA-k/dNlDCeH0Wkw/s1600/129.jpg

My girlfriend and her family all think I'm completely weird though when I say this, as they're from Hereford. They call it a bap. I wonder what sort of looks I'd get if I walked into a Herefordian chip shop and said "Chip butty please"

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Somebody in the canteen at school asked the lady for a breadcake to be met by a "what?". He was referring to one of these :roll:

 

[Zoidberg]

Somebody in the canteen at school asked the lady for a breadcake to be met by a "what?". He was referring to one of these :roll:

Mmmm, hot buttered crumpets

 

[theblackwatch]

Somebody in the canteen at school asked the lady for a breadcake to be met by a "what?". He was referring to one of these :roll:

Yes that's a crumpet - although I have a friend from Leeds who calls them 'pieclips'.

 

[harry42]

Nottingham: Cobs

Walked into Cornwall bakery asked for a cob looked at me gone out

 

[Class172]

Somebody in the canteen at school asked the lady for a breadcake to be met by a "what?". He was referring to one of these :roll:

Why does this thread give me such cravings (well that's pretty obvious really) - I've had to steal the relavent drool emoticon from another forum for this occasion

Nottingham: Cobs

Walked into Cornwall bakery asked for a cob looked at me gone out

Is that really what you call a crumpet? If I think of a cob I associate it with a large crusty flour-covered roll, which are excellent after being slightly warmed in the oven.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Yes that's a crumpet - although I have a friend from Leeds who calls them 'pieclips'.

Yep crumpets here. My family who are from Mansfield call them 'Pikelets' :roll:

 

[eastwestdivide]

Used to get pikelets in tesco's (maybe you still do), as a thinner version of a crumpet, giving a higher butter:bread ratio.

 

[harry42]

Why does this thread give me such cravings (well that's pretty obvious really) - I've had to steal the relavent drool emoticon from another forum for this occasion

Is that really what you call a crumpet? If I think of a cob I associate it with a large crusty flour-covered roll, which are excellent after being slightly warmed in the oven.

A cob. 'Bap, roll' don't exsist here! A 'crumpet' is 'Pikelets' in Tesco and Coop but Asda say 'crumpets!)

 

[Butts]

Talking of bread rolls or cobs I find the crusty variety far more appetising than the soft alternative

 

[ATW Alex 101]

The soft alternatives are only good in one place-the bin

 

[maniacmartin]

Cob??? Looks like a bun to me. (I grew up near Jordy)

Aren't pikelets thinner than crumpets?

 

[43074]

A roll

A crumpet

I'd call that a bun because it's sweet (see somewhere on the first page), but a quick google image search for 'bun' (the wierdest one of those I've done in a while...) finds 'muffins', hot x buns, rolls, chelsea buns, large rounded loaves and so on, so I reckon it's just regional variations on a theme - it seems anything with crumbs and vaguely rounded could be called a bun wherever you are.

To add another dimension, 'water biscuit', or 'cracker'?

 

[theblackwatch]

I'd call that a bun because it's sweet (see somewhere on the first page), but a quick google image search for 'bun' (the wierdest one of those I've done in a while...) finds 'muffins', hot x buns, rolls, chelsea buns, large rounded loaves and so on, so I reckon it's just regional variations on a theme - it seems anything with crumbs and vaguely rounded could be called a bun wherever you are.

I agree - that's a bun to me (from Yorkshire here), it's even cooked in a bun case to back up the name! Railway stations sell big buns at expensive prices and call them muffins.

To add another dimension, 'water biscuit', or 'cracker'?

Crackers.

 

[maniacmartin]

For me, a 'roll' is more long and thin than a bun, which is more square.

 

[AndyLandy]

Hot Cross Bun
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(American) Muffin.
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(British) Muffin/Breakfast Muffin.
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That's a bread roll to me.
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That is a bun or bap (depending on size, baps are flatter and wider), though since moving north I have discovered the Mancs call a bap a barm (or, even more strangely, a barm cake), because baps are.... something very different....

This may possibly be a first, but I completely agree 100% with HHF on this occasion.

Oh, and on a related note, there's a sandwich shop near me in Southampton that's called "Nice Baps" :roll:

To add another dimension, 'water biscuit', or 'cracker'?

They're water biscuits. Which are a variety of cracker. If you're doing cheese and biscuits properly, you'll have a variety of crackers to choose from!

 

[harry42]

They're water biscuits. Which are a variety of cracker. If you're doing cheese and biscuits properly, you'll have a variety of crackers to choose from!

They are water biscuits! You can have a variety of crackers. Crackers on there own are:

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OK...that didn't work. But type I Jacobs crackers on the internet...there proper ones!

 

[SS4]

Brötchen

In English I call them cobs

 

[Starmill]

As in Double Sausage and Egg McMuffin

No. As in muffins as in 'Muffins'. As others have said optionally Breakfast or English Muffins.

Mcdonald's didn't invent them.

 

[yorksrob]

They're water biscuits. Which are a variety of cracker. If you're doing cheese and biscuits properly, you'll have a variety of crackers to choose from!

Indeed, and don't forget the Branston pickle !

 

[Mojo]

No. As in muffins as in 'Muffins'. As others have said optionally Breakfast or English Muffins.

Mcdonald's didn't invent them.

They are the same thing. A sausage and egg McMuffin is made from an English Muffin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I will always eat them, whatever the Waitrose store in Wilmslow decides to call them..

Incidentally, at home a "bap" is always regarded as a small barmcake...the type that you have to fold a rasher of best back bacon to make it fit.

I see that no-one has mentioned "Oven bottoms" yet in the thread...those forum members from the Oldham/North Manchester area will know what these are.