What do you call rolls?


What is it called?  

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  1. 1. What do you call the food stuff shown in the post?

    • Barm Cake
      0
    • Roll
      51
    • Batch
      3
    • Bun
      23
    • Bap
      7
    • Bread Cake
      2
    • Cob
      5


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In the form that the picture shows, it's a roll.  If you slice it in half and put something between it, then it's a bun.

That's how I see it, at least.

That's my thought as well.   Hard to tell from picture, kinda looked like a hamburger bun.

spikey_richie, on 15 Aug 2013 - 09:04, said:

So someone at work said "barm cake" whe holding a bread roll yesterday, and had to explain herself. So what do you call one of these?

 

982-bread-roll.jpg

 

Barm is a Oldham / Manchester region thing (Roads are named with Barm e.g. Barm Road or Barm Way) and further north they become Barm Cake, Teacake. I had no idea until I ordered lunch whilst away on training in Oldham.

 

I'm from the south west, we refer to rolls as rolls.

Technically I'd call it a bread roll.

 

Because a roll is a list of names.

A rolls is a car.

 

If you're saying out outloud, a roll is something you do with a die/dice, or a part you play, or something that a car can do if you left the handbrake off.

 

 

 

Gee I love the English language. :laugh:

  • 2 months later...

WTF?

 

Get a hold of a Cocker Spaniel, tie this person down on a chair with a potty on his head, then pop his todger between two floury baps, and shout "Dinnertime, Fido!"

 

See my OP, "and had to explain herself"

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