large flat soft bread roll - What do YOU call it

Flash In The Pan said:
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You English and your strange customs :shrug:
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LOL ...Tunnocks are Scottish arent they??:naughty:
 
Bill Roberts said:
Excellent description! At least according to my wife, who's from Kent but worked in a bakers here *oop Norf" for 24 years.
Well I'm not going to argue with her anyway... :)
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Thanks - My Father was a baker and confectioner in 'snuffy' (Great Harwood) many years ago. My Brother, also a baker when he was younger had been baking again and was trying to remember the technique for creating teacakes. The longer proving time was the key. :)
 
Its Barm, as I told a midlands person once who looked at me blank when I ordered a Chip barm.
"Do you mean a chip cob sir?"
"what ever you want to call it, yeah mate"
 
I worked for a baker here in the South years ago, so it is interesting to see the different names being used but also the same names for different things.

Here in the south,

A large soft round flat roll is a bap

A cob is a round loaf, usually with a crust, a cottage loaf is two round loafs squashed on top of each other with a dip in the top one.

A tea cake is a large flat soft roll with currants in, a bun dough rather than a bread dough.

A muffin (English muffin) is a round flat roll, dusted with cornmeal.

An American muffin (though I believe actually German in origin) is a small cake
 
If we're describing a soft round white bread thingy......

I grew up in Warrington so it's a Bap or a Roll
Some of family (midlands and not Northernised) would say a batch
Up here where I live it's a softie

The above only applies to a soft white round bread thingy.

Deviations to the ingredients and or design - may result in different descriptions.
 
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Down here in the flat ole place of Norfolk wall them things rolls.....
 
I would happily jump off a cliff before calling this bread anything other than a breadcake or a teacake.
I would also tie a rope round my nutz prior to jumping off said cliff before I ever say the word barm.......I feel dirty just writing it...:gag:
 
Bap...

...even though I was born in London, raised and educated in Oxford - step-mother hails from the 'Grim-Up-North'...so it stuck...
 
I call it a roll.

But when we buy these from our local Asda, the label says 'large white baps', which always has me PMSL :lol::lol:
 
It's a TEACAKE I just bought some :D It really is a Teacake and definitely no currents :lol: If you get currents then it's a current teacake :shrug:

Teacake!

It's not a bap .. Girls have these
It's not a barm ... Thats a farm building spelt wrong
It's not a roll .... They're long and thin
It's not a cob ... thats a policeman with a cold
It's not a muffin! .... mmm, they're completely different and smell of fish!
It's not a bun ... They're soft little cake things

And it's definitely not a softie ... They're just people who can't stand up to mods ... :D

What next for discussion ? Scones or fishcakes? :thinking:
 
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