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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rolls

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you here darling. It's a bun.

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

So what do you call an actual tea cake that has fruit in

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

If they’re small - rolls.

If they’re big - baps (wahey!)

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"Rolls

What she said ^

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It depends if your talking about a muffin for sandwiches or a cob for soup.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sift rolls are baps

Crusty rolls are cobs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baps (or rolls if dinky)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread rolls are bread rolls

Baps are larger sized bread rolls

Tea cakes have fruit in them usually so aren't a bread roll

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

"I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you here darling. It's a bun.

F"
a bread roll is not a bun it's a roll

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

It is brilliant reading this thread accompanied by all the bosomy profile pics. Soft baps for the win!

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By *istyPeaksCouple
over a year ago

braintree

Rolls - crusty (except finger rolls or morning roll)

Baps - large soft and floury

buns - for burgers or iced

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rolls

Calling them anything else is just silly.

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

its a roll thats coming from a master baker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you here darling. It's a bun.

A bun is sweet, usually with icing!

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

I quickly learnt that here they are called barm cakes and bin lids

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By *uliette500Woman
over a year ago

Hull

Easy it's a breadcake

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rolls - crusty (except finger rolls or morning roll)

Baps - large soft and floury

buns - for burgers or iced"

Smashed it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Buns

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

"Rolls

Calling them anything else is just silly. "
couldn't agree more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rolls

What she said ^"

Unless it’s filled with custard then it’s a doughnut

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Crusty roll.

Soft roll.

Burgen bun.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Burger BUN

A barm is softer.

Hotdog ROLL

If it's crusty, it becomes a crusty roll

Teacake has fruit in (you have it with a drink of Tea)

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Everyone knows it’s a cob , chip cob, ham cob, sausage cob… right?

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you here darling. It's a bun.

Fa bread roll is not a bun it's a roll "

Buns are for sweet things or burgers.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"Burger BUN

A barm is softer.

Hotdog ROLL

If it's crusty, it becomes a crusty roll

Teacake has fruit in (you have it with a drink of Tea)

Balm

Reminds me of Chorley , they call cobs ‘balm cakes’ there’s no cake or balm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Burger BUN

A barm is softer.

Hotdog ROLL

If it's crusty, it becomes a crusty roll

Teacake has fruit in (you have it with a drink of Tea)

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A barm has chips on it! A muffin Doesn’t.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Teacakes??

TEACAKES!!!!!!

Oh I can't do this right now...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ummmmmm...so do you have your Burgers in Tea Cake

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

Rolls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

You answered your own question, bread rolls are called bread rolls , end of.

*the southern counties leaves the chat*

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Burger BUN

A barm is softer.

Hotdog ROLL

If it's crusty, it becomes a crusty roll

Teacake has fruit in (you have it with a drink of Tea)

A barm has chips on it! A muffin Doesn’t.

A muffin is also a deformed cupcake sometimes with fruit or chocolate chips in it!

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

Bread rolls or baps.

Tea cakes have fruit in them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just need to ask. So If you’re making say a bacon roll, you’d call it a bacon tea cake

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

But what about barms? Or stotties? Oven bottoms? Morning rolls? Well-fired rolls? Baps? Cobs?

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Teacakes??

TEACAKES!!!!!!

Oh I can't do this right now..."

Tea cakes are made by tunnocks and filled with marshmallowy cream

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Can you buy worms in a can now.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired) "

Square? Wtf?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Teacakes??

TEACAKES!!!!!!

Oh I can't do this right now...

Tea cakes are made by tunnocks and filled with marshmallowy cream

If I was offered a tea cake and wasn’t given one of these and handed a roll instead, I’d be real disappointed.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread bun

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Teacakes??

TEACAKES!!!!!!

Oh I can't do this right now...

Tea cakes are made by tunnocks and filled with marshmallowy cream

If I was offered a tea cake and wasn’t given one of these and handed a roll instead, I’d be real disappointed. "

Even these fruity teacakes being talked about would disappoint me … sounds like an all year round hot cross bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"But what about barms? Or stotties? Oven bottoms? Morning rolls? Well-fired rolls? Baps? Cobs? "

And you wonder why they accepted the fake Scottish man in Scotland

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"Rolls

What she said ^

Unless it’s filled with custard then it’s a doughnut

Ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete "

So it’s now a scone!?!? Crazy alert!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete "

Potato scone?! Wtf is that! A hash brown?

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"It is brilliant reading this thread accompanied by all the bosomy profile pics. Soft baps for the win!

Was going to add my two penny worth then read your excellent observation.

I've forgot all about the bread .

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete

So it’s now a scone!?!? Crazy alert!!!!

https://images.app.goo.gl/uSvU3W7pvVghDQ8MA

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Potato scone?! Wtf is that! A hash brown? "

Oh, you sweet summer child. You haven’t lived until you’ve had freshly-made tattie scones.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete

Potato scone?! Wtf is that! A hash brown? "

Its mashed potato mixed up with flour, rolled out to about pound coin thickness and then fried til its crispy … similar to irish potato bread i think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete

So it’s now a scone!?!? Crazy alert!!!!

https://images.app.goo.gl/uSvU3W7pvVghDQ8MA"

So square sausage on potato cakes?

* watch this one!!!!!

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"So square sausage on potato cakes?

* watch this one!!!!!

No, no, no. You have the sausage and the tattie *in* a roll.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

For burgers and hot dogs - buns

For dipping in soup - bread roll

For putting your sausages on (which should be square

) - a roll (subcategorised into soft , crispy or well fired)

Square? Wtf?

Then they don’t roll out of your roll … see what i did there

Google potato scone which will be sitting on top of your square sausage and the mind blowing will be complete

So it’s now a scone!?!? Crazy alert!!!!

https://images.app.goo.gl/uSvU3W7pvVghDQ8MA

So square sausage on potato cakes?

* watch this one!!!!!

*square sausage and potato scone , inside a crispy roll . If you are hungry chuck an egg or some black pudding / haggis in there too

Come up and we will show you how a breakfast roll is done

And before anyone calls us weird i have witnessed northern english folk eat a roll and pie

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

Wait until someone tells Woody about pie barms. Or vada pav. Or about dipping pav in your chai.

Mind blown.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So square sausage on potato cakes?

* watch this one!!!!!

No, no, no. You have the sausage and the tattie *in* a roll."

So meet me get this right.

I get a sausage, which isn’t a sausage , it’s a square pork burger, I put it on a potato cake you call a scone, and wrap it on a bun??

Ffs, which d*unken student came up with this??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hahaha. Op. I love you for this thread right now.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Wait until someone tells Woody about pie barms. Or vada pav. Or about dipping pav in your chai.

Mind blown. "

Stop the bus … these have all blown my mind too … right over my head aha

Is curry calzone another scottish delicacy? … i do enjoy that one but agree it was probably a stoned student that invented it

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"And before anyone calls us weird i have witnessed northern english folk eat a roll and pie

I won’t hear a word against a good pie barm and pea wet.

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By *orksfuncoupleCouple
over a year ago

huddersfield

Tea cake is the correct answer, if it contains fruit its a currant tea cake

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline

Breadcake. Thread ends

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"And before anyone calls us weird i have witnessed northern english folk eat a roll and pie

I won’t hear a word against a good pie barm and pea wet."

Pastry inside bread … its so so dry looking

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Pastry inside bread … its so so dry looking

Hence the pea wet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breadcake

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By *iker boy 69Man
over a year ago

midlands

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

Cobs. No ifs but. Cobs, end of argument

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

"Pastry inside bread … its so so dry looking

Hence the pea wet."

What on earth is a pea wet??

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By *istyPeaksCouple
over a year ago

braintree

And now I’m hungry

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Breadcake

Yeah but you’re from ’Ull, where they call crumpets pikelets.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pastry inside bread … its so so dry looking

Hence the pea wet."

. Haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sift rolls are baps

Crusty rolls are cobs"

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"Hence the pea wet.

What on earth is a pea wet??"

Exactly what it sounds like. The liquid from mushy peas. It’s what you get on your pie barm in a Northwest chippy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pastry inside bread … its so so dry looking

Hence the pea wet."

I like a pie on a roll

but what’s pea wet

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Hence the pea wet.

What on earth is a pea wet??

Exactly what it sounds like. The liquid from mushy peas. It’s what you get on your pie barm in a Northwest chippy."

I’m glad you clarified north west … glasgow does not claim this abomination

We offer ketchup, brown sauce or curry sauce

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hence the pea wet.

What on earth is a pea wet??

Exactly what it sounds like. The liquid from mushy peas. It’s what you get on your pie barm in a Northwest chippy."

Your from Scotland, pea wet is i Bolton/Wigan thing.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Bread rolls, c'mon what are they really called?

For us Tea cakes, everything else is clearly wrong

So what do you call an actual tea cake that has fruit in

A hot cross bun, you add ingredients it becomes something else

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"I like a pie on a roll

but what’s pea wet

I’ve been to Fife. You lot put macaroni in your pies.

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By *itonthesideWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

"I like a pie on a roll

but what’s pea wet

I’ve been to Fife. You lot put macaroni in your pies.

There is a new place in paisley that will put literally anything in a pie. So far from their instagram i am a big fan!

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"You’re from Scotland, pea wet is i Bolton/Wigan thing.

I’ve lived in many, many places.

I’m originally from the East Riding, where we get patties at the chippy and chip spice on our chips.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I like a pie on a roll

but what’s pea wet

I’ve been to Fife. You lot put macaroni in your pies.

oh don’t you dare say anything about macaroni pies they’re delicious

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I'm so sorry everyone. He's out of the house and not under my supervision

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread buns of course.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tea cakes suggest fruity puddingy offerings whereas bread rolls are just dull bread. Its a cob if its crusty and a roll if its not. I have never put a pie in one.

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By *amantha_JadeWoman
over a year ago

Newcastle

If it’s crusty, it’s called a roll

If it’s soft, it’s called a bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Where I’m originally from, they’re called Muffins, where I live, bread cakes/rolls

Mrs

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By *aughtynottsCouple
over a year ago

Outside Nottingham

Still a cob.

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By *wistedsoul35Man
over a year ago

cumbria

It's a bun, if you've said bun also....we can be friends ... Everyone else is wrong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haha, that's true

And we have patties, that could be a whole new thread

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"It's a bun, if you've said bun also....we can be friends ... Everyone else is wrong

So you have cheese salad buns for lunch?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Why is everyone on here saying cob wrong?

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

"Haha, that's true

And we have patties, that could be a whole new thread "

Ooh I miss getting a Bob Carver's Pattie & Chips.

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By *otdave75Man
over a year ago

Chandlers Ford

Baps, tea cakes have raisins in them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Haha, that's true

And we have patties, that could be a whole new thread

Ooh I miss getting a Bob Carver's Pattie & Chips."

Pattie butty

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Tis a cob. But that's also a male swan. You've gotta love the English language!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Barm, or barmcake.

The folk of North Cumbria call 'em teacakes (weirdos

)

But here, we have barms

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Do they actually put worms in cans?

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Do they actually put worms in cans?

Tinned "spaghetti"

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

To me on this side of the Pennines, there's a tea cake and a current tea cake with fruit in it

An old colleague from work from the dark side of the Pennines said it was a tea cake and a barn cake for fruit in it ...

Was a constant niggle for both of us.

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

"Do they actually put worms in cans?

Tinned "spaghetti"

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if your going fishing with a cane pole , a can of worms is required

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"To me on this side of the Pennines, there's a tea cake and a current tea cake with fruit in it

An old colleague from work from the dark side of the Pennines said it was a tea cake and a barn cake for fruit in it ...

Was a constant niggle for both of us.

No Lancastrian would suggest a barmcake had fruit in!!!!! Teacake = fruit in Lancashire. Barmcake = roundish thing made only of bread.

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By *eather_uktvTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester

If it's got currants in its a teacake. No currants it's a barmcake.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"To me on this side of the Pennines, there's a tea cake and a current tea cake with fruit in it

An old colleague from work from the dark side of the Pennines said it was a tea cake and a barn cake for fruit in it ...

Was a constant niggle for both of us.

No Lancastrian would suggest a barmcake had fruit in!!!!! Teacake = fruit in Lancashire. Barmcake = roundish thing made only of bread. "

No you are right, was the other way around..

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"If it's got currants in its a teacake. No currants it's a barmcake."

^^^She knows

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

I'm 5 hours late to the party, but the clue was in your opening line.

A bread roll is called a...bread roll. Uncanny.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

You people disgust me. Some of you should all be ashamed of the way you use the inccorect name for these foodstuffs.

Shame *ding* shame *ding shame *ding*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread cake!! I’m right and you’re all wrong!!

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

I call them baps. But I live in the land of a breadcake. I mean come on Yorkshire, bread and cake are two separate things. I know it’s confusing that they both have yellow stuff on. But ones butter and the other is custard.

The mr

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By *aughtynottsCouple
over a year ago

Outside Nottingham

"Bread cake!! I’m right and you’re all wrong!!

A cake is sweet a 'cob' is savoury

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By *toC Thats MeWoman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Bread cake!! I’m right and you’re all wrong!!

Another vote for a breadcake

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