From Fife so these are rolls. Roll on sausage, roll on bacon etc. Heard them called different things in different parts of UK.
Oh jesus, here we go.
That would be a bun.
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That's a bap, innit.
Londoner here. That’s a roll that is. Unless you’re putting a burger in it, then it’s a bun.
Or you’re putting bacon in it, then it’s a bap
Sneaky colonial sneaking in here to agree with you. I'm from NJ and this is it exactly.
That is a bread roll, baps are wider and flatter and floured, might be a "batch roll" but only if really want to be totally clear on type
Right. If it's small (and soft) it's a dinner roll. A low quality one at that.
What do you call rolls that you eat at lunchtime?
Also dinner rolls. Now to be clear. I'm in the Seattle metro. We can be strange about some things.
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Classic
It's a bun
We doing this are we? Recipe for disaster.
Anyway Geordie here but raised a Fifer too. So naturally they are rolls. All other answers are wrong. Confused the hell out of my Mum when we first moved up, and resulted in many an accidently bought iced buns.
What confuses me about most non-bun areas is that it's not just a different word, it's a collection of words and which one is correct seems to change based on size and consistency and even contents of said bun.
Are they always rolls, where you are now, or are they subject to a similarly complex system as elsewhere?
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Roll, too small for a bap
Breadcake, growing up in Doncaster.
I'm scrolling through and so far this is the only one that feels objectively wrong.
Not from the UK, but that’s a roll. If it were larger, it would be a bun, but that is most definitely a roll.
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Bread bun
It's a roll but of the inferior type, you need a crispy Morton's roll that's where it's at
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Wit bolletje or just bollen, i’m Dutch.
Was going to say something similar. Wit bolletje translates to white little ball, so not far from roll.
We also call them zachte bolletjes or soft little balls. Or just zacht broodje which means soft little bread. As opposed to harde broodjes (hard little breads) which I guess refer to keizerbroodjes (little emperor breads (the bread being little, not the emperor)) which are emperor rolls.
My family is from Limburg, Netherlands, but we may also have been a bit weird. This is just Dutch, by the way, not Limburgish.
Born and raised in Liverpool. It's a bap. A bigger, wider one is a barm (barm-cake) and here in the US of A, they like to call the particular sort from the picture, a dinner roll.
Doesn't get called a lunch roll if it's lunch time.
Baps!
Bun
That's a bap.
If its soft it's a roll. If it's hard its a bap.
Cob mate
I'm inclined to agree with you, but I'm not sure if it looks crusty enough.
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It's a bap.
It's like I'm still on reddit.
First name that comes to mind for me is it's a bap.
It's a batch.
Ohh that’s a new one to me. Where from?
Coventry.
Barmcake for sure
That is a roll.
If you intend to put a burger in it, then it's a bun.
Norfolk.
It's not even burnt!
I can't believe everyone has got this wrong.
It's a muffin.
(North Manchester / Lancs)
I just call those bread rolls. It reminds me of when I first when to Scotland and went to a shop and asked for a bacon roll. They looked at me like I was mad and said, you mean a roll and bacon?
Sausage buttie.
Blaa in south east of Ireland
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