It’s the source of much debate and joviality on social media, you’ve probably seen the next graphic on Facebook. It’s the long running question of what do you call a bread roll?
Depending on where you come from in the country those little blobs of bread have all kinds of different names.
Ask for the wrong thing in the wrong county and heaven knows what you could end up taking home for tea!
What do you call a Bread Roll?
Where we come from here at Visit Fylde Coast it’s called a teacake. With currants it’s a currant teacake. Ask for a teacake anywhere else and it seems you get currants in it…
Here on the Fylde Coast they’re barm cakes. That took a bit of getting used to. Bite your lip and think first before you speak when going into a bakery!
And just to confuse matters further…
To add to the debate, Visit Fylde Coast Contributor Sue Massy has thrown ANOTHER one into the mix. We give you…
The Blackpool Burner
An unusual one to throw into the melee is the Blackpool Burner. When it’s brown it’s done, when it’s black it’s cremated!
Delicious sliced, spread with butter and filled with cheese and cucumber. Just check your teeth when you’ve finished!
This barmy topic gives many hotly debated names to a circular blob of bread, dependent on where you come from. Around these parts it’s a barm/barm cake. In the Midlands it’s a cob. Elsewhere around the country it might be a roll, bun, batch, bap, teacake, stottie, Vienna.
So many names!
Tell us what you call them where you come from in the comments below!
Give us this day our daily bread…
According to Wikipedia, bread was central to the formation of early human societies. From the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, where wheat was first domesticated, cultivation spread north and west. To Europe and North Africa, and east towards East Asia. This in turn led to the formation of towns, as opposed to the nomadic lifestyle, and gave rise to more and more sophisticated forms of societal organization. Similar developments occurred in the Americas with maize and in Asia with rice.
Charred crumbs of a flatbread made from wild wheat, wild barley and plant roots have been found at an archaeological site in the Black Desert in Jordan. At between 14,600 and 11,600 years old, this predates the earliest known making of bread from cultivated wheat by thousands of years. Bread making is as old as the hills.
Today there’s so much choice, it’s hard to remember a time when everyone had to make their own bread, every day. There’s sliced, supermarket bread. Artisan loaves, part-baked, bread mixes – you name it.
Did you know, you can make Soda Bread quickly and easily at home? No yeast/rising/proving and it’s really tasty. Give it a go!
Why don’t you check out Trevors Foodservice – it’s the large, back-stage business that’s quietly feeding the Fylde Coast! They’re Blackpool’s number one wholesaler of chilled, frozen and ambient foods. And also sell cleaning materials, catering disposables and equipment.
The family firm was first established in Blackpool in 1962. It sells branded products and their Country Range, specially made for the 12-member buying group which Trevors is part of.
