What do you call a bread roll?

A roll.

A roll, preferably crusty

South east - a bread roll is a roll. Anything that isn't a bread roll is something else.

Bread bun (NE)

Bap

Meant to say...Black Country, West Midlands

Usually a roll but if it is soft and floury on top it is a bap.

A bread roll to me is small and crusty, whereas a barmcake is larger and flatter. A tea cake has currants in. I’m NW England.

ferry23

South east - a bread roll is a roll. Anything that isn't a bread roll is something else.

I'm in Scotland and I would say exactly the same!

Breadcake- where do I live?

A bread roll is a bread roll

The long ones, such as the ones used to make hamburgers, we call rolls, the round, soft ones we call baps and the round, crusty ones we call cobs. To us anything called a tea cake has dried fruit in it.

Just a roll.

A roll.

Here in South Yorkshire they are bread cakes or oven bottom cakes.
As others have said, tea cakes have dried fruit in them.

Barm cake or oven bottom in Lancashire.

Depends where I am at the time.

Bread roll on South West England.

A dangerous question. A cob for me. I saw some behind the bar in a Watford pub about forty years ago. I asked 'what is in your cobs?'
The barmaid called the manager, repeated my question and he threw me out for being obscene. I only wanted to know whether they were cheese or ham.

Of course we also have stotties up here in the North East too.

Here in Birmingham, if a roll is soft, it's a roll. If it's crusty, it's a cob.

Jane43

The long ones, such as the ones used to make hamburgers, we call rolls, the round, soft ones we call baps and the round, crusty ones we call cobs. To us anything called a tea cake has dried fruit in it.

I'm curious as to what kind of 'long' roll you use for hamburgers? I've never seen a burger on anything other than a round roll of one kind or another.

Always a bread roll, but my lovely Lancashire DM-in-law called them tea-cakes.

I thought tea cakes had currants in them. Here a bread roll is a bread roll though there are ‘dinner rolls’ which are smaller and Turkish rolls which are bigger and made from Turkish bread. Then there’s hamburger rolls (usually softer white bread) and brioche rolls, the sweeter ones with a glaze on top.