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Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« on: July 20, 2011, 09:35:59 PM »

I always get funny looks when i work around the country and walk into a Cafe and ask for a bacon cob.....
The other thing that confuses me is calling it a roll because if you ask for a sausage roll will they bring you a hot sausage in puff pastry or a sausage inside a cob?
I do find for a small island we have alot of differations in our language and off the note of food for a second. In Nottingham what is a Twitchel, as living here all my life i know but go just outside and no one seems to have any idea

Whats is called around where you currently are?


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 09:37:55 PM »
Bap here...but 25 minutes down the road where I work it is a Barn


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 09:58:16 PM »
Cob here.

When my sister was here we were up in Castleton and she asked what a bap was, I simply responded 'Oh that's the same thing as a cob.'


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 10:28:59 PM »
I don't know about that, but this is a Baguette, not a 'french stick'.

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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 10:31:51 PM »
It depends, you can use several names here in Mancunia...barmcake, breadroll, bap...

But if I went to a shop to ask for bacon on a roll, I would ask for a bacon barmcake most likely. I have never heard the phrase cob!


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2011, 10:37:03 PM »
A roll, is a roll here.
A bap is something slightly bigger.

A women I used to work with, said when she was in uni worked in a sandwich shop that was located between both Sheffield & Hallam Unis. They used to have a sign posted with all the different meanings/sayings from across the country for the various rolls that sandwiches came on. This way there was no confusion for anyone.


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2011, 11:02:41 PM »
Bacon roll or bacon butty.

It's a teacake here (not to be confused with ones containing currants which is a currant teacake!), or a breadcake if it's bigger.
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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2011, 08:28:10 AM »
I wasnt sure what this thread would even be about HA

We would call it a bacon butty or bacon roll - I mean its bacon on a sandwich roll but then again I dont think I have EVER ordered one.  I like sausage better ;-)


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2011, 08:47:42 AM »
bacon batch, I think  ???
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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2011, 09:01:32 AM »
I would probably call it a bacon roll or a bacon butty.

I have never heard the phrase cob!

Me neither :P. All I could think of when I read it in the title was Cobb Salad and Corn on the Cob :P.


Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2011, 09:10:09 AM »
I thought of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_%28material%29

We call it a butty.  

ETA: A tea cake is one of these:
http://www.gingertablet.info/2007/11/love-letters-to.html
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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2011, 09:12:17 AM »
I've never heard cob or barncake. Down here it's a bacon roll or sometimes bacon butty (but I've never ordered one either). We call biggish flattish bread rolls baps, but once you add the bacon it's definitely a bacon roll. A bun would tend to be something sweet.
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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2011, 10:15:49 AM »
The term is barmcake, not barncake. It's a Lancashire thing....they are weird! Barmy even  ;)
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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2011, 12:22:00 PM »
Roll, bap or just delicious.  :D


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Re: Cob, Roll, Barncake, Bun what do you call yours?
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2011, 10:16:01 PM »
Bacon butty, bacon roll, bacon bap...

I've never heard of cob before.  Barmcakes, yes.  And oven bottom roll or oven bottom bun - gotta love that one - lol!  And stotties too.  :)

A bun is something sweet, alternatively referred to as a cake (even though it's not necessarily a cake in the American sense like a whole cake, but it could be a cupcake...)
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