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The Great Cob Debate
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Time to sort this once and for all. What do you define/call your cobs or butties?
In Manc they go by the name of Barm cakes, which is a stupid name if you ask me.
For me a buttie is two big buns with a hot content, i.e Bacon or Chips.
Whilst a cob would be smaller buns but with a sandwich filling, i.e chicken, lettuce etc
Over to you. Slap on the forehead for anyone who mentions Barms
In Manc they go by the name of Barm cakes, which is a stupid name if you ask me.
For me a buttie is two big buns with a hot content, i.e Bacon or Chips.
Whilst a cob would be smaller buns but with a sandwich filling, i.e chicken, lettuce etc
Over to you. Slap on the forehead for anyone who mentions Barms
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No matter the filling it's aways a roll.
Yeah - that sounds right, if you use those 'butties' or 'cobs'. I say chip buttie, but I only say cob when I'm visiting family in brum.
You've forgotten baps!
I used to live in Cambridgeshire where they called them "rolls", then we moved to the midlands where they call then "cobs." My mum and I were confused, or she was anyway, I was not very big so everything confused me...
hmm, that was helpful.
most people think T-Cakes have currents in, not round my parts.
Cob is the worst word for it in the world. southerners.
But cob isn't a southern expression. I grew up on the south coast and had never heard the word, till i moved to Birmingham.
This is the first time I've ever heard the word cob used for a roll. I know 'corn on the cob' but that's obviously something completey different.
Down here they're mainly called rolls, sometimes baps.
Yoiu can also have a hot chip or bacon buttie, else they're called sandwhiches.
That's it.
In Coventry, a roll is called a batch. Unless it's long and thin (like a hot dog roll) and then it's a roll. :rolleyes: This seems to be peculiar to Coventry as far as I can tell.
A buttie is a sandwich of bacon, chips or jam.
its a funny old world.
I also lived with a girl from Manchester who called them Balm Cakes
But to me they are bread rolls, well at least it think thats what they are.
Its strange how living in different places in the UK you realise all these local name people have.
Its a funny old world :thumb:
however maybe its just me and my wierd friends but I dont' think that a bacon buttie has to be in a roll - its just the same if not nicer if its made with toast (or worse if made with sliced bread) - i alway thought that the buttie bit referred to the butter you put in it.
I lived with a girl at university who was from Daventry and called chip buttie's Scallop Batch's
same here. I thought this thread was about sweetcorn
When ti's from the chippy with chips it's a butty.
But a scallop isn't chips, it's a big slice off a potato, battered and fried! With chips it'd be a chip batch.
Mr J went to the chip shop when I lived in Wiltshire and asked for a scallop batch. I don't know what they thought he asked for but when he opened the paper he had a small piece of fish!
Although I might also say 'roll' as and when. Or 'butty' (especially where it is filled with chips or bacon or other warm food or crisps).
This is it exactly.
Always a roll. Apart from chip buttie.
ETA - and I never knew any different!
I always say roll or sandwich.
It's these fucking northernern monkeys who have to have a different word for sandwhich for every town.
roll and butter - buttie
softie = something from greggs
I say " Bacon roll please "
never heard it referred to as " Cob " before though . .
bacon sarnie, egg butty etc