Different names for bread 'cobs'

[peppy]

Has anyone noticed how many terms there are for bread cobs up and down the country ?
I've seen : cobs (Derbyshire),barms(Lancashire),batches(Warwickshire) baps(?),buns(?) etc,etc.
What others and where from ?

[Eve]

Bap from Shropshire where I come from or a roll.

Had to change moving up north to a barm but they also seem to be called muffins round Tameside way.

[pauln90]

Call them Tea Cakes in my part of Lancashire and no they dont have currants in that's a currant Tea cake.Never call them rolls - that's what you have with soup. We also like ovenbottoms - similar to a tea cake.

Strange and rich world isn't it.

Can't tell you what fun we have had over the years in southern bakers.

[philandlil]

I come from lancashire and always asked for a barm but after moving to yorkshire i have to ask for a bread cake.

[normy]

I'm originally from Manchester and we called them muffins (oven bottoms were best mmm)

[normy]

Jenna, - You are right, around Tameside they are muffins ( Tameside is East of Manchester - Ashton-u-Lyne area)

[JOEYGREEN]

A member of my family who comes from Kent calls them rolls but up here in the Midlands we call them cobs.