Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

On 28/08/2021 17:56, Graham wrote:
> On 2021-08-28 7:20 a.m., Peter Flynn wrote:
>> On 25/08/2021 17:25, Graham wrote:
>>> A long but interesting article:
>>> https://tinyurl.com/283adc2m
>>
>> I just looked at the banner image and I don't recognize most of them
>> even though I spent my early life in the UK. I suspect lots of them are
>> regional, but I'll settle down and read the article.
>>
>> Graham, what is the name of that bread roll I used to come across a lot
>> in the midlands in the 60s and 70s, and again in London in the 70s and
>> 80s, round, domed, basically all crust and hollow inside? looking nice
>> but a tasteless swindle of an empty roll.
>>
> I don't know! I hated them too. The "dough buns" that the 2 bakeries in 
> my home village made were essentially small baps. The crusts were soft. 
> The bakers would never have got away with those hollow monstrosities!

I was back in the UK this week and asked the village bakery about these 
rolls. They said they were still around — they wouldn't touch them, but 
they seemed to be a product of less scrupulous bakeries, or perhaps 
those catering to a less affluent population, where the absence of 
content would be made up with "filling".

Peter