Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

On 2023-09-14 9:01 a.m., Peter Flynn wrote:
> 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
> 
Certainly when I was a child in my Suffolk village. Most farms employed
numerous labourers and paid them a pittance. Now, farmers "employ" a
couple of computer=controlled machines replacing all those men.