The Great Cob Debate

[Dan the Man]

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 ;)

[Glittery]

A roll.

No matter the filling it's aways a roll.

[**Helen**]

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



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.

[RubberSkin]

To me a cob is a roll, though i say roll not cob and a buttie is a sandwich.

[Fiend_85]

er. Roll mostly, except for chips, then it's a buttie

[Coccinelle]

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.

[Fiend_85]

You're just using this as an excuse to say baps...

[Coccinelle]

Well maybe. I love to get my baps out.

[LuckyStrike]

round here its either a bun or strangely a T-Cake.

most people think T-Cakes have currents in, not round my parts.

Cob is the worst word for it in the world. southerners.

[RubberSkin]

There's a sandwich shop, or used to be, down the road called 'Nice Baps Love' :D

[RubberSkin]

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.

[Skive]

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.

[Miffy]

Where I come from, same place as Skive, it's a roll, or a bap. A cob is a loaf of bread, as is a batch.

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.

[kangoo]

bacon sausage or chips go in a butty. burgers go in a bun. everything else is a sandwich

[LuckyStrike]

one of the guys here at work comes from leicester and he says cob..

its a funny old world.

[Calvin]

When I was at uni in Nottingham everyone called them cobs. It took me a few years to work out what they were on about.

I also lived with a girl from Manchester who called them Balm Cakes :D

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:

[Captain]

I say teacake?

[Wyetry]

its definatly a roll.

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

[SuzyCreamcheese]

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.

same here. I thought this thread was about sweetcorn

[VinylVicky]

Cob for a roll id I'm talking to someone from the midlands, other times I say roll.
When ti's from the chippy with chips it's a butty.

[Miffy]

I lived with a girl at university who was from Daventry and called chip buttie's Scallop Batch's

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. :D

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!

[Olive]

Bap :yes:

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).

[littlemissy]

er. Roll mostly, except for chips, then it's a buttie

This is it exactly.

Always a roll. Apart from chip buttie.

[ButtonMoon]

I call them them a roll or sandwich

ETA - and I never knew any different!

[Sofie]

I thought this thread was about sweetcorn.

I always say roll or sandwich.

[Skive]

I thought this thread was about sweetcorn.

I always say roll or sandwich.

It's these fucking northernern monkeys who have to have a different word for sandwhich for every town.

[Char_Baby]

They're just called sanwiches to me. Or rolls, if they are rolls.

[olaola]

i say bacon sarnie, chip buttie, everything else is just sandwich

[Bri-namite]

Where I come from they're called softies :yes:

[rachie004]

as in a bread bun? I'd call that a bap

otherwise its a sandwich, a buttie is a chip buttie or a bacon buttie, it can't JUST be a buttie

[edn1]

Bacon Roll = buttie
roll and butter - buttie

softie = something from greggs

I say " Bacon roll please "

never heard it referred to as " Cob " before though . .

[lipsy]

barmcake! which i think translates into a roundish flattish bread roll.

bacon sarnie, egg butty etc

[Dan the Man]

barmcake! which i think translates into a roundish flattish bread roll.

:impissed:

[lipsy]

:impissed:
:cool:

[bunglenutter]

I don't know what in arse's name a cob is but butties here are baps or rolls with bacon or chips in them.

[Babyshambler]

barmcake! which i think translates into a roundish flattish bread roll.

bacon sarnie, egg butty etc

Exactamundo. Barm cake all the way!