The Sheffield name for a soft bread roll, the thing a chip butty or a bacon sandwich is served in. Ask for a bap, a cob, a barm or a teacake and you will be understood, but breadcake marks you out as local. What a breadcake is called is one of the great regional arguments of the north.
Sheffield
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