The Humour Club discussion

I think a hot dog goes into a roll and a burger is served on a bun. Or maybe it's the other way around . . .

When I was growing up in central Pennsylvania, we called them both rolls, because the word bun implied a sweet treat, like a cinnamon bun. But then that crazy Poppin' Fresh dude calls them cinnamon rolls.


ARGH!

Is it a regional thing? Should I care?

What say ye, good people of The Humour Club?

It's always more fun when it's served in a bun.

I always thought that the clue was in the name. A roll was called a roll because at some point in the manufacturing process, the baker rolled it out into a cigar shape.

Cinnamon rolls don't look like a cigar when you eat 'em. But when the baker makes them, he/she rolls out a big cigar shape and then slices 'em up for us. They start out life as rolls.

A bun is more of a blobby shape because ... oh, I don't know ... because it isn't a roll?

I put hot dogs AND burgers in buns. I might eat a cinnamon roll for breakfast, unless I'm feeling English or something, in which case I might call it a bun.

I make rolls out of plain bread dough to eat with dinner, but I don't make those by rolling anything. I learned from my mother to get a big blob of dough in my hand and squeeze out the right sized blog between thumb and forefinger.

Rebecca wrote: I learned from my mother to get a big blob of dough in my hand and squeeze out the right sized blog between thumb and forefinger."

Blog or blob? Either way it sounds rather erotic.

In Canada, they're called hot dog buns and hamburger buns. And if we want diabetes, we eat cinnamon rolls. :-)

I've lived in so many different regions in the U.S. I now use them interchangeably.

Martin wrote: "Rebecca wrote: I learned from my mother to get a big blob of dough in my hand and squeeze out the right sized blog between thumb and forefinger."

Blog or blob? Either way it sounds rather erotic."

Oops. Blob. It's not really a very erotic process. More ooky, but kind of satisfying...

Rebecca wrote: "Oops. Blob. It's not really a very erotic process. More ooky, but kind of satisfying... "

Still sounds erotic to me...

Buns are butt cheeks. Rolls are for slathering butter on and eating. I guess cannibals might get the two mixed up...