kaiser roll

plural kaiser rolls

1. Alternative letter-case form of Kaiser roll.

   So I go into the girls' bathroom, eat the kaiser roll as quickly as I can, and throw the paper bag in the trash for tampons.

   2013, Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

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   The Automat, whose gleaming chrome-and-glass machines brought high-tech eating to a low-tech era, has gulped down its last coin and served up its last helping of macaroni, baked beans and kaiser rolls.

   1991 April 11, James Barron, “Last Automat Closes, Its Era Long Gone”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022

   The bread is shaped like a kaiser roll but crowned with a mantle of seeds and coarse salt so abundant that it crunches audibly when bitten.

   2007, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood Sandwiches

   It's a hard roll, more specifically a crusty kaiser roll, sprinkled with caraway and coarse salt instead of the more familiar poppy seed topping.

   2011, Donald A. Gazzaniga, Maureen A. Gazzaniga, No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Soups, Salads, and Sandwiches, page 195

plural Kaiser rolls · alternative kaiser roll

1. A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.

   Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee in the world! It was the size of a Kaiser roll! It must've weighed 70 pounds!

   1989 June 26, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

   Synonyms: Vienna roll, Kaiser