Spanish to English mollete

[fenixpollo]

Add the sense "UK" to the term "trencher", and add a US equivalent. Maybe just toasted roll with beans and cheese?

 

[gato radioso]

Add the sense "UK" to the term "trencher", and add a US equivalent. Maybe just toasted roll with beans and cheese?

Well, a mollete (*) isn´t exactly a muffin either.
A mollete is a round and flat bread roll we usually have for breakfast. Its main traits are a very soft crust and a very spongy crumb.
It doesn´t matter if its white bread or wholemeal, both types are available.
I don´t know which English word would suit better for that, in case there´s one.
This type of bread is typical from Andalusia -Southern Spain- so, being such a local product, I´m not sure if it deserves much investigation beyond finding an approximate equivalent in English.


(*) It can also mean flab in Spain at least, but in a very colloquial way. I wouldn´t say this meaning is widely used either.

 

[Peterdg]

Couldn't "bun" be an acceptable approximation in English?

 

[fenixpollo]

We should just look to the entry for bolillo to describe the bread, since that is what molletes are made with.

 

[gato radioso]

I agree with you two. Sometimes, if the context requires the original word, I think we can leave it in Spanish, just like we do with words like croissant or doughnut, words that nobody translates into Spanish or other languages.