Kaiser roll

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English

A Kaiser roll featuring its characteristic star.

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Etymology

Calque of German Kaisersemmel, from Kaiser (“emperor”) + Semmel (“roll”), so named in honour of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

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Kaiser roll (plural Kaiser rolls)

  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.
    • 1989 June 26, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
      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!

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