British dialectalism: "Kitchen roll."

The other week I was at the new apartment of my one (half Sudanese) (half British) friend (the sister of the brother-sister pair) to help her and her partner out setting everything up after their move, and at one point when I was in the dining room and she was in the kitchen, she asked me to hand her the "kitchen roll."

And, I looked around the dining room table, which was pretty much the only thing in the room at that point, and there sitting on it was some paper towels.

"You mean paper towels?", I was like.

"Oh, is that what you call them?", she was like.