"My husband, Joe, lumps all sweet things into one category, and I find it confusing. Sometimes he'll go out to get something sweet for breakfast at the bakery, but I never know what he will come back with. I'll ask him for a sweet pastry, and he'll bring back a cake. A cake isn't a pain au chocolat. They're not the same. More annoyingly, he has this quirk where he calls all sweet things buns, no matter what they are."
"Joe claims buns can mean any type of cake, and that in Rotherham, where his family is from, they call all cakes, biscuits and sponges buns. He defends this practice by saying the term cake doesn't make any sense to him either, because you can have fishcakes and savoury cakes. I think that's a false equivalence. His habit also causes me anxiety. I live in eternal fear that when I am longing for a lovely sweet dessert, he will proffer a dry burger bun."
Joe uses the single term 'bun' to refer to a wide range of sweet items, grouping cakes, pastries, biscuits and sponges together. He sometimes brings unexpected items when a specific pastry is requested, such as returning with a cake instead of a pain au chocolat. He attributes this usage to his family's Rotherham dialect and questions the clarity of the word 'cake' because of savoury examples like fishcakes. That habit creates ongoing anxiety about receiving inappropriate items like burger buns. He is a vegan and was born in Watford, though his family live in the north, and he often kindly picks up bakery treats.
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