To think an apply turnover is not a bun?

[RikthePoet]

Look, it's all regional and cultural and there are a million names for a bread roll and no-one has the right to judge and everything...

But someone said on another thread that a fairy cake with no icing is a bun (I mean, no, but let's go with it) and a currant bun is part of a different related category - the "sticky bun".

And also included in sticky buns are... doughnuts and... apple turnovers.

So, sure, it's all relative and whatever but... an apple turnover is not a bun, right?

Voila !!!

So a cake is a bun, and a roll is a cake, unless it's a cinnamon roll, when it's a pastry? Got it.

When you buy fairy cake cases are they called bun cases in the areas that call fairy cakes buns?

Isn't that a Danish sandwich?

Isn't a Dutch sandwich factory bread with sprinkles?

No, Ma'am, they are not.

And is nice with custard and a touch of cinnamon.😋

Bun cases

Muffin cases

What is this wild world.

OP I’m team fairy cakes are cakes, and buns have yeast in

Savoury bread is not a bun. It's a bap or a roll.

A bun is sweet, and generally small and cake. Exceptions for Chelsea and currant.

Turnovers are pastries, mostly because they are made out of pastry. Along with Danish pastries and cream horns and things of that ilk.

Iced fingers are entirely seperate and can fuck off, they're like if sadness was a cake.

If a hotdog is not a sandwich (I'm undecided) what is a sausage sandwich? What about a sausage baguette? Where is the line?

Is wheat based cereal noodle soup?

A sausage sandwich is made from slices of bread.

A sausage baguette is called a sausage baguette because otherwise you might confuse it with a sausage sandwich. It is a distant cousin to the sandwich.

Savoury bread is called bread.

Savoury bread is called bread

So not a bun then?

To me a bun is a bread product....sweet or savoury baked with yeast.

A cake or pastry doesn't use yeast as a rising agent.

That was what my WI baker mother taught me.

Sometimes. Like a burger bun. (Although they call them cobs round here...)

Yeah, this is the heart of it, I think. Someone else said this earlier.

A bun is made from bread.

A cake is made from cake.

A pastry is made from pastry.

Seems pretty straightforward, really.

Anyone else really craving a sticky bun now?

In Northern Ireland they use wee buns instead of piece of cake for something that's easy/straightforward :-)

To me a bun is a cinnamon bun/roll. Scandi version not US style.

Or currant bun, Chelsea bun (?), or those finger buns with white or sometimes pink icing.

A bun is less sweet than a cake and usually contains yeast and some bread flour. In my culture.

Or if you're talking about Eastern or Chinese cuisine it means something else. In fact bun often means noodles in Vietnam.

Back in my childhood, 70s and 80s the name cupcake didn't exist (except in America) we called them buns and I still do.

It was fairy cake..sponge bit of icing and perhaps some sprinkles.
None of the piped thick gunk🤮

My pet gate is when people call burgers patties. Makes me think of cow pats

Yup, fairy cakes for me, too.

If people called them "buns" as a regional thing, fair enough, but they're still obviously cakes.

Like how sweetbread = certain meat.

Better than an apply turnover

i thought we were talking in maths terms tbh

I agree with this.

Exactly. I never heard the term cupcake or fairy cake until 2000 onwards. It was ways a bun. Either a plain bun or a butterfly bun.