Parveen doesn’t know if she’s getting a sponge cake or a burger bap, but Joe thinks she needs to embrace his northern-isms. You decide who is sweet and who is sour
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Joe says ‘buns’ covers all sweet things in the north, but I worry he’ll bring me home a burger bun
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. I don’t know why he doesn’t call them by their proper names. I’ll tell him I fancy dessert in the evening and he’ll reply: “I’ll grab us some buns on the way back from work.” To me that sounds as if he’s going to come back with burger buns.
