Confection vs. Pastry?

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Originally Posted by Ducklet Cat

Thank you all.
My last question, what would you call small baked stuff that are not sweet? Such as mini pizzas or things like these:

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Many people in my part of the world call these salty baked stuff "pastry".
See this video: ‫

In Arabic we call them معجنات. What are they called in English?
Pâté? or what?

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I don't think there is an English name for them. Perhaps "savouries"?

We borrow the words canapés from the French and crostini from the Italians.

Rover

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Originally Posted by bhaisahab

I don't think there is an English name for them. Perhaps "savouries"?

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Originally Posted by Rover_KE

We borrow the words canapés from the French and crostini from the Italians.

Rover

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Thank you :D

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Originally Posted by Ducklet Cat

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A movie I watched gave me this wrong impression. It's called Matilda.
The obnoxious headmistress said the boy:
You have to eat the entire confection.
which was a huge chocolate cake. So, I though that baked stuff are confections.
This is the importance of checking a dictionary ;)
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Miss Trunchbull - like many bad teachers - uses long words as an instrument of torture, and often thinks that the length of the word justifies a slight warping of the meaning. ;-)

The association of particularly sweet (and insubstantial) things with confectionery is reflected in the word 'confetti' - derived from the Italian confetti: small candies 'traditionally thrown during carnivals in Italy' to quote Online Etymology Dictionary: one wouldn't throw a 'huge chocolate cake'!

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