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A pastry so cozy it became internet shorthand for people too pure for this world.
means A sweet spiral pastry made from rolled dough layered with cinnamon and sugar, usually topped with icing or glaze.
from A plain compound of "cinnamon" and "roll." "Cinnamon" travels a long road: from Greek "kinnamomon," itself borrowed from a Semitic source (compare Hebrew "qinnamon"), pointing back toward the spice's ancient trade out of South and Southeast Asia. "Roll" comes through Old French "rolle" from Latin "rotulus," a little wheel — naming the pastry for its coiled, wound-up shape. The internet sense, in which a sweet, wholesome person is "a cinnamon roll too good for this world," is a recent affectionate slang turn riffing on the pastry's soft, comforting image.
- Swedish holiday
- Sweden celebrates Kanelbullens Dag every October 4th
- spiral logic
- The spiral traps steam, keeping the center gooey
- cinnamon source
- It's tree bark, dried until it curls into quills
- frosting feud
- Cream cheese versus glaze splits bakers worldwide
- viral metaphor
- Online slang for someone wholesome and undeserving of harm
cinnabon — global chain with 1,300+ locations, founded 1985, known for gooey center rolls
stockholm cinnamon bun — swedish kanelbullar, traditional pastry with cardamom and cinnamon, national favorite since 1920s