{"id":609524,"date":"2026-05-29T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:12:13","slug":"bakery-owner-explains-the-demise-of-beloved-humble-treat-as-britons-ageing-out-of-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609524\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakery owner explains the demise of beloved humble treat as Britons \u2018ageing out\u2019 of nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a hot dog bun with icing on,\u201d Reshmi Bennett, owner of Anges De Sucre bakery, began. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you&#8217;re going to a shop, and you&#8217;ve got an iced bun next to a beautiful, plump, glazed doughnut. Which one are you going to pick? You&#8217;re going to pick the one that&#8217;s not a hot dog covered with icing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair point. I haven&#8217;t had a nice iced bun for years,\u201d GB News host Andrew Pierce admitted. <\/p>\n<p>The baker shot back: \u201cWell, that\u2019s why!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the iced bun is so steeped in nostalgia,\u201d Ms Bennett continued in a more sombre tone. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sadly, I think the generation that has that nostalgia, there is no nice way of saying it, but they&#8217;re ageing out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE FULL CLIP ABOVE<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading&#8230;Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt&#8217;s a hot dog bun with icing on,\u201d Reshmi Bennett, owner of Anges De Sucre bakery, began. \u201cWhen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,93209,59,50,56,54,55,88857],"class_list":["post-609524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-clips","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}