Buddy seems to be changing the pronunciation of the term. How did/do you say it?

In my area...its fon"dint" and when someone says fon"dawnt" I correct them. or

It's fon "dint" here!

My Pastry Arts instructor...who is from France...calls it Fon"dawnt" too. But Buddy is Italian...oh well. I say fon"dint". I don't know what the proper pronunciation is. I'm gonna go check something on that...be back in a sec.

Chalk it up to my deep south accent, but I call it fon"dunt".

Ha ha--I thought the same thing! Some people say it with a French accent too but the way Buddy says it is totally new to me! He puts the accent on both syllables. I only put it on the first...which would be fon"dint" I guess!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fondant

Click the little speaker. Dictionary.com says it like most of us.

I say fon'dint'. But I did notice on Cake Boss that Stretch (the delivery guy) said it fon'dint' unlike everyone else from the family (which would all be ?Italians). I had a Scottish Bakery Professor and he also said it fon'dant'. Maybe it's a European thing lol.

I'm a fond-dint girl myself, the few times I've said fon-dawnt I feel kinda funny

I'm with jammjenks, it's fon"dunt" for me!

Actually it's French (as am I) and proper pronunciation is "fuh" (N is silent) "danh"...the T is silent............fuhdanh

I don't do "dint" or "dawnt", but more of a "dahnt".......

Lol...I can't say fon-"dawnt" with a straight face. I already get teased by my friends for being a cake snob, add fon-"dawnt" to that and I'm a goner for sure.

LOL...I say tomatoes, you say tamahtoes! I guess this is like the whole pop vs. soda thing, it just depends on where you're from! Me, I'm from Austin TX and I say Fon-dahnt, but then that's because I took years of French!

"dint" here.

Lol! This is bad... I just wrote down what I say... FAWN- Dunt!

LOL!!! I have the worst accent! Oh well!

I am in OKC and I say "dunt'

dint. I get together with some local cakers and we talked about it over coffee and we all say fon'dint'

I'm in Canada on an island in the pacific and we say fon -"dahnt" here.....
I lived in Illinois for a few years and I got made fun of so much of my pronunciation of different things! Like apparently I say a-boat for about?! My fave from them was adding an 'e' before 'a's! Like Ceat for cat and and eashley for ashley!

webster's dictionary agrees its "dint" but more with a dEnt...heres the post, click the red speaker
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fondant

thinking back to an episode of ace of cakes with the cupola. funny funny.

This is so funny. It's dunt for me, actually just like the dictionary voice,( that was really cool, by the way) I just hate hearing dawnt. I don't know why. I went back to retake one of the wilton courses and my first teacher was no longer there. The new lady and I just didn't mesh, so much so that I only went to the first class, and she was definitely a fonDAWNT gal. That's not why I didn't go back, but it drove me nuts.

actually...if I listen close enough to Buddy...it's "Fawn-Dawnt".

Like...baby-deer+baby deer with a D.

I agree w/the speaker voice It drives me up the wall to hear Buddy (and others) say it! LOL

Here in Western Montana, I say "dint" and that's generally what I hear.

Kinda off topic but I had a customer INSIST on have "fondue" icing, "you know the stuff thats really smooth and Duff uses all the time".....I wish I had the balls to not correct her and procced to pour hot melted cheese all over her cake ( She was PITA and it took me emailing a link to Satin Ice for her to believe me that it's "Fondant" and not "Fondue").

bahhahhah!! fondue icing!!! some people are so hard headed!

I have people ask me if I do "fonda". First of all, I don't know Fonda. Secondly, if I knew her I wouldn't "do" her.