I had a lady that called it "fondue" the other day. Oh, well!! I say "fahndent". I heard a couple of artists of FN challenge say "dahnt". To each his own, I reckon'.

i'm a dint kinda girl (i think... because i sat here for a while saying it trying to figure out how i said it and it just started sounding weird lol) but what's the difference between "dawnt" and "dahnt" is "dahnt" supposed to be like "d - ant"? the "fawn-dawnt" pronounciation just bothers me!

I knew I was Southern, but apparently more than I thought. After saying to myself a few times (thankfully I'm alone ), I say fawn-dunt. LOL

Great thread.

Michele

I think it depends on if and where you went to pastry school. That one guy on Challenge says 'dawnt.' Everyone else says 'dint.'

I think I can speak for most Aussies on this....we say fond ant as in the little insect bug thingys

LOL Jules...I was saying it to myself here too thinking it was most like "fon-d'nt".

Even though it is a French word in origin, you would be very hard-pressed to hear any Aussie pronouncing it in the French manner (and I tend to always pronounce foreign words as originally intended)...for some reason fondant is just "fon-d'nt".

I say fond "dawnt" but my Wilton Fondant and Gumpast instructor said fon"dint".

Oh....I don't know As long as it taste good

Evoir - you are right fond'nt I didn't know how to write it the way I say it !

I have to chuckle when clients come in and say fawn-dawnt...I think they are trying to put on airs.....whatever, I am a fon-dent girl.

Is Fonda available? Because I know someone...

Can we just nix the whole thing and just say rolled icing or sugar dough? I don't think there will ever be a universally agreed upon way to pronounce fondant. Something about listening to a person(like mua) with no accent whatsoever saying one frenchie tweeked out word in the middle of a conversation that hits the middle ear like an assult. It just sounds funky. LOL

This is hillarious....I have been laughing out loud and my daughter keeps asking me..."what's so funny?" "It's just cake central honey"

I am a Fon "dint" girl...I don't know if I really pronounce that "i" though...and the other night when we watched Cake Boss my husband was surely getting such a kick out of how Buddy was pronouncing it...every time Buddy said it, my honey then repeated it....just like him...(I think his pronunciation is for ratings!!! hahahaha)

If feel snobbish when I pronounce it in the "French" way....

It's all fon-dahnt as far as I'm concerned. It may be my Boston accent...

I find it funny that someone said they felt 'snobbish' pronouncing it in "my" way. Because that's how I feel about saying fon-dint! heheheh

OP, great thread. Hilarious!

I'm from East Texas and I say fon dunt!!

I say fon"dint" but I always hear other people like Buddy say "fon"dawnt". But I listen to most of the people on food network let Mary Maher and Browen and Michelle and they say fon"dint". So I decided a long time ago that that's what I'm going with.

I'm wondering if we should ask Kerry Vincent which way she prefers. Maybe she gives extra points for a certain pronunciation.

Course after the way my fon"dint" treated me today, I call it s*#t on a shingle.

Maybe in my past life I lived in Australia, actually my great great great grandfather was one of the first people to live in Australia , If you know what I mean hahhaah

I say Fond'nt ... Kinda like I say Mount'n ... and Fixin to ..

I grew up in California , lived in Pennsylvania , Florida , and North Carolina and my accent has always been different than any where I lived. Maybe I am channeling great gramps ... hahahhahahahhahah

fondint - Northern Ireland Accent ...... Fondawnt is for posh people - lol

This has to be one of the funniest threads in a long time. Thanks for the laugh. I say "fawn-dunt" - don't think that will ever change.

Here in Tulsa OK, I say "fondunt".

Neither - fon 'dunt'!

This thread is hilarious!! It's funny to see all the pronunciations. I agree Buddy's is a version I'd never heard before!

I was a french major in college. Even so, I can't bring myself to pronounce fondant in the correct French way in normal conversation. If I were speaking french, then yes... it would be fonh-danh. But I don't go around saying "rest-aur-anh" or "so-tay" either!!

This thread is hilarious!! It's funny to see all the pronunciations. I agree Buddy's is a version I'd never heard before!

I was a french major in college. Even so, I can't bring myself to pronounce fondant in the correct French way in normal conversation. If I were speaking french, then yes... it would be fonh-danh. But I don't go around saying "rest-aur-anh" or "so-tay" either!!

This thread is hilarious!! It's funny to see all the pronunciations. I agree Buddy's is a version I'd never heard before!

I was a french major in college. Even so, I can't bring myself to pronounce fondant in the correct French way in normal conversation. If I were speaking french, then yes... it would be fonh-danh. But I don't go around saying "rest-aur-anh" or "so-tay" either!!