What Is a “Pastry Fix”?
Question by Sam: What is a “pastry fix”?
This is an extract from a TIMES article on tourism in Rome.
“After a quick morning espresso at one of the many charming neighborhood cafés on Via Nemorense, stop for a pastry fix at Pasticceria Cavalletti”
What does the “pastry fix” mean here? Thank you very much.
Best answer:
Answer by Morgan
Any kind of food item followed by fix means you’re craving (insert food item) then when you get it your craving is satisfied so you got your (insert food item) fix.
So with a “pastry fix” the writer just went and ate a pastry.
Answer by Ms. Worth
The expression “a fix” is derived from the world of drug abuse. The heroin junkies used the slang word “fix” to mean “the injection of more heroin to satisfy their craving and stop the withdrawal symptoms.”
So now the term is used light-heartedly to mean “satisfy a craving” or even “to indulge in something bad for you.”
In this case, it means that she satisfied her craving for pastry by eating something sweet at Pasticceria Cavalletti.
Other examples:
> She’s a real fashion junkie, and she needs a shoe fix every month.
> I used to get my weekly movie fix by renting from Blockbusters, but now I go to the cinema in person.
> Phillip is no good in the mornings without his coffee fix.
> This time, the boss got his hourly screaming fix by yelling at the letter carrier instead of the employees.
> Whoa! That was primo, dude! A total head fix!
(Very slangy language)
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