A look at the English language business directory for Cairo Egypt shows two categories related to the discussion: "Bakery & Pastry Shops" and "Candy and Confectionery". They do not do sub categories, but allow the businesses to select keywords. Listings are few, so should not be considered a good sample. Businesses that focus on bread choose both bakery and bread as keywords. Bakery goods businesses that do not feature bread choose bakery and one or more of cake, cupcake, pastry, "western dessert", muffin, and other keywords. Businesses that feature both bread and other baked goods use bakery in combination with other keywords. Businesses that sell bakery goods, candy, chocolates and ice_cream choose bakery as one of many key words. Web searches for Cairo bakeries and similar searches provide a lot more examples. Such results are similar to the business directory. A business using bakery in their web presence sells some sort of baked good, but not necessarily bread. The business directories and web presence, especially in English, are not representative of the many bazaar stalls and smaller shops. However the results above mesh with my experience on a trip to Cairo and Luxor. When speaking, a bread store was called a bakery, but the term was also used for bakeries that did not sell bread. In the most heavily tourist areas, English signs saying bakery were used for any kind of baked good. Most shops were not bread shops, but that would be expected for a tourist area. Outside the most heavily tourist areas, bread, non-bread, and combination shops are common. The shops I saw that did have English signs seemed to prefer to identify the products sold, e.g, bread, cakes, pastries, sweets to calling themselves a bakery. No idea how many of the shops I saw handled subsidized bread. I did not travel in any area where tourists would be a rarity. Extrapolating, an English speaking Egyptian would be comfortable calling shops selling any kind of baked good a bakery. They would first call a shop selling bread a bakery, but would (commonly) know what shop=bread meant.
Murry
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