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Cream Tea.

Best of course in Devon & Cornwall, where the Jam and clotted cream mines are. But any decent tea room promises a treat.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Cream Tea.

Best of course in Devon & Cornwall, where the Jam and clotted cream mines are. But any decent tea room promises a treat.

Im duty bound to point out that one of these places does it wrong, and its rumoured, rather than churchy stuff, that the schism between the Big Enders and Little Enders in Gullivers Travellers is inspired by this ongoing difference of opinion

Tea belongs into the harbour anyways...

Coffee is where it is at.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Cream Tea.

Best of course in Devon & Cornwall, where the Jam and clotted cream mines are. But any decent tea room promises a treat.

Im duty bound to point out that one of these places does it wrong, and its rumoured, rather than churchy stuff, that the schism between the Big Enders and Little Enders in Gullivers Travellers is inspired by this ongoing difference of opinion

The trick is to split your scone. One half jam then cream, the other cream then jam.....

The REAL question is - are you pronouncing it scone, or scone?
My argument, it's both. It's scone like stone, until you've eaten it. Then it'-sgone.

Should be pronounced “Scoon”, and that’s the pronounciation of the town in Scotland where they originated (Scone).

This whole time, I’ve been thinking it was pronounced “Sconse”.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Should be pronounced “Scoon”, and that’s the pronounciation of the town in Scotland where they originated (Scone).

So what you're telling me is that the Scots know something that seemingly no English knew (until me, maybe you too...?).
I bet that's caused many a giggle at the bar.

I couldn’t be more born in Scotland if.



Erm....hold on.

Carry the two.....ummmmm.....divide by Braveheart.........

Multiply by birthplace......

Defo born in Scotland. Only lived there until 1991 though?

(Joke post. Clarification required due to online excluding accents. No harm done my good dude )

 Super Ready wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Should be pronounced “Scoon”, and that’s the pronounciation of the town in Scotland where they originated (Scone).

So what you're telling me is that the Scots know something that seemingly no English knew (until me, maybe you too...?).
I bet that's caused many a giggle at the bar.

I thought it was fairly well known lots of UK foods have names relating to ooop North and Beyond the Wall, but besides Plymouth Gin such things are rare in the shire

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
I thought it was fairly well known lots of UK foods have names relating to ooop North and Beyond the Wall, but besides Plymouth Gin such things are rare in the shire

Absolutely - I just had no idea that scoons were one of them.
Doc, glad to hear no harm done - as long as you don't Marilyn Monroe your kilt at me, I won't pop off my monocle at you.

That surely deserves an "Ooh, Matron"

Udon is so much better at Kagawa prefecture in japan. No idea how it can be so big difference but it is.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Should be pronounced “Scoon”, and that’s the pronounciation of the town in Scotland where they originated (Scone).

That they're named for Scone is just a hypothesis suggested in, insofar as I'm aware, a single cookbook. The origins of the name are a bit murky and they may well be false cognates.

Just looked into it myself a bit. It's disingenuous to suggest a single cookbook as the source, it can be found elsewhere. But it's fair to say the origins are murky.
There's this possibility in particular:

"Other contenders include the Gaelic “sgonn” (rhymes with gone), a shapeless mass or large mouthful; the Dutch “schoonbrot,” fine white bread; and the closely-related German “sconbrot,” fine or beautiful bread."

This kind of link combined with the amount of commonality between English and other European languages, makes me think the actual explanation is probably just that sgonn, schoonbrot, sconbrot and scone all derive from a common predecessor word for bread, that may now be lost to the mists of time.

 Super Ready wrote:
Just looked into it myself a bit. It's disingenuous to suggest a single cookbook as the source, it can be found elsewhere. But it's fair to say the origins are murky.
There's this possibility in particular:

I did say 'insofar as I'm aware'. Interesting that others give the town as its etymological origin. Who does that?

Sooooo, I owe you three apologies.

One, for missing you saying that, somehow.
Two, because "disingenuous" wasn't meant to come off as an attack.
Three, because on checking again, I was mistaken (again!!) - what I was seeing was a general consensus that the word originated from Scotland, but not mentioning the town specifically.

My bad.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Cream Tea.

Best of course in Devon & Cornwall, where the Jam and clotted cream mines are. But any decent tea room promises a treat.

Im duty bound to point out that one of these places does it wrong, and its rumoured, rather than churchy stuff, that the schism between the Big Enders and Little Enders in Gullivers Travellers is inspired by this ongoing difference of opinion

They're both doing it wrong. The American method is right and proper: split the scone, cream one side, jam the other, put it back together and then eat it as a cream and jam sandwich.

...because brewing tea using the damn HARBOUR wasn't insult enough.

And, who has a kettle in the US, to make a proper cuppa...?

 Super Ready wrote:
...because brewing tea using the damn HARBOUR wasn't insult enough.

I honestly feel they just attempted to supersize their tea production, hence the whole harbour incident.

Now feels like a good time for my favourite Boston Tea Party joke.

UK: "Hey, guys, I couldn't help but notice, you're spelling 'harbour' a bit weird. You're spelling it..."
US: "...without U. Yes, we know. Take the hint."

So as not to make this a complete de-rail - who here knows that tea is actually about as British as rice is...?
https://www.tea.co.uk/history-of-tea#:~:text=The%20story%20of%20tea%20begins,his%20servant%20had%20accidentally%20created.

 Super Ready wrote:
Now feels like a good time for my favourite Boston Tea Party joke.

UK: "Hey, guys, I couldn't help but notice, you're spelling 'harbour' a bit weird. You're spelling it..."
US: "...without U. Yes, we know. Take the hint."

And we never did.

So as not to make this a complete de-rail - who here knows that tea is actually about as British as rice is...?
https://www.tea.co.uk/history-of-tea#:~:text=The%20story%20of%20tea%20begins,his%20servant%20had%20accidentally%20created.

A proper middle-ages (or even pre-roman) British diet is woeful. I'm sure the main reason for the empire was to get some proper grub.
We'll take anything over turnips with every meal.

 Skinnereal wrote:
A proper middle-ages (or even pre-roman) British diet is woeful. I'm sure the main reason for the empire was to get some proper grub.
We'll take anything over turnips with every meal.

I guess the ancient Brits didn't like the challenge? I think most of French cuisine was born from someone saying "I only have that disgusting crap to eat, but I'll find a way to make it the most delicious thing ever!" Like you shouldn't expect anything good from a pig's colon, but somehow it works... And preparing snails is actually a week-long job. That's how motivated/desperate you have to be to eat some snails.

 Tiennos wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:
A proper middle-ages (or even pre-roman) British diet is woeful. I'm sure the main reason for the empire was to get some proper grub.
We'll take anything over turnips with every meal.

I guess the ancient Brits didn't like the challenge? I think most of French cuisine was born from someone saying "I only have that disgusting crap to eat, but I'll find a way to make it the most delicious thing ever!" Like you shouldn't expect anything good from a pig's colon, but somehow it works... And preparing snails is actually a week-long job. That's how motivated/desperate you have to be to eat some snails.

Yep, I too did it once, after feeding them a few days got an entire night to it and played cards with my brother while they were boiling.... Disgusting!

French cuisine is great though, and eating good is that important to us that proper ready-cooked dishes made it into our combat rations....

 Skinnereal wrote:
And, who has a kettle in the US, to make a proper cuppa...?

Man I know we have some linguistic shift, but that is the weirdest way to spell 'microwave' I've ever seen.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:

 Tiennos wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:
A proper middle-ages (or even pre-roman) British diet is woeful. I'm sure the main reason for the empire was to get some proper grub.
We'll take anything over turnips with every meal.

I guess the ancient Brits didn't like the challenge? I think most of French cuisine was born from someone saying "I only have that disgusting crap to eat, but I'll find a way to make it the most delicious thing ever!" Like you shouldn't expect anything good from a pig's colon, but somehow it works... And preparing snails is actually a week-long job. That's how motivated/desperate you have to be to eat some snails.

Yep, I too did it once, after feeding them a few days got an entire night to it and played cards with my brother while they were boiling.... Disgusting!

French cuisine is great though, and eating good is that important to us that proper ready-cooked dishes made it into our combat rations....

Thank GOD we got the civilized non snail eaters

During my travels I've managed to try the following:

- Wagyu beef in Kyoto. Found a restaurant specialising in it, had visited a tofu place earlier in the day with my vegetarian girlfriend so I had earned this one. Was rather expensive at around £35-40 for a 7oz steak but by god it was divine.

- Whale meat in Iceland while I was there on fieldwork. Again, very delicious, surprisingly little fat on it. Also tried hakarl and brennevin (rotted shark and an aniseed spirit), which was, not surprisingly, vile.

- Kangaroo meat in Australia, which was much more common than I expected.

I've always wanted to visit a proper American BBQ joint. We have a decent place in London called Big Easy (which I thoroughly recommend), but never got the chance while I was over there.

 Gitzbitah wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:
And, who has a kettle in the US, to make a proper cuppa...?

Man I know we have some linguistic shift, but that is the weirdest way to spell 'microwave' I've ever seen.

Interesting Microwave Trivia. Microwaves are actually the most energy efficient way to heat food in terms of % of energy that makes it into the food itself.