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[News] The world scone mad
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Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms
King of Sussex
Each to his scone
schmunk
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...when she visited in 2014.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
It's good to do something useful in your spare time.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
In the end, they compromised with Marmalade.
Crumbs!
Their moment has scone.Apparently Standen and Nymans had good scones...
...when she visited in 2014.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,673
I spent years watching 22 men kicking a bag of air around a grass patch. I might try this scone thing.
- Nov 11, 2009
- 11,380
Did she answer either of the 2 biggest debates?
Is it Scone as in "own" or Scone as in "On". obvs for us Southerners the right and only answer is the first.......
But equally important and nationally divisive...... is it Jam then Cream, or Cream then Jam?
Is it Scone as in "own" or Scone as in "On". obvs for us Southerners the right and only answer is the first.......
But equally important and nationally divisive...... is it Jam then Cream, or Cream then Jam?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It depends on whether you follow the Devon way or the Cornish way.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Well working in a supermarket in the north, I now say scon as in "on" but only to give the smart arse answer "they've all scon" if someone asks if we have any. The correct pronounciation is scone as in "own", otherwise those orange and white things you have at roadworks will have to be called "cons" and not cones.
For me;
Scone, as in gone.
Plain, no cheese or (ugh) sultanas.
Warm scone.
Cream first then strawberry jam on top.
Pot of Earl Gray.
* I realise many have differing opinions . All according to taste. Having said that, in my opinion a nice walk followed by a cream tea, however you take it, is one of life’s simple but most enjoyable luxuries.
Scone, as in gone.
Plain, no cheese or (ugh) sultanas.
Warm scone.
Cream first then strawberry jam on top.
Pot of Earl Gray.
* I realise many have differing opinions . All according to taste. Having said that, in my opinion a nice walk followed by a cream tea, however you take it, is one of life’s simple but most enjoyable luxuries.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,332
its on scone (own scone is posh not southern), and cream then jam. you'd not put jam then butter on toast. jam first is just a perversion by whichever county insists on that to be different.
Adjusted for you
Oddly enough had a cream tea today - bought from a local cafe near B Hill as a takeaway and taken to my old mum who loves it. The scones (‘owns’ not ‘ons’) were great (contained fruit, which Mrs D promptly removed), the cream was clotted (only allowed option) and went on first followed by strawberry jam. No butter, the cream does the job the butter would - hence why it HAS to go on first. The jam is then dolloped, not ’spread’.
Mrs D, Mum D and I are all Devon born, so know about these things. Don’t listen to anyone influenced by the inbreds from the wrong side of the Tamar.
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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
- 11,133
I’m surprised either band agreed to open the festival to be honest. Both could lay claim to being the headline act. Poor from the festival organisers really.
Wait? What? This isn’t a joke du jour thread?
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
The fact that two thirds of Cream are dead may reduce their pull on headling
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
- 11,133
Stop letting the facts get in the way of a moderately amusing joke.