It's scone not 'scon' alright!

Bridgehouse

Emp_Fab said:

Well this is a silly thread.  I'm going to get the dog his bonn then play with my amp to see if I can get a nicer tonn out of it. I might get an ice-cream conn from the freezer to eat whilst I'm honning the edges of my kitchen knives.

You’re a morone.

prowla

Bridgehouse said:

Emp_Fab said:

Well this is a silly thread.  I'm going to get the dog his bonn then play with my amp to see if I can get a nicer tonn out of it. I might get an ice-cream conn from the freezer to eat whilst I'm honning the edges of my kitchen knives.

You’re a morone.

Yes - begone!

Sporky

Someone phonn me when this noansense is over. 

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

Wow, I'm really glad @ICBM resuscitated this thread.

Sorry . I saw that map and I had to .

If nothing else it shows that the Scoaners are a deviant minority, as I always guessed...

prowla

Bridgehouse said:

Emp_Fab said:

Well this is a silly thread.  I'm going to get the dog his bonn then play with my amp to see if I can get a nicer tonn out of it. I might get an ice-cream conn from the freezer to eat whilst I'm honning the edges of my kitchen knives.

You’re a morone.

Yes - begone!

Sporky said:

Someone phonn me when this noansense is over. 

Why - have you absconded?

Emp_Fab

No... he’s absconeded.

Snap

I'm from Lancashire. It's scon. The locals here (Sheffield) call it scone. However, these weirdos also pronounce "master" and "plaster" both as "marster" and "plarster". Which is odd for northerners.

Whilst we're discussing this nonsense - its not breadcake, it's a bap. Preferably oven bottomed. With a pie in the middle of it.

Sunday 2:30am, 1986, just fallen out of Peppermint Place. Hake Boat chippy, Darwen St, Blackburn - can I have chips and curry sauce, and a meat and potato pie in a bap please. That'll do thee reet.

Kitsune

Not "scun"?

Myranda

Sporky said:

guitarfishbay said:

Wait. 

Cream then jam?

Or 

Jam then cream and being wrong?

Depends whether you're in Cornwall or not. 

The rest of the country finds it hard to get upset about how someone else arranges their scone toppings.

This is why it's a jolly good idea to go to Cornwall on holiday, but an even better one to stop once you get to Devon.

For me it's all about viscosity - cream is easier to spread on jam, than than jam is to spread on cream (especially with a correctly massive dollop of cream). Any other argument is as silly as cornish being a real language ;-)

crunchman

For all the Cornish bluster about making it wrong, by far the bigger issue is that a lot of places make cream teas with scones with raisins in.  A proper cream tea must have a plain scone (with a large portion of clotted cream, topped with a little bit of jam).

proggy

You have to pronounce it scon, otherwise you wouldn't be able to do that childish joke where you say,

"What's the fastest cake in the world?"

Then you turn your head quickly to one side and shout "SCON"....end of.

Sporky

crunchman said:

For all the Cornish bluster about making it wrong, by far the bigger issue is that a lot of places make cream teas with scones with raisins in.  A proper cream tea must have a plain scone (with a large portion of clotted cream, topped with a little bit of jam).

That doesn't sound like enough jam.

My only concern regarding raisins is that Lady BMcH doesn't like them, so we need to have our cream teas somewhere that offers plain scones, at least as an option. This has not, so far, caused my life significant issues.

wolsnah

Myranda said:

For me it's all about viscosity - cream is easier to spread on jam, than than jam is to spread on cream (especially with a correctly massive dollop of cream). Any other argument is as silly as cornish being a real language ;-)

Your clotted cream is clearly not thick enough

thecolourbox

Bridgehouse said:

Emp_Fab said:

Well this is a silly thread.  I'm going to get the dog his bonn then play with my amp to see if I can get a nicer tonn out of it. I might get an ice-cream conn from the freezer to eat whilst I'm honning the edges of my kitchen knives.

You’re a morone.

Indeed. It's timbre not tonn

gringopig

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Kalimna

Speaking of which, Gringopig, I can't remember in which book it was, 'Thud!' I think, but Terry Pratchett's dwarves had an important relic called the Scone of Stone. I miss Pratchett.

fandango

.... and now “they” say scones are fattening.....

Unless they mean ‘scons’. Yes that’s it, scons are the food of the obese!

Scones with currants on the other hand are good for you. That’s one of your five-a-day right there. It gets even better if you add some strawberry jam, because you’re up to two of your five-a-day, and the world just eases by.....

thumpingrug

fandango said:

.... and now “they” say scones are fattening.....

Unless they mean ‘scons’. Yes that’s it, scons are the food of the obese!

Scones with currants on the other hand are good for you. That’s one of your five-a-day right there. It gets even better if you add some strawberry jam, because you’re up to two of your five-a-day, and the world just eases by.....

ah!  but what if you put cheese on it.

bingefeller

If you say scone here you get slagged for being posh.  

tone1

Mmmmmmmmmm.........I like scones