Just playing Saint, don't rant at me again please, I'm spineless I think it is still spelt scone but its just pronounce differently. Personally, I couldn't give a flying **** what you call them, its no cob
Me, rant? I think you're confusing me with someone else. It was a joke, by the way. "It's scon" and It's gone" sound the same. It is spelt scone, and up here, pronounced to rhyme with gone. I have many an argument with bloody southerners who pronounce it to rhyme with bone because, they say, there's an e on the end.
I'm late to the party... speaking as a Cheshiririan... Bread Roll or Bap. (My American wife calls them buns). Never heard of barm till now...even after 12 years of marriage... every time I say bap I get a blank stare as if I've never said the word before or explained to her what a bap is 1000 times. She never gets my jokes about john the baptist either. I eat breakfast-dinner-tea... but sometimes say breakfast-lunch-dinner because my wife and kids are yank bastards and that's what they say and am starting to slip up... damn it. Crumpets are crumpets. They sell something in America called "English Muffins" which I never saw in England... if you cut them in half the insides look like crumpets (I think that's why they call them English they think they're crumpets... crumpets are almost non existent in the us)... not the same though... they're more bready... quite nice toasted with cheese though.
As for scones... I cringe when I hear "scohne" its "scon". I associate Devon more than Cornwall with scones... although I believe there is technically a difference between Devon cream-tea scones and Cornish although don't remember the distinction... something to do with Cornish people having smaller penises perhaps. Either that or if cream goes on before or after jam.
It's definitely pronounced scon even though it's spelt scone! I was being contrary asking if that image was Devon or Cornish - for the reason Hoke pointed out, one has jam/cream the other cream/jam and they are quite touchy about it apparently. As for English muffins, they're just called muffins here, a very old fashioned bread treat that went out of favour for a long time but are quite popular again. Not to be confused with the American import which is a giant fairy cake!
I've always believed it referred to people who worked in wool factories in Lancashire carrying their wares on their backs into town.
D'you know, I was a kid 'bout ten during the power cuts. Used to love them, candles, quizes, charades, my dad got his banjo out, my mum got her sherry out.... Next door's came round, we went to their's - we really looked forward to it. Nowadays life would stop without TV, computers, etc. I'd have a laugh with one side of the next door neighbours (even though he's a United season-ticket holder!) but I think we've only spoken to the other side twice in eleven years...
I spoke to Swarbs on Sunday. He calls them baps or buns, and he's from Timperley. Barms all the way for me
