While we're doing comparative foodstuffs, can I enquire of Americans what exactly classic American apple pie entails? I have images in my head-- of what I'd call apple crumble-- but I suspect I'm wildly off the mark. Enlighen me?

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Classic American pie has bottom pie crust, and apple based filling and a top pie crust. Someone once told me it was actually invented in Egypt.

Thank you. It's good to know these things.

As to the odd flavored bagels: Well the classics are still available. But once you allow cinammon-raisin, I don't see how you can excluded all the other sweet flavors. Similarly given garlic and onion bagels, I don't see how you can arbitrarily exclude the Jalepano and so forth.

Mind you, garlic, onion and plain are still my favorites..

If some poor starving Jew in the shtetl could acquire the ingredient it's permitted. Did Bubbe have jalepenos? I think not.

Since, by definition, an "everything" bagel is the set of all possible bagels, if something has an ingredient in it that isn't in an everything bagel, then it isn't a bagel.

Tom is wise. Rasins are merely an exception and should remain the SOLE exception.

Go nuts with the cream cheese, people. Have at. Put olives or chives or pickled baby toes in it for all I care.

A quick Google reveals all sorts of pronuciations for the word 'scone': it can rhyme with bone, with gone or with moon.

Actually, I think it's only the Scottish town (also spelled Scone) which is pronounced to rhyme with moon. Or if anyone else does, they're weird. Ah, the scone pronunciation wars will probably never end.

Are UK muffins the same as what Americans call English Muffins? I.e., little flat bread-y circles that you cut in two and find lots of little holes ("nooks and crannies") into which to spread butter?

Actually, this sounds to me more like what the English call crumpets. Toasted, with butter which melts into the holes - mmmmm....

Actually, this sounds to me more like what the English call crumpets. Toasted, with butter which melts into the holes - mmmmm....

Yes... although it's never occured to me to cut those in half. The holes are there on the outside. And honey.... yum....

Crumpets are totally different from what the Muricans call English muffins. What is it that the English call muffins?

But cinammon raisin has always been there. Never been my favorite either (I agree that a bagel is ideally a vehical for creamcheese and lox.)

I like cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese and lox. It's weird, but tasty.

It was widely noticed when they had Giles pronounce the word scone as rhyming with bone, instead of what would have been the correct British way.

There was an episode of ... I want to say The Goodies but I'm not 100% certain ... where the characters had a running argument of, "scone (bone)" "scone (gone)". So, as has already been noted, Giles' pronunciation of the word was not incorrect per sé.

I guess now would be a bad time to mention "scone" pronounced as "skeen" :)

Holli is a freak!