'Sleeper'
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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!
Holli is a freak!
Um, hello? I hang out with *you people.*
Besides, the raisin bagel with lox and cream cheese is yummy. Try it some time.
Crumpets are totally different from what the Muricans call English muffins.
I don't think they're totally different. I think crumpets are what English muffins aspire to be. They're like the platonic ideal and English muffins are but a poor shadow.
And FTR, most American baguettes suffer greatly in comparison, esp the fancy zahzah ones around LA and the Bay Area. Sure I eat them, but they are an altogether different, crusty little beast.
My relatives used to send us over pastries from St. Pierre when I was little. The bread was always heavenly, though so crusty it was almost take out an eye. I always hated when they sent over smelly cheese though. My dad was the only one who would eat it.
I've seen crumpets and English muffins sold as two different things, but I've also heard the terms used interchangeably. I'm confused.
No, no, no, crumpets and English muffins are two different things! We need Fay back to sort this one out. But just for starters you don't cut crumpets in half.
Friends of mine own a tea shop where they make crumpets. They looked very similar to English muffins to me and I asked if that is what they were. If looks could kill...
As the bloke on this site says: "crumpets are no more like muffins than bagels are like bread rolls."
They're totally different. You don't cut crumpets, and they have a different texture. Not so bready, more rubbery - but in a good way.
Suddenly I am reminded of the Dutch practice of taking spaetzle cookies, frosting them with butter or chocolate spread, and then sprinkling on jimmies. I don't think they eat this for breakfast, but it makes a hell of a snack.
jimi's links to things make it clearer. (US) English muffins are baked on both sides -- flipped some time during baking -- so that the butter-holes are only in the middle, as with unevenly-risen bread. So you have to cut them in half to open up the holes. Whereas it looks like UK crumpets have the holes directly on top. I couldn't tell by looking whether the UK muffin was just a pre-fab version of the crumpet, or something closer to the US English muffin. Certainly, nothing like a US regular muffin.
To confuse things further, crumpets rather remind me of pancakes, if pancakes were made in rings. Although pancakes fall closer to cake on the consistency scale than to bread.
(You will be pleased to know that there's really only one brand of "English muffins", so it's not like we have a vast market of fake-UK muffins. Except, as you can see, real-UK muffins, and crumpets, are relatively unknown, in the grocery store anyway.)