Good day to one and all

[Watermole+]

To make a hard and fast ruling on this is to walk on very thin ice my friend....!

Essentially, it depends on which side of the Tamar you happen to be and also, which side of that river you believe the origins lie.

Personally my thoughts are that it was probably on the east, but as Cornwall has been given special status, they have a hefty stake in making a claim.
As I am frequently in both counties, I adopt the policy of not making unnecessary waves.

“When in Rome....etc etc”

wm+

[Liphook]

Ah that rarest of commodities - common sense cream teas! Frankly my dears I do not give a damn either way, in fact I'd have two separate piles on a good scone - pronounced 'skon' - right now. Scone pronounced 'skoon' is somewhere completely different and has very little to do with baking, dairy or preserves. Scone pronounced 'skown' is Flemish for tart right? Yes it's bed time

[BoltonBullfinch]

Ah that rarest of commodities - common sense cream teas! Frankly my dears I do not give a damn either way, in fact I'd have two separate piles on a good scone - pronounced 'skon' - right now. Scone pronounced 'skoon' is somewhere completely different and has very little to do with baking, dairy or preserves. Scone pronounced 'skown' is Flemish for tart right? Yes it's bed time

I hope you had a restful night Mr Liphook.

Thanks
BB

[Duebel]

Ah that rarest of commodities - common sense cream teas! Frankly my dears I do not give a damn either way, in fact I'd have two separate piles on a good scone - pronounced 'skon' - right now. Scone pronounced 'skoon' is somewhere completely different and has very little to do with baking, dairy or preserves. Scone pronounced 'skown' is Flemish for tart right? Yes it's bed time

Thanks a lot, Liphook!
Now I finally know how to pronounce "scone" correctly.

Let's see, what CreamTeaGirl's thoughts on that matter are

[Dave Burr]

Scone should be pronounced as it is spelt, it's 'cone' with an 's' in front of it - obvious ennit. And jam then cream. Again, obvious, you cant spread jam on cream but you can dollop cream on jam.

This is a pointless debate anyway, we can't go out for a cream tea at the moment and I really, really want a cream tea and I want it NOW!


Sorry, lockdown madness has spread to Herefordshire

[Carp Artist]

Welcome aboard

[PeteD]

I adopted my own personal solution to this age old argument many years ago.

Cream, then jam and then another bloody big dollop of cream on top of that again!

I'm happy and no one else can tell me I have done it wrong.