Comments on: Um, guys …

By: Geordieboi

Geordieboi — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:08:23 +0000

As to the pronunciation of Scone up above, in my neck of the woods it actually rhymes with ron.

My County is retarded.

By: Default User

Default User — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:18:24 +0000

I don’t know about the not into a teapot thing, steeping it into a tea actually might work. I don’t know if it would taste to good though. I may have to recommend that to some friends of mine now.

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:14:26 +0000

But WHAT’S the Carbon footprint for this flame war? (PPSST that was my LOL… )

By: froofrou the fierce

froofrou the fierce — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:11:26 +0000

High Tea is also what you get when you mix tea and pot. But not into a teapot.

By: Default User

Default User — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:00:52 +0000

Are you saying all Americans are low class steel miners?

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:47:17 +0000

Ok, it’s considered very working class (steelmen and miners being the sort of people who would use it) in Scotland.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:17 +0000

Jane, I must confess I’m the same type of cook as your mom as far as recipes go. With the exception of baking things, I pretty much either don’t use recipes or if I want to figure out how to make something specific I’ll look at 2 or 3 different recipes to get the general proportions, timing, etc. and then wing it. My mother, on the other hand, follows recipes to the letter after over 50 years of cooking. Go figure.

By: Kath

Kath — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:25:14 +0000

My family come from Devon, and they pronounce it like me. :/

By: Kath

Kath — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:23:15 +0000

In America, you call American muffins, muffins. I think.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:20:19 +0000

You just call them muffins, which is odd, because they look more like tray buns.

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:17:56 +0000

But what do we call American muffins in America? Oh, I’m so confused!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:16:04 +0000

We call muffins muffins, scones scones, and the American “muffins” are “American muffins”!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:14:26 +0000

Rhyming with “bone” is a very lower-class way of pronouncing “scone”. Don’t ask me why; it just is.

Rhyming scone with spoon is just plain wrong, unless it’s the place in Perthshire, and not an item of baked goods.

By: Kath

Kath — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:05:04 +0000

Just to tell you, we do actually call them muffins

By: Kath

Kath — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:02:40 +0000

With who?

By: Eddiepscetti the Floydist

Eddiepscetti the Floydist — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:35:16 +0000

They just opened a new place not too far from me. It’s called Quido’s Wok.. they specialize in pizza and chinese. I’m thinking, “WTF?!?!”

By: brak the Zappaist

brak the Zappaist — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:27:34 +0000

His name is Sydney, yes?

By: froofrou the fierce

froofrou the fierce — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:26:34 +0000

Don’t be hatin’.

By: froofrou the fierce

froofrou the fierce — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:25:44 +0000

Mom and Dad went to China a few years ago, and when they got back, Mom wouldn’t touch American Chinese food. She said there was no comparison.

By: brak the Zappaist

brak the Zappaist — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:24:01 +0000

There’s one by us that has freaking tacos….and pizza. Ayup.

By: NakedDoubleWatusi

NakedDoubleWatusi — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:13:27 +0000

By: froofrou the fierce

froofrou the fierce — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:08:59 +0000

Steve, I think you should know that I heard this morning on the news that Perth was missing from the map. Police are telling everyone to be on the lookout for a Perth snatcher.

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:00:43 +0000

I pronounce it so rhyming with ‘bone’. How is that non-U?

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:57:41 +0000

You were obviously swapped at birth.

By: Kath

Kath — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:56:17 +0000

I AM English and I hate tea. Explain that.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:44:39 +0000

Well, in Scotland, “High Tea” is a proper sit-down meal, typically what a restaurant would call an entree, followed by what the English call “afternoon tea”, bread and butter and/or finger sandwiches with sweet and savoury cakes, biscuits, English muffins and scones.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:58:46 +0000

English muffin = crumpet.

Of course, crumpet is also what you get from a willing English person after a few drinks and some snappy necking.

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:46:37 +0000

Chinese buffets. Ugh. “Hey, the Chinese like buffalo wings, too! Go figure!”

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:43:56 +0000

I could never be English. I HATE tea!!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:43:34 +0000

Do we really need to bring Ham’s sexual proclivities into the conversation?

By: The Steve

The Steve — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:38:18 +0000

Canadian bacon is not bacon. It’s fvcking ham!

By: SmartA

SmartA — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:56:53 +0000

THOSE AREN”T MARSHMALLOWS! THEY’RE BELGIAN!

By: slupine

slupine — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:31:18 +0000

YES! What is the point of cooking with fire otherwise? I mean really!

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:51:20 +0000

The proper pronunciation of scone should rhyme with ‘gone’. Rhyming it with ‘bone’ is ‘non-U’. Neither should be confused with Scone, the town in Scotland, which rhymes with ‘spoon’.

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:45:38 +0000

*makes a note to take DU to the Ritz for afternoon tea*

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:32:04 +0000

A number of my moms recipes are like that, she’s taught me to make Kansas City Steak Stew three times, and each time it’s different. I have a similar problem when she tries to teach me the marinade for the beef jerky.

By: Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK

Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:20:24 +0000

My mom is one of those annoying cooks that don’t have actual recipes for stuff. They either just make stuff up or the recipe they have has been so altered (and not written down how it’s been altered) that it’s unrecognizable from its original form. If you were to ever ask my mother how she made something she would usually say, “oh, it’s not hard, just a little of [food item] and a dash of [spice item], it’s so easy anyone could do it!”

Right mom. Right.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:14:16 +0000

Get the recipe from her while you’re at it! *drools, discretely*

By: Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK

Jane St.Clair Glamorous First Lady of PK — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:10:16 +0000

Except they're formed and baked completely different than muffins, or what we would term muffins. Now, I know that Americans can't do anything without fattening things up but the scones my mom makes are traditional scone recipes, she just adds chocolate chips, or cherries, or a billion other delicious things. Mmmmmmm, just thinking about makes me want to ask my mom to make me some scones now.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:17:17 +0000

But those are actual cities. I know (having lived in Seattle, San Diego & outside San Francisco) that in cities you can find real Asian food. Albuquerque is really just a large town, with a small Asian population. Most people here think the Chinese buffet places ARE Chinese food. I’ve actually found that to be true of lots of people even in cities that have the real thing.

In the town we lived in outside San Francisco, there was a nice Chinese restaurant with a very American Chinese restaurant, but they would make things off the menu if we asked.

By: brak the Zappaist

brak the Zappaist — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:12:21 +0000

Wait…are you saying that Taco Bell…..no…NNOOOOOEEESSS!!!11!!!!!!!!

By: brak the Zappaist

brak the Zappaist — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:11:06 +0000

@mabs…actually, after being there and having the experience to make comparisons, I was surprised to find the number of local places that compare very favorably. Our favorite place here at home would be right at home over there and there a some places in Philadelphia (my nearest city) and New York that are very authentic. There wa a place in Boston (years ago) that would fit in perfectly in Shanghai in both menu and setting. There is a Thai place here in South Jersey that is addictive. You just have to know where to look…and where not to.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:48:35 +0000

If you go to Chinatown in Boston–Mandarin, Sechuan, etc…

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:47:35 +0000

I had one once, not in a fancy restaurant. But those silly cucumber sandwiches? They are to DIE for!

By: justacanuck the booty wench

justacanuck the booty wench — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:46:06 +0000

I’m going for (westernized) Chinese buffet on Wednesday…now, I’m not so sure. Thanks guys.

By: Default User

Default User — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:45:20 +0000

I had an ex who took me out to High Tea on a date once. Best. Date. Ever.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:42:50 +0000

Hee hee. We just had a Chinese buffet place closed here for failing a health inspection.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:41:22 +0000

“Weird things tend to get added to the food.”

Yes, like too many germs and too little heat.

By: Eddiepscetti the Floydist

Eddiepscetti the Floydist — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:38:58 +0000

Me too.. I get violently ill and massive headaches bordering on migraines if I have MSG.

And FTR, I avoid the Chinese Buffet places. Weird things tend to get added to the food.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:38:53 +0000

Yes! There are many regional variations of Chinese food. In cities with large Chinese populations, you will find listings for different types of Chinese restaurants in the phone book (there’s a section that lists restaurants by type). What most Americans eat as “Chinese” is as about as Chinese as the Mexican food here is Mexican.