Scones

Originally posted by divegeester
Imagine you are in the heart of the English countryside on a hot summer’s day. You see a cosy little tea rooms with rose bushes up the side of the wall and can hear the casual chatter of folk out the back. You wander in and see on the menu "English cream tea with scones, thick clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam". you decide to order: "I'll h ...[text shortened]...
You see its scOne - as in cone. Try ordering it as scon -- it's simply not right is it.

Scones are a rarity in the US.

While we probably cannot find them available for breakfast in most (99.9% ) restaurants, Americans still know what they are, and pronounce it with a long O. In fact, never having been to the UK, I have never heard it pronounced with a short O.

That is good to hear, the Americans have the correct pronounciation in this case.... now if we could just fix the tomato problem...

Originally posted by Kewpie
BBC newsreaders' guide: scone- skon (although skohn is equally commonly used)
Wikipedia According to one academic study, two-thirds of the British population pronounce it /ˈskɒn/, rhyming with "con" and "John", with the preference rising to 99% in the Scottish population. The rest pronounce it /ˈskoʊn/, rhyming with "cone" a ...[text shortened]... s guides, and conclude that it's "6 of one and half-a-dozen of the other". 🙂

Originally posted by Suzianne
Scones are a rarity in the US.

While we probably cannot find them available for breakfast in most (99.9% ) restaurants, Americans still know what they are, and pronounce it with a long O. In fact, never having been to the UK, I have never heard it pronounced with a short O.

Originally posted by zeeblebot
safeway (or maybe it's costco) has really nice lemon scones.

they're very light. not quite melt in your mouth. but it's been a while since we bought some so i don't remember which store. kind of remembering a safeway box.

maybe they are lemon and ginger scones (recipe below). seems like they had some ginger in them.

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http://www.lexculinaria.com/2006/03/index.html

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Lex's Ginger and Lemon Scones

Originally posted by zeeblebot
they're very light. not quite melt in your mouth. but it's been a while since we bought some so i don't remember which store. kind of remembering a safeway box.

maybe they are lemon and ginger scones (recipe below). seems like they had some ginger in them.

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http://www.lexculinaria.com/2006/03/index.html

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Lex's Ginger and Lemon Scones

Originally posted by Suzianne
Really? I'll have to check that out.

Although Costco seems to base their inventory on what they can get ahold of, it's not always the same from week to week.

Originally posted by zeeblebot
[b]these look like them but they weren't individually wrapped when we bought them.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.[WORD TOO LONG]/b]

Originally posted by PBE6
Scones are delicious and simple to make - make your own!

Originally posted by zeeblebot
they're very light. not quite melt in your mouth. but it's been a while since we bought some so i don't remember which store. kind of remembering a safeway box.

maybe they are lemon and ginger scones (recipe below). seems like they had some ginger in them.

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http://www.lexculinaria.com/2006/03/index.html

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Lex's Ginger and Lemon Scones

The Americans say (s)cones... Think that settles matters really. Scon's it is!
Seriously though, I'm from Manchester and don't think (s)cones sounds wrong, my wife is from Oxford and always says scon's. As she points out, scones come from Devon and Cornwall (the only places that really make clotted cream), and down there they say scon's.
Whether you put the jam on top of the cream or the cream on top of the jam is another matter entirely...

Yummy goodness. Can be made wholesome or decadent.