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[Lee337]

The end of a life chapter nears. Sent off my voluntary redundancy acceptance today. I'll join the ranks of the 'Great unwashed' on 1 January 2021.

I've also requested leave for a couple of weeks. Off to the Lake District on 21st August for a break, assuming we're not back in lockdown.

Gonna go sit in the garden with a coffee now...

 

[Cougar377]

When I was on school holidays I worked in Ma Jenkins pasty shop. There we would make the ‘boat’ ie the Devon shape and the ‘crimp’ which was the Cornish (proper way) version. These outsold the Devon ones and are less likely to crack open and spill the contents.

Given what the phrase "crimp one off" means, what does that say about the Cornish crimp pasty...?

 

[Lee337]

When I was on school holidays I worked in Ma Jenkins pasty shop. There we would make the ‘boat’ ie the Devon shape and the ‘crimp’ which was the Cornish (proper way) version. These outsold the Devon ones and are less likely to crack open and spill the contents.

While I may be from Devon (by the way, Scone has an 'e' on the end of it & is said to rhyme with Cone, as in Ice cream cone, after all you don't say 'ice cream con' do you!), I do believe proper Cornish pasties are best.

 

[Minkey]

I’m afraid avin an ology don’t enter into Minks. I myself am a qualified pissologist, with honours may I add.
Back in the dark ages, (pre Trelawney days) when Kernowland and Jannerland were engaged in deadly conflict over just this dispute both the clotted cream and jam miners fought each other to an exhausting standstill finally agreeing to an uneasy armistice that is still extremely uneasy to this day.
Cream being the undisputed favoured ingredient has to be lavished on the scone up to heights exceeding 18 inches and will simply not stay on with a flimsy foundation of jam.
The original reason for this dispute was thought down to the fact that in the mining of the clotted cream the Kernowlanders discovered tin, this apparently turned their heads to pure profit and they ignored the old sacred ways, they simply didn’t mine enough cream to build a scone to the required height, hence the abhorrent practise of dare I say it CREAM RATIONING this was accomplished by the dolloping of jam on first making it impossible to accomplish the regulation height.
Meanwhile in Devon we carry on with the tradition as well we can and indeed take pride in building the biggest cream scones in the entire universe. I myself have a personal best of 24 1/2 inches which took some pretty strong will power I can tell you, the desire to scoffit was almost unbearable but I was strong with the force that day and prevailed, very proud of attaining my 5th Dan in the ancient art that is without a doubt a religion down here .

All the above is absolutely true, honest injun, cross me heart ,true as I’m riding this one wheeled bicycle .

An whimsical story if ever I've heard one, but just that whimsical

 

[ogr1]

Lets not get started on various bread types then....
Lanky's and yorkies have been at war forever regarding various bread types.
Derek! What is a T-cake?
Waits for the flak.

 

[andyBeaker]

The main change in the software update was the nice lady saying "just ignore them, they are jealous and not worthy of such a fine steed"

I don't know how you can 'disagree'; my post was factual.

 

[andyBeaker]

The end of a life chapter nears. Sent off my voluntary redundancy acceptance today. I'll join the ranks of the 'Great unwashed' on 1 January 2021.

I've also requested leave for a couple of weeks. Off to the Lake District on 21st August for a break, assuming we're not back in lockdown.

Gonna go sit in the garden with a coffee now...

Congratulations! You most like will feel 'unsettled' for a while but welcome to the happy band.

Go the whole way and get rid of your Bird to get the maximum benefit.

 

[Lee337]

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Congratulations! You most like will feel 'unsettled' for a while but welcome to the happy band.

Go the whole way and get rid of your Bird to get the maximum benefit.

Sadly, I still have a mortgage to pay, so will need to find work somewhere, although I intend to take a little time off while i decide what to do next.

As for the Bird, I need her as she pays half the mortgage

Oh, in case yo meant the bike, I wrote that off over 2 years ago, I now have a triumvirate of Triumphs in the garage to play with.

 

[Squag1]

The end of a life chapter nears. Sent off my voluntary redundancy acceptance today. I'll join the ranks of the 'Great unwashed' on 1 January 2021.

I've also requested leave for a couple of weeks. Off to the Lake District on 21st August for a break, assuming we're not back in lockdown.

Gonna go sit in the garden with a coffee now...

Best of luck with it.
One door closes, another opens my uncle used to say. But then he was a useless cabinet maker...........

 

[Squag1]

Nearly half way there.

 

[derek kelly]

It's a good job no one has mentioned pasties and whether a top crimp (Devon) or a side crimp (Cornwall) is better.

Devon pasties deffo better than Cornish

 

[Cougar377]

While I may be from Devon (by the way, Scone has an 'e' on the end of it & is said to rhyme with Cone, as in Ice cream cone, after all you don't say 'ice cream con' do you!), I do believe proper Cornish pasties are best.

Scone.... Rhymes with "gone" . Seemples.

 

[derek kelly]

Lets not get started on various bread types then....
Lanky's and yorkies have been at war forever regarding various bread types.
Derek! What is a T-cake?
Waits for the flak.

Tea cake is actually made by soaking used tea bags in the water before adding to the flour hence the name, however a tea cake contains currants/sultanas.

 

[JayTee]

Devon pasties deffo better than Cornish

Derek every pasty lover all over the world knows that Devon has the finest teddy oggy mines in the cosmos therefore it’s a given that the poor miserly kernow version will always fall short .
However on the crimp matter, I would concede the kernow crimp is superior to the original Devon central crimp and does aid one if indulging in speed scoffing. There is a little known Devon oggy side closure that refines the kernow design one step further, the edges are coated in egg yolk and after baking they stick together, voila no crimp at all, speed scoffing is now much faster and all the pasty can be eaten with gusto without having to resort to the heathen habit of kernowlanders of the tossing of the crimp pastry to the knockers (who were as we all know fictional spirits said to inhabit mines and designed to frighten the easily influenced ) being much more enlightened than our Celtic neighbours we were uninhibited in the research and development of said design and the crimpless pasty made its debut.
Hope this clears up any misunderstandings on the matter.
And I’ve just had one for me tea plus chips and beans of course .

 

[derek kelly]

While I may be from Devon (by the way, Scone has an 'e' on the end of it & is said to rhyme with Cone, as in Ice cream cone, after all you don't say 'ice cream con' do you!),

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How do you pronounce scone? We counted every vote, the results are in! According to a new YouGov poll, the majority of Britons – 51 per cent, to be precise – pronounceit to rhyme with “gone,” while just 42 per cent came down on the side of rhyming with "bone".

 

[Malone]

In scotshire it’s scoon, as in stone of

 

[JayTee]

There are two types Derek.
Scone as in cone = baked treat smothered in cream then jam in that order
Scone as in con = fastest baked treat in the world .

 

[Minkey]

Should be scone as in gone, as the old selling saying goes, when its scone it's gone.

 

[Minkey]

Filled car up with petrol
weekly food shop
cancelled walk due to the heat
had a pub meal with friends, thanks Boris

 

[Squag1]

Tea cake is actually made by soaking used tea bags in the water before adding to the flour hence the name, however a tea cake contains currants/sultanas.

My cousin used to make great tea cake.
I could eat it all day.
She used cold tea, I think, to soak fruit.