My exposure to scones was as a child at Chuck-a-Rama, a family-style buffet in Utah and perhaps elsewhere. My older brother showed me how he would poke a hole in one corner and then use a honey bear bottle to inject honey into the hollow centre. So good! Every time thereafter I’d be sure to load up my plate with three or four of them. 
A poem about scones. By pjd.
When everyone’s gone,
and we’re all alone,
We’ll have a scone.
…or is it scone ?
I’ve heard that buttered scones are a traditional food for lumberjacks.
John DiFool’s authors: Heard of 30, read 18.
When I was in England over twenty years ago, my friend and I were with a guy who gave walking tours in Cornwall. One day we were in Marazion, and it was time to eat. My friend was plumping for a cream tea, but the guide and I wanted fish and chips. We won. But when we were leaving Cornwall, we stopped at Jamaica Inn and had a cream tea. OMG. That’s all I wanted after that.
I’ve never had a scone with a hollow center. They were always solid all the way through.
Very good, is that original to you?
Give me a few years, and I can even reread mysteries without remembering the outcome.
I just read a book where the first quarter or a third of it was so familiar I was sure I’d read it before. Then, it became completely unfamiliar. I couldn’t decide if it was because it was the theme of a lot of books I read (stories set in odd bookstores) or if I’d started it years ago, put it down, and it went astray or accidentally got added to my donate pile. Weird.
I often can also.
Some books stay with me a lot better than others.
Were they fried? I checked Chuck-a-rama’s website and they showed “scones” but they look much more like sopapillas than any scone I’ve ever seen.
I’ve had scones in Britain and my mom made scones from a Scottish cookbook. They were lovely, like a slightly sweeter biscuit.
I tried scones in the US a couple of times and they were as dry as graham crackers. Didn’t like them at all, and gave up on them quickly
I will take plain croissants over even the British scones, and strawberry preserves if you have it.
Yes ! as far as i know.
A scone is required if you want to be king of Scotland.
Regarding when you fill your gas tank before a road trip, making my own road trip last week made me realize why I didn’t think of the of the idea that some people might want to fill up in a different state with lower taxes – I don’t think it’s even possible for me to leave California starting with only half a tank. Maybe I could just barely make it to Stateline, Nevada, but I don’t think I would want to cut it that close just to save a few bucks on a fill up.
I didn’t turn that tortoise over in the first place. And if I found it upside down, I’m turning it back rightside up.
I might, or might not, go so far as to move the insect out of the path. Depends on a batch of factors.
@Elendil_s_Heir: I have multiple answers to that poll, so didn’t pick any of them.
I expect you’re aware that people will have multiple answers to that poll, and thought it was funnier the way you did it.
What desert? But…how come I’d be there?
Maybe you ran there. While carrying a blade.
They’re just questions, Thorny Locust. In answer to your query, they’re written down for Gyrate. It’s a test, designed to provoke an emotional response… Shall we continue?
I didn’t ask who they were written down for. I wasn’t asking anything, about either @Gyrate’s poll or @Elendil_s_Heir’s.
And I expect the thread will continue, if that’s what you meant: both the poll thread and the discussion thread. They’re just questions, and I’m just discussing them.
I have a weakness for a nice aloha shirt. By “nice” I mean a non-retina searing print on linen or cotton.
It’s a movie reference. A quote from the opening scene of Blade Runner.