Crumpets and butter and marmite.
Crumpets and butter and honey.
Crumpets and butter.
Hungry now.
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Crumpets yes. Scones no
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I’ve always preferred muffins to crumpets.
And we’re having muffins with poached eggs, smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce for lunch (eggs Benedict?, I always get confused between them)
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That I had not heard of before…
Poached egg with Hollandaise is Egg Benedict. Because I am lazy and much better with mayonnaise I often replace the Hollandaise with that. Smoked salmon is optional in general though not for us: it is absolutely required. We usually have bread to go with it. Muffins are usually sweet here. So not an option. We have made it with crumpets but my crumpet making skills are … soso.
Eggs Benedict go on biscuits over here (which are UK-scone-like).
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But then the good joke about scones doesn’t work. So no.
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Eggs Benedict is poached eggs and grilled short-cut (“Canadian”) bacon on a toasted “English” muffin, with sauce Hollandaise. Substituting smoked salmon for the bacon has been a common variation since the Eighties, and is apparently known as “eggs Atlantic” (as I have just discovered).
I usually have “eggs Benedict” with Béarnaise rather than Hollandaise, but this is not, I find, authentic original.
Ah, now I know it with bacon or ham as Eggs Royale. With spinach as eggs Florentine
I’ve seen on restaurant menus consistently as replacing ham with salmon as Eggs Royale and spinach replacing ham as Eggs Florentine.
National geographic concurs This article lists other names too
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Eggs Benedict - now we’re talking!
I’m more of a fry-up guy myself when it comes to standard British food, than scones with cream and jam. It’s been a while since I had the latter
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To be properly Florentine, of course, you eat it wielding a knife in each hand.
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Lovely!
Given the accent, that’s close enough to the correct pronunciation to be acceptable 
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“Gone” is more common, but “Cone” is still widespread.
(I grew up on the South coast of England, so “gone” is correct).
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I grew up in ‘cone’ area and now live in a ‘gone’ area.
I’m conflicted
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Stay true to your roots!
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So that is why I pronounce it like cone, those East Midlands did leave a mark…
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It simply has to be ‘gone’ or the ‘What’s the fastest cake in the world?’ joke doesn’t work.
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No no, the whole point of that joke is that it doesn’t work. It’s a satirical piece, mocking the pronunciationly misguided.
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