I just mentioned to my friend Amanda that Port Wenn had been mentioned in a conversation, and her reply was:pmsl, yep, Americans often think Port Isaac is called Port wenn. They come down here in hoardes actually looking for Doc Martin! FFS!!! and thats just the ones bright enough to realise Port Wenn aint real......
And by the way, while we're on the subject of cream teas (which is what scones/jam is along with a cup of tea), I should point out to all you Yankee types that a 'cream tea'doesn'tt mean you put cream in your tea. A cream tea is the name of the meal/snack. Cream should never go in tea. Milk goes in tea This is a long standing joke and point of annoyance within the UK hotel industry, because so many Americans ask for cream in their tea, thinking they're being locally knowledgable
Jeez, some of you REALLY need to get down from that soapboax you're on before you break something One of the things I live on is pasta, and one of the dishes I make constantly is mac & cheese. Because there's no such cheese as 'swiss' , I make mine with a mixture of Gruyere and Emmenthal, and once in a while if I feel like a little extra tang, I'll also use Glastonbury Cheddar or Gorzonzola. I make my own roux base, and there's nothing 'packet' or 'pre-made' or 'reconstituted' about it.So whats the big deal if I like to eat some of the Kraft sh1t once in a while? I hate to tell y'all this, but just like the UK, America isnt exactly known for being one of the worlds gastronomic powerhouses Im far from "inexperienced with properly prepared food", in fact the opposite is true, and I'd like to bet I know as much about food (and preparing it) as the rest of you. Admittedly I'm not familiar with the practice of squeezing a duck until its guts explode, but that doesnt mean I dont know about the concept of real food. I've been on the planet for 47 years, and I can assure you that in that time, I havent just eaten m&c out of a box or Chef Boyardee ravioli...Yesterday, when I started this thread, I alluded to the fact I was having a bad day and that I wasnt feeling terrific, and I asked you not to beat me up because I bought a few things that I like. Today, I'm still feeling sh1tty, and I didnt expect to come here at 5.30am to basically find I've been called a moron overnight, just because I bought a couple of boxes of M&C. Big hairy deal.I dont like Kraft m&c because of the taste, or because its quick to make, or because its cheap. I like it because it reminds me of my childhood in CA and NV, when my mother used to make it for me. Back in the 60s, nobody knew as much about food as we know today, so yes, she used to sometimes give me a plate/bowl of K m&c and I used to wash it down with a glass of Kool Aid that (in those days) needed to be made with about 500 tons of sugar. Do none of you have a comfort food that takes you back to another era? Do you not have ANY guilty pleasures at all? Do you not eat or do something once in a while that cheers you up even though you know what you're eating or doing isnt the best thing in the world for you?Jeez...As for clotted cream, yes the name is slightly off-putting, but clotted is another word for churned, and all butter and cream is churned, no matter where in the world you live. in Cornwall and Devon, where clotted cream is generally made, their word for 'churned' is 'clotted', just like we call a sidewalk a pavement, and what you call a pavement, we call a roadway.
I didnt like the "inexperienced with properly prepared food" comment. Thats what really got my goat.
I and most of the people I deal with have nothing to do with tea so I couldn't comment on English tea procedures.
Quote from: TGUSA link=topic=15619.msg244132#msg244132 I and most of the people I deal with have nothing to do with tea so I couldn't comment on English tea procedures.Wait until he gets to the part about whether the milk or the tea should get poured into the cup first.
The milk MUST go first. Thats just the way it is, end of story, finished
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