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Crumpets! Crumpets?

从 anarchtea, 2012年3月1日

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语言: English

anarchtea (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午5:37:25

Does any one know if there's a word for these doughy wonders?

I've had a look on a few EO dictionaries and can't find any reference to them. Perhaps this is because they're only popular in the UK. (Wikipedia on crumpets)

Would something like "rostkuko" be used, or does any one know/can think of something more apt?

Thanks! ridulo.gif

Hyperboreus (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午6:17:05

Forigite

komenstanto (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午7:25:51

Another fantastic british invention. They are for sale in even the most run-down American grocery stores, dont know about elsewhere. My favorite from England is the Cornish pasty though. Apparently it has a side-handle of bread, so that it could be held by a dirty miner in Cornwall without fork or knife.

Hyperboreus (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午7:48:34

Forigite

sudanglo (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午9:25:42

The Vikipedio-link says that the crumpet (krumpedo) forms part of the typical English breakfast.

First time I've heard that.

If I ordered a full English breakfast in a hotel I'd be very surprised indeed, if it included crumpets.

When I was a child we had them at tea-time. Good with lashings of butter and Marmite.

komenstanto (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午9:59:29

Hyperboreus:

This sounds to me like Terry Pratchett, especially when he talks about dwarves. Like "dwarfish battle bread", the "Museum of offensive Bakery" or the "Scone of Stone" (which serves as a cushion on the deep king's throne). Any piece of dwarfish bakery is of dual use: primarily as an inpromptu-weapon and secondarily (and only sometimes) as food.

Also the first time I saw and tasted a bagle. It seemed to me that the group [Boomerang, bagle, javelin] is more homogenous than [Bread, bagle, croissant].
The most tasty bagel available comes from Zamenhof's own town Bialystock, named the Bialy. It's not a real bagel of course.

Yes, the pasty doubles as a weapon that can be used to bash strike-breakers over the head. The small versions available at stands are often filled with things like pork and apples.

anarchtea (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午11:39:57

Thanks guys, I had forgotten about Viki.

I've never heard of crumpets for breakfast either, or of them being eaten any time before late afternoon. Shocking.

And a pasty's crust was indeed for miners to hold on to — half of the baked weapon was savoury, the other half was sweet. Never had a dual one myself, I assume there's a crusty wall between the two…

erinja (显示个人资料) 2012年3月1日下午11:49:51

anarchtea:I've never heard of crumpets for breakfast either, or of them being eaten any time before late afternoon.
We eat them for breakfast in the US, in the rare occasion when we eat them at all (they're hard or impossible to find in many regions of the country). It's because they slightly resemble an English muffin, and English muffins are breakfast foods. Trader Joe's is the only store that I regularly visit that sells them, and one of the flavors is cinnamon. Very breakfasty. Can't imagine eating that one with marmite, yuck. I've only ever bought the plain flavor, myself.

Zafur (显示个人资料) 2012年3月2日上午12:03:52

I've always assumed English muffins were more or less crumpets "rebranded" for Americans because the pictures look so similar. Is there a notable difference? I've never actually been able to eat a crumpet...

komenstanto (显示个人资料) 2012年3月2日上午3:48:39

Where I live there used to be a sandwich place called King Henry's, and it only sold meat-sandwiches, nothing vegetarian, but it always had a stack of Marmite Jars for sale at a decent price, though I never understood why.

Where I live it is fairly easy to buy crumpets. They are not English muffins. They are actually related to the American pancake, but baked with more yeast in them, so that they have holes and rise.

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