Re: OT: Two countries separated by a common language

>>In everyday parlance, "scone" for me is just a highfalutin word for
>>an "English muffin" (so you can charge an extra dollar for it at a
>Um, I have a different understanding of scone. Locally, a scone is a
>bit of bread dough which has been deep fried. It's also called frybread and
>has been adopted by the Native Americans of the region;
My Pacific Northwest experience with "English" scones, "English" muffins,
American fry bread and American biscuits in that they all are different:
Scones take a courser wheat flour than English muffins, fry bread or
biscuits, and have a texture somewhat like oven-baked greaseless cornbread
made of unusually finely ground corn flour.
Muffins seem only slightly-risen baked bread made of finer flour.
Fry bread is more risen, as are biscuits, tough the former is fried and the
latter baked.

This in no way attempts to evaluate, affirm or deny the savoriness of any of
these items.

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