[Sca-cooks] The Omnivore's Hundred
Lady Celia
CeliadesArchier at cox.net
Sun Sep 7 17:51:58 PDT 2008
Lilinah said:
<<Well, if clotted cream tea is tea with scones and jam and clotted
cream, i had that more than once in 1961, when i was in England and
France with my parents, and probably again in '73 when i was living
in France and went with a friend to visit some of his friends in
England.
And here i was imagining putting clotted/Devonshire cream into a cup of
tea...>>
I was too :) But wikipedia says that clotted cream served on scones w/jam
was called 'clotted cream tea', so I would guess that's like a "Devonshire
tea" being a tea where scones with "Devonshire (clotted) cream" is served.
Inside the UK, "Devonshire cream" is specifically clotted cream from the
Devonshire region, or so I was led to understand when I was in the UK.
<<Since the price of the whiskey was in pounds, i figured the meme had
originated in England and that's why i assumed Vodka jelly was what
we call Jello shots.>>
I think you're likely right, that the person who wrote the meme was likely
someone I the UK. It seems absolutely foreign to me that they could
possibly not have tried a Big Mac meal if they're in the US (well, ok, if
they were raised strict vegan or Amish or in some other faith/belief that
eschewed fast food... but it's counter-cultural to not have ever had a Big
Mac, even if you're smart enough to not eat them.) I didn't pick up on
that. Just saw in the wiki that vodka jelly=jello shots : )
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