I saw this on Mastodon posted by @infobeautiful@vis.social and figured that it was appropriate for this community and absolutely not controversial in any way shape or form.
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Option 3: Upsetting all of the English speaking world by pronouncing it to rhyme with pony.
I have to also admit, as an American i imagine a scone as a little triangular cake, so I laughed looking at those Popeye’s biscuits floating in the corner of the image.
Popeye’s biscuits with raisins in them.
Fascinating.
And there’s the place, Scone.
There are some pretty sharp divisions in Ireland it seems. Bonniconlon looks to be holding out as a ‘gone’ stronghold in the top corner of Mayo for example.
Oh christ here we go again.
I grew up in the green section in North East England and can assure you no one says it like “cone”
The bottom of that map is more orange than I was expecting. I’m surprised at the blue patch north of England. I always associated cone scone with the posher south.
I’m thinking that in Hull they surely say “scurn”, so maybe they say “curn” for cone?
They do in Scarborough, I’d wager it’s similar in Hull also.
That’s a mf biscuit
Yank
Seppo
biscuits are hard and snappable, what’s pictured is an english muffin.
i agree that this isn’t a scone though, scones are… doughier? like, an english muffin has the elasticity of bread, while scones are way denser and not elastic.
That is absolutely not an English muffin. I’m simply stating that we call that a biscuit in America.
That picture looks like an American biscuit. We put white sausage gravy on top and call it “biscuits and gravy.”
