On 2013-12-28 9:45 AM, Opinicus wrote:

> I've always wondered about English muffins. How "English" are they
> really? In TV dramas like "Downton Abbey", "Duchess of Duke Street"
> etc people are often eating something "at tea" called a "scone" that
> looks suspiciously like what's called an "English muffin" in the US.
>
A scone is more like a biscuit in texture, but usually a little richer,
and cut into wedge or diamonds shapes. They are usually served with jam
and butter or clotted cream. There are a lot of scones being flogged
these days that are loaded with sugar and often covered in icing, much
different from the scones my English grandmother made... and hers did
not rhyme with stones.