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On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 7:26:35 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:

> Well translating "a crumpet place" from English slang could mean a place
> where you purchased a "Piece of crumpet", i.e., a brothel. Perhaps
> there's a Bothel brothel she knows of:-)


That's a very cute UK slang. There's a place upstairs from where I work that sells Asian crumpets. The place got raided recently but it's business as usual up there. They deal in crumpet trafficking i.e., the crumpets aren't allowed to leave the bakery. The baker keeps all their passports.