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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-12-10 11:24 a.m., Janet wrote:
> In article 8>,
> says...
>>
>Certainly not in UK.
>>
>> There is (or was) an English tea room here in Phoenix. Among a fairly
>> nice selection of items on their menu, crumpets were on it and they
>> were like those I was served in someone's home in England. The tea
>> room was some disance from where we now live, so have not been back in
>> several years.
>
> "A crumpet place" suggests it specialises in one thing. Crumpets.
> Even in UK, we don't have unique outlets selling just crumpets.
>
> She didn't say "tea room" , "cafe" "cake shop".. the kind of places
> where crumpets might be one of the items on the menu.
>

Maybe the eggy crumpets were the ruination of the crumpet place.