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On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:19:06 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-12-10 8:11 p.m., cshenk wrote:
>>>

>> Nope but I had fun looking them up! Not at all what my mind wanted to
>> say they were. I was imagining something a bit closer to a croisannt.
>>
>> Silly me! At least I looked them up. I have a vague recollection of
>> them being served in Tea House in San Diego in La Mesa. I never got
>> any there, only that it was a unique thing to the area.
>>

>Ah.... I see. When the topic of crumpets appeared she Googled and found
>the only crumpet shop around, which happens to be not too far from where
>she lives now. She checked out the menu and saw that this unique chop
>sells savory crumpets with eggs on top. Hence the egg issue.


I think, from now on, we should call you Petty Smith.