Scone..

[hippyhoppy]

Is it Scone (as in gone) or scone (as in (st)one).. I reckon it's Scone and the bloody priest house in Donnington are charging £17 for an afternoon tea.. the world's gone mad!!!

[beejay1124]

its Scone- overhere--so it is

[B00]

Scone, to rhyme with it's gone in my mouth.

[vodkancoke]

Scone as in gone.

[humbersloop]

each???!!

[MyBlackHen]

Scone, gone.
It's not a scottish stone.

[mccfluff]

scone as in stone.

[sherrardk]

Scone - gone (for £17 I would want them to fetch it round to my house and feed it to me).

[MyBlackHen]

Afternoon tea for how many ?

[atalanta]

Try the Randolph hotel in Oxford ( where Inspector Morse found no end of bodies) They charge at least that much there, if not more.
Dead bodies at no extra cost, especially if your name is Lewis.

[seadogg]

Scone palace in Scotland is pronounced "scoon". It costs £10 to get in without scones as extras

[friedgreentomato]

scone as in bone

[jno]

scon for me. Are the priests blessing your meal personally? That always puts the price up.

[joggerjayne]

"scone" ... as in the scone shone but then it was gone.

That makes no sense.

[Old_Geezer]

It has the 'e' implying that the 'o' should be pronounced as it is when you recite the alphabet. Not that any rule seems to be a firm one with something like language, too many exceptions where the public can't stick to rules but do their own thing, but the odds has to be on that it rhymes with stone. "Gone" is clearly mispronounced or misspelt. I guess it depends on how many platefuls of tea you got for £17, or was it for gullible tourists only ?

[Iluvspikey]

Well, working on a recipe using basic ingredients of
Flour, a little butter, a little sugar, 1 egg, drop of milk, pinch salt, ! made 12 round scones, two inches across by 2 inches deep for about 12p each, add jam and cream and it's about 35p, that's using best flour and butter to make, and and serving with 'real' cream not squirty or Elmlea.

[MadMen]

Scone as in bone.

I don't think £17 is over-priced for high tea. It's supposed to be a 'treat', not something you do every afternoon :-)

[vodkancoke]

It's not overpriced for here! We pay £25 plus but you get loads. As MAdMen says, it's not something that is done every day so why not see it as a wee treat?

[DTCwordfan]

high tea - what's that - I think you are barking up an American tea.

A high tea oop norf is a cooked meal (m n x anybody, remembering Ronnie Corbett) plus sconns or scones, cakes and the rest, inc the tea). Now Lemon Grass is that gr-ass or gr-arrse?

[DTCwordfan]

here we are....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3M1nppd3c

[MadMen]

Voddy, you nearly put MAD in capital letters there.... :P
There's a few places here that do them (yes DT, high tea's) and they charge about £25 too.
You do get LOADS though, and it's nice to sit there for a few hours and just pick. I like mine with a glass of something fizzy :-)