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Inflation

Only in the UK would crumpet consumption make a difference to the underlying rate. Ffs. I cannot decide whether to be proud or embarrassed. 

I am sure there are dark forces at work, at the same time that olive oil prices are through the roof we are being pumped with advice at how good for us it is.

HE shells and Tanks are not good for growing stuff in. Add in the fact it takes decades for an olive tree to be productive, so yeah.

Why shouldn't crumpets be part of the inflation measure. I bet the French include baguettes in theirs.

Cam

My point was not that it’s odd that crumpets are included, but it is odd that crumpets are cited as being a central reason for a shift in the inflation rate. Bread products generally yes. Specifically crumpets, what the fook?

I fully understand why wheat prices will have caused a price spike for baked goods. Crumpets alone coming down and dragging the underlying rate of inflation down seems a bit weird and British to me.

Sorry Mutters, I missed that bit. Crumpets aren't baked as such, they are over-height pancakes, so I guess ssomething in the bafter/cooking process marks them out. If people are switching from bread products to crumpets that may take the steam out of the bread rise?

 

Perhaps there is something weird in relation to their VAT treatment or the amount off energy it takes to make them because as cam points out they are actually a fat pancake. 

I'm really now hoping the French have similar

"M le ministre, the rate of inflation has dropped by 0.3% as people have switched from buying Edith Piaf records on CD to streaming them"

A deli near us sells gentleman’s relish, and smothered thickly on just not quite burnt crumpets is one of the finest, and saltiest, ways to pass a tea break. 

My dad used to eat crumpets with Gentleman’s Relish 

We had something similar in school but it was with a Digestive and it was called Soggy Biscuit... you really didn't want to eat it though.

They do. 
Sorry, we seem to have gone down an anchovy flavoured rabbit hole here. 

The key with a crumpet is to toast it more than you would a piece of bread. Grill best. Make the surface crunchy. Needs twice as long as a bit of toast. 

I did a case, many years ago, where an employee complained that he had found "gentleman's relish" on the counter top in the office tea point, and yes, it turned out he was not referring to anchovy cement.

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