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.
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?
the key to crumpets is the amount of melted butter they can hold - topped off with marmite is best. I think yanks muddle up muffins and crumpets don’t they?
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.
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.
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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Bloody love a crumpet.
Butter.
Marmite.
My demands are not elastic.
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I've had about six crumpets in the past week but I wouldn't have bothered if I'd known this would happen
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olive oil is what's freaking me out - will that ever go down again or is it just a million pounds forever?
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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.
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Who is pumping you, Guy?
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Are they in the room with you now?
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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.
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I love a cheesy crumpet.
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I just love how the totally unavoidable food price rises beautifully delivered record profits to the supermarket chains. No link whatsoever.
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I've had about six crumpets in the past week but I wouldn't have bothered if I'd known this would happen
Heh
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I love a cheesy crumpet.
Wrong un
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everyone knows the supermarkets used high inflation as cover to increase profits but lets focus on those nail girls on less than minimum wage eh?
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I wish war would fck off
bloody men and their penis issues
grow my olives!
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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.
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Yes, penises are causing olive prices to spike
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Penis inflation
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penises literally are causing this!!
"MY penis owns this land!"
"no MINE does"
fcking eejits
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[adds crumpets to shopping list]
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I will recognise a counterargument that this all actually stems from the testicles
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sex is so weird when you pause to think about it
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whereas the women would farm it collectively and sell the olives in pretty packaging at cost price
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testosterone
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I completely accept and agree with your point.
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I don’t think the testicle addendum is a counter argument. I think it is just an upstream articulation. Literally so.
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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?
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the key to crumpets is the amount of melted butter they can hold - topped off with marmite is best.
I think yanks muddle up muffins and crumpets don’t they?
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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.
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"cheesy crumpet."
Is this what you used to play when you ran out of digestives, Sails?
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Marmite on crumpet is clearly the food of the gods
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Is there anything that doesn't have a weird VAT treatment when you delve into it?
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My dad used to eat crumpets with Gentleman’s Relish - a sort of Anchovy Cement which was curiously powerful and immensely savoury.
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Must... not...
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I've had a bit of crumpet six times in the last week, now I'm struggling with inflation too.
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Must... not...
It’s up there with Sails’ cheesy wossname
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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"
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remember the roffer cheese toastie?
I really want a cheese toastie now, made out of crumpets
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The country could do with more anchovy cement tbh
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A more refined version of soggy biscuit?
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I was going to suggest switching to rapeseed oil, but that sounds like such a horrific word.
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I'm liking the gentleman's relish idea as I love anchovies.
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It is the taste of a cold winter Sunday afternoon walkreassuringly remedied by tea, crumpets and anchovy grouting paste.
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Crumpets are not pancakes. They have yeast in them.
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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.
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dont most large supermarkets sell gentlemans relish? A staple in my house.
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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.
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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.
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Eddie that joke has been done already
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Mrs P introduced me to cheesy crumpets. Possibly one of the main reasons I love her.
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I like an anchovy flavoured hole
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Teaching granny to toast crumpets ffs
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Joke? I'm deadly serious
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The word cheese becomes a deviancy flag when a y is suffixed. Them’s the rules.
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Wotsits - the nonces’ choice since 1973
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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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I had to put the speakerphone on mute so my trainee and I could collect ourselves to sound appropriately professional.
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i used to eat it all the time. i feel i should bring it back.
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Not sure where I stand on crumpet taxonomy. Is it a yeasty pancake or a milky grilled bread?
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Do ppl under 45 understand what a euphemism is?
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Or even what an innuendo is?
Reader, it is Italian for "suppository".
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