Scone abomination

[AinmÁlainn]

I picked up a scone for myself, raisin, natch. Kept it for a cuppa after a long and difficult meeting. I made the perfect cup of tea and the butter gods smiled on the spreadablility of the ideal amount. I took a delicious bite. Only to find that it wasn't a raisin scone, it was chocolate chip and the scone itself was orange flavoured. What sort of monster has taken over my favourite bakery counter?

<I'm not enabling voting because I'm not unreasonable. This is a public service announcement.>

I bought cheese and chilli hot cross buns from Aldi. Banging.

Scones are cheese or fruit.

Today I bit into an After Eight only realising afterwards that it was cherry flavoured! Cherry and mint!!! Horrible fake chemically cherry flavour. So so wrong.

Those dirty scone perverting bastards

Memories of green bean lollies when visiting Beijing, quite nice in small doses.

I was going to suggest that the scone (rhymes with bone) toasters were sent direct from the hell mouth, but the purveyors of cherry mint after eights are actual monsters. Up there with microwavers of scones.

I can barely look at a hot cross bun after dh toasted and put marmalade on it before presenting it to me proudly last year. Not a high point in our marriage.

@ToThineOwnSelfBe in New York once, being all cool and hip and daring 16 I ordered a chai tea in Starbucks. That was a mistake I won't repeat.

Proper scones....

I've just been hit by a long buried memory <shudder>

My mum had reached the age where a nice drive in the country and a cup of tea was her catnip. I drove, she selected the tea room.

There was an open day at a local lavender farm so we stopped in, admired all the lavender based produce and went wild in the tearoom with a brew and a lavender scone.

A. Lavender. Scone.

I don't know what was worse, the actual taste of the atrocity as it went down or the discreet lavender flavoured burps afterwards.

Yes, there is certainly something to be said for that sensation, and you have accurately described it.

On balance, I do prefer them simply warmed.

God, scones are GOOD.

Nooooo, for one that’s not clotted cream (it looks whipped!!) and it’s cream on the bottom in place of any butter. You would be mad to do jam then butter on bread, so it’s cream then jam on a scone <gavel>

Scon not scown. Scown sound very Hyacinth Bucket.

How are we on banana scones…toasted.

I've never had a banana scone but banana bread toasted with butter is lush

A. Lavender. Scone.
I don't know what was worse, the actual taste of the atrocity as it went down or the discreet lavender flavoured burps afterwards.

Lavender is an awful taste! My very favourite ice cream shop in Sheringham, the proper one with the fabulous range, does a lavender ice cream and my friend asked for a taste, she said it was like sucking her granny's soap and the taste lingered for hours. Sorry R's but still think you're wonderful!

I've just been to a cafe that serves cakes. But no scones. 🫣😬 that truly is an abomination!

Log it with 101. 😱

I couldn't get any further than the butter OP , you lost me there .
I cannot even think about butter on anything (margarine is just as bad ) makes my stomach lurch .

As you were
In a minority of 1 , obvs with my butter spread revulsion.

First thing I ever made in school cookery lessons were cheese scones. They were delicious if I say it myself.

I would eat a chocolate chip orange flavoured scone but with pursed lips and probably be clutching my pearls simultaneously.

sconesnare awesome and should never be fucked with

sconesnare Scones are. Don’t know where that came from, inner frothings of my brain maybe

My heart bleeds for all these baking abominations, especially the unexpected ones.

On a positive note I would like to spread the word that

a) our local Dunelm has a cafe (which I never knew about)
b) they serve their scones with tip tree jam and roddas clotted cream.

I don’t know if this is a Dunelm catering policy, but if it is ,it is one that should be recognised and applauded.

I hope banging refers to the sound the rifles made as the Aldi management team responsible were lined up against the wall.

I for one would be happy to bring my knitting to watch this happen.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g fortunately the lady offered to get me one from the proper. Restaurant upstairs so a 101 call was not required. It was an excellent scone. So all is well.

Ah come on @AinmÁlainn if you're in Ireland you know perfectly well chocolate and orange is only the tip of the iceberg! My local farm shop cafe does raspberry and white chocolate, date and wheaten, apple and cinnamon, banana and salted caramel, mint aero(!) and many more. The worst one I ever had (by accident, mind, I'd never have deliberately ordered it) was raspberry ruffle, those awful chocolate covered coconut sweets in a scone!

Avoca used to do the most scrumptious cheese and sundried tomato scones with chutney, but the Belfast one has stopped making them now😭

Bloody hell. I'll eat almost anything but even I leave the raspberry ruffles! The idea of finding one in a scone .... well, I've run out of words.