PR Disasters Chapter 14

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Continuing the baton on from @Atlusvue

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So Meghan is posting about scones and Harry is once again using African parks to shore up his credentials!

Horrifying and definitely not a scone. Who puts cream in scone mixture and kneads the dough for five minutes?? Kneading is for yeast cookery. It's so upsetting I must go to bed so I don't have to think about it any more.

I must confess to being a bit shocked that the royal children eat jam sandwiches in the car. Eating in the car is something I don't generally allow children to do but I don't have staff on hand to clean up the mess 🙂

As my Grandfather would have said " you could sole boots with that " 😂

The copying stunts might get clicks but they are beginning to look obsessive.

If H & M really were what they believe themselves to be i.e. two genuine, attractive people unfairly banished by a jealous Establishment for being popular and caring about the opressed - it might be considered witty if they sometimes did the same thing as W&C, but did it in a more fun or cooler way. Even then, it could only be done occasionally or it would start to look odd or mean-spirited.

What H&M actually do, which is leap to perform a Temu copy of whatever W&C do every time they walk out of the door, or dump random distracting images on social media like the back of kids' heads, odd food merch combos or weird dances, is not fun.

It's starting to look like the stuff Britney Spears posts when she's high.

Can someone forward this to Meghan please?
I don’t know where she found her abomination of a scone recipe but perhaps she needs this one!
Thanks 🙏

We eat in the car all the time, not royal and don't have staff, do have lots of crumbs in the car!

That "scone" just doesn't look nice and appealing. If only Megan focused on local, to her rather than her in laws, food maybe she could produce something that looked a bit tastier. Why honey and jam and sprinkles? Is she aware that she doesn't have to include every product in her recipe? I'm surprised she didn't cook it by holding it over an As Ever candle at this point.

PS I disagree with her late majesty, I'm jam first every time.

At this point I think not commenting is really working for the palace and I hope they continue to grey rock.

I saw video yesterday of Sophie (duchess of Edinburgh) making scones at a country fair.

Wonder if she will include her scone recipe ?https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2208968/meghan-markle-millions-bombshell-autobiography/amp

I feel very sorry for any of Meghan’s readers hoping to make something approximating a scone from that travesty of a recipe. An egg in the mixture? Shaking my head.

(I have tried an Australian scone recipe that uses self-raising flour, double cream, and Sprite as the sole ingredients, but the way the cream is used in this recipe is ridiculous).

As a Cornish woman, and a baker, this recipe is deeply upsetting. I'm going to get some of Rhodda's finest (clotted cream) and get baking.
#jamfirst

Edited for clarity.

That’s got to be a misprint for the cream quantity in the dough, surely? As in, it should be 60ml not 160ml? Not that anyone in their right minds would attempt to make that.

And is raw cream still unpasteurised? And why would it look like it’s just come out of a squirty can?

And those bloody rabbit food dry flower petals again. I think you’re right about Britney Sparkles moving among us, @WilmaBoot. Very sad.

Harry just pisses me off though. African Parks is a disgrace, the way he’s running it.

Long time lurker - can’t believe a scone recipe is bringing me about of my lurkery.

Anyway, agree the scone thing is abysmal but - I use a River Cottage scone recipe which includes egg and double cream. Hear me out!

All the dry ingredients are combined first, you whisk the egg into the cream and then you bring it altogether into dough. But gently and quickly, no kneading! They are really very delicious, bit of a bite on the outside and fluffy on the inside.

<retreats back to lurking>

Of course it is. It's inevitable.
I don't think the RF should worry about this, I doubt it'll be anything other than an unproven series of improbable claims.

Thanks for all the great threads. Not commented yet but the abomination of kneading scone dough for 5 minutes has brought me out of hiding! My home ec teacher must be turning in her grave….

Quite. Those "scones" are something..... certainly not scones, though.

On a non scone topic does anybody know if any of Harry’s old UK friends are actually still in contact with him?

Interesting...how are they different from non egg or cream scones? Are they richer or more dense?

To me a scone should be crumbly. Barely holding together as you tentatively attempt to spread butter on it, and having to lean over your plate to get it to your mouth before it disintegrates.

Bettys in Yorkshire for the best most crumbly scones 💖

I think MMs recipe and River Cottage feel more shortcake maybe? Which is American I think?

What the hell is this? Also the hands look too white to be MMs.

They are obviously just speculating about M's autobiography but I doubt it'd beat Spare (which is what they're predicting).

Harry had a lifetime of memories that the public would be interested in and was willing to share stuff that made people cringe and laugh at him.

There's no way M will go that route, she'll be very much on her dignity, and very likely sanctimonious, much less entertaining. To make the most of the only bit of her life people will be interested in, 2016 - 2020/1, she might write it in diary format as she's rumoured to have kept a detailed record. But I reckon the RF were always wary of her so doubt there's much of interest and certainly not enough to beat Spare for revelations.

The way that scone has been put together reminds me of a burger. 😆

I was surprised by the egg too. But I looked up Mary Berry’s recipe on the BBC website, and she too uses egg. Most irregular.

I think the egg and cream are added to make scones that are moist (sorry to use that word) as opposed to the dry texture of a traditional scone. I prefer traditional because that excuses the application of lashings of jam and cream to counter the dryness.

She absolutely does not know the difference between scone making and bread making with the 5 minutes of kneading!