PR Disasters Chapter 14

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Continuing the baton on from @Atlusvue

I’m just looking at that abomination of a recipe again: it doesn’t refer to plain flour or all-purpose flour, it just says flour. And it calls for 160g of heavy cream, not 160ml (or whatever lesser volume). And it has no vanilla extract in it. I wonder if this is how they do things in Australia maybe? No offence intended to Australians! Just wondering if that’s her target market now.

It looks like an incontinent scone burger.

Editied: cross posted with @Not2identifying
Edited, second time. Not cross posted. I posted hours later.

Do you think she says scone rhyming with gone, or scone rhyming with phone?

Two quick points - Some members of the Commonwealth find advantages from it. One example - if their judicial system is based on English Common Law they can refer appeals to the higher courts in the UK including the Supreme Court. A barrister in a commonwealth country once said to DS ( who trained as a lawyer ) - this is helpful - why set up your own system if you don't have to . Just one example.

As @bluegreygreen says - H is a director of Africa Parks so he has more skin in the game than just being a Patron. He may be doing a great deal behind the scenes but just standing up and talking I am not sure will dispel the rather ugly stories circling about AP. He's is starting to look like a bit of charity Jonah - AP , Sentebale , IG.

OK - back to the scones!

One example - if their judicial system is based on English Common Law they can refer appeals to the higher courts in the UK including the Supreme Court.

That's interesting @BasiliskStare - I didn't know that, thanks.

That’s interesting to know, thank you. I feel a tad sorry for her not being considered as having the “it” factor, which I imagine is highly subjective and changeable. Her acting skills are limited from the little I have seen of her, so she did well to get Suits. It’s a brutal business.

The only “before she was famous” comment I have seen is from a woman who runs celebrity golf tournaments, and had some of the DoND suitcase ladies acting as caddies, including M. She clearly didn’t really know who she was talking about, judging from the comments she made.

I dare not ask

Maybe she pronounces it as ‘a fabulously English royal scone as eaten by my husbands father and grandmother which tastes of an English royal country garden on a feathery, dried flower summery day whose recipe coincidentally is based on an American Biscuit as baked by my slave ancestors for their masters while singing about how one day a beautiful intelligent American gurl would marry into their elevated royal ranks and show them how to be really royal -then spread liberally with honey and runny fruit spread from my fabulous royally as ever range which I founded ………….’ And on and on ad infinitum or till one falls asleep . 😴
Maybe.

"As Ever" doesn't ship outside of the United States, so I don't think Australia could be a target market. And given the number of people of British heritage there, I don't think they'd be interested in some nasty looking 'scones' made by someone living in California.

William and Catherine's trip to the Caribbean included Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas. There are plenty of photos and videos and plenty of local media stories in all three countries showcasing the positive nature of the tour.

This was the first big social media push by the Sussex Squad and the narrative that emerged from the trip was unrelated to the reality of the trip. The rota chose to echo the manufactured outrage for clicks versus actually reporting what was happening.

An example of the very deliberate framing by UK media and SS is the kids calling William and Catherine over and W&C chatting with the kids at the fence despite Raheem Sterling doing the exact same thing...going over to chat with kids. It was far kinder than ignoring them and the kids were happy with the interaction. Meanwhile the keyboard Karens vented their manufactured outrage over a complete nothingburger!

Kate and Prince William meet Jamaica's bobsleigh stars and Raheem Sterling in Trench Town | Daily Mail Online

An example of the very deliberate framing by UK media and SS is the kids calling William and Catherine over and W&C chatting with the kids at the fence despite Raheem Sterling doing the exact same thing...going over to chat with kids. It was far kinder than ignoring them and the kids were happy with the interaction. Meanwhile the keyboard Karens vented their manufactured outrage over a complete nothingburger!

Glad you mentioned that, @My2cents1975, because I've sometimes wondered if it was deliberately set up by a republican contingent of Jamaicans who knew exactly what use would be made of it. Also it was clearly a no-win situation since if they hadn't greeted the children they'd have been slammed for that too

Nothing wrong with being a republican - though I would say that since I'm one myself - but then I wouldn't have got involved with the visit in the first place, and it was interesting to hear Holness carrying on about Jamaica moving forward towards a republic considering they've been saying it for years and it still hasn't happened

Right, I already had all the ingredients so I have started making them.

My baking skills? I would say a good home baker- certainly capable of making sponges and scones for school fairs/church etc and happy to put my name to them.

I have followed the instructions and measurements as put in the IG post.

Followed everything as written.

The mixture is too wet to knead, but I dutifully did it for five minutes.

I then added a bit more flour, because I didn't want the ingredients to go to waste.

They are in the oven now.

Im imagining all of us trying to look casual but glancing at our phones constantly waiting for the Big Scone Reveal!

I think it was a very good example of how the modern royal family need to be mindful of how things that went on in the past may not translate well in the 21st century. For example, my understanding was that William and Catherine took a ride in the jeep as a reference to when the Queen visited and travelled in the same jeep. Very sweet in some ways, but also open to accusations of colonial overtones.

I remember William letting it be known that lessons would be learnt and i think the lesson was not to make it easy for social media culture warriors, or those with malignant intent, to take things out of context and manufacture outage.

Thanks for this, @RecoIIectionsMayVary 👏

You are very brave, given that you’ll have to taste them. Well, one.

Do foxes eat scones??

Right, they are very unscone like. But looking at her IG look how flat they are- that isn't half a scone, it is a whole scone.

On there own they are somehow dry in the mouth, yet claggy.

I'm going to make one with 'raw cream' later, I can see that they would be ok with Jam and Cream but still more of a biscuit and not a scone.

This is the recipe I normally use

500g plain flour
15g baking powder
pinch of salt
100g caster sugar
100g diced butter
250ml milk
1 egg

They do, provided the cream goes on before the jam spread ; - )

Wonderful commitment to the cause @RecoIIectionsMayVary !!

They look like they are meant to be sandwiched together with cream an fruit, more like a strawberry shortcake. Which does contain cream and egg:

www.nigella.com/recipes/strawberry-shortcakes

What sort of flour did you opt for @RecoIIectionsMayVary ?

Incredible commitment to the cause, I commend you! ⭐️ Unfortunately, it looks like you’ve made a load of Farley’s Rusks 😦

I extra-double commend you - baking on a sweltering day like today is going above and beyond!

The good thing is that they've learned. They're not arrogant enough to ignore comments and feedback.

AFAIK the jeep ride was organised by the Jamaican military (they were inspecting graduating troops).

Do you offend your hosts by refusing their suggestion? It could easily have been spun in a very positive way. I'm not sure the SS would be as successful if they tried the same SM spin now.

I really can’t see Meghan traipsing through the heather …

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/prince-harrys-summer-reunion-king-37189059?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

No doubt, if it happens, we'll hear all about the heather - and more - in the next interview/book/social media post whatever. $$$