Aylesbury, England

[Lamplighter]

Ummm... clotted blood candy ... maybe kids would love it.

[Sundae]

I'm not sure clotted has exactly the same resonance here.
It's not always about blood. Cream teas come with clotted cream after all. Yummy.

But I do love the idea that my words have enough power to keep small children up at night.

[DanaC]

Yeah, clotted is a little different here :p

Clotted cream has been described as having a "nutty, cooked milk" flavour,[3] and a "rich sweet flavour" with a texture that is grainy, sometimes with oily globules on the crusted surface.[4][5] It is a thick cream, with a very high fat content (a minimum of 55%, but an average of 64%); in the United States it would be classified as butter.[6] Despite its popularity, virtually none is exported due to it having a very short shelf life.[6]


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Clotted cream is an essential part of a cream tea, a favourite with tourists in Cornwall and Devon. It is served on scones—or the more traditional 'splits' in Cornwall[35]—with strawberry or raspberry jam, along with a pot of tea. Traditionally, there are differences in the way it is eaten in each county: in Devon, the cream is traditionally spread first on the scone, with the jam dolloped on top; in Cornwall the jam is spread first with a dollop of cream.[36] Cream teas spread to southern Australia as early immigrants from Cornwall and Devon took their traditional recipes with them.[37] In 2010, Langage Farm in Devon started a campaign for "Devon cream tea" to have protected designation of origin similar to "Cornish clotted cream".[38][39] One variation on a cream tea is called "Thunder and Lightning" which consists of a round of bread, topped with clotted cream and golden syrup, honey or treacle.[40]

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It can be used as an accompaniment to hot or cold desserts. Clotted cream, especially clotted cream from Devon, where it is less yellow due to lower carotene levels in the grass, is regularly used in baking. It is used throughout the south-west of England in the production of ice cream,[41] and fudge.[42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cream

[limey]

Now I wants me some clotted cream.

[DanaC]

I know. Between this and the giant spliff I jst smoked, I arnt half got the raging munchies.

[be-bop]

"I know. Between this and the giant spliff I jst smoked, I arnt half got the raging munchies".

Is that you hogging the spliff again, yer supposed to pass it around

[glatt]

Our free commuter paper this morning had a little thing on an art exhibit in Aylesbury. I was all like "Hey! I know someone there."

Have you had a chance to see it yet, Sundae? It's at Waddesdon Manor.

[Sundae]

I should go, shouldn't I?
Tickets are only £8.
I might see how generous Mum is feeling - there's a Christmas Carol evening on in said gardens on the 8th December.

You know I have never been to Waddesdon Manor.
Everyone I knew from that side of town (when I lived very near by in the village of Quainton) had already been. School trips and woth visiting Aunties and Grandmas and picnics ad nauseum. Ditto Claydon House. The 'rents have been to show other people around though.

Throw a stone round here and you hit a National Trust property. Or a setting for Morse or Midsomer Murders. We're so replete with the picturesque it makes us lazy.

[glatt]

I know what you mean. We've never taken the kids for a tour of the White House, and that's even free. Or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where they make the money. Or Archives, where the Declaration of Independence is.

The list goes on and on. No excuse really.

[Lamplighter]

You need out-of-town visitors to precipitate such trips.

[limey]

That's one of the reasons I love visitors coming to my island.

Sent by thought transference.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by limey

That's one of the reasons I love visitors coming to my island.

Sent by thought transference.

I'm there!

[Sundae]

We'll go together one summer, Tril - I promise.
You would adore it.
We'll get Limes to drive us from one set of stone circles and standing stones to another, spot deer and seals, eat clotted cream and make mischief with Limey's loveable cats.

Oh and stay in a B&B not the bunkhouse as I'll be rich by then I tell, beyond my wildest dreams!!! Anyway, you haven't lived without a full cooked UK breakfast.

Sad that Arran is at its best when John Barrowman is not in Glasgow. You'll have to make a second trip to experience him. Pantomime I mean, yes, it's panto you have to experience. And The Alamo for Christmas.

[Sundae]

We have to think of a real way to achieve this rather than fantasy.
Maybe when we get to 92 we can appeal to a feel-good show by Oprah's daughter.

Damn, that's another fantasy.

[Trilby]

again: I'm IN!


There are three places i want to see before I kick- your place, Sundae; limey's island (with side trip to Ireland/Scotland natch) and Iceland. I want to go to Iceland because they consult the fairy folk before making a road or building something. If the fairies say no dice, they have to build elsewhere. I admire that sort of civilization.