Thread: Rise and shine! The Breakfast car is now open. Show us your Breakfast !!

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Not sure if I showed you this before but this is how my swiss coleague served a scone with jam and cream

And I feel the need to clarify that there is no such place as Devonshire. notmuchofachin, a cream tea over here is called a Devonshire tea, I was very confused for a while.

Just because we like to be confusing, things that come from here are either described as Devonshire or Devonian. For added irritation, Devon is pronounced differently for each term. I'd say us Brits like to be as irritating as we are creative when it comes our native English. For a wonderful example of our love of combining harmless everyday words into graphic profanity, you can't go wrong with the Viz Profanisaurus.

And no, I'm not a northern lad. I'm Devon born and bred, but thankfully escaped having the accent