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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

It's a Fucking Cookie

Posted by on Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:15 AM

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Seriously, coffee shop.

 

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samktg 1
Looks like a traditional scone to me, not like those triangles you get at Starbucks which are more cake-y than quick bread-y.
Posted by samktg on November 8, 2011 at 6:23 AM
samktg 2
Although I suppose those triangles aren't really cake-y at all, but they're certainly a different consistency from the thicker, rougher texture of more traditional scones.

Naturally, my sleep-deprived state makes me an authority on all things sconish.
Posted by samktg on November 8, 2011 at 6:26 AM
3
That is a bad shot. Buy the thing and get some profile shots, cut it in half and what-not. BTW Utah has the best scones in the world (or in their case worlds),
Posted by _db_ on November 8, 2011 at 6:37 AM
Steven Bradford 4
Dan's angling for Andy Rooney's job now?
Posted by Steven Bradford http://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ on November 8, 2011 at 7:03 AM
npage148 5
Calling it a scone is bad marketing, scones are the worst pastry ever made
Posted by npage148 on November 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM
AmyC 6
i'm not a fan of scones, either...i worked in a deli with a woman whose baked goods were out of this world. she was profiled multiple times in Gourmet magazine. her cheesecake could bring you to tears. and even HER scones were dry old hunks of boring bread. i don't think i've ever had a scone i enjoyed.
Posted by AmyC on November 8, 2011 at 7:09 AM
Vince 7
Cranky? Eat whatever gives you that needed bowel movement, already!
Posted by Vince on November 8, 2011 at 7:19 AM
8
that's because Americans eat scones the wrong way ;-).
The idea is to have fresh scones and eat them with marmelade at tea time.
(That said, I've actually had good rich, American scones.)
Posted by adam.smith on November 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Matt from Denver 9
@ 1 is right. Starbucks fucks up everything.
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 8, 2011 at 7:28 AM
10
If they called it a cookie could they still charge $2.35 for it?
Posted by Ken Mehlman on November 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM
Banna 11
The only scones worth eating come filled with butter and raspberry jam from the Fishers booth at the Puyallup Fair.
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on November 8, 2011 at 7:46 AM
12
I make wonderful scones. They are moist and flavorful and appealing. I expect you all over at tea time to partake.
Posted by krista1203 on November 8, 2011 at 7:48 AM
Aurora Erratic 13
Looks like a pretty damn good cookie, too.
Posted by Aurora Erratic http://www.finemesspottery.com on November 8, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Teslick 14
It looks like poo.
Posted by Teslick on November 8, 2011 at 8:23 AM
15
Looks like what I saw being used in that hump submission
Posted by apres_moi on November 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM
Fnarf 16
The dryness of a scone is a feature, not a bug. Like a cream cracker, it's meant to be eaten with your tea (not coffee), with butter and jam on it. It should be hard, flaky, powdery dry and as much salty as sweet (but a little of both). A "moist" scone makes no sense. I've never seen a half-decent one in the US. Most US scones are just defectively made sweet cakey biscuits. A scone is not cakey. The thing in the picture is not a scone.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on November 8, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Cato the Younger Younger 17
It looks like what was floating around in the toilet after I took my dump this morning. And I DID have walnuts last night.
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 8, 2011 at 8:56 AM
BEG 18
Oh come on! That's got to be at least $2 worth of sugar stuffed into it...
Posted by BEG http://twitter.com/#!/browneyedgirl65 on November 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM
19
Don't be scone-ing me: dats a biscuit
Posted by randzerox on November 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Matt from Denver 20
@ 16, you need to find a place that does a good high tea. They do exist in America... (Not at the Olympic Hotel, though, so don't try there.)
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 8, 2011 at 9:04 AM
A Magnolia Heron 21
You want a good scone? Columbia City Bakery: Fruit Scone. That is a scone.
Posted by A Magnolia Heron on November 8, 2011 at 9:30 AM
Fnarf 22
@20, I think you mean "afternoon tea". "High tea" just means "working class dinner". Certainly won't be any scones present. If it's in a hotel, or the Queen Mary Tea Room on NE 55th St, it's afternoon tea.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on November 8, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Matt from Denver 23
I always heard it called "high tea," but I won't nitpick - you got my drift. And it's been a while but I'm pretty sure I've had scones at it. I could be dreaming, though.
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 8, 2011 at 10:07 AM
24
The best scones in Washington are at Bailey's Bakery in Nahcotta on the Long Beach Peninsula. I feel strongly enough about this to make my first ever Slog comment.
Posted by 8:40 on November 8, 2011 at 10:15 AM
25
There's very little separating a scone from a cookie, but the differences are nevertheless significant and they have more to do with the amount of leavening and liquid than with whether they have chocolate chips, walnuts, or whatever. It may be safer to say that like gender, cookies and scone are not rigid categories, but rather to stops along a continuum between flat and crispy on the one side and puffy and cakey on the other.

http://somethinktochewon.blogspot.com/20…
Posted by j-lon on November 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM
blip 26
That thing may or may not be a scone but it sure as shit ain't a cookie.
Posted by blip on November 8, 2011 at 11:14 AM
27
@8,

It's not a scone without clotted cream.
Posted by keshmeshi on November 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Jmily Eohnson 28
@22 I work at the Queen Mary and it's hilarious when people call to make reservations for high tea. I don't correct them, since it's a common misconception, but they freak out when I call it afternoon tea. Then again, our customer base is primarily rich housewives from Bellevue, so...
Posted by Jmily Eohnson on November 8, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Fred Casely 29
Samktg: had you made it to bed at a decent hour you would recall that there are two equally scony types of scone. There's the Siren's Triangle you reference, which are cut scones. The one in the pic are drop scones.

A scone that's leaning toward cookie can be OK, but a cookie that's almost like a scone is gross.
Posted by Fred Casely on November 8, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Fnarf 30
@28, I've been to the QM twice, and both times the place was packed to the walls with little girls having a birthday party, fifteen or twenty of them, all in tiaras, practicing their ridiculous hoity-toity English accents and squealing. Quite charming.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on November 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM
Matt from Denver 31
Well, there you go. I've learned something new today.
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Dougsf 32
Can we stop putting walnuts in baked goods, please? They are not welcome there. Seriously people, just... stop.
Posted by Dougsf on November 8, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Fnarf 33
@32, I beg leave to disagree. They're great in cookies. And I had a walnut baguette the other night from Macrina that was scrum-diddly-umptious (even if the walnuts or some other mysterious ingredient turned the loaf purple inside). Now that I think of it, walnuts are pretty great in everything.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on November 8, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Sandiai 34
@32 I'm with you, man. Walnuts or other nuts are texture-disrupting-bitter-tannins-blech-flavor-vacuoles
Posted by Sandiai on November 9, 2011 at 2:33 AM

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