RE: The Fox Den: Is bacon flavored coffee next?
Amazing, the saga of the green black house continues. One might think, this is the actual heart of Albion, not the court house. Well, its not really far apart, though.
Astonishing - and courageous - to open a new business there and now. Here in Germany, small town like Albion suffer from a trend that all businesses and services shut down and move to the next bigger city. At the end there is no shops, no bank, no doctors, nothing. And then the people start to leave as well, since there are no jobs anymore as well, and one has to drive around for everything. So they also move into the cities. Sad.
In the east of Germany there are villages that are almost abandoned, and you can buy a house for a few thousand Euro there, while in the big cities the property prices are going through the roof.
My first question was: what are scones?
After 34 among Brits I actually never heard that word - so I looked it up, and it turns out to be what they call pasties. One of their most favourite quick snacks, that I also ate oftentimes. Certainly not healthfood, with fairly dubious fillings, where you wonder if you should know whats in it, or rather not. But quiete tasty mostly, at least for british standards.
And a bacon-cheddar flavour does not sound unusual for those. The bestseller in the army diner was kidney-mushroom, so bacon-cheddar seems rather tame.
A worrying trend here in recent years are ice creams with weird flavours - like bacon-cheddar. Or Bratwurst flavour, or Pizza, Salmon, Beer and whatever flavour. Yuck! Whats wrong with Strawberry, Vanilla, Chocolate, Walnut and such? Someone should tell those guys that new means not automatically better. Like this one:
Its open for speculation whats in this one, or if its just racist chocolate ice cream:
I think we're seeing another wave of that. A hundred years ago there were little towns scattered all over the place--so everyone could be within a horse and wagon ride of what they needed. Then the car came along, and many of those towns are now only historical placards and abandoned barns. Now we have people in towns my size going twelve miles to a town ten times bigger, while the people in those towns travel to Fort Wayne, half an hour or more away--to get the same stuff they could get in their towns. The result: town of a few thousand or smaller are struggling, unless they happen to be near a major highway--and sometimes then.
Forget the new flavors! Ick. Oddly, the first time I ever heard the word scones was from a British actor, but maybe he was just reading the line for American audiences. They sound better than pasties ... because here in America there's a thing called a pasty, which is used to conceal the nipples on exotic dancers. You don't want to mix those up!
Haha! Yeah, that would explain the different word! I don't even know what that is called in Britain. Come to think of it, I don't know what its called in Germany either... Not my field of expertise... :)
Well, none of us is perfect!