And a recent survey on the scone issue. Good to see that in my county, Cheshire, 63% pronounce it to rhyme with “gone”. Presumably the other 37% of folk have emigrated to the northwest from “down south”
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Most Americans have only ever heard it pronounced like CONE.
I change my pronunciation depending on who I’m with.
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Good tip. And maybe worth translating to the “cream or jam first” conundrum. Just see what the other person does and follow them. 
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this is Diplomacy. haha.
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RIP Pauline Collins.
Shirley Valentine was when I first heard of Egg and Chips.
https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/the-ultimate-egg-and-chips/
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I loved that movie!
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“Chips and egg” in the film. I had never heard it like that before the film - it’s always been “egg and chips”.
I’ve never known if it was a script writing thing or whether “chips and egg” is a Liverpool thing, so accurately representing what a real life Shirley would say.
I should mention, I changed it to Egg and Chips from Chips and Egg during my edit, because of the recipes. so the first time I heard about it was as Chips and Egg, as in the video clip.
I’m also sometimes confused as to the order of other Eggs Bacon Chips Beans dishes. I think I’ve mentioned before that I was a fan of Russell Davies blog, which led me to try a handful of historic London cafes on my visits between 2004 and 2018.
He calls his order Egg Bacon Chips and Beans
but some people seem to use a different order..
this song uses the same order. Eggs first.
Ah. The inclusion of chips makes this a bit tricky. Bacon, egg and beans would deffo be breakfast. The inclusion of chips would generally make it lunch in a greasy spoon cafe and I don’t think that there’s be a “correct” order.
Although it’s not been updated for a decade, the London Review of Breakfasts used to be a fun read - not least for the punning names of the review writers
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Thanks for the link.
Wow. One is really close by (in the US).
