Talk:Crumpet

message: The first part of the first sentence, "A crumpet...is a savoury/sweet bread snack", has at least a couple of problems. First, the slash has no place in formal, informative writing. It is used for writing fractions or sometimes in material such as a table. Instead, use a comma or the word "or" (not "either/or", for the same reason and also because the word "or" implies "either"). So we could rewrite it "A crumpet...is a savoury or sweet bread snack", but here we find the second problem: Is it a bread snack that is sweet? Or is it a sweetbread snack? A sweetbread is not the same thing as a sweet bread. I don't know which it is, but this doesn't work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.69.146.178 (talk) 12:39, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could have fixed it, but since you didn't I changed it to "sweet and savoury" and left it at that. Besides, you're being overly grammatical. A bread can be sweet without being a sweetbread. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. It was never claimed to be a sweetbread and since you pointed out that they can be different (just as I did), why assume that they made a mistake? MagnoliaSouth (talk) 00:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar and usage note 

message: Fascinating, I would never have guessed that a "crumpet" in Scotland was a kind of pancake and yet was not a Scotch pancake.  However, can I propose controversially that:
* WP is more use having one article per subject rather than one article per possible title word;
* a Scottish crumpet is a kind of pancake and has more in common with other kinds of pancake than with the English crumpet;
* the article Pancake surveys different kinds of pancake (and gives names for them) used in different regions, and it would make sense for people reading that article to include the explanation of "Scottish crumpet";
and therefore it would make more sense for the "Scottish crumpet" heading to be a section of the Pancake article than of this one?  We should of course keep a mention of Scottish use/redirect in this article so that people could find it/weren't confused.  —Blotwell 13:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in my opinion Wikipedia is not paper, and it's useful to have both types of crumpet discussed on the same page to show comparisons. Of course it's only a kind of pancake if you assume that to refer to what the English call a "Scotch pancake" rather than the large thin English pancake. Thus this variety is properly covered here and linked from the other article. ... dave souza, talk 09:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish crumpet 

message: Am assuming that the crumpet recipe cannot possibly be right. Bronwynml 02:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was not right - it had been vandalized. I've reverted it, but in the future, please revert any vandalism you see as soon as you can. Instructions on how can be found at Help:Reverting. Thanks for bringing that to our attention! Natalie 02:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crumpet Recipe 

message: To refer to a women as a crumpet is not personification in this case. I have changed the passage to reflect this by using the term objectify since it is the women which has taken on the qualities or the sense of the object and not the other way around. Epent (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean *puts on chauvinist hat* ... soft, warm, tasty and satisfying, and just begging to be covered in butter? 193.63.174.11 (talk) 14:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personification 

message: Some of those toppings are disgusting and hardly what i'd call popular. someone's gotta be joking  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.194.223 (talk) 12:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a personal opinion.  My favourite is vegemite - http://www.howdoyoulikeyourvegemite.com.au/?go=profiles.  MartianBeerPig 21:12, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd second this. Vegemite / Marmite goes surprisingly well on crumpets (if they're buttered...), as does peanut butter. Not sure about the Humous, mind, but each to their own. They seem just as well suited to savoury toppings as sweet. In fact I'm pretty sure I've made a Crumpet mini-pizza before... (toast under a grill, spread with tomato paste and herbs, add thin sliced cheese, drop back under the grill for a few seconds until the cheese melts a little ... heavenly) 193.63.174.11 (talk) 14:02, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Should honey be higher up the list? I'll accept people put vegemite on them, but wouldn't butter and honey be more common?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.247.9 (talk) 06:02, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular toppings 

message: Okay, first of all, isn't that picture an English muffin? It looks like one to me. What is the difference between the two? Can we PLEASE clarify this.Mountain Girl 77 (talk) 03:27, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The image is definitely that of a crumpet, not an english muffin. Speaking as an American, we now have an easy way to tell the difference. Trader Joes now sells both traditional english muffins and traditional crumpets. EM's are perforated lightly before baking, and when split, the surface has holes, but the hole edges are ragged from being torn open by a fork (if you use a knife, you are a bloody bastard). crumpets are like a US pancake, but thicker, and firmer, where the bubbles that form before flipping are more pronounced, and since they are not flipped, the holes do not fill up again with batter. EM's are more breadlike in texture, and can be toasted to give them more crispiness and less doughiness. Crumpets are more like a very firm pancake, and when toasted, maintain a spongy, chewy texture, and dont really crisp up like an EM. But, why hasnt anyone been able to adequately source the use of "crumpet" to refer to an attractive woman? its widespread, its been used in films (i am 99% sure its in the original film version of Alfie)? Please don't tell me its because of political correctness.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.134.183 (talk) 01:08, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just ate a crumpet here in the UK and - as with most crumpets I have eaten for the past 25+ years - it was lovely and lightly crisped on top and bottom. No one likes a soft/soggy crumpet! i.e. Beg to differ that they are at all similar to American pancakes. Since they sell "Scotch pancakes" everywhere in the UK, that would be a better comparison. Crumpets are indeed more similar to American "English muffins". (This from an American ex-pat living in the UK on/off since 1985.) --gobears87 (talk) 10:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Crumpets and American English muffins are really quite different from each other and I would not make any comparison apart from their circumference. Forget American pancakes, you may as well compare crumpets with a Blu-Ray disk, that's how unlike American breakfast stack pancakes they are.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.0.10 (talk) 10:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Um... 

message: What is the etymology?  Should be included.Curb Chain (talk) 05:23, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  pikelet 

message: It's interesting to hear the term pikelet used to describe a crumpet; I had no idea there was this regional variation.
I was born and raised in southern England by English parents and grandparents. The term was definitely "crumpet" hereabouts. When supermarkets turned up we started to see pikelets as an alternative; they were invariably thin crumpets and looked like they were cooked without a constraining ring. A crumpet was about an inch (25mm) thick and pikelet was a quarter inch (5mm) thick. This is still true today.
I'm fairly certain that if you stopped people on the street and asked what a pikelet was, many wouldn't be able to tell you but they'd recognise a crumpet instantly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fjleonhardt (talk • contribs) 10:16, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard 'pikelet' used in the West Midlands for either type, it's a very regionally specific term albeit much closer to the Welsh origins of the dish. Never heard it elsewhere in UK.Svejk74 (talk) 21:16, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You've obviously never been to Hull, then. Nick Cooper (talk) 20:42, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  The whole article is a bit of a mess. It suffers from the usual WP culinary article problem of various editors across the world including their local interpretation of terms (and sometimes things that are dubiously related to the term). Pikelet is a term used throughout Wales, the West Midlands and Lancs/Yorks, but it means different things in different places as usage has evolved and the term has been incorporated into local food cultures. Generally speaking, pikelets of any sort have no connection with what Americans call 'English muffins'. --Ef80 (talk) 19:04, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crumpet vs Pikelet 

message: The addition of North Africa to the areas where crumpets are to be found has been reverted by another editor, but please note that these, found in Morocco and elsewhere, are already referred to in the 'See also' section, under the page for Baghrir. Sbishop (talk) 16:13, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Baghrir aren't 'crumpets' - different ingredients, independent development etc Svejk74 (talk) 16:26, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  North African crumpets