Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.
How about it? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Flashback Friday post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.
If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on any day this past year and link to that post in a comment.
This was originally posted on June 28, 2018
Anyone for Crumpets?
“Allow me to introduce you to my friend Fandango,” Jim said to Teresa.
“Fandangle? That’s an odd name,” Teresa said. “Are you as useless and ornamental as your name implies?”
“No, my name is not Fandangle, it’s Fandango.” I said.
“You mean like the Spanish dance?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said. “And like the online movie ticket buying site. But that’s not what I was named for.”
“What were you named for, then?” she asked.
“It comes from a line in the Queen song, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” I answered. “My parents were huge Queen fans.”
“That’s just weird,” she said. “So what’s your deal, Fandangle?”
“Well, I’m a big fan of crumpets,” I said. “Have you ever had a crumpet? It’s like an English muffin, only better.”
“Mmm, doesn’t that sound good?” said Jim, trying his best to salvage this awkward situation. “I am having quite an appetency for crumpets, aren’t you?”
Teresa looked at her watch and said, “Oh my, will you look at the time.” Looking first at Jim and then at Fandango, she said, “Nice to have met you, Fandangle,” right before she abruptly turned around and started walking away.
“It’s Fandango, dammit!” I shouted as she was leaving.
Written for today’s Three Things Challenge from Teresa. The three things are appetency (a longing or desire), crumpet (a person’s head), and fandangle (a useless or purely ornamental thing).
FWIW, I thought a “crumpet” was a small griddle cake made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour and yeast. And that — not as a person’s head — is how I used that thing in this post.
Interesting factoid: After I posted this, I got a comment from Teresa, who was curious about when the word “crumpet” went from being a person’s head to being a food. I posted a follow-up on what Teresa found here on the same day (6/28/2018).
This, That, and the Other 
Funny story, and yes, I’ve had the food crumpets, and like them much better than English muffins. 🙂
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Do they taste anything like Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets? Yum!
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Thanks for participating.
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This post was new to me as somehow, I missed this gem. Thanks for reposting it.
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I wrote it and it seemed new to me, too! 😆
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I love crumpets.
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Thank you for hosting, Fandango (definitely not Fandangle, lol). Here is my post, from June 28, 2020, curiously enough, about a traditional Mexican dance:
Song Lyric Sunday – La Bamba – My Slice of Mexico
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i HAVE TWO OF MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER’S RECIPES: ONE FOR CRUMPETS AND ONE FOR ENGLISH MUFFINS. THEY BOTH USE THE SAME INGREDIENTS IN THE SAME AMOUNTS AND ARE BAKED IN THE SAME WAY. and I didn’t know I was shouting till I looked up to spell check…sorry.
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So what makes crumpets and English muffins different if they use the same ingredients in the same amount and are baked the same way?
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heck if I know. I think it is more a “where did your ancestors come from” thing than anything else. My southern family members called em crumpets (all from Great britian ) and my northern ones called em english muffins.
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Fun Fandango. Here’s my contribution this week
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Thanks for these prompts, Fandango👍🏻💕
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My pleasure, Cheryl.
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Do they taste anything like Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets? Yum!
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I never had any Tastykakes, so I wouldn’t know. Regular ones don’t have a lot of taste, it’s what you put on them that makes them good, and it soaks down into all the little air pockets. 🙂
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