Word: scone
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Europeans tend to think of doughnuts as being leaden and greasy, and easily bypassed in favor of a flaky croissant or a properly made scone slathered in fresh cream and strawberry jam. Consider Dunkin' Donuts, owned by the British beverage company Allied Domecq. It doesn't release separate figures for its European shops, but they're not considered a success. "I'd be amazed if Dunkin' Donuts makes any money at all in Europe," says Andrew Holland, an ABN AMRO analyst in London. Indeed, Dunkin' Donuts closed its last U.K. outlet earlier this year. But the quality of Krispy Kreme...
...Their queen is Mrs. Hapgood (Emily Knapp), a paragon of British uprightness whose scone-like name belies a brilliantly reckless investigative style. Though she's a good six inches shorter than everyone else, Knapp fills out the personality of her great character and controls the stage. The audience hangs on her next action, and one hopes that no one from the BBC sees this performance lest Helen Miren should find herself...
Everybody hates an Anglophile. Or at least everybody should. By this I mean the kind of buttered-scone Anglophiles who have supported middlebrow imports like Ballykissangel and Masterpiece Theatre through pledge drive after pledge drive: those self-hating televisual Tories who cling to genteel dramas and dotty, dated comedies as a Union Jacked bulwark against American TV's tendency to be so crude, so commercial...so American...