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[edit] Hallmark of the British

Mmmmm... crumpets. Arghrrrghgrrhhh [think Homer noises]
I find it necessary to eat them quick before they run off my plate and escape. In fact, it may be necessary to stab said crumpet with your fork to keep it from getting away. :)
Says the Goobermaster, http://www.goobertech.com

>In the UK, "crumpet" has become a slang term for a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire. Historically it has also been used as a non-sexual term of endearment.

I'm not sure about this. It seems like whoever added it may have had "crumpet" and "strumpet" confused. Can someone from the UK enlighten me?

It's true, for what it's worth. You can hear the term used this way in many British TV shows. I'm not sure it's suitable for inclusion in the article though - seems more like a Wiktionary entry to me. -dmmaus 02:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
I don't hear it used much these days at all. Anyway, is there no American equivalent of a crumpet? I have trouble explaining to some American friends what they are. - Ferretgames 03:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Are you referring to the pastry or the prostitute? --Orborde 19:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

This isn't a cookie Please add the way that a crumpet is cooked. I read somewhere that the holes on top and the brownness there were formed by frying, but I don't have the recipe. It's quite different from an English muffin. --Sobolewski 05:01, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Im from england and ive never heard the word crumpet used in reference to a 'sexually desirable woman'. Maxtitan (talk) 20:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Crumpets are sexually appealing

May I inquire an source for the slang term stated in the article..? I've never heard of an sexually atractive person being referred to as an buiscuit. -ZeroTalk 07:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I've removed it until someone can verify this. -ZeroTalk 12:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Ehem it's a long established, if perhaps not politically correct, term for an attractive woman. Night Bringer
Seconded, and I'm a Londener. Toby Douglass 19:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes it is definitely a term (though somewhat demeaning), used in the UK, to describe an attractive woman, eg. "a nice bit of crumpet". Sometimes things don't need a citation to be true. Abc30 12:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
It's in relatively common use as a double entendre throughout the UK. Confuseddave 15:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish crumpet

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)


I lke my crumpet sliced b4 toasting —Preceding unsigned comment added by CrumpetSlicer (talk • contribs) 02:32, 11 March 2007

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)

[edit] Crumpet Recipe

Am assuming that the crumpet recipe cannot possibly be right. Bronwynml 02:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)Bronwyn

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)

[edit] Personification

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)