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Did you eat crumpets while growing up? I didn’t, but my friends and I would serve imaginary crumpets at our teddy bear tea parties when we were prescoolers, though we didn’t exactly know what crumpets were. "Tea and Crumpets" was a saying we had heard, so tea and crumpets it was.It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I actually tasted my first crumpet. They were not readily available in my

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Being an American, at least in my case, means wondering about the lifestyles of our elegant cousins overseas—you know, the British. Whenever an American does an impression of a Briton, they typically involve some mention of “tea and croompets!” and overexaggerate the accent with pursed lips. This makes me …