Given the soaring cost of food, will it soon become economically viable to reopen the scone mines?

Question

of West Wales and North Yorkshire. Cream fields discovered in the 1980s under the mountains of Suffolk were at the time considered uneconomic due the cost of drilling through the overlying strata but since then the price of cream has sky rocketed and the development of new high tech materials such as case hardened cheese should make the drilling much easier.

Answer 1

Scone mining may have been considered uneconomic in the past, but what is often swept under the proverbial carpet is the slave labor required to extract scone stuff from underneath the Suffolk hills.  (Them Suffolk folk really crack me up, they call their hills mountains.  It is also rumored that their menfolk tend to exaggerate on a more personal level too -- it is where the term "pikestaff" originated, an implement to get stuck food out from between teeth.  And so too with other mostly anatomical things but I digress.)  Scone mining is difficult work, even with the recommended ankle chains and whip-wielding overlords.  Usually the day's take is paltry because the half-starved slaves, um, I mean workers, have eaten most of the product before it gets above-ground.  But you're right, with the soaring cost of food, it's worth a shot.  Just feed your chain gang well on bulky foods such as hay bales BEFORE you send them down into the mines.

Answer 2

I've not been to Suffolk. I would love to tour the mines and sample some of the rocks.

Answer 3

If these mines do not pan out - maybe they could harvest up on rocky road? Heard the mallows were laying right on the surface - not much drilling needed. ♥

Answer 4

Mmmmmm......... Strawberry jam and cream scone.

Answer 5

I will throw some of my scones at you next time you misbehave.

Answer 6

You guys across the pond would save a fortune if you would stop rolling wheels of cheese down hillsides and instead eat the stuff.

Answer 7

Scones mmmmmmmmmmmm

I was going to ask about the jam. I see Biccy prefers strawberry, I prefer raspberry.

Where are we going to get our jam mmm mmmm wahhh gurgle gurgle, wah wah hic hic boo hoo hoohooohooo

Answer 8

Not to forget the Jam Buttie mines of Ken Dodd fame.....

Answer 9

Why not they reopened the Hackepeter-Knödel mines in Germany as well.