<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Queen's Pantry]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Queen's Pantry]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 23:51:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thequeenspantry.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[FIFTY SHADES OF MASON CASH]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether it’s to impress your friends, or to bake the perfect cake, fulfill your wildest dreams and head on down to The Queen's Pantry and get your hands on a Mason Cash bowl, you naughty little minx.]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/fifty-shades-of-mason-cash</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6990c38ce585eb0b3c85988b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:54:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_27cd3222e19b4336aaba419a0514fbd1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_369,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HE'S BEHIND YOU]]></title><description><![CDATA[No. Not Jeffrey Epstein. Or Harvey Weinstein. Or even worse Trump/Biden (delete as applicable). I’m talking about Pantomime, or Panto for short. Panto is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, especially during the Christmas and New Year season. Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing. It generally combines gender-crossing actors and topical humour with...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/he-s-behind-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6990c551e585eb0b3c859b2f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_37644c0fa5664e0eb5c6d54b03908fc4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_240,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS]]></title><description><![CDATA[So begins the song ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’. And what a bangin 'tune it is. But what are the 12 Days Of Christmas? Like, properly, not the Lords-a-leaping thing, but actually, really, it’s the big Christmas question. Well, surprise surprise, The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as the Twelve Days of Christmastide, is the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity (the birth of Jesus). So Day One is December 25th, Coincidentally, Christmas Day. The day that Jesus was born....]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/on-the-first-day-of-christmas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991a913ca3fdc1dfe13ed39</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_28290569c40041e38e89aa96d6e0f8a1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_310,h_162,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOLIDAYS ARE COMING]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes they are. And it’s The Big One. The Christmas One. You can’t miss it. It’s everywhere. And you’ll be hearing about more Christmas stuff from us here at The Queen's Pantry over the next few weeks, because, quite frankly, we bloody love Christmas. And you know when Christmas starts? When you hear that jingle…..Holidays are coming, holidays are coming…and you see the Coca Cola truck, slowly inching its way down a snow-driven pass. Because nothing screams Christmas more than a gas-guzzling 64...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/holidays-are-coming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6990c661e46957565bf99ff8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_81f08e35dfe84bb484f011b83a5b76ca~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_233,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HALLOWEEN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing up In the UK in the 70s, Halloween wasn’t really a thing. They might have shown a horror movie on one of the three TV channels, but the closest we got to the US Halloween experience was putting a white sheet over ourselves and running blindly into furniture. The blood-curdling screams were real. And there were no sweets involved. We might bob an apple, and the prize was the apple, but who wants an apple??? Teachers pets. That’s who.  But we knew Halloween was massive in the US,...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/halloween</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991aa1b766c6b5d64996d35</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_b5b1f2a8e4ee46d3baae978c56e2d553~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_339,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[CREAM TEA]]></title><description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that The Queen's Pantry is now offering afternoon cream teas (check out the website/Facebook/Instagram), and you’re probably thinking, what in the Downton Abbey is Cream Tea? Is it the plummy-toned upper-class cousin of US rapper Ice T, who spits lyrics about riding around south central Kensington in a horse drawn carriage ? Is it a crazy-fool avoiding mohicaned actor who ain’t getting on no plane? Or is it Henry, the mild-mannered janitor? Could be? Actually, not it...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/cream-tea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991ab80ca3fdc1dfe13f212</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_d81cefda969b44ecadc20cec0ca0d9d1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[LABOR (LABOUR!) DAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought this was a day to celebrate childbirth. Like, it’s the day of the year where, when women bang on about how painful childbirth is, for that day, men have to not roll their eyes and say they’ve had worse hangovers, and accept that they would also probably ‘struggle a bit’ if they had to squeeze a watermelon from ‘out of there’.  Turns out it’s not about women being a bit moany. It’s all about the workforce. You see, we get confused. You lot spell labour ‘labor’. And colour ‘color’....]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/labor-labour-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991ac2ff0131a3b550cab08</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_f7ee7cf906d8489d81326d41d492f235~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_187,h_187,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ST GEORGES DAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right. Today is St Georges Day in the UK. If you look back 2 years ago, you will see I did a fantastic blog about what happens in the UK on 23rd April. It’s pretty hilarious, and well worth a read again. However, you know, it’s a serious business this blog writing, so I thought I’d better do a proper one about St George himself. It’s funny. On St Patrick's Day, everyone wants to be Irish. We all claim some Irish heritage, often really tenuous. ‘I like green, therefore I’m Irish. I had a pint...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/st-georges-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991acd6ca3fdc1dfe13f53d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_86ea2e0024ae4646b4490b00cafc1f0b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_303,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[LIFE ON THE ROAD]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you visited The Queens Pantry the other week, you may have noticed something very different. It was much quieter than usual. The service was its usual high quality, but you may have thought you were going deaf. Turns out, the gaffer went to Europe for a week. And whilst the staff partied, and the customers basked in the peace, Sammy was rock ‘n’ rolling her way across France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg (look them up. They are countries. They don’t play basketball, baseball or helmet...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/life-on-the-road</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991ad6e2e8aec16698c6db9</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_8cafc127e8424121a5c40f561e7fa2b2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_300,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[KING CHARLES III]]></title><description><![CDATA[So we were thinking, we’d better get a funny one in now before we might have to write a more serious one soon.  So, ladies and gentlemen, your Majesty, King Charles III. You know, it's taken some getting used to calling him King Charles, because for most of us, for most of our lives, he’s always been Prince Charles. And he’s waited like, ages to become King, and now that he is, just over a year in, well… Charles was the longest heir apparent. He had to wait 50 years for the Queen to croak it....]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/king-charles-iii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991adfcca3fdc1dfe13f74f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_83fbd0564a70441ca4a1e705458ed630~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_275,h_183,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THANKSGIVING]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right. Thanksgiving is on Thursday. But you know that, don’t you. You’ve been planning this all year. Hopefully you’ve got everything sorted, because we’re closed on Thursday and Friday, so you’d better be ready. You’ve got 2 days to pick up last minute stuff, like Paxo stuffing, or delicious Yorkshire puddings, Bisto gravy and ready made roast potatoes. All available, here at The Queens Pantry until Wednesday evening. Take the cooking stress out of Thanksgiving Dinner and allow yourself to...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/thanksgiving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991ae91766c6b5d64997671</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_5fefa2e41bf447038f4d38dc6c5132f7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_299,h_168,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HENRY VIII]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘I’m Henry the Eighth I am I am’, sang Patrick Swayze in Ghost in 1990, but for the historians among you, that isn’t factually true. Patrick Swayze isn’t Henry the Eighth (or Henry VIII as his friends called him), and even though both Patrick and Henry both had the times of their lives, it’s time to get to know the real Henry. As Kings go, Henry VIII is definitely up there with the baddest. From being described as ‘the father of the Royal Navy’,(BBC News, 1534) to ‘a serial shagger who...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/henry-viii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991af08766c6b5d64997772</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_fbe2e79f120b4d7a8a04339bd6747a65~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_207,h_244,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GREAT FIRE OF LONDON]]></title><description><![CDATA[When we were kids at kindergarten in the UK, there were many traditional songs that we learnt. ‘London's Burning’ and ‘Ring-a Ring -a Rosie’ were the popular ones; great tunes, a bit of a dance routine and then you’d have free milk at recess (before Thatcher took the milk from the children, bless). Little did we know at the time that these songs were based on horrendous historical events. In 1665, the Black Death swept through the over-crowded streets of London, killing thousands through a...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/great-fire-of-london</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991af81e585eb0b3c871a70</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_482ea40c01d148139dc506104ca7458d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_323,h_156,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[TAKING THE BISCUIT!]]></title><description><![CDATA[So imagine our surprise when we found at that biscuits in America is not the same as biscuits in the UK. You call scones biscuits. We call biscuits biscuits. You have biscuits with gravy. We have biscuits with tea. As in tea and biscuits.  Now, you know, I don’t want to come off all like, hoity toity, like you Yanks haven’t got a scooby when it comes to snacks, but the thing you call biscuits is a scone. A scone is made from flour and stuff and is a bit crumbly, and you put butter and jam...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/taking-the-biscuit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991aff4ca3fdc1dfe13fb57</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_d592a1d2d27049429e24234dd5028cfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_299,h_168,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[WIMBLEDON]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone for tennis?? The Brits are awful at tennis, yet we hold the most prestigious and oldest tennis competition every year at Wimbledon. Since it started, in 1887,a Brit has won it like twice. Virginia Wade in 1977, and Andy Murray in 2013. We got so desperate at one point that we made Greg Rusedski, the Canadian, British and he still lost. He was actually pretty good when he was still Canadian. We also had a fella called Tim Henman. He won a game once and we went crazy. He was a bit of a...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/wimbledon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991b09df0131a3b550cb467</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_4c82ed98619b43d99a1d7426266471a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_225,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GLASTONBURY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello Glastonbury….. I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere……..somewhere….in a field in Somerset. This week sees the 40th Glastonbury Music and Arts Festival take place.  The first ‘Glasto’ took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset in 1970, and has become an important cultural event in the British calendar, and probably the best music festival of them all. Woodstock was pretty cool, but that was ruined in 1999, when the organisers thought it would be a good idea to have Limp...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/glastonbury</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991b135e585eb0b3c871e6e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_cb80ad38f0644f91bdafe0bcc28774c7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_267,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASHES TO ASHES]]></title><description><![CDATA[….funk to funky….ok, enough. This is not a blog about David Bowie. Today we are going to try and explain The Ashes Test Series, which is a 5 game series of cricket matches between England and Australia, that starts on 16th June 2023. Now, we like the Australians. Really, we do. Their beaches, their barbies, their joie de vivre. Australia is a beautiful country with beautiful people, and if you ever go to Australia, it is very difficult to leave. We Brits love all things Aussie. Except the...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/ashes-to-ashes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991b1d2e585eb0b3c871f82</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_246fc09d828a4827878ec47e14b991cb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_225,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHEESE ROLLING &#38; THE EVOLUTION OF CHEESE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like, cheese is mental. You milk a cow, or a goat or in some cases, a vegan, then you put bacteria in it and let it grow mould, and then you sell it for stupid amounts of money to people who think they’re better than everyone else. And you put in on pizza, and you have it on nachos, you have fancy cheeseboards with fancy crackers, they make Wotsits with it, and you can’t sleep if you have it before bedtime, and the French go crazy for it, and people write books about it, and boring people...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/cheese-rolling-the-evolution-of-cheese</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69961cecefa15866f1efc5b5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_3ff6d6d0ad234542b66cdb7248491e83~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_239,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MORRIS DANCERS]]></title><description><![CDATA[As we continue our 11th year of trading, and now that we consider you as part of the family here in Atlanta, we thought we’d let you in on some of the more obscure British traditions. It’s not all tea and biscuits, proper football and incredible bedroom prowess, and whilst we're not alone in doing incredibly stupid things (eg Johnson and Trump), there are 1 or 2 weird customs and traditions that make us quintessentially British. Over the next couple of blogs, we’re going to lift the lid on...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/morris-dancers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69961d76f797687350e677fb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_03160acaccd24c15aff4f20f46a0c9d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_267,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ST. PATRICK'S DAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friday17th March 2023 is St Patrick's Day, or Paddy’s Day, as non-Paddy's call it. On this day all Americans suddenly affect an Irish accent and get teary-eyed talking about God's Country and the hardships and sacrifices their ancestors had to make to leave the Emerald Isle and embark on a treacherous voyage in search of the Promised Land. They ended up in Boston. In honour of their imaginary family tree, every year, all Americans put on Guinness hats and ginger beards, and throw up outside...]]></description><link>https://www.thequeenspantry.com/post/st-patrick-s-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69961df09910c1b83a6b0501</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/194de9_ab1a019487be423e8787f86a954e708a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_365,h_400,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Blogitandscarpa</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>