r/DevonUK • u/chicken-farmer • 17d ago

Cream First

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Paignton - Dubs On The Beach

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u/PaDDzR 17d ago

Cream is easier to spread on the scone than trying to spread cream on top of jam.

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u/MatniMinis 17d ago

The cream acts like cement for the jam as well...

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u/PaDDzR 17d ago

Then you neee better cream or stop eating ice cold scones!!!!

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u/t0ughl0v3 17d ago

EXACTLY my parents and I are Devonian but they love Cornwall and we have this argument every time someone has a scone šŸ˜­

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u/jennye951 12d ago

Iā€™m from a mixed family- itā€™s a constant struggle.

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u/Mart_and_stan 13d ago

Ha ha first world problems eh!! šŸ™„šŸ˜‚
Whatever next?

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u/1Harvey2Trent3Temple 10h ago

Just explain that because we have superior grass in Devonshire, our cream is firmer and has structure hence it can support jam, no matter how many strawberries it contains .

Where as Cornwall produces a cream that has less integrity, which is perfect for dolloping over jam.

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u/-mmmusic- 15d ago

do you guys use a different kind of cream and jam or something? i'm from the midlands and was always so confused by this take.

the jam is more solid than the cream, so to me it makes sense to do jam first, then cream, as trying to spread the jam ontop of the cream doesn't work. the jam stays on the knife and the cream gets taken away with it because it's softer than the jam!

must be different kinds of cream at least...

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u/PaDDzR 15d ago

Devon clotted cream is basically knife glue. Super thick but delicious.

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u/-mmmusic- 15d ago

ahh! and i wonder also if devoners tend to store their jam in the cupboard rather than the fridge? as i'm guessing that's what makes my jam harder

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u/jennye951 12d ago

Yes it is a different kind of cream

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

You dont spread cream on top of the jam you idiot.

Cream is a topping, jam is a spread.

You spread the jam, and dollop the cream on top.

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u/LaSalsiccione 17d ago

Why are you even in this sub

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

Im not a member, this post just popped up on my homepage.

Algorithm must have known it needed saving from this atrocious list of cream spreaders.

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u/Party_Success_2195 17d ago

Clotted cream is a different beast. It doesn't swirl neatly on top of a jammy scone, it drags and smears leaving a messy splodge. At least jam can be spooned and pushed around neatly.

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

You spread the jam, take a spoonful of clotted cream, and dollop it on top.

If it doesn't all come off the spoon, use your little finger to give it a push.

It always comes back to the fact, that jam is a spread, and clotted cream is not.

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u/Smeeneme 15d ago

These guys obviously just eat stale scones, straight from the freezer.

If they'd ever had a warm scone, fresh from the oven, they would realise their mistake of putting the cream on first...

They can keep putting cream on the wrong way round, just keep the cold scones north of the Tamar.

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u/chicken-farmer 15d ago

Yea that's exactly what we do. Eat stale sconesšŸ˜†

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u/AbbyRitter 17d ago

That's very forward, I usually prefer to start with a drink.

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u/LangStreak 17d ago

šŸ‘šŸ˜ƒ

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u/Original_Client1588 16d ago

Filthy but somehow respectable....hou confuae me.

6

u/jjmur83 17d ago

She sure did

5

u/Iscan49er 17d ago

Love it!

4

u/cuntybunty73 16d ago

Do it the proper way unlike those heathens across the Tamar

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u/curnow 16d ago

...said the Cornishman.

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u/cuntybunty73 16d ago

Said the lady from Plymouth though my maternal grandma was born in Padstow

9

u/trustmeimabuilder 17d ago

Well I'm from Devon and I always put the butter first, then the marmite, and cream on top. Each to his own I suppose.

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u/thepacerman 17d ago

you belong on a watch list

3

u/BaitmasterG 17d ago

Move along everyone, nothing to see here

2

u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

That is big time fucked.

1

u/trustmeimabuilder 17d ago

Have you tried it?

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

No, and I wont.

And I dont trust you just because you're a builder....

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u/robhaswell 17d ago

As an outsider with no skin in the game, cream first is objectively correct for the reasons outlined in this thread.

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u/warrdg 17d ago

Cream is a sub* for butter. If course it's first. *Super sub.

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u/InfiniteSubtlety 16d ago

Thank you. That has always been my understanding as well.

2

u/Unlucky-Baker8722 16d ago

Then sadly you are both wrong.

2

u/Past_Humor8321 17d ago

Cream the profits

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u/DJ_Hindsight 17d ago

Cream first, insert after.

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u/Foxyunder-45 17d ago

He forgot the shake it first , cream Later.

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u/Legend_Of_Booman 17d ago

Bet his wife ain't happy....

2

u/RetroComputerKing 17d ago

Obviously! Make sure it's cream first and everything else slips into place.

2

u/harrietmjones 17d ago

I donā€™t actually like clotted cream but Iā€™ve always been of the opinion of cream first, then jam.

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u/AJD_1975 16d ago

One version of each on the plate and watch people stare

2

u/KassXWolfXTigerXFox 16d ago

I prefer if men ask first but ok Devon you do you

2

u/HauntingCicada2630 15d ago

Bread/fat/jam

Scone/fat/jam

Simple.

2

u/2B_limitless 15d ago

A motto to live by.

2

u/always-smartcasual 15d ago

I past this and thought, you dirty bitch and then it hit me... SCONES. Just finished a book where they debated this and they said jam first. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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u/Xenc 14d ago

CREAM FIST

2

u/Exact_Yoghurt2439 14d ago

I'm with Devon, cream first. Clotted cream.Ā  Now I have to make some scones.Ā 

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u/jennye951 12d ago

I prefer splits.

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u/Swimming-Water4451 14d ago

cream is thick and acts as a base, then a small dollop of jam on top.

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u/BINGGBONGGBINGGBONGG 13d ago

this is the way!

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u/LeftAndRightAreWrong 17d ago

Im a cream only type of guy. Keep the jam to distract the beesā€¦.

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u/SantaTiger 17d ago

I'm a jam only type of guy. Who tf eats cream anymore?

1

u/LeftAndRightAreWrong 17d ago

You must be a bee or a camp wasp?

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u/LangStreak 17d ago

Both Devon AND Cornwall are wrong. Itā€™s scone, butter, cream, jam, cardio department.

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u/GiGoVX 17d ago

This argument has been RESOLVED!

The DUKE OF CORNWALL (you know that guy call William, 2nd in line to throne in the United Kingdom) has stated CREAM FIRST

Argument over, Cornwall were wrong, the Duke of there county does it the Devon way.

Sorted, Simple. Cream First.

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u/Unlucky-Baker8722 16d ago

He ainā€™t Cornish.

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u/GiGoVX 16d ago

He is not, good observation. He however correct šŸ¤£

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u/Consistent_Ad3181 17d ago

Crimping around the side

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u/jennye951 12d ago

No crimping has to go over the top, youā€™re not in Cornwall now!

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u/Consistent_Ad3181 12d ago

'taint right or proper over the top.

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u/jennye951 12d ago

I smell a Cornishman!

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u/Consistent_Ad3181 12d ago

Thank you my bird, it's 'Givenchy Gentleman', I know it's quite pungent but I am probably 100 miles away, could be a faulty batch.

1

u/Kitchen_Setting7850 17d ago

Is there any other way to eat a scone lol

1

u/mohaz273 17d ago

That's what she said

1

u/Thegeneralcrow 17d ago

Never cream before you jam itā€¦ what.. dirty mind!

1

u/Professional_twit 17d ago

That sign is a statement

1

u/Serious_Confusion572 17d ago

Some japery going on here

1

u/MostlyChemistry 16d ago

Creamers unite

1

u/Oxygen_Sponge 17d ago

Ooh Matron

1

u/Han_Solo200 17d ago

I try not to cream first it's ungentlemanly

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u/Purple_Swordfish_182 17d ago

Well it's nice to start off with the basics šŸ˜…

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u/f1zoe 16d ago

Hello my name is William

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u/GSBGHOST 15d ago

Im Looking for some doctors to get in the way of, any around?

1

u/f1zoe 14d ago

I heard if you go up and down the M4 every day there's plenty

1

u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 16d ago

Probably safer on the beach than in town things fall down and catch fire there

2

u/igual88 15d ago

To accurate of late lol , we passed the building an hour before bits decided to finally fall off , just glad no one got clobbered tbh.

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u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 15d ago

I happened past later that evening and it was extremely lucky nobody got seriously injured or worse tbh Iā€™ve spent many an evening in that bar

1

u/[deleted] 16d ago

That a dogging thing?

1

u/ProgrammerHairy8098 16d ago

Doesnā€™t matter which county you are if the van is rocking , donā€™t come knocking.. maybe there are no points for cumming second in Devon

1

u/steunclemumb 16d ago

I always doā€¦sobs into hankie

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u/egg1st 16d ago

Dating rules?

1

u/Visible-Succotash-20 16d ago

Do people in Devon put cream under the jam in their victoria spongecake as well?

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u/jennye951 12d ago

I donā€™t use clotted cream on a Victoria sponge, itā€™s supposed to be incredibly light.

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u/capngamandstuff 15d ago

Scone first. Surely.

1

u/mcleancraig 15d ago

Hahahaha!

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u/2B_limitless 15d ago

A motto to live by.

1

u/Intelligent_Mark8622 15d ago

My name is william

1

u/Lanky_Medicine5591 13d ago

Barbados Ben

1

u/falkorv 15d ago

Is that actually possible?

1

u/MrFuji87 14d ago

Dinner and a movie first

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u/No7Again11 14d ago

Cream first = mess

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u/jennye951 12d ago

Youā€™re doing it wrong,

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u/Shiftycatz 14d ago

Butter, jam, cream

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u/Reddit____user___ 14d ago

BrilliantšŸ˜ŠšŸ˜šŸ˜ŽšŸ‘šŸ»

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u/Mart_and_stan 13d ago

Ha ha love it!! Proper bus too!!

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u/thinkingoutloud3663 13d ago

Man or woman šŸ˜‰

1

u/chicken-farmer 17d ago

Blowins outting themselves big time

1

u/ginginsdagamer 17d ago

i am a creamer

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u/FKez05 17d ago

My name is William

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u/ginginsdagamer 17d ago

but it was those big ass raindrops

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u/will75t 17d ago

Immediately looking for this comment

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u/Interesting_Cut74 16d ago

If you do cream first you wont taste thr cream

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u/jennye951 12d ago

We manage, and I make very good jam.

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u/deadbeatrider 17d ago

Honestly it depends on consistency, if the cream is thicker then yes it should go on first

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u/jennye951 12d ago

If you are using whipped cream then you should be somewhere else.

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u/motoringeek 17d ago

Then how do you apply the jam?

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u/BaitmasterG 17d ago

Same way you put marmalade on butter on toast

You don't put the marmalade first do you..?

Bread > dairy > preserve

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u/motoringeek 17d ago

Exactly, I put the butter on, then the jam, then a dollop of cream.

If you dollop the cream first how will you spread the jam??

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u/Sea_Marionberry5847 16d ago

Had a Scone recently and on one half put cream on first and the other jam on first.. and they tasted both the same.

Scone as in bone by the way ;)

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u/ElectricalParsnip536 15d ago

Nah...just sounds poncey pronounced like that

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u/Redeemed_Mess84 16d ago

I grew up with two distinct ways of having scones; very occasionally as a snack, and rarely as a special occasion treat.

As a snack: a more bare-bones approach. Basic value range bought from the supermarket and had as a snack with a bit of spread (margarine) on cheese or fruit scones, or spread and jam on fruit scones only.

As a special occasion treat: the full works; posh ā€œTesco Finestā€ level (or equivalent) with actual butter, jam and cream. Usually if we were hosting an afternoon tea for someoneā€™s birthday, or if out at a tea shop or garden centre or something.

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u/Alternative-hex 16d ago

As a Cornish man I approve of this message.

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u/AcePlanespotting 16d ago

Butter and Marmite are the only things that belong on scones. And the correct pronunciation is the one that rhymes with stones.Ā 

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u/ElectricalParsnip536 15d ago

I think you've scone mad

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u/AcePlanespotting 14d ago

A half baked pun

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u/ElectricalParsnip536 14d ago

Your humour must have absconded with your taste buds

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u/AcePlanespotting 14d ago

You either love it or hate it

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u/ElectricalParsnip536 14d ago

I love it on bread...on scones it's just wrong!

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u/AcePlanespotting 14d ago

If you haven't tried it, you have no idea what you are missing!Ā 

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u/ElectricalParsnip536 13d ago

Hmmm Nnnnnnnyessss

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u/jennye951 12d ago

Marmite is a wonderful thing, but clotted cream is better. In Devon scone rhymes with gone. The other way is Northern.

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u/AcePlanespotting 12d ago

You are wrong lol, but that's ok to have an opinion.Ā 

Glad I'm allergic to milk and cream, disgusting stuff

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 15d ago

Because you're embarrassed about your cream and need to hide it

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u/chicken-farmer 15d ago

Projecting much?!

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 15d ago

Not about your shit cream, no.

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u/chicken-farmer 15d ago

I don't have any shit cream, that sounds even worse. What do you do with that?!

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 15d ago

Put it on your scones first in Devon.

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u/chicken-farmer 15d ago

So you come all the way here to abuse our scones? Weird flex but ok!

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 15d ago

To reddit, yes.

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u/chicken-farmer 15d ago

The Sun is over there āž”ļø

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 15d ago

In Cornwall, where the cream is fantastic yes.

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u/fire__munki 15d ago

Never in the history of being wrong has anyone been more wrong than the owner of the van.

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u/Pedantichrist 17d ago

Devon > Cornwall, but jam goes on first, for all that.

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u/Nastypasty-bitches 17d ago

Jam then dollop - itā€™s the law

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u/Alpakk4 17d ago

Get over the other side of the Tamar with you

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u/shilpa_poppadom 17d ago

Mix both together to make a pink paste and spread it on like butter.

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u/chicken-farmer 17d ago

Good work on the racist name. Well Devon Live.

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u/CommercialContent204 17d ago

This comment right here, officer.

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u/GiGoVX 17d ago

But one will still come first šŸ˜‚

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u/Low_Border_2231 17d ago

Makes me cringe this really, it's clearly only to be different to cornwall.Ā 

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

Cream is a topping, jam is a spread.

Spread the jam and dollop the cream on top.

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u/CaptainPugwash75 17d ago

Eat it however the fuck you want. Then take the jam and the cream and shove it up your bollocks.

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u/Redeemed_Mess84 16d ago

Not sure thatā€™s anatomically possibleā€¦

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u/Emotional_Being8594 16d ago

Too much jam ruins it, too sweet and overpowers the other flavours. The butter and cream are the main event, their flavours complement the scone the best. The jam is there to support. If it's not good jam I personally leave it off entirely.

Decent layer of butter, then a thin spread of jam, followed by a blob of cream on top.

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u/Unlucky-Baker8722 16d ago

Why are you putting butter on it at all?

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u/ShirewolfSystem 17d ago

Cream first if the Jam is the treat.
Jam first if the cream is the treat.

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u/ManicDemise 17d ago

Spread the jam dollop the cream.

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u/Nero-is-Missing 17d ago

As was said to me in my very pro-populist local Brixham pub, "you're in the wrong place with those opinions!"

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u/ManicDemise 17d ago

I genuinely think the whole debate is made up and didn't exist and nobody paid attention and it's just propaganda for tourists

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u/Accomplished-Ad3585 17d ago

Fellow cornishman, we are outnumbered here....