The Great Debate

secretsam

Cream tea: jam or cream first?

veronese68

Jam first.

fenix

Jam on one half of the scone - Cream on the other. Everyone wins.

If its not to your liking - simply turn the scone over. Or give it to me you ungrateful oik.

tangled_metal

How can you spread jam on cream? Spread jam onto the butter then cream dolloped on top. Logical and correct IMHO. P.S. I don't actually like cream so it's butter and jam only for me. I'm a philistine I know but it's still jam then cream.

davesnothere

Cream first

kingstongraham

It's clearly obvious. If there is butter available, then it goes butter, then jam, then clotted cream. If there is no butter supplied, then the cream substitutes for the butter, and it goes clotted cream then jam.

On the clear assumption that no one is foolish enough to either have jam directly on a scone or clotted cream directly on butter.

And whoever said one on each half - that way you only get half as much clotted cream.

mr_goo

Interesting. An online mass debate on whether cream should go on a scone first. What next a mass debate on the Australian biscuit game?

tangled_metal

How about a debate on whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits!

FocusZing

Jam then cream with a nice cup of tea, no sugar...Posturing and Pontification...Then wack a nice big fat expenses claim off to the EU account department, smashing.

veronese68

Tangled Metal wrote:

How about a debate on whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits!

That's been settled in court.

Goo, you're as much of a mass debater as the rest of us. What's your opinion?

rick_chasey

Tangled Metal wrote:

How about a debate on whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits!

Biscuit - goes soft when stale.

Cake - goes hard when stale.

Jaffa cake goes hard went stale, ergo it's a cake.

chrisaonabike

Rick Chasey wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

How about a debate on whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits!

Biscuit - goes soft when stale.

Cake - goes hard when stale.

Jaffa cake goes hard went stale, ergo it's a cake.

Correct. It's called a Jaffa Cake for a reason. If it was a biscuit, it would be called a Jaffa Biscuit.

TheBigBean

Cream on scone. Jam as sweet desert. Yes, I'm weird.

mrfpb

Clotted cream first, then jam. And it goes on a scone that rhymes with stone, not a scon with a redundant e.

CiB

I find it best to get as much butter cream & jam on in any order, before the rest of the family have their share.

I really don't get why such a trivial and pointless argument is raised so often. It still tastes of jam cream & butter whichever way it goes in. A much more valid debate is the one between the wise sensible educated types who correctly pronounce scone to rhyme with cone [s + cone = scone, see?], or the blithering straw-sucking dimwits who rhyme it with gone. Morons, eh? every one of em.

daniel_b

I go clotted cream, then jam, then more clotted cream on top.

First.Aspect

Its consistency related. The lowest viscosity composition goes last. That's usually the jam, but not always.

mr_goo

mrfpb wrote:

Clotted cream first, then jam. And it goes on a scone that rhymes with stone, not a scon with a redundant e.

Down here in the Sarf the 'e' is unemployed.

qube

It's "scone"... to sound like "gone"

Not to sound like "stone"

That's the end of that, before it gets ugly.

seanoconn

Clotted cream first then jam. You don't spread the jam either but dollop. From an asthetic point of view, what would be the point of hiding the jam under the cream? White with a smaller amount of red on top looks much nicer.

seanoconn

Qube wrote:

It's "scone"... to sound like "gone"

That's why it's the fastest cake in the world.

ayjaycee

Tangled Metal wrote:

How about a debate on whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits!

Who cares when there is a cream tea on offer.

As to the original question, cream first and only clotted cream will do.

davesnothere

Jaffa cakes are rank

bbrap

DavesNotHere wrote:

Jaffa cakes are rank

Try the dark choccy ones from M&S, they are lovely with a black coffee. I agree the McVities JCs are rank.

davesnothere

bbrap wrote:

the dark choccy ones from M&S are rank.

kingstongraham

CiB wrote:

I find it best to get as much butter cream & jam on in any order, before the rest of the family have their share.

I really don't get why such a trivial and pointless argument is raised so often. It still tastes of jam cream & butter whichever way it goes in. A much more valid debate is the one between the wise sensible educated types who correctly pronounce scone to rhyme with cone [s + cone = scone, see?], or the blithering straw-sucking dimwits who rhyme it with gone. Morons, eh? every one of em.

Every last "woan" of them.

dinyull

Qube wrote:

It's "scone"... to sound like "gone"

Not to sound like "stone"

That's the end of that, before it gets ugly.

There's a new cafe opened up in there here parts (Newcastle) called Dog and Scone.....because it allows dogs. It's supposed to be a play on dog and bone, but Scone is pronounced like gone up here.

veronese68

seanoconn wrote:

Qube wrote:

It's "scone"... to sound like "gone"

That's why it's the fastest cake in the world.

Exactly. Case closed.

Pross

Clotted cream then more clotted cream. The jam just detracts from the cream so leave it off altogether.

The Jaffa cake question has been determined once and for all in the High Court so I don't know why people keep asking it (and was surprised the BBC were unaware and included Jaffa cakes in the World Cup of biscuits on Comic Relief - they also had chocolate fingers though WTF?).