Idiotam habemus - Trumpum the Bigly XXX - Trump thread #143

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No grey smoke necessary.

First 100 days have come and gone. Vance has killed the Pope, Musk is melting away and Trump's tariffs are on a slow boat to China.

Coming soon... Bigly's Birthday Parade. What could possibly go wrong?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5315681-has-the-us-crossed-the-rubicon-trump-thread-142

I reckon his plan is to make everyone put the cream and the jam in a pot, stir, then apply the mixture to the scone.

BTW my position on the cream/jam debate is 'don't care as long as there is plenty of both'. I know I'm a heretic, I plead foreignity.

We’re going to have to fight on that if you ever come down to Devon.

I really want a cream tea now.

I stand with Pointy, I don't care either way as long as it not strawberry jam

I'm a little less strict than that, but the jam has to be red.

Apricot jam or black cherry jam, Bonne Maman. Cream first (ducks behind nearest parapet). 😂

Cornish ancestry here, jam first.

Bonne Maman Peach, jam first.

My brother just got back from visiting the UK and went to the place in Cornwall our grandparents came from. He said all that's there is a church but he was absolutely amazed at the number of graves of people with our last name. It's an unusual name here other than the few remaining descendants (like us) of Cornish miners in our immediate area, but it's a common one still in that area of Cornwall.

Devonian grandfather here, cream first, fresh home-made lemon curd on top.

Heathen here - no cream, butter or butter and jam or my favourite warm scone has nothing on it.

Jam first for me.

Dd is a heathen- Jam on one half, cream on the other and put them together to eat like a sandwich

I'm the miserable one with me cup of herbal tea, in the corner, as I'm gluten and lactose intolerant and don't particularly enjoy the jam on its own and don't fancy the miserable pre-packaged alternative.

My DD1 makes beautiful GF scones - a holdover from the days when DS had to eat GF. Weirdly is intolerance just resolved spontaneously, though it was serious. We knew it wasn't coeliac, he was tested, it was just one of those weird things.

I make GF cakes for our local cat rescue fundraisers because I know (by proxy) the pain of crappy baked goods as provided in most places.

I don't care where the cream is so long as it's not on what Sweden calls an English scone. For the love of jam will someone please explain sugar to them.

My mother’s maiden name is like that. Quite unusual and unheard of where we live but she came across loads of them around St Just.

Don't kill me please, but the only scone worth having is an unbuttered, mature cheddar one. There, fixed the cream and jam positioning issue. 😅

Oh yes, mature cheddar scones are delicious, with butter for me though

@PickAChew I’ll sit with you and we can feel smug in our healthy ‘choices’ 😎

Emmet here but I go Cornish for scones - jam first then cream. 😋

Celiac here. I'm lucky in that there are a couple of really great GF bakeries near me. One of them also does gf/df.

Whole Foods used to have an excellent line of GF baked goods with the best scone I had since I was diagnosed. They dumped the line when Amazon bought out WF.

Now I've had some lovely GF shortbread and pastry but I'm struggling to imagine scones having the right texture. Luckily I don't have much of a sweet tooth.

I don't really like scones, or cake.
I'd probably go for a nice danish pastry given the choice.

Nice London hotels sometimes have good gf scones with their cream teas. Probably the best gf scones I have had were at the Assembly House in Norwich.

Ooooh I love the Assembly House. A friend of mine had her 50th birthday do there last year and I splashed out on a room and breakfast. Absolutely wonderful.

Wow so many of us on this thread are gluten free! These guys do great and very reasonably priced gf scones, plain, sultana and fabulous cheese ones. Plus loads of other stuff. The veg curry pasty is delicious.
https://bakedtotaste.co.uk/collections/all?filter.p.product_type=Scones&_gl=11falnsc_upMQ.._gaNjIwMTAwMDUzLjE3NDY5NTIzNDU._ga_T13EVTR8BM*czE3NDY5NTIzNDUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDY5NTIzNDUkajYwJGwwJGgw

Hanging my head, but jam first. And it has to be raspberry. What's with this peach and cherry malarkey?