to think you don't usually need a fork to eat a scone?

[TiaMariaandDietCoke]

Just that really. Dh and I were out in a coffee shop yesterday and a couple at a table opposite us had tea and scones. The woman sat down first and started to eat her scone with a knife and fork .

I noticed her Dp's scone had a knife and fork next to it, so Dh and I waited to see if he would do the same when he sat down. He picked up the knife and fork, but then looked over at our table, saw how we were eating our scones, and followed suit. The woman ate the whole scone with a knife and fork and seemed to disapprove that her DP didn't follow suit.

Now, apart from a WTF? at making a meal out of a scone, a few things crossed my mind - maybe she just likes eating scones like that. Maybe in some parts that's the ways its done (first time I've seen it though), maybe she has an eating anxiety and this helps (although she had a slice of cake afterwards and ate it with her fingers, so maybe not)

Anyone seen this sort of unusual eating habit before? Am I just vair common for not knowing I should use a fork? (and before the flaming starts, this is supposed to be lightheated!! )

If there is jm and yummy clotted cream and the scone is all warm and fresh and soft then a knife and fork ensure that not a crumb is lost. However if scone is very solid and with only butter and jam then I would use a knife to cut it into bite size pieces and my fingers to convey it to my mouth.
Each to her scone!

Jam

- actually, I'd not thought of clotted cream - I'd probably agree with a fork too in those circumstances (yum yum), but no - in this case it was just a bog standard pain scone. She had butter at the table, but not sure if she used it. No jam and no cream though

NO JAM OR CREAM [shock}

i don't believe this story At All

maybe she aint got no teef and needed to use a fork to break it up!

oh ffs - bracket fail

Who eats plain scones ? the weirdo

Was it a cheese scone?

I know UnChartered - it's awful but it's true! I would have given her a but those ones have jam in them!

I just smoosh it into my face. YANBU.

no, don't know what flavour it was, but definately not cheese or any kind of savoury scone - they don't sell them in that coffee shop - we go quite often. To be fair, they do have a blueberry and white chocolate and a raspberry and white chocolate scone that maybe would be ok without anything added but I still load them up with as much jam and cream as possible!

i would cut it up into sizeable bits and then lift to my mouth though

don't want to waste any of that buttery, jammy and clotted creamy goodness being wasted and falling up my sleeve, oh no, not again

She was just being pretentious. At home, she probably farts at the table whilst picking her nose and eating it

i use my hands. definately agree with the others that is wierd not to add nothing to her scone.