Aibu about squirty cream?

[EvenPhilip]

Cream tea in a cafe yesterday, served Anchor squirty cream.
I was really surprised that any modern day coffee/tea place would think it acceptable to serve this stuff?

Yanbu. I used to work in a cafe that served this muck. You could upgrade to clotted though, and the cream was fresh in a proper canister at least not anchor.

Posters who don't find this abomination a problem obviously frequent cheap and nasty cream tea establishments

I own a cafe. I only use squirty cream on hot chocs or other hot drinks. We use clotted on our afternoon teas, and scones. Squirty cream on cakes is just cheap and nasty

Should be clotted with scones. Squirt my just screams kids party treat

Squirty rather

In a hot chocolate fine, on a scone hell no

Not being unreasonable. No way should any establishment use squirty cream. Synthetic yucky stuff.

The Good Housekeeping Christmas recipe booklet has a recipe for Christmas Day Trifle that consists of bought Madeira cake covered in ready made custard covered with 'rosettes' of squirts cream. It does warn, solemnly, that aerosol cream collapses quickly so you might need to sprint to the table with it.

Squirty cream. Not squirts cream. Boak.

The only unreasonable part of your post, is that you didn't mention if you sent it back for a refund.

If you sent it back then YANBU

If you accepted that abomination without complaint YABVVVU

This is very wrong. Even proper cream in a canister rather than anchor cream would be very wrong.

If clotted cream is unavailable stop serving cream tea then whipped double will do at a push.

The joy of a cream tea is being able to put jam on your scone and then add a dollop of Rodda's clotted cream. Was this served in a pot or already on the scone.

I can understand the appeal of squirty cream but for me if it's a pie, crumble or mince pie it's Kelly's clotted cream ice-cream. My hot chocolate is made with a spoonful of cocoa powder added to a good hot chocolate powder, mix with hot water, drop a couple of squares of chocolate into it, then top with frothed full fat milk, top with marshmallows and grated chocolate and serve with a flake. It's a treat and kids love it.

Went to visit my mum yesterday she served mince pies with squirty cream! Could only manage three! Shocking.

Squirty cream from anchor is all wrong on anything. I won’t have hot with whipped cream in a cafe because it’ll be squirt6 cream. I also dislike elmlea, fake cream.

Not saying this is right (because obviously it should be clotted cream on scones) but anchor do actually do real cream in a can, not only the "fake" cream. I discovered it when I had gestational diabetes and had to balance any carbs I ate with fats.

Squirty cream is fake and disgusting regardless of what its paired with

How upsetting. I wouldn’t go back.

I also dislike elmlea, fake cream.

DH and I had a huge row when I was pregnant and craving a scone with cream and he brought me back this bollox. I had written him a list and everything!!!

Anyone else's phone struggling to not autocorrect "squirty"?

Cream tea has to have clotted cream! Anything else is unacceptable

Squirty cream indeed, I feel sorry for your scones quite frankly

Anyone that thinks squirty cream is Ok with a cream tea has obviously never had a decent cream tea

Name and Shame I say !!!

Squirty cream is acceptable for waffles with Nutella for the DC especially as they go for coverage and dramatic effect rather than refinement.

Absolutely agree with @tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz
Squirty Cream is best served straight into the mouth when the kids aren’t looking.
It’s the stuff of gods.

But with cream tea, absolutely had to be clotted cream. No excuses.
Report them, it’s an abomination

In fact OP, this is a case where you should log it with 101.

I had a cream tea with whipped double cream which was bad enough. I can only imagine what you're going through OP.