To ask which you think is the correct way to eat a scone?

[Syrinx89]

YABU - Cream then jam
YANBU - Jam then Cream

72% of people eat their scone correctly - huzzah!

Devonian here, but the Cornish way is best

Either way for me but defo clotted cream and no butter.

I don't give a stuff how people eat their revoltingly dry dense fake cakes that need artery clogging levels of fat and coma inducing amounts of jam to feign enjoyment.

@d4rwin You clearly haven't tried a decent scone. Nothing dense about them!

Butter isn't 'something different from cream.' It's cream which has been churned until it's solid.

But that doesn't stop me having butter and cream

It's definitely:
Warm, plain scone.
Butter
Thin layer of jam
Clotted cream in a big dollop.

Jam first then cream (obviously ), washed down with a lovely brew.
Scone rhymes with ‘gone’ - hth

And it's definitely a sc-on because you eat it until it's all gone (obvs).

@lougle Origin is the same... Purpose is totally different. As is, say, butter and cheese!

I want a scone now.

Spread thickly with clotted cream, with a spoonful of strawberry jam dolloped on top.

As it should be.

Butter and Jam.

Hmm...but the milk has to be processed to make cheese, doesn't it? Rennet, lemon juice, bacteria, etc. Butter is just what you get if you jiggle cream too much.

Nothing but lots of jam

Did you know that Roddas make their clotted cream in the little containers you buy it in, btw?

@lougle Perhaps so, but butter and cream both taste completely different to me! 😉

@lougle No way?!

Found DS being an absolute heathen with a scone yesterday. Cut it in half, cream on one side, jam on the other, sandwich together and eat. I nearly told him to leave home. Turns out my MIL told him to do this to reduce mess. He has been informed she is wrong, and any amount of mess is better than this kind of depravity.

I had afternoon tea at a local hotel last week. After finger sandwiches, we were served huge warm scones with a dish of homemade strawberry jam and a bowl of clotted cream. I twisted the scone in half, covered the two parts with jam and thick dolloped on the cream.

Yum.

Butter, jam, then cream, because I can get more on it that way, if you put jam on last it slips off the vast amount of cream.

I hate jam and cream so i have mine plain or with butter!

Just jam, no butter or cream.

DD made some this afternoon.They were very ight and we had raspberry jam and the lots and lots of cream with a nice pot if tea.
Yum.

Jam then cream, no butter.

Personally, I go cream then jam, as cream is the butter substitute...but I'll happily eat them either way, creamy jammy scones are delicious, making me want one now!

However came on to say that we used to have a coffee shop, we did fruit and plain scones every day, and had a huge selection of other cakes, shortbread, flapjacks, cookies, biscuits, all homemade. Occasionally we'd sell out of plain scones first and get a customer who wanted a plain scone who'd have a fruit one, and proceed to pick out ALL the sultanas, they'd come back to the kitchen in a little pile on the side of their plate. They were all through the scone, so I've no idea how they ate them, the scone must've been in tiny little bits with minuscule blobs of cream and jam by the time they'd finished. Batshit. I'd just order something else to have with my tea!

@HellsAngel81

I live in Cornwall so there can only be one way to eat a scone!