He ate a cream tea with a spoon

[HeAteItWithASpoon]

First date. He seemed perfectly nice and we went and got a cup of tea in a cafe. We ordered a cream tea for two and he ate his scone with the teaspoon that came with his cup of tea.

I wasn’t horrified or anything like that I was just surprised. Is that a thing? I suppose it’s puddingy but I’ve always just picked it up and eaten it like toast, I thought everyone did.

@Dearreader

I once had an injury to my jaw where my mouth was not fully able to open. I could not even get a toothbrush in there without pain and so I had to cut my food into small bits and feed it through the gap.

During this period of time I went out with someone for a meal. I explained why I was cutting things up so small but they did the same. I did wonder what on earth the rest of the customers must have thought of us.

Sorry about your jaw but .

The image of two people taking teeny, tiny little bites, one embarrassed that the other one was doing it cracked me up!

And give him a straw with it.

Ooh, evil

(Even better, a straw, a cake slice and a melon baller).

@HeAteItWithASpoon

First date. He seemed perfectly nice and we went and got a cup of tea in a cafe. We ordered a cream tea for two and he ate his scone with the teaspoon that came with his cup of tea.

I wasn’t horrified or anything like that I was just surprised. Is that a thing? I suppose it’s puddingy but I’ve always just picked it up and eaten it like toast, I thought everyone did.

If you ate it whole then you're as bad as each other!

and then all of a sudden I’m married to a man who eats a cream tea with a teaspoon and I end up murdering him

Haha! Brilliant!

I leave the scone and just eat the cream and jam with a spoon.

@Dearreader

I once had an injury to my jaw where my mouth was not fully able to open. I could not even get a toothbrush in there without pain and so I had to cut my food into small bits and feed it through the gap.

During this period of time I went out with someone for a meal. I explained why I was cutting things up so small but they did the same. I did wonder what on earth the rest of the customers must have thought of us.

That previous comment of mine came out a bit messed up. Was meant to quote @Dearreader.

Still chuckling.

@BrightYellowDaffodil

And give him a straw with it.

Ooh, evil

(Even better, a straw, a cake slice and a melon baller).

That's good, that's very good. Like a very obscure, abstruse, character test...

I agree with Durbeyfield you need to investigate further for the sake of mumsnet science.

Go on dates and insist he tries soup/ spaghetti/ noodles / sushi /cream buns and see how he eats them and report back...

judgej I didn’t eat it whole! Are you imagining me putting the entire scone in my mouth because I’d have to dislocate my jaw to do that. I sliced it in half and put cream and jam on each half and then picked one half up and ate it. Then I repeated it with the other half. I thought that was the standard way but now I’m questioning everything.

I chop them in four with a knife and then eat each piece 🤷‍♀️

What an absolute psychopath. Run

Reporting thread to Mumsnethq: could this thread have a trigger warning for the well being of the Cornish. I consider myself broad minded but cream first ,😲, the spoon is the least of your worries.

@HeAteItWithASpoon

judgej I didn’t eat it whole! Are you imagining me putting the entire scone in my mouth because I’d have to dislocate my jaw to do that. I sliced it in half and put cream and jam on each half and then picked one half up and ate it. Then I repeated it with the other half. I thought that was the standard way but now I’m questioning everything.

You did WHAT?

Dear, god, what is the world coming to.

arabellascott is that wrong? What’s the right way? I don’t know what’s happening

I would do this type of thing- I have diagnosed OCD. I would do it to avoid transferring germs (e.g. Covid, Norovirus etc.) onto the scone, if I couldn't wash or sanitize my hands.

As a Cornish person I would be running out of there pronto if a date was eating a cream tea with a tea spoon

And jam first otherwise you may as well have butter

@bassackwards

Not as bad as the chap I had lunch with once who ate the edamame beans whole, skin and all

How else are you supposed to eat them?

As long as he did jam first then I'd give him another chance

@Soupsseason

Did he put the jam or cream on first?. That would be the decider for me . (Cream 1st is obviously the correct answer)

Get out!

@MrsTerryPratchett

Always eat cake with a fork. Oh no, I’m weird

All Canadians do this. They all have a drawer of cake forks, like Victorian ladies.

Yes! DH came complete with a set of cake forks that take up space in the drawer so it gives me the rage when he just uses a regular fork while me and DS use our fingers like little English piggies. I think I would fit it harder to eat a scone with a spoon/fork, maybe an awkward first date thing where he was trying to impress with his best manners.

Jam first? He's worth persevering with.

And jam first otherwise you may as well have butter

That’s the point, the cream is a butter alternative. You wouldn’t make a sandwich by putting the cheese on the bread and then buggering it, so why would you do that to a scone?

the meal was served away from the table.

I didn't really understand the thing about the salt, but what on earth does this mean @SunIsBehindGreySky ?

Buttering. The word I meant there was BUTTERING.