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.

Maybe he thought his hands weren't clean?

SunSeaSurfGin

And jam first otherwise you may as well have butter

I view a scins as bread and the cream as a butter so out jam on top.

I think some view a scone as a cake so they eat it with a fork and place jam fist and then cream on top.

We on rare occasions go to Mill in Norfolk where they do these really big scones that have expanded - how you are suppose to eat them genteelly I have no idea - fortunately I am not genteel & my dh is no longer shocked by my demolition job

I view a scones as bread and the cream as a butter so put jam on top.

This is really cruel.. when I was first dating my H, we went to Wagamama's with his sister and BIL. I ate edamame beans whole, green crunchy salty case included.
BIL laughed at me, H's sister and H said nothing. I had NO IDEA I was eating it wrongly, as I had never eaten at Wagamama before.
If my now SIL and H had been horrid to me about it, they'd have missed out on three nephews/children.

@BrightYellowDaffodil

Buttering. The word I meant there was BUTTERING.

@BrightYellowDaffodil

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?

I was already to agree with you here until you talked about buggering cheese

@BrightYellowDaffodil I proper laughed at buggering the bread had to take my inhaler and everything!

OP, he seems a neat and tidy eater, unlike Daffodil who does rude things to bread, so he'd be a keeper for me.

I've never had a cream tea either. The word clotted puts me off. Blood clots, cream should not.

Don't write him off just yet.. just be prepared that he might need a bit of 'breaking in'.

Oh good, it was buggered cheese not bread. You'd need Swiss cheese for that surely?

This is peak mumsnet. Fgs the guy was super neat and ate his scone with a spoon. It's not like he grunted like a pig and scarfed it off the plate with his teeth.

@BoreOfWhabylon

This sort of man, when preparing for a night of passion, first takes off his shoes and places them side by side. He then removes his clothing, carefully folding each item and placing on a chair in a neat pile. Jacket (if worn) is hung on back of chair.

He does not do unbridled.

Sounds like Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones part 2. would you kick him out?

Sounds like Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones part 2. would you kick him out?

Would depend on how he eats scones

@Soupsseason

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

The Cornish say that cream then jam is the Devonian way of hiding the inferior cream by covering it with jam!

Are you in an episode of Seinfeld?

You don't live in Brighton, do you? I had a similar experience once!

The fact he ate a cream tea would put me off. Definitely a savoury person

Seriously though, that would put me off. Pick it up and eat it.

@CorianderAndCream

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

Into quarters? That's deviant behaviour right there and where does the cream and jam go?

@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.

Then I apologise, you did it correctly, ie like I do, the only way for anything!

@BoreOfWhabylon

Sounds like Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones part 2. would you kick him out?

Would depend on how he eats scones

You be concentrating on his scones???

Weird AF

@floppybit

That would make my fanny snap shut like an angry clam

Post of the day! :o :o :o

You be concentrating on his scones???

Foreplay

LTB immediately, you will not be able to take him anywhere.

I avoid food on dates, I did it once and was sick all afternoon because my gastric band was too tight, he must have wondered why I kept rushing off with my face a greenish hue.

I won't eat in public anymore

Scones - slice in half, jam then cream, cut in half again, eat with fingers

Cake - always with a fork, never with hands!

Thems the rules!