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Thats a Scone with jam and cream and its made me feel really hungry lol

And once it's scone - it's scone!

('Scone' rhymes with 'gone' obviously!)

Not necessarily so Adidas! It can be scone rhyming with alone. Depends where you are from it seems. Susie Dent on Countdown (Channel 4 in UK) mentioned it a few days back.

Yes I agree - but the joke doesn't work quite so well then

(As in once you've eaten it there's no more!)

It has to be scone (rhyming with gnome) because a scon is something you get in a butty at the chipy. The issue is that there are a lot of places that dont have real chippies that serve such things so i guess its in these areas you may aswell use either pronunciation. Also yes, scon butties and fish butties are a thing, yes they are just like a chip butty but they are normal here.
I just realised how little sense this will make to any americans lol im sorry, its an English thing

It's ok, I'm learning as this thread progresses.

It's a strangely indecisive scone - in parts of England people would almost come to blows over whether the cream or jam goes on first, but whoever did this one is hedging their bets.

Personally I always have one half jam, one half clotted cream, but butter definitely goes on first!

Could also piss people off who insist on doing it the proper way.


This is a development! Now what goes in the middle of them when you press them together?

I personally like it slightly different as I put on butter, then a full fruit jam and then clotted (or cooked) cream on top.

No you misunderstand me - I meant on both halves of the scone, butter on first, then one half of the piece gets clotted cream, the other gets jam.

Question is - do you eat the top or the bottom first? I usually go for the top first!

I'm American and uncultured. I just see them and want to get the cream and the jam all over me! (I went for the bottom first though...)

You're American so you'll be calling it a biscuit and be really confused as to why anyone would put jam or cream on it

Also needs a nice pot of tea & decent china to drink it from to get the whole effect!

1. Remove jam, replace with Nutella. Only a teaspoon of Nutella, but from a 50 gallon barrel.

1a. Eat the nutella scones. Delicious!

2. Warm the 50 gallon barrel of Nutella gently for 12 hours until it's semi-liquid.

3. While wearing a boilersuit and Hunter wellies, be slowly lowered into the barrel of Nutella, while eating jam and cream scones.

4. Orgasms!

I too am American and I say that it looks like an English muffin (although I'm not sure if English people call it that) and maybe there are blueberries baked into the bready part. The topping appears to be cream cheese (it could also be whipped cream, but it looks a bit more like cream cheese to me) and some kind of fruity topping. Strawberry?

If I was at a buffet and saw that, I'd grab it. I'm not 100% sure that I'm right about what it is but I'm probably right about it being food that can't possibly go wrong.

Nessie

That is an english muffin or a pastry not a scone. A scone is just dough and deep fried, sometimes referred to as fry bread. There was a restaurant in the western US that was called SconeCutter and was open 24/7 for all the scones.

The thick creamy stuff is clotted cream, it's like a cross between the creamy goodness of unsalted butter and cream. It's Thick with a capital T, and I felt so robbed that this was not a thing in the US! The red is strawberry jam if I remember correctly. Apparently people get really impassioned about which order the jam and cream get layered on, and some people go so far as to take it as a personal affront when you do it the wrong way.

Nope, as a US girl, I can't say I ever heard of clotted cream. But my policy toward new food is to give everything one try.


The seeds look like strawberry to me. I don't know my fruits well enough to be sure, though. Raspberry can look like that too.


Not me. Any way they want to serve that is fine with me.

Nessie

The "which way round to put them on" thing is territorial - they do it one way in Devon, and the opposite way in Cornwall. I gather some people consider it almost an act of war if you do it the "wrong" way in either county. It's delicious whichever way it's done though.

And yes, the red stuff is jam, and the baked item is a scone.

The Queen apparently has them Cornish-style, with the jam spread first, and the clotted cream on top. This has probably turned most of Devon in favour of declaring a republic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/queen-scones-jam-cream-what-goes-first-debate-cream-tea-outrage-a8260686.html

Bruh, we have bagels, this isn't COMPLETELY foreign to us

I always put the clotted cream on top. You can only spread jam so thick (not very) but you can lay the cream on by the inch. With so much cream, it would be difficult for the jam to stay on top of it. Clotted cream is the utmost divine dairy product but I much prefer to use custard if I'm spreading it all over myself. I'm also not at all bothered about which order the jam comes if using both for that purpose.

As well as scone and cream being best with a pot of tea as noted above, if it's a really lazy hot afternoon and I'm outside, I love to sip through a cold lager with it same time. That's a top tip.