Scone Wars Alert!

Hello there,

Welcome back to Tea With Me and Friends!

Do you remember when we first started writing our little afternoon tea blog and there was a bit of a debate about the way your scones should be dressed? This subject continues to be a hot topic of conversation which rears its head whenever we introduce new people to our blog! People are very passionate about whether the cream or jam or should be put on first (I can see some of you muttering to yourselves as you read this!).

Lorna and I are firm believers that cream goes on first.....it can be spread to give a good solid base for the preserve or curd which goes on top...the jewel in your crown if you like. We know however that not everyone shares our passion (including our best friend Becca....who puts whatever she reaches first on her scones first - scandalous!).

Last weekend scone wars started all over again on Twitter....and all because I innocently commented on a photo of Philip Schofield, who had enjoyed afternoon tea at Claridges....

Now, I didn't really expect a reply from Philip...but look what happened next...

Yes....you read that right! He said jam first!

As you can imagine Lorna was outraged....

For those of you that remember Lorna has tried the jam first method on one of her scones....

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The result was a bit of a mess and we decided that cream first was definitely the way to go!

Scones dressed the wrong way (according to us!)

With this experience in mind I tried to make Philip see the light with a lovely scone photo.....

But it seems he was not to be swayed!! It appears it takes all sorts to make the world go around....and even celebrities get their scone dressing wrong!

The debate quickly spread as people joined in our conversation, I even got included in Tweets like this.....

I love how passionate people are about this subject....and everyone has very valid reasons for their preference! 

Thanks for popping by today,

Rachel

The Votes Are In!

Hello there,

So you may have noticed that we've been talking a lot recently about scones and how you should eat them. To be hones this has been a really interesting debate....with lots of people very passionate about how they dress their scones!

Our poll has now closed and we'd like to thank the 38 people who voted. The balance changed a couple of times over the last three weeks.....but in the end the majority vote was 57% of people who dollop cream onto their scone before the cream! Interestingly one voter said they put on whatever was closest to them...sometimes cream, sometimes jam!

As the poll was open on our blog we also asked our lovely Twitter and Facebook friends what they thought about this....and it was during one of these wonderful debates that we discovered a whole new group of people who have butter as well as cream and jam on their scones! This opened up a whole new debate which I think Lorna doesn't approve of!

Anyway, we hope that you've enjoyed this debate as much as we have....thank you to everyone who has joined us! Lorna did keep her mind open and tried dressing her scone "the wrong way around"....and you probably won't be surprised that it didn't change her mind!

We'll be back with another poll soon.....in the meantime if you think of any topics you'd like to see debated....anything you are really passionate about....please leave us a comment below!

Thank you for popping by today,
Rachel & Lorna