Heretic!
You get more of both if you put the jam on first, as any fule no.
No way! Spreading that thick cream on top squishes out all the jam on the scone.
(Actually, the point is moot. I normally add so much cream and jam I have to use a bowl and eat it all with a knife and fork.)
You emmet!
Thank you! A magnificent performance.
Incidentally, how many of the British dopers managed to read this thread without putting the kettle on? I certainly didn’t.
Is that like a wally? :dubious:
Raises hand
Up until about a year ago I hadn’t drunk tea in a decade, maybe longer. In the last year I have had five, maybe six cups of Lady Grey (no milk, no sugar, obviously). I mean, I don’t actually object to a cup of Lady Grey; but it beats plain, cold water by such a slender margin, why bother?
As for the ghastly stuff which is usually characterised as “a proper cup of tea” (as in, sunburned and furious British tourist overseas: “I want a proper cup of tea! And fish and chips!”), which was always “white, two sugars” - this I have always loathed. I must have given up my last attempt at acquiring a taste for a “grown-up drink” of “proper” tea when I was about ten, I would assume. Fiftyish years ago. Horrible.
Do they still put two sugars in it as default, or is that a thing of the past?
(Just as an indication of the true horror, for the benefit of non-UK dopers, back in - Oooooooh - the early '90s, I would guess, I had to do a manufacturing trip out to a factory near Bristol. They had, in this factory, a morning and afternoon tea break - announced by a bell, if I remember correctly - when everyone downed tools and headed for the canteen, where huge urns would dispense pre-brewed, pre-milked tea.)
Outburst over.
j
Missed the edit - just seen RobDog’s historic outburst. With you all the way, brother.
j
As an aside, if you like tea yet hate British and Indian tea, there is always Chinese tea. They have been growing and drinking that stuff a lot longer than the British…
Random anecdote: just note, I have seen, and been served, strong tea made by a Tibetan with a bunch of butter in it!! Nice if you are freezing, though.
Cream first, then jam.
I’m not a tea fan, but will drink it whilst on holiday in Great Britain. It must be strong tea non of this Earl Grey nonsense (tastes like perfume). I want milk and a bit of sugar in it.
Emmet. Cornish word for someone who’s non-Cornish and therefore does not understand that putting the cream on first is an abomination under God, St Michael and his Mount, and St. Piran.
I could have been more impolite. I considered calling you a Devonite.
Says me, who only remembered seeing the word on a tea towel in a souvenir shop, and had to do Google Search to look it up. Also, Devon’s lovely. Great seafood, even if they’re cream teas are misbegotted.
Before their poor downtrodden Indian subjects were browbeaten into growing it for them, the British imported all their tea from China.
The Chinese were delighted that all their fermented (spoiled, they considered it) black tea was being bought up at top prices by the idiot White Devils.
I’ve been to both Cornwall and Devon, actually. Somerset too.
Well, Fellowes had a lot of help in that movie from Robert Altman. 
Watching Brit TV shows, I was surprised to see how many drank their tea with milk and sometimes sugar. Growing up that was what we called “sick tea.” What our mom made for us when we were sick. I hate sugar in tea – hot or iced – it gives the tea an off taste for me. Yuck.
If I drink tea at any temperature it’s always “straight.” No milk, cream or sugar.
I had my first cream tea at the Jamaica Inn in Devon, so that’s what I thought a cream tea should be. It was a very touristy venue, unsurprisingly, and I bought a “Surf UK” tote bag on sale in the gift shop. I thought it was funny, but the clerk was profoundly insulted. Have since found surfing in Cornwall actually was a thing. It did remind me strongly of Big Sur – without the forests.
I would expect that cream or butter would be much the same, after being poured into boiling-hot water.
And the Chinese can look down on me all they like, but black tea is much better than green, to my tastes.
I agree with you; I rarely drink green teas. Just reporting. I read a fascinating book a few years back about the histories of psychreactive beverages: there was a chapter each for beer; wine; strong spirits; tea; coffee; and cola.
BTW, “cream tea” is a light meal in which a baked good is served with jam and clotted cream, along with a pot of tea. NOBODY puts cream into beverage tea, that I know of.
Y’all know that black tea and green tea are from the same plant, right? Black tea is fermented.
My (American) mother-in-law. Gag. Despite the fact she lived in England for a few years!