Which goes first?
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lankybob

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2,147 posts

218 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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After a long argument with my friends about the highly debated subject of scones, we couldn't come to a conclusion. So i decided to put it to the PH masses.

Which goes first, the jam or the cream?

Bob

theironduke

6,995 posts

216 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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i always go with cream first

DrTre

12,957 posts

260 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Jam to provide a firm base upon which to smear the cream.

CedGTV

2,538 posts

282 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Jam, try spreading it on cream and then try the flat harder base of a scone

AlexanderV8

1,486 posts

231 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Never mix cream with the jam. It's dirty & unhygienic. smile

lankybob

Original Poster:

2,147 posts

218 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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DrTre said:
Jam to provide a firm base upon which to smear the cream.
This is what i tried to argue but my friends were having none of it!

Penny-lope

13,645 posts

221 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Jam then cream of course.....what a silly question!

DrTre

12,957 posts

260 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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lankybob said:
DrTre said:
Jam to provide a firm base upon which to smear the cream.
This is what i tried to argue but my friends were having none of it!
Then ditch them.
Seriously.
I stopped speaking to several friends about 9 years ago cos they were arguing that you put salt on chips first then the vinegar!! Oh what, and wash off all the salt?
Fools.

RemaL

25,092 posts

262 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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jam first always worked for me

Edited by RemaL on Monday 16th November 21:59

Balmoral Green

42,560 posts

276 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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I think the problem here is you are asking the question as if there was a right or wrong answer. There isn't, its just personal preference.

Paxman said:
Minister, I will ask you for the tenth time, which goes first, the jam or the cream? a simple 'YES' or 'NO' answer.

DrTre

12,957 posts

260 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Balmoral Green said:
I think the problem here is you are asking the question as if there was a right or wrong answer. There isn't, its just personal preference.

Paxman said:
Minister, I will ask you for the tenth time, which goes first, the jam or the cream? a simple 'YES' or 'NO' answer.
Woolly minded liberal thinking. I bet you're a communist.

Balmoral Green

42,560 posts

276 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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DrTre said:
they were arguing that you put salt on chips first then the vinegar!
Then why is it that in the chippy, you are always asked if you want salt & vinegar? never vinegar & salt?

DrTre

12,957 posts

260 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Balmoral Green said:
DrTre said:
they were arguing that you put salt on chips first then the vinegar!
Then why is it that in the chippy, you are always asked if you want salt & vinegar? never vinegar & salt?
SEE?!? I'm right!!Bloody Fifth Columnist in our midst!!

missdiane

13,994 posts

277 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Jam first, you can't spread jam over the top of cream

Psychobert

6,318 posts

284 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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missdiane said:
Jam first, then cream, then you can spread jam over the top of cream
hehe Thats how my Grandmother used to do it..

ellroy

7,793 posts

253 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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DrTre said:
Balmoral Green said:
DrTre said:
they were arguing that you put salt on chips first then the vinegar!
Then why is it that in the chippy, you are always asked if you want salt & vinegar? never vinegar & salt?
SEE?!? I'm right!!Bloody Fifth Columnist in our midst!!
He has owned a Bentley, clearly not one of the great unwashed.

Also as a right wing bigot of the first water I'm also a great believer in salt then vinegar. Your argument holds no water. If you put salt on second, on wet chips, it will clump so some chips far too much others not enough.

At least that's what my valet tells me.

Cream then jam on the Scone issue, by the way.

Balmoral Green

42,560 posts

276 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Nyphur said:
I stand corrected, there is a right or wrong answer hehe

Mobile Chicane

21,957 posts

240 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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A thornier question: which does 'scone' rhyme with? Stone, or gone?

ellroy

7,793 posts

253 months

Monday 16th November 2009
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Gone, i'll have no truck with that strange southern pronunciation. [One of my Grandads was a baker and what he said is good enough evidence for me as to how it should be said.]