Sainsburys Truro have become embroiled in one of the oldest arguments to exist. Do you put jam or cream on the top of your scone? Well, in Cornwall, you definitely put it jam on the bottom!
The store have apologised after CornwallLIVE tweeted a picture of an advert in their bakery. The advert featured a cream tea, with a scone taking pride of place. However, this seemingly harmless advert broke the cardinal rule of cream tea construction. It shows the cream going on first – a cream tea sacrilige in Cornwall.
Local customers of the Truro site, who spotted the advert over the bakery, were fuming and decided to complain about it. There has been a feud between Cornwall and Devon in regards to how they make up their scones – people in Devon put cream with jam on top whilst Cornwall residents do the latter.
Sainsbury’s responded to CornwallLives tweet, making light of the situation, by calling the advert an imposter.
Local Truro residents were not ready to let it go just yet, Mediterraneo Deli owner Andreas Drosiadis posted the picture with just “how did this happen?”. He continued, explaining that England has strong, proud traditions – of which scones are a staple – before chastising Sainsbury’s for not knowing better.
Sainsburys broke the rules of Cream Tea
Despite Sainsburys best efforts to placate angry shoppers, the tweet seemed to spur further anger. One Twitter user even debated whether it should have cream and jam on at all, as it was a fruit scone. Scones with fruit in traditionally only have butter; jam and cream is reserved for plain scones or splits.
The local residents called for more Cornish employees to make sure the “outrageous” and “disgraceful” blunder doesn’t happen again. Sainsburys told Sky News “It has all scone wrong in Truro! We are reviewing the customer feedback we have received”
The ultimate tie breaker, Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has her scone the Cornish way. According to former Chef Darren McGrady, in a tweet in 2018, “Jam first at Buckingham Palace” before explaining that she has home made Balmoral jam with clotted cream on top at all Royal events”
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