Cream or jam on a scone first? UK poll reveals the winner
It’s a supposedly divisive issue the Prince of Wales neatly sidestepped on a visit to a London hospital last year.
William, who was attending a tea party at St Thomas’ Hospital with the Princess of Wales to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS, was asked whether to apply the jam or cream first to a scone.
With a deft evasiveness the politicians in the nearby Houses of Parliament would have been proud of, William joked: “Whatever is closest.”
Yet new polling has suggested this key issue - of which condiment to apply first - is not as hotly contested as perhaps we thought.
In Cornwall, people practice the tradition of jam spread first on scones and then topped by cream, while in neighbouring Devon they swear by cream followed by jam.
And YouGov polling of 54,554 Britons, released on Friday, found the Cornish method is the clear winner in the “scone wars”.
It showed the jam-first technique is applied by 62% of Britons, compared to 28% of cream-first people.
In fact, Devon was the only county where more people are cream-first… and even there it is only 49% compared to 46% who are jam-first.
Of all the counties, Cornwall is also most likely to use the jam-first technique (86% compared to 10% who use cream first).
But YouGov added: "There is a glimmer of hope in the long run for cream-firsters. Breaking the results down by age shows that the Cornish method’s dominance diminishes as the public get younger. While fully 80% of the over-70s dollop jam on their scone first, this falls to 48% among the under-30s.
"There is still farther to go – still only 38-39% of the under-40s practice the Devon method – but on current trends we could start to see some crossover in coming generations."
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