Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Co-opting Santa into your regional culinary vendetta

This amused me. We got sent a Cornish cream tea through the post for Christmas. Scones, jam, clotted cream etc. in a nice presentation box.


What you might not know if there is a weird rivalry between Cornwall and Devon centred on cream teas. Like all religious and cultural wars it focuses on a tiny difference in the way things are done, in this case the dividing line being whether you put the jam or the clotted cream onto your scone first. 

And, just to make sure, the Cornish cream tea company have invoked Santa as the final arbiter on proper clotted cream etiquette. 

So there you go. Dare you go up against Santa and have your scone any other way?

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