Scone lovers have told M&S to get clotted, lashing out at a half-baked idea to solve the riddle of which goes first, cream or jam.
In Cornwall the tradition is jam first, topped with cream, but in Devon it’s the reverse. To please both sides, M&S mixed both jam and cream together to make Strawberry Clotted Cream, but now finds it is nobody’s cup of tea.
Actress and comic Dawn French, 62, who lives in Cornwall, slated the “appalling” £2.50 pink spread. Dawn, whose home is a £3million mansion overlooking the River Fowey, posted: “There’s hell on.
Am mobilising the Cornish Barbarian Horde... we will not rest til this battle is won and our cream is safe again.” Another Cornish “jam first” fan threatened to boycott M&S, tweeting: “Absolute
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