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I have a super important question to ask of my UK and British plurkies. What is the "proper" way to eat a scone with clotted cream? Do you warm up the scone? Have the cream at room temperature or chilled? Do you slice it open or just put the cream and/or jam on top? When I went for my birthday "high tea", the owner told us that it was really "afternoon tea"-
and she said why but I forgot. We were there at 12:30pm if that matters. I did buy some scones to take home too, so I really need to know. 
I slice them. I don't warm them up and I don't care if the cream or jam goes on first 😆
typically, room temp. scone, cut in half. chilled clotted cream and jam on open scone slices. arguments continue about whether to put jam or cream first. I imagine it would be acceptable to have a warm scone if it were freshly baked from the oven, but you wouldn't get anyone warming up a cooled scone.
saying that, someone will come and say they warm them now.
The choice of cream and jam first comes from a regional dispute because brits have historically argued about everything. I heard it quoted that the more irrelevant the impact of a decision, the more aggressive the discourse. This also applies to academia.
Thank you so much everyone!! This is really good advice! I'm surprised something so simple is so controversial. LOL I had no idea about the jam/cream first debacle. Wow! TIL