David Cameron has committed the ultimate faux pas in Devon

12:59 PM

PM apparently got his scone layering wrong by suggesting correct way was jam first cream 2nd… Which is sensible but NOT DONE in Devon!

— Anushka Asthana (@SkyAnushka) April 10, 2015

People in Devon put the cream first? Erm how do you put jam on cream!? A Devonian is going to demonstrate to show its possible. #sconegate

— Anushka Asthana (@SkyAnushka) April 10, 2015

David Cameron confused a Devon cream tea for a Cornish cream tea, risking the wrath of Devonians when he declared that “it all tastes the same”.

When tucking in to a cream tea in Devon you put the cream on the scone then the jam in a messy dollop. Further west it isCornwall it is the other way around.

Indulging in a scone in Tew Cafe in Barnstaple, Devon Mr Cameron immediately said: “When you are in Devon you do the jam and the cream in a different order to Cornwall, is that right?”

“I’m going to get this wrong, aren’t I?”

And he did.

“In Devon it’s… jam first and cream on top?” he said, to the disappointment of the Devonian staff. “Wrong way round. I knew I’d get it wrong,”