Kate Middleton has sparked a fierce debate - and left some people horrified - after she revealed how she puts jam and cream onto her scone.
The Princess of Wales, who was attending the NHS Big Tea Party at St Thomas' Hospital, showed fans she favours jam then cream on her scones - at odds with her husband Prince William.
And a study of thousands of Amazon workers across Britain - of 92 different nationalities - has revealed the answers to some of the nation’s age-old dilemmas - and gives credibility to The Princess of Wales’ views on how to prepare her scone for afternoon tea.
A poll of 3,000 UK Amazon workers inside fulfilment centres showed that the nation is divided 50/50 on whether jam or cream goes first on a scone.
But 60% of northerners think the jam goes first - where as the same number of southerners think it should be the cream first.
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The survey also reveals that 85percent of workers say that milk comes AFTER the teabag in their cuppa…despite the tradition in Victorian times to pour milk first.
One Amazon employee even said: “If you put milk in first then it’s criminal.”
Kate and her husband didn't agree on the way to eat scones (Channel 4)Londoners are the most likely to follow the traditional method of pouring the milk first (25%) which predates tea bags to Victorian England, when the china cups tea was served in were so delicate they would crack from the heat. The capital was 10% more likely than the national average to use this technique.
The correct way to make a cup of tea has been debated by Amazon employees in a new video you can watch here.
In other debates, nearly double the amount of people in the UK prefer red sauce to brown (63% vs 37%). Wales is the most evenly split, (56% red vs 44% brown), with Amazon employees in the valleys choosing brown more than any other region.
Double the number of people prefer dogs to cats (67% vs 33%). And the adage that ‘dogs are man’s best friend’ holds up – 69% of men prefer dogs to cats compared to 62% of women.
The stereotype that Londoners don’t talk on the tube has been proven false. London is in fact the most chatty in England, along with the North East – though both lagged Wales, where 45% said they would happily talk to a stranger.
Amazon has asked the important – and not-so-important – questions from ‘What is the correct way to make a cup of tea?’ to 'What’s the perfect chat up line?' in a series of videos you can watch here.
Amazon is one of the UK’s biggest and most diverse employers with over 70,000 people across the country carrying out hundreds of different roles.
Oxford maths professor, Dr Tom Crawford, described the research from Amazon as a “fascinating insight into the make-up of modern-day Britain”.
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He said: “The fact that 92 nationalities are represented across a relatively small sample is particularly unique, as based on the data from the latest UK census in 2021 we would only expect around 60 countries to be represented.”
| Scones debate | Jam | Cream |
London | 40% | 60% |
| South West | 43% | 57% |
| South East | 47% | 53% |
| East Midlands | 48% | 52% |
| Wales | 48% | 52% |
| West Midlands | 48% | 52% |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 49% | 51% |
| North West | 57% | 43% |
| Scotland | 57% | 43% |
| North East | 60% | 40% |
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