People across the country have been preparing for Jubilee parties, lunches and celebrations this week but, as the long bank holiday weekend gets under way, some have left it to the last minute to buy clotted cream - and now they can't find it anywhere. Extending shopping trips to make visits to six, seven, eight and even nine supermarkets and shops, some have been left wondering what on earth they're going to put on their scones.
Debates have begun on Twitter as to whether a simple butter and jam on scone combination could suffice - a number of Brits have even admitted to normally putting jam, clotted cream and butter together on a scone anyway. We're not sure what we make of this - it's definitely not something we'd recommend you admitting to the Queen, or at least the Cornish anyway.
It seems that, because a cream tea is a staple of quintessentially British dining, the sheer number of Jubilee afternoon teas has meant that the UK now has a shortage of clotted cream. Although there's no reports of people bulk buying tubs of the stuff yet - similarly to when people were buying endless amounts of loo roll during the pandemic - many supermarket shelves are noticeably bare when it comes to that stretch of the dairy aisle.
