Posted by Dave Thewlis on September 17, 2003 at 02:11:48 from 148.78.245.11 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: camp coffee, was Re: posted by John Lambert on September 17, 2003 at 01:45:58:
John, your experience was particularly strange since compared to what we have in the U.S. with VERY few exceptions, things are a lot better in the U.K. even in supermarkets. You can still get clotted cream, and real cream, and whole milk with real cream on the top, and real milk and cream delivered to your home on a regular basis. Unless you have a source of organic non-homogenized whole milk (like the Straus Family Creamery in Northern California) these things are no longer readily or even really available here.
In our experience in the U.K. what's delivered to the table at breakfast (in B&Bs, cafes, etc.) is a small pitcher (frequently metal) of real, true cream -- and my wife doesn't even want cream in coffee, so she has to ask for milk. (I follow my father's teaching: anything else in the cup reduces the amount of coffee available.) Oddly, if anything I'd have said the Lake District was better than many other places in attention to things like real milk and cream at table, which makes it even stranger.
And I still don't believe how an ice cream is served in Devon and Cornwall: pure cream-based ice cream with clotted cream on top. Lovely!