Colm O'Regan: Cream tea, the great British rip-off 

I'll see your Sconegate and raise you the English cream tea, served (without a lick of butter) by the chilled hand of the empire 

Comedian and broadcaster, Colm O'Regan.

Everyone’s got a Fierce Bad Value story. What’s yours? You know the one? Where someone says just one word and immediately everyone remembers the time when someone paid far more than they should have? Our latest is ‘The London Scones’.

We knew London would be expensive but we thought we were up for the challenge. We felt ready to acclimatise to English culture by…living in Ireland. But there’s no bad value like London Bad Value because it’s brought to you by the empire. A cold dead hand of: “This is the way it is, I’m afraid, old chap. Now be a good sport, pay up and don’t smudge anything on the way.”