english high tea

i know some English people take their tea seriously but do any of you actually take the time between lunch and dinner to have "tea time" ?

does that still exist or is high tea/tea time whatever kind of old fashioned?

just wondering while i sip my ginger tea.

my sister works in an old fashioned tea rooms in a quaint tourist hot spot in the cotswolds. They serve afternoon tea a plenty to tourists.

Personally though, i love a cup of tea, but never made a purposeful high tea break.

Only tourists and old people have the time to take a proper 'tea break', with china cups and cakes and all that.

I guess factory workers, builders and labourers might have a second scheduled lunch in the afternoon if they work long hours. Or at least they used to. Fag and Yorkshire Tea time.

Nowadays, I don't think anyone seriously has a tea time, but most people probably average 3-5 cups of tea or coffee every working day.

  On 5/17/2012 at 8:34 AM, feltcher said:

Personally though, i love a cup of tea, but never made a purposeful high tea break.

This, pretty much.

upper-class and antiquated

nobody has done this since 1902

Yes, all us English have high tea with scones daily at three in the afternoon on the dot. Then we go down to the cricket green to play a friendly match aginst fellow Etonians refereed by the local vicar. Then we get a red double decker bus to go to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament to do a spot of work and talk to the Queen before going home in a black taxi cab. At home the wife cooks us a full roast dinner before we all sit in the living room and listen to The Archers on the wireless supping some Earl Grey.

*sips darjeeling*

Quite.

Do go on...

dandelion and burdock/shandy/ginger ale/vimto

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my gran does. but she's old and a colonial so i'm not surprised.

  On 5/17/2012 at 2:15 PM, mcbpete said:

Yes, all us English have high tea with scones daily at three in the afternoon on the dot. Then we go down to the cricket green to play a friendly match aginst fellow Etonians refereed by the local vicar. Then we get a red double decker bus to go to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament to do a spot of work and talk to the Queen before going home in a black taxi cab. At home the wife cooks us a full roast dinner before we all sit in the living room and listen to The Archers on the wireless supping some Earl Grey.

see? exactly!

My friends and I laughed at the FAQ on the Bangface Weekender site on what to bring:

  Quote

It's a good idea to bring some essentials e.g. toiletries, washing up liquid, food, tea bags etc.

Apparently tea made the cut with those other essentials.

people do it, but don't know they're doing it... they just call it a snack, with tea or coffee... at their desk

A few of my family are doing some afternoon tea thing on the Jubilee weekend with all what you'd expect. I presume shortly followed by a piss up. I've never done a 'high tea' type thing in my life. I'll probably go to this arranged one, although it's mostly because of the piss up afterwards.

my tea time is all day long. currently sipping pi lo chun.

Darjeeling tea > everything else bitches

My life blood:

Ooop north they have tea time every day. Because having tea is just jargon for having dinner.

  On 5/18/2012 at 12:18 PM, Obel said:

Ooop north they have tea time every day. Because having tea is just jargon for having dinner.

I think my mum must've got that from her mum (who was a liverpudlian I believe) as throughout my childhood I always knew it as tea as well (despite being a 'soft southern shite')

That'll be the one.

Do you call fizzy drinks "pop" as well?

I do nowadays, but that's only cos I'm a pretentious buffoon who likes to slip in dated vocabulary into everyday conversations to try and hide the fact I'm really not that interesting !

You know that's a very depressing answer to a question about carbonated beverage terminology.

I also enjoy the art of ambiguous self-deprecation to confuse others and frustrate myself.

We must be kindrid spirits

*tongue kisses*