oh, I dont mind paying a fortune for a slice of cucumber on white bread with a sweep of mayo.

Oh, that is tea in the USA.

Well, I've paid for "High Tea" in a few places and never thought I was participating in current, modern, everyday experience for today's working man/woman.

My grandmas used to cook like Paula Deen for lunch EVERY day, but how many Southerners cook a spread that looks like her lunch buffet anymore?

YA DON'T NEED TO SHOUT. IF WE WANT TO PERCH DANTILY ON THE EDGE OF A SETTEE IN A FORMAL TEA ROOM AND SIP TEA AND EAT CUCUMBER SANDWICHES AND SCONES AND THE LIKE, let us happily do so.

Thank you very much!

REPEAT AFTER ME

4 o'clock with dainty sandwiches and cakes is AFTERNOON tea

With scones, jam and cream is a CREAM tea

At around 6 o'clock with meat, savory pie etc. and cakes, scones or whatever is
HIGH tea.

High means a substantial meat tea. It does NOT MEAN POSH

Oldie, and the gossip comes at which one?

tmk649's post to Shelia gets my:

'Most Ignorant Post of the Day' award of the day

I would be interested to know if visitors to England (most especially London) who have had 'Afternoon Tea' have been in the company of other tourists or if there were any 'locals'

As a Brit it's something I have never thought to do in London. However Rachael Ray visited the Sagamore Resort on her $40 a Day program and had Afternoon Tea - wonderful views, I might give that a try

Oldie, what makes you think I didn't have a high tea? Why are you so sure we are confusing high tea with afternoon tea?

Sorry starrsville, didn't mean to shout...lol

Just trying to save you £23

;-)

Muck

Alya, if there is a little girl in your world, you should take her to a Teddy Bear Tea at a Ritz Carlton over the holidays. Talk about delightful!

And, yes, AFTERNOON tea in the lobby bar is becoming more popular for male businessmen. I was surprised as well.

Sheila is a consistently helpful poster. No one should slag her off, especially when she is merely stating what dozens of others would say in her place.

Who is this tmk649, anyway?

Where I come from, 649 is a lottery, famously patronized by the poor and indigent.

starrsville,

No! my little girls are both in their early 20's, so no Teddys for us

A friend visited from the UK a couple of months ago and we nearly had Afternoon Tea at the MFA in Boston but we were so involved in the exhibits that we missed it.

Author: willit
Date: 02/02/2006, 02:03 pm
Fags, Winchester..........You're not Mark Oaten is disguise are you >>>>

Tee hee. No I'm not. Our tastes differ substantially. Very substantially indeed.

Sheila, as Oscar Wilde said, "No good deed goes unpunished." Don't take tmk to heart.

Being English and living in the US, I find it highly amusing that Americans will pay 30 quid to sit in the lobby of a posh London hotel and dine on tea and biscuits. Those same Americans would think a Brit as daft as Miss Havisham if they came to Philadelphia to sit in the lobby of the Ritz and pay $50 for coffee and donuts.

I am thin and gorjus, sweetie.

Tea and scandal is at 4 o'clock.

Remember that Queen Anne (the famous dead queen) was fond of a cuppa.

As Pope said

" Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take and sometimes tay."

You WOULD be daft if you spent $50 for coffee and donuts!

If I just want a cuppa and a scone and buy those at the tea room.

If I want a full tea (mostly the experience more than the food) I'd happily pay 30 quid for it. How in the world is that daft?

Now, one would be daft not to try biscuits and gravy or grits while visiting a good Southern cooking restaurant, IMO

Starrville what exactly is 'Full Tea' ?
What is the difference between that and coffee and scones?

This subject leaves me bemused as the hoteliers rum their hands in glee as another American tourist turns up with unfamiliar £££.

Muck

Well, as has been discussed before, there are cream teas and afternoon teas and high teas.

To compare the price of an afternoon tea to a coffee and donut is a bit silly.

If I only want a cup of tea and a scone, I order that at the tea shop. I don't order an afternoon tea.

>Why are you so sure we are confusing high tea with afternoon tea?<

Because somehow it seems implausible that you had a hunk of red salmon straight from the tin, with some sticks of celery in a beerglass, and a nice plate of jelly with tinned fruit in it for afters.....

What???

PatrickLondon,

Didn't you forget the evaporated milk to pour over the jelly?

Well, heck. Don't waste perfectly good evaporated milk on jelly. Use sweetened condensed milk and make Paula Deen's "Better Than Sex" cake!