Tea Time

Chalk this up to being an American who's been brainwashed by the media, but I was wondering: How integral is tea time to the British way of life? How many people on these boards celebrate it each and every day? Do you have tea AND biscuits, or just tea? I'm just curious about the whole thing.

 

Any time you want a cup of tea is tea time, if you want biscuits you can have biscuits but needn't feel obliged. Some poeple even go as far as having coffeee at tea time. Also, depending on where you come from, tea time in the afternoon can sometimes involve having sandwiches without having any tea. This wouldn't happen in the morning.

 

TEA TIME....some people have 'high tea' with the best china and biccies/cakes etc, like old fashioned elevenses I suppose....depends on where you come from like already mentioned. Would it be too judgemental to say that people at the 'posher' end of society tend to do this more? It all comes down to upbringing, ideals, tradition and all that.

I personally class tea-time as being when I have my main meal of the day - usually in the afternoon/evening. As in "What do you fancy for tea tonight?".

Tea, as in the drink, can be enjoyed any time of the day....things always seem better after a cuppa I feel.

 

Remember also, that elevenses don't have to be had at 11 o'clock and can also involve a tradition that is known as having a 'coffee morning'

 

I have breakfast around 8-9am

Don't bother with elevenses / brunch but do usually have another cuppa at around 10-11am (not a fan of coffee during the day)

lunch at Noon

I have tea around 3pm... Cup of tea and a snack... flapjack or something

Dinner is around 6-7pm... sometimes have a coffee then

Supper before bed

Suprisingly I am not fat

But please don't confuse Tea with Dinner (looks sternly at Paddy)

 

I was brought up having tea at dinner time and dinner at tea time, supper never came into it

 

i eat when im hungry and drink when im thirsty.. i have no need for clasifications or specified times...


but when i was a working man obviously i had lunch at lunch time

but i've never been much of a breakfast person

 

I'm always hungry


You know, it must be a regional thing this tea / dinner thing?

 

Well we had tea in the evening and dinner at lunch time ... but everyone I was at school with did it the other way round.

I know I had roots in the Lake District though 'cos I traced them ~ so maybe its an ancestral memory thing thats been passed down.

 

I eat wehn I'm hungry too...

But usually its.. breakie at 9ish.. and lunch around 12.. and dinner at 6 or 7..

and major snackage inbetween... I should really be fat.. But I guess I'm lucky

 

its a pity the tea time generation has or is dissapearing. ide love to have a set time to stop doing things and come in for tea and cake.

i guess i do it when football and stuff is on. i usually make some tea and enjoy a massive sambo with it

 

cannie beat a cream tea :O

 

I'd say that high tea with scones (pronounced "scones", not "scones") is an integral part of the day for most people in this country. Around 3.15pm all over the country, work stops in all the factories and shops and everyone sits down to enjoy their weak milky tea from proper china cups.

 

Do you think that Therefore is confused enough yet?

 

the powers of his username suggests he always finds a conclusive point, therefor ruling out the possiblilty of confusion

 

That's an interesting theory.

Not as much as you'd think. One thing I've gathered from all of this is that tea time is one of those cultural things that's ingrained in everybody. But it's been around for so long that it has an innate quality and different people change it in certain ways to suit them.

Before this, I just thought of tea time as a certain time when everybody stops to enjoy some tea and scones, sandwiches or whatever. But now I can see that it is much more. So am I to understand that tea time can mean a full meal like lunch or dinner?

 

Me too

It's taken me 16 years to learn they're actually called lunch & dinner