Tea Time: classic or dud?

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So, do you at around 4pm have a cup of tea and eat some cakes? (coz I am now, actually I might even have some toast)

Is it as forgotten as elevensies?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I could murder a scone right now, but our office is sadly lacking.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh def classic (elevensies aswell - altho that's usually jst a packet of crisps) have just made myself some coffee, altho sadly i had to resist the lovely celebratory b/day cakes that are in the kitchen and opt for the more healthy apple option! Def dud!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

who bought the cakes?

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually brought this topic up in the office today. The assembled parties all voted unanimously in favour of tea, cakes and crumpets at around 4pm each day. A job well done, I feel.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Incidentally, is tea-time a purely British phenomenon?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Tea Time=Dinner Time around here, I was all confuddled at first.

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Unfortunately, the guy who's b/day it was today bought the cakes! Dud in my opinion. When it's ur b/day u should get given yummy cakes & then if anyone was generous enough to give u any pressies on ur b/day, give them the scraps the next day! ha!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i have family in Ireland who are religious about tea time (haha they're religious about everything) and I tried to bring the custom home with me to no avail. classic. elevensies is out unless stumbling around making the first cup of coffee counts, in which case: happy elevensies.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Tea and cakes are fine if you spend your life walking everywhere, scrubbing floors, mangling clothes, digging fields or running around the playground. If you sit at a desk, staring at a screen all day and also have tea and cakes it can surely only increase the lardiness.

(Madchen helps herself to a custard cream)

― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I could murder a scone right now

"and the scone you so fancifully cut
is not succulent, tasty or nice
it's death for no reason
and death for no reason is MURDER"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

My family doesn't have Tea Time. We have Cocktail Hour.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

What time is cocktail hour at? It sounds like an 8pm thing to me.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

around here it's something-or-other past the yard-arm (noonish?)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Tea time is wonderful! A nice cup of tea (made properly, in a pot mind you) and a plate of cakes or toasted crumpets. Yum. Or even better - making toast in front of a roaring log fire, with a toasting fork cunningly fashioned from a wire coat hanger because you can't find the proper one.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i have tea and chocalate. it's fab!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

they used to call radio shows at around 4.30-5pm "teatime" before the term "drivetime" caught on in Britain, didn't they? Peter Powell on Radio 1, and all that. Andrew Collins still calls his 6 Music show (4-7pm) "Teatime", but that's probably because it isn't on car radios.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer all those teeny tiny meals of the day to the main meals. Elevenses and Tea Time is what keeps me alive, basically. Sometimes I like to call the Elevenses "Smoko".

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

CLASSIC!!!

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I just had tea-time food for BREAKFAST!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Woah! steady on there!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

classic. but i've not done it since forever, what with always being at work around that time. course, now i really want tea & cake when i get home, but am very cautious about hot liquids and sugary foods for the moment. blast.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 18 October 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel like having a drop of tea right now.

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

yay! Tea Time! Wahoo!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm having mine early today. GODDAMN I DESERVE IT.

Off for a fag and a black tea. Tra la!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Black tea with vanilla extract. Yum.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I want tea and cakes now!

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Black tea with strawberry Fox's glacier fruit, followed by minty fag. Yum yum.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I have all these teas at my house I need to start trying. Mm, electric kettle...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Rose tea is best.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cocktail hour is around 5 o'clock, or when hubby gets home, whichever comes first I think.

Question: I bought a packet of 'English breakfast tea" at Heathrow as I was leaving, is it acceptable to drink this throughout the day? It's good!

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It'll be breakfast time somewhere in the world. Consider yourself a citizen of the world and its many time-zones.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

This is what I had for tea the other day:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/yum.jpg

One of them got a bit burnt, but I ate it anyway.

Tea Time is the best time.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

They are scotch pancakes with butter and strawberry jam.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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