| Redway |
03-05-2013 10:00 PM |
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Originally Posted by lostalex
(Post 5974197)
I thought "tea" in the Uk meant like a snack. Like what you eat between meals. Am I way off?
Can someone define once and for all what exactly "Tea" is?
I thought morning tea is a snack you had between breakfast and lunch, and afternoon tea is a snack between lunch and dinner.
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Its exact definition is variable but most people here would accept it as being somewhere between lunch and dinner. I think you're on about elevenses, which are snacks similar to afternoon tea (pasties, cakes, etc), only eaten in the morning and less savoury than that. It's pretty much brunch.
High tea is the bit between lunch and dinner is a light (but hot, 'proper') meal eaten at 5-ish, which is what I think everyone's on about here. But people would normally just call this tea, and the others snacks. |
