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What is The Enlish Tea time? Icome from YC Germany? |
Travel Info What is The Enlish Tea time? Icome from YC Germany? Travel Tips We love our tea in England. I live in Germnay at the moment and miss tea... This should help you... Afternoon tea A cup of tea A cup of tea Afternoon tea (or Low tea) is a light meal typically eaten at 4 o'clock. It originates in Britain, though various places in the former British Empire also have such a meal. However, most Britons no longer eat such a meal. Traditionally, loose tea would be served in a teapot with milk and sugar. This would be accompanied by various sandwiches (customarily cucumber, egg and cress, fish paste (bloater), ham, and smoked salmon), scones (with butter, clotted cream and jam 鈥?see cream tea) and usually cakes and pastries (such as Battenburg, fruit cake or Victoria sponge). The food would be often served in a tiered stand. While afternoon tea used to be an everyday event, nowadays it is more likely to be taken as a treat in a hotel, caf茅, or tea shop, although many Britons still have a cup of tea and slice of cake or chocolate at teatime. Accordingly, many hotels now market a champagne cream tea. [edit] High tea High Tea (also known as Meat Tea*) is an early evening meal, typically eaten between 5 and 6 o'clock in the evening. It would be eaten as a substitute for both afternoon tea and the evening meal. The term comes from the meal being eaten at the 鈥榟igh鈥?(main) table, instead of the smaller lounge table. It is now largely replaced by the later meal tea. It would usually consist of cold meats, eggs and/or fish, cakes and sandwiches. In a family, it tends to be less formal and is an informal snack (featuring sandwiches, cookies, pastry, fruit and the like) or else it is the main evening meal. On farms or other working class environments, high tea would be the traditional, substantial meal eaten by the workers immediately after nightfall, and would combine afternoon tea with the main evening meal. * "April 23.鈥擬r. and Mrs. James (Miss Fullers that was) came to meat tea, and we left directly after for the Tank Theatre". The Diary of a Nobody. George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. 1892. In recent years, High Tea somehow became a word for exquisite afternoon tea. [edit] Main evening meal Especially in East Anglia, the North of England, tea as a meal is synonymous with dinner in Standard English. Under such usage, the afternoon tea meal is sometimes termed dinner, rather than afternoon tea. Generally, educated Englishmen say Dinner for their evening meal Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tea_time... Other Travel Tips tea time is 5pm ish in england tea time is the same as dinner time everywhere else around late afternoon. When "tea time" is used as a time, it usually means some time around 5pm. When referring to a meal, "tea time" or "tea" is roughly synonymous with "dinner", except that tea can be a bit lighter than dinner. You might have a couple of sandwiches for tea, or beans on toast. You probably wouldn't have a three-course meal for tea, as that would make it dinner. My brain, as I'm English. I don't get what the English tea time has got to do with Germany and where "YC Germany" is. Just another silly question to dump your points? |
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