"Very" casual tea party - sandwich and dessert suggestions

[Zimbochick]

Yes, you are correct Dew. High tea is early dinner, afternoon tea is pinkies up and bone-china tea cups.

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

I'm wondering about your use of the term "High Tea".

I've been told by Brits and it's been my experience that High Tea is the meal eaten in the early evening. Fish and chips. A variety of sliced meats. That sory of thing. Enough hearty food to really fill you up.

The little sandwiches and pinkies in the air are Afternoon Tea.

Anyone?

High Tea is a meal eaten in the late afternoon. The difference between Tea and High Tea is that people serve meat at a High Tea which makes it more filling and lasting. In most cases it's more of an occasion as well.

Nice people would not serve "fish and chips".

[Zimbochick]

Originally Posted by Happy in Wyoming

High Tea is a meal eaten in the late afternoon. The difference between Tea and High Tea is that people serve meat at a High Tea which makes it more filling and lasting. In most cases it's more of an occasion as well.

Nice people would not serve "fish and chips".

If you are going to get into class distinctions here, "high tea" or "tea" would be considered a "working class" meal eaten by "working class" families, or "middle and upper class" children, and was eaten in the late afternoon or early evening, and would absolutely be fish & chips, or shepherd's pie. Middle and upper class parents ate a later "dinner".