@Flick @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker the mismatch seems to come from the idea that "tea drinking" would have a recipe category.

it's a hot beverage. a biscuit, or other small snack, is usually going to be a mass market packaged item, not something homemade. It's no more a recipe category than whatever food item people buy with their coffee.

@FeartnTired @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker I took it as “afternoon tea” having a recipe category: sandwiches, little cakes, etc.

(Or possibly even “high tea”: cheese on toast, pies, etc.)

@Flick @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker the Scots High Tea is a thing of beauty, and comfort. We eat that early anyway as a late dinner doesn't suit us.

@FeartnTired @Flick @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker High tea was our dinner too, a hangover from the fact that my grandparents were all miners and dockers. Geordies still say, breakfast, dinner and tea with dinner being lunch and tea dinner.

So there's also a class element here if we're talking about the event of tea. Every dude I know loves tea, but I'd say more blokes become coffee dicks.

@Lady_Penelope @Flick @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker we've switched words, but it's holdover from same working class roots in family. lunch now, was called dinner, my aunt and uncle always had soup, meat potatoes gravy, and a sweet (dessert), and high tea at 5:30 was eggs, cheese on toast etc, scones, fruit loaf type cakes, maybe some fruit. and a LOT of tea. We eat lighter anyway, main meal if you can call it that is at 5:30pm, only one course at any time! snacks of sweet things, yoghurt, biscuits, cake when we have it is spread across the day. we call it dinner now. Not sure when lunch/dinner came in over dinner/tea for us.

@Lady_Penelope @FeartnTired @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker Tea/dinner is a very old class thing, to do with the availability of artificial lighting. Everyone used to have dinner at mid-day.

London aristocrats who could afford lots of candles stayed up later and later (think Regency balls with supper at midnight), and didn’t need to get up with the dawn, so their dinner got pushed later and later in the day, eventually ending up in the evening (and even after dark, for bonus conspicuous candle use points). The usage of dinner for the later meal spread both down the classes and out from London over time, so that now it’s only used for the mid-day meal in working class areas far from London.

@Flick @Lady_Penelope @FeartnTired @LifeTimeCooking @sullybiker Wot Flick said, when meals were later they had this small snack thing re "tea" around 4.30 give or take, to keep them going until 8 or 8.30, depending upon when one was having dinner.

@Flick @LifeTimeCooking @FeartnTired All this has just made me hungry.