What is the meaning of High Tea?!
What is the meaning of High Tea?
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High tea is a British custom, it's tea and cakes, pastries and little sandwiches. Its a social afternoon snack.
It's the British afternoon tea - usually at 4 pm.
British afternoon tea
It is not, as some snobbish restaurants in the USA would have you believe, a more formal and elegant variation on the English custom of tea. It is less formal and less elegant; the "high" seems to mean "high time we had some REAL food!" Instead of cakes and toast and dainty little cucumber sandwiches, high tea includes things like eggs, fish spread, chopped liver and there is often hard liquor. Come to think of it, maybe the "high" part is about the liquor, not the food. Anyhow, it's a lot more fun than your ordinary afternoon tea, for sure.