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Post by lynette on Jan 22, 2019 17:22:08 GMT
Nah, we do cornflake coated with sprinkle of paprika chicken pieces, oven baked, not fried. Complete recipe available on request.
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Post by peggs on Jan 22, 2019 18:03:35 GMT
Yes, dinner midday and tea, a meal, at six. Proper. Had to change when I came down south didn’t I? Is 'tea' as your evening meal northern then? I say tea and then am aware that everyone else seems to be saying dinner and wonder why I say it. I live in the south but did uni in the north and picked up some odd pronounciations (odd as in I'll do one northern version in the middle of a seemingly southern sentence rather than I consider northern pronounciations odd) so maybe it was there? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 19:07:22 GMT
Yes, dinner midday and tea, a meal, at six. Proper. Had to change when I came down south didn’t I? Is 'tea' as your evening meal northern then? I say tea and then am aware that everyone else seems to be saying dinner and wonder why I say it. I live in the south but did uni in the north and picked up some odd pronounciations (odd as in I'll do one northern version in the middle of a seemingly southern sentence rather than I consider northern pronounciations odd) so maybe it was there? We say 'Tea' in (South) Wales as well which may also be because we're terribly common. I had to learn 'Dinner' when I was at a reet posh Uni. |
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Post by lou105 on Jan 22, 2019 19:25:21 GMT
My daughter's poshest friend used to invite her to play after school and stay for supper, meaning tea. Supper, to me, was milk and biscuits before bed.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 22, 2019 19:48:24 GMT
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
I’m sure some misguided people from up here have tried to go for tea at a posh hotel. I imagine it ended in disaster.
“What type of tea would Modom prefer?”
“I’ll have a Cornish pasty and chips on a bread cake and Jade-Marie likes alphabetti-spaghetti. (Shouts) JADE DO YOU WANT LETTERS?”
“I meant the type of tea Modom, the drink”
“Typhoon?”
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Post by emsworthian on Jan 22, 2019 20:24:07 GMT
The best afternoon tea I had was when I was invited to the House of Lords restaurant. It made me decide that it was worth accepting a peerage to be able to have afternoon tea there. Strangely, I have yet to be offered a peerage.
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Post by BoOverall on Jan 22, 2019 20:30:38 GMT
Afternoon Tea is one of my favourite “treat meals”, love it and it always has a sense of occasion. The full works: good sandwiches, warm scones with loads of clotted cream and jam (cream first, then jam 😀), a few savoury mini treats, and a selection of cakes and pastries, And good tea to wash it all down.
Fabulous!
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Post by peggs on Jan 22, 2019 21:08:14 GMT
Is 'tea' as your evening meal northern then? I say tea and then am aware that everyone else seems to be saying dinner and wonder why I say it. I live in the south but did uni in the north and picked up some odd pronounciations (odd as in I'll do one northern version in the middle of a seemingly southern sentence rather than I consider northern pronounciations odd) so maybe it was there? We say 'Tea' in (South) Wales as well which may also be because we're terribly common. I had to learn 'Dinner' when I was at a reet posh Uni. My sister says dinner and every time I hear it I feel a little bit like an oik. And yes when we babysat for posh kids when we were younger they had supper, mind you I was completely thrown by talk of prep when a fellow brownie went to private school, it was like people spoke a whole nother language. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 21:29:26 GMT
For me dinner has always been the largest meal of the day no matter what the time. If it's in the evening then it's preceded by lunch; if it's in the middle of the day it's followed by tea. Except that most of the time I only have two meals a day and one of them's breakfast so it's moot. My father was northern and my mother was southern and I grew up kind of in the middle so I have no idea what's what now.
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 3, 2019 17:37:43 GMT
Here is a notice that appeared in the programme for The New Moon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1929 regarding refreshments. Note that the interval was a mere 12 minutes. The programme cost three pence in old money.
I will separately post the notice from the programme for South Pacific at the same theatre in 1951 because I can't manage to get both images onto the same post!
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 3, 2019 17:43:05 GMT
And here is the announcement about refreshments during South Pacific at Drury Lane in 1951. The programme had gone up to six pence in old money!
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 3, 2019 17:54:10 GMT
PS Contrary to general belief about my age, those programmes from 1929 and 1951 were not from my own personal collection!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 19:06:04 GMT
If the tea was 9d in 1929 and still 9d in 1951 the quality of the biscuits must have fallen considerably. (Only a bounder would suggest that the quality of the tea might have dropped. After all, this is Britain.)
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 3, 2019 21:21:21 GMT
For me dinner has always been the largest meal of the day no matter what the time. If it's in the evening then it's preceded by lunch; if it's in the middle of the day it's followed by tea. Except that most of the time I only have two meals a day and one of them's breakfast so it's moot. My father was northern and my mother was southern and I grew up kind of in the middle so I have no idea what's what now. I totally subscribe to that logic, and very often I do prefer to have a "dinner" around 1pm!
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 3, 2019 21:23:08 GMT
"Supper" is pretty much exclusively upper middle class and above...
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 3, 2019 23:17:28 GMT
If the tea was 9d in 1929 and still 9d in 1951 the quality of the biscuits must have fallen considerably. (Only a bounder would suggest that the quality of the tea might have dropped. After all, this is Britain.) No, the tea had gone up to 1/6 (one shilling and six pence) by 1951 and it was coffee and biscuits that was ninepence, which was not available in 1929. I suspect that the coffee service was simpler than the tea, which came in a pot, plus another jug or pot of hot water and a jug of milk and a bowl of sugar, generally in cubes, and all that in addition to whatever bits of cake and biscuits were included on a separate plate. I have no recollection of ever seeing coffee being served at evening performances after I arrived in London in 1960 but the tea service at matinees was extremely noisy, especially the collection of the trays, generally being passed along the rows after the second act had started! But in those days, attending matinees of plays in the West End was still a very genteel experience for ladies of quality in the stalls and dress circle. |
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 4, 2019 9:37:25 GMT
I wonder how this worked. A quick Google search shows that tea rationing continued until October 1952, and sugar until September 1953, so did all these ladies of quality have to take their coupons with them to the theatre, or was it only home consumption that was rationed?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 4, 2019 10:08:11 GMT
"Supper" is pretty much exclusively upper middle class and above... Not if you’re eating it in your pyjamas before you go to bed. My mum was always tutting about jam on the pillowcases. |
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 4, 2019 10:16:04 GMT
"Supper" is pretty much exclusively upper middle class and above... Not if you’re eating it in your pyjamas before you go to bed. My mum was always tutting about jam on the pillowcases. Jam, at supper? You must have been reyt posh! We were only allowed a maximum of two non-chocolate biscuits. Pater, being the main breadwinner, would treat himself to maybe three ginger nuts AND one Twix finger, saving the other finger for the following night. |
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Post by missthelma on Feb 5, 2019 18:37:33 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned (if I checked the thread properly) The Library Lounge at County Hall as an afternoon tea destination. Gorgeous room with views of river and Big Ben etc. Impeccable staff who treat you like royalty and are not stingy with the free flowing bubbles. Love it there. They also cater extremely well to veggies, vegans, gluten frees etc, even at short notice. Highly recommended.
Another lovely one is The Waldorf Hilton at Aldwych
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Post by n1david on Feb 5, 2019 18:43:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 19:01:37 GMT
Just not at convenient times for seeing either a matinee or evening performance of Follies! |
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Post by lynette on Feb 5, 2019 19:24:41 GMT
It caught my attention....
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