Afternoon tea is a rip off largely aimed at ripping women off

I fear the price of sandwiches at supermarkets is a fair way from our topic - is afternoon tea a rip off? And I guess the answer is "it depends".

Who needs unlimited tea? You still need to make the hour’s train journey back to the deepest darkest Surrey.

The proper fancy ones are unlimited op

A twee afternoon tea followed by a pub crawl seem an unusual mix 😁

My son lived in Bermuda for a few years. Ten dollars a day for lunch. Fifty weeks of the year. This was more than a decade ago. He did the math one day because on top of that the boss needed them in at times until ten PM so they'd order in an Indian takeaway or Chinese to keep going. Fourteen hour days made eating out around forty dollars.

No wonder people would rather work from home in some spheres.

The sandwich shop nearest my office has a starting price for sandwiches of £4.70. Many of Pret a Manger sandwiches are over £5. Another poster suggested Tesco was charging £5 for smoked salmon sandwich.

Waitrose charge as little as you say for some of their sandwiches- they also charge up to £4.50. You can get "meal deals" for £5 consisting of the sandwich, a drink and a snack. The choice of snacks and drinks is very limited.

Our local town do a fabulous bottomless brunch, three courses. It's enjoyed by many. Hen parties included. What's funny is directly opposite are boutiques and a shoe shop which do very well out of young women who having had a good time do empty their wallets.

I was taken by my son and his girlfriend to a bottomless brunch in Leeds, they were both at university there. We just went for the normal lunch. I did clock not only groups but mothers and daughters enjoying the cocktails.

Everyone seemed happy but again it was female driven.

Men still prefer a quiet pint in a pub it seems.

I love afternoon tea. I don't normally eat cake or sandwiches so it is a rare treat. As long as the cake and sandwiches are good of course. I've only had it at places which are a proper treat and everything made there.

The only better meal is a champagne brunch with nothing to do afterwards. Actually my ideal day would be champagne brunch, a stroll, a snooze then afternoon tea.

What supermarket do you buy sandwiches from? Even Waitrose charge as little as £2.80

Um I pretty much always manage mine! My mum always takes a couple of her little cakes home but the rest of us normal finish it.
We are certainly not on a pub crawl though!

Oh , I don't know when did anyone ever sit down and have say a three course lunch, with a main course and accompanying side dishes and a pudding? That's more food by far than an afternoon tea.

No one wants to carry a box of cakes around on a pub crawl.

Eh? Why assume they'd be on a pub crawl?

You cant eat it all though. I mean, when did anyone eat a round of sandwiches for lunch, followed by a cream tea and then at least FOUR cakes? It's only worth it if you can take home what you didn't eat, and that only works if you're going home straight afterwards. No one wants to carry a box of cakes around on a pub crawl.

Well it's unlikely you would take the sandwiches home. As for the cakes there's no more difficulty in carrying them home than cakes in a box bought direct from a patisserie (although no doubt buying cakes from a patisserie is also something that only silly women do)

I wondered that, they must get bashed about. My husband wouldn't mind though

I am jealous of everyone who's had a quiet afternoon tea with a nice atmosphere. The only two I've ever been to cost £60 per head and one featured a screaming baby that wasn't removed, and the other two 5 or 6 year olds who were being encouraged to do repeating circles around the dining room to "stare look at what everyone else is eating".

The afternoon tea in my local little seaside cafe is amazing, £17pp a variety of sandwiches savoury nibbles chips and lots of delicious hombaked cakes as well as unlimited tea / coffee (I'm not the prosecco type anyway)
We never get through it all so always take a box full of cakes home with us.
Have been to a few 'posher' ones but this is hands down my favourite (and a bargain!)

What do you do with the box of leftovers? Do you carry it around with you in town afterwards? Are the sandwiches as nice at home when you don’t have the same decor and so on?

I've been invite to go with friends a few times. I said no thanks as I am not prepared to pay £70 for tea and cake. I have a strong suspicion that they only go for the instagramable places. But I don't think is set up to rip off women. It'd hardly something that women have to do.

But we are silly giggly women who cant possibly have the brains to know whether something is good value or not...

Reading some of these posts makes me realise why my local “pick your own” afternoon tea is so popular. You can choose an entirely savoury tea.

Posters keep going on about it not being "great value" yet as others have pointed out a supermarket sandwich is £5. If I have a sandwich, a piece of cake and a coffee as a takeaway away lunch that's going to be at least a tenner.

I don't care enough to argue any further, don't waste your popcorn. Just saw it and thought I'd give the info.

<grabs popcorn>

Sex is biological (male/female). Gender is identity (man/woman/non-binary). So presume they meant gender.

Paintballing is a rip off largely aimed at ripping men off

Somebody suggested this to me and I’ve never thought of it that way.

You don’t get very women going for paintballing do you? The mark up on ammunition is absolutely enormous aside from clean-up and cost of the grounds and stuff- it must be money for old rope for the businesses concerned. Specially the ones that charge over 50 quid ahead.

Are we being conned by the whole paintballing debacle?

(yes inflicting pain on the jerk at the office is nice I get that)