Page 8 | Afternoon tea is a rip off largely aimed at ripping women off

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:46

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:44

Ah, what is wrong with making decent quality food for friends and put your heart in it :) and it doesn't necessarily cost much. Win win, and more win!

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Good home baking is not cheap.

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:44

ChatLike · 08/04/2024 18:35

Made with love. Goodness! Each comment on this thread is better than the last.

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Ah, what is wrong with making decent quality food for friends and put your heart in it :) and it doesn't necessarily cost much. Win win, and more win!

Greeniswonderful · 08/04/2024 18:44

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:41

You chose to write a patronising post about "ladies" choosing to spend their money on "shit". Don't whinge when you're called out on it.

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Haha I don’t recall whinging, just finding it amusing how worked up you’re getting about this.

justasking111 · 08/04/2024 18:43

Anyone else think drinking alcohol is just odd with sandwiches and cake. The flavour just isn't right. Whereas a pot of tea, milk with a jug of hot water is perfect.

And no I'm not teetotal.

LilyPAnderson · 08/04/2024 18:42

dimllaishebiaith · 08/04/2024 17:48

Women being frivolous apparently

Despite many posts on the thread about mens buying habbits apparently women are the only silly giggly little airheads being ripped off because they aren't intelligent enough to work it out

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Yet men pay women in their 30s pretending to be 18, £100s just to watch them doing things on a web cam, so I would class that as a waste of money. Some men even pay to watch fat women eating.
I don't think women paying over the cost price for food and drink is stupid. Although once you add on the cost of staff to serve you, fancy china crockery and other costs, it probably doesn't make as much profit as you think.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:41

Greeniswonderful · 08/04/2024 18:35

Lol why are you getting so offended? Go ahead and start a thread saying you don’t like pubs, I don’t care 🤷‍♀️ And I didn’t start this thread? Some weird responses on this thread 😂

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You chose to write a patronising post about "ladies" choosing to spend their money on "shit". Don't whinge when you're called out on it.

Becgoz7 · 08/04/2024 18:38

Coddy · 07/04/2024 16:16

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

You don’t get very men going for afternoon tea do you? The Mark up on afternoon tea is absolutely enormous aside from staffing and cost of the building 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 afternoon tea debacle?

(yes cake is nice I get that)

I don't mind paying for a good afternoon tea. Home made is a must!

My husband likes it too 🤣

ChatLike · 08/04/2024 18:35

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:22

Why the aggression? Many of us do not need to 'replicate' very fancy stuff, but will be very happy sharing simple, quality, made with love cake and scones at home or in decent but simple teashop. It truly does not cost much at all.

My choice every time.

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Made with love. Goodness! Each comment on this thread is better than the last.

Greeniswonderful · 08/04/2024 18:35

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:14

I don't like pubs. I don't like pints. Up until now I've never felt the need to tell anyone on MN that, far less start a thread complaining about the price of something I don't buy in a venue I don't go to.

Oh and I don't need to describe pints as "shit" just because I don't buy them. The average price of a pint in the city I live in is over £5- maybe that's a "con" as well.

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Lol why are you getting so offended? Go ahead and start a thread saying you don’t like pubs, I don’t care 🤷‍♀️ And I didn’t start this thread? Some weird responses on this thread 😂

ChatLike · 08/04/2024 18:34

ThisRoseBeaker · 08/04/2024 17:58

Just make afternoon tea and invite friends around! Bake some cakes and scones. Have a lovely afternoon with friends. Perhaps raise some money for charity.

Perhaps raise some money for charity.

Seriously 😂 The sanctimony is strong.

ChatLike · 08/04/2024 18:33

Snoopsnoggysnog · 08/04/2024 18:23

Loads of sneery posts in typical MN fashion here. I love afternoon tea in a posh London hotel. The one at the Mandarin Oriental costs £80 per person. I dislike stinky old pubs and beer. My money, my choice.

I consider myself a feminist but I’m not burning my bra over this one.

Same.

I don’t drink so this is my kind of treat. Over a lifetime I have spent less probably on posh teas than my friends have on alcohol!

I also don’t tell my friends they are being ‘conned’ for spending £££ on cocktails and expensive wines. Because that’s how they derive pleasure. Just like I do from my posh sandwiches and gorgeous pastries!

At 53, I am fully aware of what I am doing when I book for afternoon tea!

ChatLike · 08/04/2024 18:30

KattyBoomBoom95 · 08/04/2024 17:58

Seriously, though, I didn't know this was a thing. I've been for champagne breakfasts and bottomless brunches but when I want afternoon tea I just go to a tearoom and order tea and a scone with clotted cream etc. That never costs £30.

Yes. I can get that at the M and S cafe and enjoy that.

Afternoon tea is usually in a nice room, also with sandwiches and special pastries/cakes you would not normally eat. It is a different kind of ‘event’.

Mixedvegetables · 08/04/2024 18:23

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:21

I must admit I did do an advanced search. The OP hasn't posted since 2017. Not sure what might have prompted this.

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She name changes all the time, I do exactly the same.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 08/04/2024 18:23

Loads of sneery posts in typical MN fashion here. I love afternoon tea in a posh London hotel. The one at the Mandarin Oriental costs £80 per person. I dislike stinky old pubs and beer. My money, my choice.

I consider myself a feminist but I’m not burning my bra over this one.

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:22

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:19

Do you have the slightest idea of the time and costs involved in replicating a good afternoon tea at home?

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Why the aggression? Many of us do not need to 'replicate' very fancy stuff, but will be very happy sharing simple, quality, made with love cake and scones at home or in decent but simple teashop. It truly does not cost much at all.

My choice every time.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:21

MotherofGorgons · 08/04/2024 18:18

Oh my God.
It's Cod ( For old Mners)

You are all taking this far too seriously. Chris Martin DGAF!

I must admit I did do an advanced search. The OP hasn't posted since 2017. Not sure what might have prompted this.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 08/04/2024 18:21

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:19

Do you have the slightest idea of the time and costs involved in replicating a good afternoon tea at home?

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This! Some real holier than thou posts on this thread

EmpressOfTheThread · 08/04/2024 18:20

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:19

Do you have the slightest idea of the time and costs involved in replicating a good afternoon tea at home?

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I know! As if.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:19

ThisRoseBeaker · 08/04/2024 17:58

Just make afternoon tea and invite friends around! Bake some cakes and scones. Have a lovely afternoon with friends. Perhaps raise some money for charity.

Do you have the slightest idea of the time and costs involved in replicating a good afternoon tea at home?

MotherofGorgons · 08/04/2024 18:18

Oh my God.
It's Cod ( For old Mners)

You are all taking this far too seriously. Chris Martin DGAF!

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:18

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:08

You don't get what I am saying at all. People can choose to buy those very expensive goods, but then they shouldn't say they are being conned, as in the OP.

It's a choice, not 'being conned', just a choice. You do, or you don't.

The point is, the OP wasn't complaining. Most posters weren't complaining either.

The OP started a rather nasty thread for no purpose other than to sneer at other people's choices.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 08/04/2024 18:14

Greeniswonderful · 08/04/2024 17:57

I don’t get afternoon tea and would rather a pint down the pub any day. However if ‘ladies’ are choosing to spend their money on this shit then surely that’s their choice. There must be demand for it for prices to be so high.

I don't like pubs. I don't like pints. Up until now I've never felt the need to tell anyone on MN that, far less start a thread complaining about the price of something I don't buy in a venue I don't go to.

Oh and I don't need to describe pints as "shit" just because I don't buy them. The average price of a pint in the city I live in is over £5- maybe that's a "con" as well.

IHateWasps · 08/04/2024 18:12

but when I want afternoon tea I just go to a tearoom and order tea and a scone with clotted cream etc. That never costs £30.

But that’s a cream tea. Not an Afternoon tea at all.

Greeniswonderful · 08/04/2024 18:09

fungipie · 08/04/2024 17:59

Of course it is their choice. But then should not complain about 'bieng conned'- is my point.

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I wasn’t responding to you? Also yes I agree that’s what I’m saying, it’s their choice.

fungipie · 08/04/2024 18:08

You don't get what I am saying at all. People can choose to buy those very expensive goods, but then they shouldn't say they are being conned, as in the OP.

It's a choice, not 'being conned', just a choice. You do, or you don't.