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Afternoon Tea - how can anyone eat it all?

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wasntlikethisinthegoodolddays · 05/06/2024 12:43

I've been looking at things to do next weekend. Looked on Wowcher, Groupon etc. A regular offer is Afternoon Tea for two. Whilst it looks lovely, they regularly feature about 6 sandwich corners each, a few savoury items and FOUR cakes each. I love my food, and I like cake, but there's no way I could eat all of that in one sitting. Can anyone eat four cakes in a row? Are we meant to take a doggy bag?

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WreninaDarkNook · 05/06/2024 17:24

@VeniceVentura I am very grateful and accepted graciously, I am going and I am sure I'll have a lovely time with the experience-but I can't make myself like things I don't like!

@stressedespresso indeed! They weren't to know and I did (truthfully) tell them it is a lovely gift. I will have a lovely time with my Mum (and will probably donate my cakes to her which will make her doubly happy)!

Nobody can like everything! I probably have unsophisticated taste!

SocksAndTheCity · 05/06/2024 17:18

The Wolseley has lovely doggie bags - I've seen them. I have yet to need one myself Smile

ReadingSoManyThreads · 05/06/2024 17:16

YourPinkDog · 05/06/2024 17:07

Why not? The Langham will.

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The Ritz gave my mum a doggy bag.

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 05/06/2024 17:15

Q124 · 05/06/2024 16:43

There are competitive overeaters on this thread too. Why are they never harassed like the 'competitive undereaters' are?

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Is this the first time you’ve been on MN? Because anyone that eats food, small, normal or large portions, gets a load of shit thrown at them r
I got called grotesque for eating a share size bag of malteasers recently.

Frangipanyoul8r · 05/06/2024 17:14

Why do some people not make a correlation between calories burnt and calories consumed? If you have a very physical and active life then you need lots of food to sustain it. At my peak fitness I could see away a full English breakfast with a burger and chips on the side in one sitting. A full afternoon tea would have been a light snack to me back then 🤷‍♀️

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 05/06/2024 17:13

CormorantStrikesBack · 05/06/2024 16:47

The Ritz won’t give you a doggy bag.😡

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They replenished all our cakes but we didn’t actually need them (came over and just put them there) then they wouldn’t give a doggy bag. I sent an array email about food waste and basically got told tough shit 😂

AGodawfulsmallaffair · 05/06/2024 17:10

sprigatito · 05/06/2024 12:46

Take a Tupperware if you're worried. But yes, there do exist people - women, even! who can eat some sandwiches and a few small bits of cake without rupturing themselves.

But enjoy your thread full of phrases like "hoover up", "polish off" and "couldn't possibly manage". It's been at least an hour since we had one.

😆 🧁 🥪

Anneofa1000days · 05/06/2024 17:10

I do think where you go makes a difference on the size of the tea. I had the one I said before and I had another afternoon tea in a London museum and it was awful and so were the waiting staff. They tried to over charge us too. It was a treat for my niece and the treat was spoilt.

Lavenderandbrown · 05/06/2024 17:09

I am looking forward to a tea at the end of the month. Not only do I eat a great deal of what’s ordered I drink a shed load of tea….the tea is my favorite part and the little bites are so I don’t slosh when I get up from the table. BMI 20. Really op haven’t you been served plenty of meals where you just think TO YOURSELF…I will ask for a box.?What generation is this tiny portioned oh that’s too much MNetter?? I’m not young and I find it ludicrous. My aunt who is 85 used to comment on peoples orders /food intake but she’s been silenced now realizing it’s dull and offensive to always act superior because she’s eating an orange while you have a donut

CandidHedgehog · 05/06/2024 17:08

wasntlikethisinthegoodolddays · 05/06/2024 12:54

Not meant to be an under eating thread. I eat too much and I'm 3 stone overweight. I've never eaten 4 cakes in a row though!

Well if you eat a full afternoon tea, you still won’t have done. As various people have said, they are two ladylike bites each if you are being polite.

YourPinkDog · 05/06/2024 17:07

CormorantStrikesBack · 05/06/2024 16:47

The Ritz won’t give you a doggy bag.😡

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Why not? The Langham will.

EdithArtois · 05/06/2024 17:00

I’m a fat greedy person and I agree with you! Sandwich quiche scones and several cakes each

PurpleBugz · 05/06/2024 17:00

2ndMrsdeWinter · 05/06/2024 16:56

I thought the OP was being tongue in cheek at first.

I’m neither an over nor under eater, but last time I went for afternoon tea I left still very hungry. Portions were TINY!

Im with you here it's never enough food! And I'm not a greedy bugger normally low end of healthy BMI when I've not just had a baby. Who are all these people finding it too much? It makes no sense to me 😂

NImumconfused · 05/06/2024 16:59

stressedespresso · 05/06/2024 16:56

I may need to up sticks from NI in that case 🙈 Anything other than a plain scone is blasphemy in my opinion!!

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Maybe it's just round here - too many garden centres and farm shops!!

I draw the line at a mint aero scone though - bleurgh!

2ndMrsdeWinter · 05/06/2024 16:56

I thought the OP was being tongue in cheek at first.

I’m neither an over nor under eater, but last time I went for afternoon tea I left still very hungry. Portions were TINY!

stressedespresso · 05/06/2024 16:56

NImumconfused · 05/06/2024 16:50

I know, it probably wouldn't really be and afternoon tea without the scone, but here in NI we're used to our scones being interesting (raspberry and white chocolate, date and walnut, pear and cinnamon etc) and an afternoon tea never seems to come with anything other than plain or fruit.

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I may need to up sticks from NI in that case 🙈 Anything other than a plain scone is blasphemy in my opinion!!

SilverDoe · 05/06/2024 16:56

I am always so curious about eating habits because I am overweight but could not finish an afternoon tea portion in one sitting at all, especially with a full sized scone. Even if I skip breakfast.

I would happily eat it throughout the day though after I'd taken home a doggy bag! Yet I have a slim friend who could probably demolish the entire thing in one sitting.

ReadingSoManyThreads · 05/06/2024 16:54

wasntlikethisinthegoodolddays · 05/06/2024 12:54

Not meant to be an under eating thread. I eat too much and I'm 3 stone overweight. I've never eaten 4 cakes in a row though!

"I've never eaten 4 cakes in a row though!"

Oh, you haven't lived Sweetie!

NImumconfused · 05/06/2024 16:50

LarryLanyard · 05/06/2024 14:33

I won’t hear a word said against scones. Scones with cream and jam. Delicious.

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I know, it probably wouldn't really be and afternoon tea without the scone, but here in NI we're used to our scones being interesting (raspberry and white chocolate, date and walnut, pear and cinnamon etc) and an afternoon tea never seems to come with anything other than plain or fruit.

ChrissyShenkle · 05/06/2024 16:49

Just unhinge your jaw and pour it in

CormorantStrikesBack · 05/06/2024 16:47

The Ritz won’t give you a doggy bag.😡

usernother · 05/06/2024 16:46

Being greedy helps I find. I did bring some afternoon tea home once but this one was full of massive slices of homemade pie, great big slices of cake, sandwiches in thick slices of homemade bread. It was delicious. I'd polish off a normal afternoon tea with no bother, but then I'm not a teeny tiny weeny mumsnetter.

Februaryfeels · 05/06/2024 16:44

sprigatito · 05/06/2024 12:46

Take a Tupperware if you're worried. But yes, there do exist people - women, even! who can eat some sandwiches and a few small bits of cake without rupturing themselves.

But enjoy your thread full of phrases like "hoover up", "polish off" and "couldn't possibly manage". It's been at least an hour since we had one.

🤣🤣

Hiddendoor · 05/06/2024 16:44

If you ask nicely, some places give you seconds. So if you eat all your sandwiches, you can have more. Scones are often merrily replaced. Cakes, have more!

Afternoon tea replaces lunch and your main evening meal (have a light supper later if needs be. Made up of the food you bring home from afternoon tea).

Q124 · 05/06/2024 16:43

Whoswhoof · 05/06/2024 16:16

SOUND THE KLAXON 📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣📣🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

anybody who eats more than 500 calories a day, take cover! The competitive under eaters have emerged!

There are competitive overeaters on this thread too. Why are they never harassed like the 'competitive undereaters' are?