Afternoon Tea - how can anyone eat it all?

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Dead easily.
Have a very small breakfast, no lunch, so you are sufficiently hungry.
Eat the afternoon tea food .
Have a cup of tea.
Go back to finish the scone and cake after a break.

Hard to generalise OP! I am a size 20, greedy, and love sandwiches and cake, especially cake, so I love afternoon tea! However, I have not always finished it - just depends on the place. I have brought leftovers home a lot.

Betty's - eat all of it. Small sandwiches, small scones, dainty cakes.

Local tearooms (Sheffield) - usually bring the cake home. Big sandwiches (and often extras like sausage rolls), huuuuge scones and a big slice of a layer cake. Some places it's 2 slices each. Delicious but not v dainty and I'm full before the cake.

There are usually options for more savoury ones too - which DH chooses.

I actually don't know many people who like afternoon tea, and if we go to a tearoom they have a meal or one piece of cake. It's not really an issue.

Surely if they are full sized cakes someone is doing afternoon tea very right indeed! 😉

My colleague once described a chocolate truffle (a tiny one) as "very rich, too rich for her, I couldn't manage a full one" and was fucking about cutting it in half

My manager "it's a chocolate truffle. What did you expect?" (as he ate two at once)

What wouldbe an issue is if she had a couple of sandwiches then took it upon herself to make comment about whatIwas eating, along the lines of “Gosh, I don’t know how you eat all that Granny, I’d be so stuffed I’d be sick! I bet you won’t need to eat until tomorrow. We have lost sight of what a normal meal is, haven’t we?”

Absolutely..completely agree. Nobody should pass comment on anyones personal habits. But it seems to be more acceptable to make comments about smaller people or those who are seen to be eating less.

For example I've heard over the years things like, "Look at you skinny cow, skinny mini, look at the little size of you " etc and nobody bats an eyelid.. its just said in passing.
If I said to a bigger person at work or in a social group " Look at you fat cow, tubby grubby, the sheer size of you"
I'd be fucking annihilated!!!!

Nobody should feel it's ok to pass comments on another persons body.

Yes this! I'm exactly the same yet get attacked on here for competitive undereating, it's ridiculous and immature.

I had an issue at work some time ago where a colleague kept announcing to the room "no wonder she is so small, she never eats" "We never see her eating " "Why dont you eat anything?"
Like a fool I defended myself a couple of times, I over explained myself and my eating habits for fear of lookin like an "competitive under eater"!!!🤦‍♀️
(I have a sporty job and accidentally fell into the habit intermittent fasting 20 years ago, just through not being able to function at work when full and uncomfortable/sluggish)

The comments in front of others got too much for me.. I approached the colleague who honestly didn't see the problem(coincidentally, or not, colleague has gotten Into trouble for taking unauthorised breaks to eat and nap after lunch because she felt full and sleepy 🤨) I asked her would she be ok with someone announcing to the room "look at her, she never stops eating, no wonder she is the size she is" and she said that would make her feel bad and agreed that would be wrong!! But she was just pointing out an observation about me....

We are just all different and are all built differently. Nobody should be made feel ashamed or stupid or be made fun of because of how they function and like to function.

And that’s absolutely fine. Perfectly normal. A mate of mine loves food but can only eat small amounts. Not an issue.

What would be an issue is if she had a couple of sandwiches then took it upon herself to make comment about what I was eating, along the lines of “Gosh, I don’t know how you eat all that Granny, I’d be so stuffed I’d be sick! I bet you won’t need to eat until tomorrow. We have lost sight of what a normal meal is, haven’t we?”

It's not the consumed amount that’s being lampooned on this thread (generally), it’s those who feel they have the right to judge others for having the occasional blow out. I do really rather feel sorry for them.

Why isn’t there a scone emoji actually? 😊

@Notimeforaname This resonates with me. It was a teacher with school dinners that liked a stand off with me at primary. I salute the hungry caterpillar lady too. Each to their own, I say. Love me a scone.

Yes this! I'm exactly the same yet get attacked on here for competitive undereating, it's ridiculous and immature.

Yes, I can easily finish it. The cakes are small and every one I have had is 4 sandwich slices which are about a quarter of a sandwich, so basically it's the equivalent to 1 sandwich, 1 cake and 1 scone

I eat healthily most of the time. People feel entitled to comment on that But I can work my way through a buffet like the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Today I had no fewer than 9 sandwiches, two cakes, my own weight in crisps and some fruit. It was great. Zero fucks given.

I would genuinely love to be able to do this. Eating out somewhere is always tainted a bit for me because I desperatly want to try so many things but I get painfully full, very quickly. I cant have 2 or 3 courses.
I have moments when I'm like fuck it, I want it and I order more, I end up not being able to enjoy the rest of my night because it hurts so much plus I then feel like shit about the waste of food the waitertook away.

I can eat again in an hour or so, so it's easier at home if we have takeaway as I can go back 2 or 3 times while my partner will just have one massive plate in one go.

I have always been this way, I spent my entire childhood being left at the table alone with orders to "finish my plate" nobody every believed me when I said I was full, I was celebrated the times I forced myself to clear my plate til it hurt which made me feel sick and I couldn't play after.
My parents feel terribly guilty about it all now.

We are just all different and are all built differently. Nobody should be made feel ashamed or stupid or be made fun of because of how they function and like to function.

*take most of the...

We always must of the cakes home! It's crazy. I'd prefer more savoury bits, fewer cakes...

4?

Is it buggery, I could eat one of those myself!

Or you could, you know, fucking enjoy yourself occasionally. Sure, if you scarf down an afternoon tea every day, you’re going to weigh a bit more quite quickly. Eat healthily the rest of the time but have the odd time when you eat what the hell you like? Go for it. You’ll be doing no harm to yourself.

I eat healthily most of the time. People feel entitled to comment on that But I can work my way through a buffet like the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Today I had no fewer than 9 sandwiches, two cakes, my own weight in crisps and some fruit. It was great. Zero fucks given.

The site is full of it. Thread after thread of people proudly claiming to live on dust and telling people off for eating carbohydrates. People kick back as it’s very annoying.

The reason so many people are joking about it on here is the relentless criticism of women who like and eat a decent amount of food.

Perhaps I'm just not seeing those comments much then? I rarely come across women criticising other women for eating larger amounts on here.

So the criticism here to those who eat less are just jokes?

This reminds me of girls I knew at school who used to say, “Oh, I could never eat a WHOLE Mars bar!” I did not believe them.

Don’t have to imagine the responses to people having perfectly normal appetites. The reason so many people are joking about it on here is the relentless criticism of women who like and eat a decent amount of food.

Stuffing yourself to the point of pain and discomfort = good and pats on the back.

Eating a comfortable amount until you're satisfied = weird competitive under eating.

Okeydokey 🤣

Jesus, the amount of people making fun of others for not being able to physically eat usual or larger portions. Even making fun of someone for being small and dainty. Lots of things like "you only eat that and you are full?? Hahahaha"

If this was being said the other way around can you imagine the responses. 🤣

I never finish afternoon tea- it's so sickly! Ask for a doggy bag!

What a depressing mind set.

It's one meal. If you have an afternoon tea a couple times a year it would not result in any weight gain.