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

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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)

Yeah it’s really unfair. Everyone knows that women’s brains can’t do maths so we can’t work out what’s value for money for us as individuals.

Still, the menz have been convinced they can’t socialise without golf, and that’s more expensive so… maybe that’s fair.

Well I see your point, but honestly the price of the actual team must be like £4

Absolutely, often £30 a head upwards for some itty bitty sandwiches and cake. If you’re lucky a glass of cheap Prosecco thrown in. I’ve only been once and would never do one again.

It’s similar when you compare a builder’s tea from a van and a bacon sarnie, versus the bottom brunch with Prosecco. It’s so sad that woman can’t… make choices 🤣

I enjoy an afternoon tea, usually because of the company and it is nice that there isn’t masses of food. There is one we have done that is fantastic value for money and you can take home what you don’t eat for £20pp. The food is delicious too.

Lol @Testina oh God, now I’m thinking about bacon

maybe someone could do all the swish of lazing around with an afternoon tea, but just like force fed little tiny mini bacon sandwiches on sticks

Good point, OP. Women should meet at the local truckers' greasy spoon outlet (cargo container for bonus points) and have a round of bacon sarnies and a builders' brew apiece, all for a fiver. That'll show the patriarchy.

I don’t really like afternoon tea… so I don’t go.

That’s always worked for me. I must be a man.

I once had afternoon tea where they served soup poured from a tea pot. It was most bizarre.

You don’t have to buy afternoon tea. It’s a treat. You expect to pay extra for a treat.
I could make sandwiches, boil the kettle and butter a scone at home cheaper, but it’s not really the same is it.

Oh you’re right probably, but it’s just a tweeness of it and the stupid tiered cake thing and the giggly. Oh it’s afternoon tea shite

Now I want a scone

You’re all making me giggle.

I feel like it’s something couples and families do?! Why do you think it’s aimed solely at women?!

I go for the sandwiches, not the cake, and I’ve had some that were 100% worth it, but £50 a head is hardly the normal price. I don’t think it’s a con because…. Well no one holds a gun (a bun?!) to your head.

Afternoon tea is a bit of a rip off, I grant you.

As a weapon designed to target women!? Since when are women forced to partake of afternoon tea, but men aren’t?

Your friend needs to find something else to get outraged about.

Oh god yes! Romany Jones on the Newton Road between Newton Abbot and Torquay. Oh the memories!!

I reluctantly went to one around 6 years ago as part of a hen do, it cost £35. I don’t particularly like sweet things, and definitely don’t see cake as a treat, I’d only eat it if there was literally nothing else.
I did resent paying that amount for a cup of tea and two tiny quarters of a sandwich.

You're normally paying for the venue though - I live near Bath and there's a 70% premium for anything taking place in a mouldy old Georgian building with no parking.

Champagne afternoon tea at the Barkley is absolutely fabulous and I’m happy to pay for the ambiance. Afternoon tea at my village tea room is also fabulous and I’m happy to pay to keep them open.
I love afternoon tea.

Ooh Prosecco. So naughty etc.

And actually, in my local village (full of oldies) the afternoon tea market is all women of about 55 living it large on their slightly older (early) retired husband’s pension, with their boomer cheap housing long paid off. So the menz are paying 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’m really seeing this as a common sense issue not a feminist issue.

Bath is Hen do horror most of the time isn’t it from January onwards? I go there quite a lot

My Dad loves afternoon tea. It makes him very easy to buy presents for. Maybe he is doing being a man wrong

I get what you mean really, there is a massive mark up but it's about the experience. He likes a dead posh one, I've bought vouchers for just about every posh hotel in a 50 mile radius over the years 😄

Everything aimed at women is more expensive. Afternoon tea is nowhere near the worst offender.

It is. Gin bars serving from teapots etc!