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)

Exactly what I was going to write ! Double the sandwiches and halve the cakes !

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 👏🏻

What a disgusting misogynistic comment.

How the hell do you know they’re paying with their husbands pension?

You sound really bitter.

If someone said something very funny, I might do a nice sexy nose snort

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I go for quite a few with friends or my dh. I never pay more than £20 each though as at the end of the day it's just sandwiches and cake ! I went to one for £6 each a few weeks ago on a groupon offer ! I'll always host at least one a year myself though and always think it's so easy to do why do I bother paying to go to them ! I like to get my china and teapots out !

No-one!

I just found the tone of that post a bit beyond the pale.

Ageist, sexist, and factually incorect!

"Calm your tits"

Wth

I love a good afternoon tea including at high end London hotels. It isn’t cheap, sure, but it is typically quite a lot cheaper than dinner at the same places.

Mmm scones, cream and jam…

Oh undoubtedly. We've had boomers and gay men brought into it. Just add the trans and we'll have a full house.

Can we not just accept women know what they are doing with their money?

Well, you're certainly making it an ageist issue 🙄

I would have thought that a considerable number of afternoon teas are a present bought by a man for a woman in his life. Because (for some men) paying is easier than making it! So I do t think it is ripping women off.

Where please?

You mean some marketer somewhere has cottoned on to a marketing ploy and is exploiting it to boost profit margins over some tea cakes and nice tea? Absolutely not!!!

But what I will say is that the biggest rip off ever is football. A season ticket, the cost of the merch, the whole shebang seems so pointlessly expensive but then again to each their own.

But it might be their boomer husbands money silly

aside from staffing and cost of the building and stuff

You come across as someone who's never run a business.

Given premer league football tickets cost between £25-100+ for a game I dont think its the silly women being conned out of their money...

And yes I know some football fans are women, but some men buy afternoon tea so it seems the madness of spending money on things that aren't necessities isnt actually gendered after all and we are all as daft as each other.

But then what do I know, I dont do afternoon tea or football but Im a knitter so my hobby would probably finance a small bakery or local football team

I think takeaway coffee is a bigger rip off. So many people getting (sometimes multiple) coffees every day. At least afternoon tea (the fancy one) is just targetted as an occasional treat. And coffee is aimed equally at both men and women?

Yep. Let's make sure all the dated stereotypes continue!

And bacon and sausage sandwiches instead of cucumber and cold chicken.

Not something I'd do as I don't like the food. Much rather a burger, fudge brownie and a pint of cider

I bloody love a cream tea.

I suppose that means I’m being oppressed by the patriarchy but I just don’t care - those little sandwiches are just so good!

And bacon and sausage sandwiches instead of cucumber and cold chicken.

Some places do a breakfast “Afternoon tea”.

If I’m served a cucumber sandwich, I can smell a rip-off