There's a video out there someone of two Millennial-aged Americans reporting on afternoon tea in London and speaking with a tea expert while having afternoon tea - sort of a demonstration for us dumb Yanks.
At one point, while explaining something, the kid casually picks up a scone and separates top from bottom with a fork, and though he does his best to hide it, the British tea wonk does get a look on his face, for a passing moment, of horror mixed with disappointment.
We invited my brother and his wife over for afternoon tea once, and they love anything different and interesting like that, and they'd only ever seen afternoon tea in period English dramas on TV, so as a joke, and to make it fun, I sent them all kinds of tea-related things; like one day, I sent them a video of "English Tea" by McCartney, another day, I sent them a very formal e-vite, another day, I sent the menu, and I also sent this two-page list of do's and don't's with regards to afternoon tea.
They had a ball with it! They showed up in their best Spring clothes, and made every effort to stir their tea the right way, and to correct each other for mistakes, "Oh, dear one, I must say, please do not hold your pinkie finger out in such a dreadful manner...what will the neighbors say?!" - things like that. It was a lot of fun!
