The British Tea Time Alarm

AdaptAndAchieve said:
I've tried iced tea, and even fruit tea ... but it's really not my thing.
I will drink a 'standard' tea to be polite, but it really needs to be strong enough to climb out of the teapot unaided for me to enjoy it in any way. I seem to remember trying Darjeeling and Earl grey long ago, and they weren't too bad
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Two of my favorites.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I was mostly just kidding, but I didn't realize you had an "alarm" for it. I'm not always awake yet so no, I didn't notice. I'm semi-retired and I like to stay in bed until 11 a.m. or noon.

I think SandwichShortOfAPicnic breaks that rule anyway, at least sometimes.
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If tea doesn’t appear at designated hours I’ll make sure I get myself some.

It’s kind of obligatory at certain times of the day to take someone a cup of tea, even if there asleep in bed because well.. it’s time for tea, if they haven’t appeared for this important moment in the day then they probably need a welfare check 😂

I have managed to get Mr SSOAP to check if I’m awake before bringing tea (he generally gets up very early) so hopefully he doesn’t wake me clanking cups.
Now I just need him to master checking if I’m awake without making more noise than a train pulling into a station cos mostly his checking wakes me and then shock horror I’m tealess!
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Well no, it is a nationally mandated pause for refreshment. You will notice that nobody from Britain posts on this forum between 3.00 and 3.15pm GMT.
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That must be where our families went wrong. It was always, without fail, 4pm.

And elevenses was always at 11am precisely.
 
I remember the tea time alarm quite well. When I first arrived in the UK, when I got stationed there while I was serving in the USAF, I remember it sounding over the base PA (the same way they played reveille to start the day and retreat to end it - no salute required for tea time, though), and my job in the office, mainly to show camaraderie with our host nation, was to help the commander’s British secretary Glenda - she’d pour and I’d go round with the biscuit tin.
 
TastyReuben said:
I remember the tea time alarm quite well. When I first arrived in the UK, when I got stationed there while I was serving in the USAF, I remember it sounding over the base PA (the same way they played reveille to start the day and retreat to end it - no salute required for tea time, though), and my job in the office, mainly to show camaraderie with our host nation, was to help the commander’s British secretary Glenda - she’d pour and I’d go round with the biscuit tin.
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I'm glad to hear that it was honoured on US military bases over here.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
I've been shocked over the last couple of weeks, it seems a lot of Americans were ignorant of our tea alarm. This has been part of our culture since World War II, to the point where we just assumed everyone knew about it, so we didn't bother mentioning it. I know Europeans are aware of it because they are always making fun of us for it, never mind the sarcastic comments that come from Aussies and Kiwis. Come on Americans, did you really not know, or are you winding us up?

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My grandparents were morning tea and afternoon tea. My mum folllowed the same pattern. If my grandparents were coming the scones and cakes came out. I didnt follow the pattern but for some reason I started having a cuppa about 10 years ago.
I think it was because my wife likes a hot choc on a Saturday morning with her bacon n eggs. I only like earl grey though.

Russ
 
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