Tea Time...what do you have as a snack?

Shortbread

Hmm, normally don't associate food with tea, but with coffee it's usually a cookie.

Usually nothing. I can go for biscuits though. Not sure why you have a McVitie's category but no other biscuit category, maybe that's an American thing? Are all biscuits known as cookies over there?

Pastries all the way, no tea though.

I LOVE bisctues. Like digestives, custard creams, bourbons, milks, rich tea, figs, hobnobs... anything I can get my hands on. I can destroy a full packet with a coffee.

I don't usually have snacks with my tea.

However, I will say Digestives are freaking delicious!

Chocolate Hobnobs, the only answer.

I tend to have fruit. Yeah, I'm that healthy arsehole.

Some kind of biscuit for dunking. Anything with chocolate is good since it gets melty, but the Maryland big and chunky cookies are god tier. You get 8 in shiny packaging and they are so good for dunking.

I don't know what the hell is going on right now.

cashew cookie larabar and black/green tea mix every morning :)

Pretty much always toast or nothing, though if we have them, I will occasionally go with a shortbread cookie

I just wanted to pop in and let it be known that tea time is absolutely not a thing in America, and so I would have to assume the topic creator is not American.

But also, biscuits in America are fluffy, buttery, dinner roll type things. A cookie is very different from a biscuit here.

Anyway tea time sounds like a great time.

Several sandwiches and a cup of tea. I quit smoking a while back and am eating a lot more. It's kind of a total bummer. Stupid weak lungs.

This is the second most British thing I've seen today.

While we don't really "tea" 'round these parts outside of simply drinking the beverage here and there, I have been to an afternoon tea that was amazing, and I do occasionally have a scone while drinking tea. And while not drinking tea. Scones are awesome, is what I'm getting at.

Other?

I'm all aboard the popcorn train for an afternoon snack.

By tea time I take it you don't mean dinner time?

I don'y tend to have anything else if I'm drinking tea. I used to have a hobnob with tea.

Where's the option for "all of the above"?

Tea seems to make stomach quadruple in size. I can easily go through a box of biscuits with a brew.

My go to choice would be a nice chunky biscuit though.

I usually call it Coffee Time, and Scottish Shortbread is my absolute favorite.

@jonny_anonymous: you also call dinner (ie 5-7pm) tea time?

As an Asian dude, who immigrated to the US, I do enjoy my English Breakfast Tea nearly every-goddamn-day.
I do prepare it the British way, with some sugar and milk (one teaspoon and a splash). Better than coffee.

However, the snack pairing varies on whatever I have/feel like. More often none.
On a decadent day, probably a mini-bundt cake; on particular cravings, daifuku mochi.

I totally get the contrast of subtle creamy tea and a sweet snack.
One of the many things my friends and family think why I'm a complete weirdo.

@frodobaggins: Yep. Think it's a Scottish or at least a northen thing.

None of the above. I'm not a tea drinker, but I'd drink it without food.

Snacking these days is typically a honeycrisp apple, banana, jerky (chicken or turkey is preferable), or a protein bar...maybe some almonds (my bad cholesterol is amazing, but my good cholesterol needs some work...gotta squeeze in those almonds and avacados...).

Those rich buttery biscuits from Sainsbury. I don't live in the UK, but through my travels I found those and nothing comes close over here in the States!

cor, innit?

@cashbasket: Right there with you buddy.

"digestives"

???

"I say, that's hardly cricket, what?"

@jonny_anonymous: right, I'm in Yorkshire... Do you also call lunch "dinner" then?

Tea time is such a non English thing. Why do all Americans think we live in the 17th century over here. I ate a biscuit or something every time I had a hot drink I'd be the size of a bus haha.

I'll drink a breakfast tea with breakfast.

Can't say I specifically eat a snack when drinking tea. I might eat something while drinking tea, but it could be during lunchtime, dinner, or so on. So uh, maybe a steak?

Slice of toast with butter or jam. Mmmmm.

Maybe a pastry? I don't eat much in general tbh. Love tea, though, don't get me wrong.

I am American. So I eat 20 oz. steaks with every beverage.

On a serious note. I don’t like tea

I'm Canadian. Personally the only tea orientated custom I have is after a family dinner, like Thanksgiving or Christmas, tea is usually offered at dessert time. Sometimes that dessert might be cake. I picked the candy option because what immediately came to mind was a wafer based chocolate bar like a Kit Kat or Coffee Crisp. I don't typically have them with tea myself, but I've heard they are popular in the UK for tea. And I think more Americans need to know their chocolate bar game is sorely lacking because they don't have Coffee Crisp down there.