Silly Wondering

[jazzy_dave]

Have you had a "high tea" or been to a tea party?

What is your guilty pleasure?

Jelly or sponge?

Or in USA , gelatin v cake)

Comments

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Nope, not my kind of thing.

I eat chocolate when watching a movie with someone else, sometimes :)

Don't really like either. Now, if you put them with ice-cream or whipped cream, then you'd be talking :)

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

Been to a High Tea when I visited London in 1989. Funny thing was that the only tea I liked was Chinese tea.

Hmmm... he wouldn't be pleased if I named names ;-P

I have to assume that this is about sweets (American here)...I will say sponge and hope it means cake.

[eneit.livejournal.com]

home made sponge, filled with proper whipped cream, and topped with passionfruit icing. Favourite since I was a child, and I've never been able to make it as good as I remember my aunt's being

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I absolutely LOVE doing fancy tea with the scones and the little sandwiches and such. I've been to the Savoy twice. Once with a friend and once when I took my parents to the UK. They also have a nice place in Princeton that I've been to and I want to try a well-rated tea house in Flemington, NJ

Chinese food - especially dim sum.

Um...I don't understand the question? Is that whether I prefer gelatin or cake?

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Yes, gelatin or cake , i love a sponge cake with chocolate filling for example.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Ah! Hm...I guess I'd have to go with cake if presented with the choice. Though I do like a very moist cake (tiramisu, tres leches cake). My favorite dessert I haven't had in years after I moved away from Ohio. It's called Meyer Lemon Gratin. This woman made it with the restaurant recipe, although it's prettier at the restaurant
http://www.loveandflour.com/cooking-hard-stuff-lemon-gratins/

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

OMG! I love tiramisu.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I know, right? A perfectly balanced tiramisu is absolute heaven

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

Jersey represent! :-) I grew up 9 miles from Flemington.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Woot woot! Don't suppose you've been to Teaberry's Tea Room? My friend in PA and I want to meet there maybe in August (since it's also close to Snyder Farm in Pittstown and I've been meaning to go to the Great Tomato Tasting)

I actually grew up in Ohio and moved to NJ about 14 years ago to work at RU. :)

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

I have not but my family still lives in that area so I will gladly get a review.

I don't know about the Great Tomato Tasting either so I will have to ask them about that.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

They should check it out!
http://snyderfarm.rutgers.edu/snyder-events.html

From what I hear, it gets a pretty good crowd. I've been to the farm once before for a work meeting (NJ Ag Experiment Station - we rock!) and it's a little off the beaten path but on that day, I'm sure it's not hard to find at all.

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

Cool I just got word that Teaberry's is a hit with the women in my family: "Fun, girly thing to do." So I would give it a go.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Thanks a bunch!

I do love doing girly tea every now and again. It's like transporting yourself into a little civilized fantasy

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Yup, just recently at Fortnum and Mason. it was fun!

Taking a day off from work

Um, I am assuming these are cookies (biscuits)? Jelly, definitely.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I've had high tea at the Empress in Victoria BC and somewhere close to the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

I don't feel guilty about pleasure.

Are those cakes? I dunno but I've had a craving for Little Debbie jelly rolls for a while now.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I have never had a high tea or even just a regular tea party.

Talk about a long list. :o
All things Disney, Elizabeth Taylor, DVDs, Teddy Bears, Tshirts,

Not sure what the two options are here. :p
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Different Anglais , gelatin or cake mate?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sandman-jazz.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to a Tea Party unless you count the Mad Hatter Tea Parties at the Wonderland theme park in Telford when I was a nipper. Not really sure what you mean by a 'high tea', but it certainly sounds like an English take on a Western.

I would say I don't have a guilty pleasure as such, if it is a pleasure why feel guilty about it? But if you want an example I would probably say my love of retro-style pin up glamour exhibted by models such October DiVine. The flirty not dirty style posing, however I do find that the overly tattoed models do detract from the ethos. Then again it could be viewed as part of the charm as it contrasts the whole verisimilitude of the set up, as we are no ponger in the 1950s and shows the difference between the two time periods.

I'm more of a Sponge cake person. The texture of Jelly is off putting for me.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

I used to have 'tea parties' with my girls when they were little. Sometimes it was just water, sometimes milky tea, sometimes cocoa. It was a great chance to practice manners and have fun,too!They loved it!

My guilty pleasure will ALWAYS involve chocolate. After a 'candy holiday', like Valentine's Day, I'll buy it on 'mark down' and put it up on the top shelf. I'll have only one or two a day and make it last!! I also buy large dark chocolate cupcakes and have a quarter piece a day. Another favorite is Dunkers. These are flat 'finger-shaped' cookies with chocolate bits and a thin layer of chocolate on the bottom!!

Jelly or sponge?/? Does this refer to cake or doughnuts?Jelly doughnuts are AWESOME. Sponge cake is good,too.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Cake and doughnuts v wobbly gelatin stiff

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Definitely cake and doughnuts over Jello. Jello is a "fall-back" when you haven't got any cake or cookies for dessert.

[medesign.livejournal.com]

Ive been to a few japenese tea ceremonys. My indulgence food wise is chips. Salty, spicy, crunchy. Jelly or sponge? If its cake and jello , no to both not a fan.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I have,,,wanna do it again, lol!!

Late nights with coffee and a show or book...

Neither!

*HUGS*

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

I went to the tea parties at several Steamcons. The one hotel (the first one) did a good job of it, but the place they moved to didn't seem to have a good handle on it. Short on food, and not nearly enough servers for the huge number of tables. But a great opportunity to dress up in Victorian finery!

Sitting on my butt reading too much. And buying too many things at thrift stores and yard sales.

Are you speaking of some kind of sweet pastry, or contraception? !

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Cakes or sponges filled with stuff vs. jello or jelly or gelatin etc.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Urg. Um, neither? I like nothing but cake in my cake, and jello is a horror out of my childhood I'd prefer to forget.

[magenta-girl.livejournal.com]

I love high tea and tea parties (just not the political version, which I am annoyed has pre-empted the fun idea of a tea party around here).

I like bad pop music.

Cake (or death).

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

I think the only proper tea I've attended was aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2.

Assuming we're talking about food, the snack I exhibit the least control over is pita chips with hummus. I can easily eat an entire bag.

Chocolate lava cake, if it has to be cake, but rice pudding is my favorite dessert.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Lately I have been allll about rice pudding. UNF!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Not as such, just lots of morning or afternoon teas... our office are a greedy crew :)

Foodwise, it's cheap candy bananas, candy teeth and sausage sangers... not all together (though I wouldn't say no...)

Preferable both together. With cream.

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

I have been to high tea at hotels and British restaurants in NYC. And I still do 'tea' sometimes at home. I like sandwich triangles with pesto, turkey, cucumber, hummous, etc. And petit fours. Or blackberry preserves, not jam or jelly.

Guilty?.....Cooking with lard? That's pretty bad, eh? Sometimes skipping lunch on my day off, and having a beer instead? Clinging to tobacco? Yeah, all that together is probably pretty bad to a lot of people, lol.

Cake!! Gelatin is made from horse hooves, isn't it? Ew!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Beer lunches and smoking a pipe are my vices BTW.

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

Lol, I know. Thats why I felt safe saying that :-) smokers are so looked down on in the US nowadays.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Yeah i sometimes get that attitude from some folk ,mainly younger folk, but i just ignore them, Lights up pipe in disgust.

[wendelah1]

Cake all the way. Gelatin, no thank you.

I've been to the Rose Garden Tearoom at the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, but it was years ago.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Hate gelatin too.