For the last three years I’ve used January to try and learn something new. Three years ago it was to try 31 days of exercise, two years ago it was 31 days of stretching, last year it was 31 days of learning to play the piano and this year it’s 31 days of… lunch.

In 31 days of lunch I had to cover this, even though it didn’t happen in January.

Today, I had afternoon tea.

AKA lunch but, because the sandwiches don’t have crusts, it’s a tea and not a lunch. Even though I had it at lunchtime.

I don’t understand the differences between Tea, High Tea and Afternoon Tea.

Mrs TwinBikeRun tried to explain it to me.

“You drink tea. You can do that anytime. Afternoon tea is a sandwich and a scone and a cake. You have that between lunch and dinner. High Tea is a cooked meal. And usually earlier than your dinner.,”

Which sounds straightforward until today we went for Afternoon Tea at a hotel at… midday. Which made it lunch. I was having lunch. I was having a sandwich then a scone then a cake. But it was still lunch. Until I spotted the sandwiches were cut into rectangle fingers and didn’t have any crusts.

“Afternoon tea is not lunch because you don’t eat crusts”, I said.

“Not quite,” said Mrs TwinBikeRun but I interrupted before she could say more.

“And a scone is not lunch,” I said, “and neither does it have a crust. And neither does a cake. Afternoon tea is just made up of things without crusts.”

“What about rolls?” She said but I already knew the answer to that.

“They’re nothing but crusts!”

So, for my final entry in this challenge I have, after 31 days, finally learned something new: it’s not lunch if it doesn’t have a crust.

Bread: But not crusts

Ingredient: Various

Taste: Like a breakthrough