BEagle ... I'm sure you will agree that High Tea can only be served on fine bone china to be correct
I do not. While one may indeed take afternoon tea from bone china, itself a mere accessory, 'high' tea is a working class meal, presumably served in a 'sweaty clog' when Dad 'gets 'ome from 't mill'...
Regrettably, the lower orders from other nations do not understand the difference between afternoon tea and high tea, so certain London establishments now feel obliged to describe the afternoon event as 'high' tea for the benefit of foreign tourists. Quite appalling.....