Tea sandwich

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Tea sandwiches are very light, delicate sandwiches served at tea time. They are eaten more for flavor and texture than to actually fill up, and are usually made of very thinly sliced white bread with the crusts cut off. Tea sandwiches at their most iconic are buttered and with watercress or wafer-thin pieces of cucumber. Today bolder fillings such as radish and smoked salmon, particularly lox, and denser bread such as whole wheat or pumpernickel might be used. A tea sandwich is always cut into bite-sized pieces, sometimes in fanciful shapes. Tea sandwiches were often considered a marker of social class, for the waste involved (crusts etc) in making them, the fact that they were delicate rather than filling, and the time they took to prepare, all bespoke money to spare and household help.