Is high tea still a thing?

There seems to be a lot of confusion these days between high tea and afternoon tea. I agree that some people think that high tea is "posher" when really it's the other way around:
- high tea = a late afternoon or early evening cooked meal with a hot dish, bread and butter, cake and a pot of tea
- afternoon tea = a mid afternoon cold meal/snack of sandwiches, scones, cake and tea

I remember high tea from being on holiday as a child in the 1960s. Many places served it as an earlier meal for families (as opposed to adult only dinner). Often the hot dish would be fish and chips, meat pie, sausages or roast

I have lived in both England and Scotland and can confirm that there are differences. In England there was always afternoon tea at 4pm. This would be a cup of tea and a sandwich. I think it was invented for posh people to have something between early lunch and late dinner, which was served about 8pm. Whereas in Scotland tea (just called tea I think) is anytime when people come home, so 5 - 6pm and is a proper meal but with cups of tea and bread. Then before bed, there is something called supper which is a snack. I've been caught out by expecting to be fed and just getting a snack

I think High Tea is the English name for what the Scots call tea. Dinner in Scotland is at midday and is what the English call lunch.

I first had high tea aged about 8, on holiday in Scarborough with my aunt uncle and cousin. I felt it was quite posh and we were given things I'd never had at home, especially at around 4 in the afternoon. We were well fed at home but it was all plain dinners and home baking on a weekend. Since I've got older I'd be happy to bring back high teas. I hate eating late evening now. That would also mean I could have a hot drink and a little snack at bedtime!

High tea was always something cooked and tea wasn't.

We never had anything called High tea we had breakfast dinner at midday and tea at 4 or 5 if you were hungry before going to bed we had a biscuit and milk which was supper
High tea was what I would call posh I can imagine the queen would have high tea with cakes on a cake stand thin cucumber sandwiches and tea in pots We were working class and just had ordinary teatime no Highs or lows

People's eating habits have changed so much nowadays, particularly in relation to food and ingredients from other countries. I can remember when spaghetti
bolognese or moussaka seemed rather out of the ordinary and curry or chinese food was exotic. High tea brings thoughts to me of the whole family coming together and enjoying a meal with homemake cakes. Everyone's off doing things or looking at their phones.

What irritates me though is how Americans think/confuse
High Tea with afternoon tea. Presumably because 'High' Tea sounds posher, like 'high society'. What really got up my nose once was when a woman told me I was making tea wrong. Apparently, while doing a college exchange course at Oxford someone in the college made tea by boiling teabags on the stove top in boiling water. She instructed me that I was making tea all wrong and that was the correct way it should me made. grr.

It's very much alive and kicking in Scotland, alongside afternoon tea. I wouldn't recommend having both on the same day.