"English as afternoon tea" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926, The Argosy, page 14",
          "text": "And for all that, he was as English as afternoon tea.",
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          "ref": "2015 05, J. H. Wallder, Fragments of Tom, Lulu.com, page 339",
          "text": "'Well for a start he's years older than mummy, nobody's ever seen anything he's supposed to have painted...and for someone who's as English as afternoon tea what's he doing with a name like Lorenzo?'",
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          "ref": "2018 August 16, Brian Cummings, The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 100",
          "text": "If the Book of Common Prayer sounds as English as afternoon tea, like tea it conceals a more sinister economic and ethnographic history. Chapter 6 Modernity and the Book of Common Prayer Modernity 100.",
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        "Synonym of English as apple pie (“quintessentially English”)"
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