Oh, yeah, I know. Brits will just throw a bag of the crappiest tea they have around in a teapot and move on with their day.
Which is a luxury you can afford when even middling supermarket tea is drinkable. Over where I am if you’re doing tea you have an… affectation. Plus even if you don’t want to, finding drinkable tea is hard enough that you end up going to the fancy stuff by default.
I’m an American. I drink a lot of tea throughout the day. Different kinds for breakfast, midmorning, lunch and mid afternoon. I’ve never had a tea I thought would be improved with milk. I just don’t get it.
I don’t even know what some people call “tea” in this context sometimes. It could be they’re having Ceylon in the morning and Earl Gray in the afternoon, but sometimes what they mean is they’re soaking some weeds in the morning and some dry fruits in the afternoon and calling it tea. I lived in a place for a while where all infusions are referred to with the word for “tea”, so you’d ask for cup of tea, be given a camomile infusion and be expected not to murder your host.
As a Brit this is genuinely the exact opposite of how most tea drinkers are here. The less shit you do to it the better is the general view.
Oh, yeah, I know. Brits will just throw a bag of the crappiest tea they have around in a teapot and move on with their day.
Which is a luxury you can afford when even middling supermarket tea is drinkable. Over where I am if you’re doing tea you have an… affectation. Plus even if you don’t want to, finding drinkable tea is hard enough that you end up going to the fancy stuff by default.
Yeah I literally take tea bags on holiday haha just not the same elsewhere
So… milk is out, then?
Don’t be ridiculous.
I’m an American. I drink a lot of tea throughout the day. Different kinds for breakfast, midmorning, lunch and mid afternoon. I’ve never had a tea I thought would be improved with milk. I just don’t get it.
That’s because you’re American. Don’t feel bad.
I don’t even know what some people call “tea” in this context sometimes. It could be they’re having Ceylon in the morning and Earl Gray in the afternoon, but sometimes what they mean is they’re soaking some weeds in the morning and some dry fruits in the afternoon and calling it tea. I lived in a place for a while where all infusions are referred to with the word for “tea”, so you’d ask for cup of tea, be given a camomile infusion and be expected not to murder your host.