Before you ask, no I don't add sugar to my tea. Sugar, with an Earl Grey? Absolutely not! The very notion of it, well I never!The mere idea of milk with an Earl Grey or English Breakfast tea is just pure nonsense, away with you!
Boston Tea Party 2.0 Anyone
I'm expecting some pushback on the Yorkshire Tea purge, but it's a hill I'm prepared to die on. So many of my fellow white rose people seem to like it purely on the name, but I'd have Tetley before I'd have Yorkshire. At least their animated mascots had Yorkshire accents!
Well, I’d say the only proper way to make tea is by using a teapot
Easier to get a fairly sturdy table knife, stick it under the lid and bend it until the air squeezes out. Should open up without much effort after that.
Nah, you want the dog's milk. Lasts longer than any other type of milk, does dog's milk. Why? No bugger'll drink it.
That sounds like the scenario in the opening five minutes of a typical episode of "Casualty" on BBC1.
A spoon will obviate the trip to A & E.That sounds like the scenario in the opening five minutes of a typical episode of "Casualty" on BBC1.
Thought we were talking about making tea in a mug. @61653 HTAFC had it more or less exactly right in posts #5307 and #5310.
I do have to give some credit to Geoff Marshall who made a video on the optimum method a few years ago (and who I tried to tag, but he seems to have deleted his account). I used to leave the teabag in builder-style, something I now consider a cardinal sin.
I think it’s very smoky and not perfumed much from memory.
I'll add people from north east Scotland to the list of exceptions, as the word "like" is used in a similar way: "fit's gaun on, like?" There's also "fit like?" (How are you?)Dragging this thread away from interminable discussions about different ways of making tea (yawn!)....I get rather fed-up with hearing young - and not so young American visitors saying 'like' three or four times in every sentence. Even worse are young British people doing the same, having presumably picked up the habit from American films and TV series. IMHO, the only people who should be legally permitted to use the word 'like' - other than as a verb of enjoyment - are Geordies, who may use the word, with an upward questioning inflection, at the end of a sentence enquiring as to what has happened, what is happening, or what is going to happen, like? Otherwise it betrays a marked lack of vocabulary!
I'll add people from north east Scotland to the list of exceptions, as the word "like" is used in a similar way: "fit's gaun on, like?" There's also "fit like?" (How are you?)
Sorry....aye, I'd temporarily forgotten about the Doric!I'll add people from north east Scotland to the list of exceptions, as the word "like" is used in a similar way: "fit's gaun on, like?" There's also "fit like?" (How are you?)
The key takeaway from that being that it's the "standard" for objective comparisons, not the "optimum" for the "best" cuppa.
