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Just watched thing on BBC1 with Victoria Wood about tea and wondered whether we're still a nation of tea obsessives and if so how do you have yours? Many people will disagree with me, but for me, a proper cup of tea is Twinning's Earl Grey with a sash of milk and the tea bag left in so it gets stronger as I drink it.
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Builder's tea: large mug (definitely stained, preferably cracked or chipped), milk, one heaped sugar and strong enough for the spoon to stand up by itself. Taylors of Yorkshire preferred.
Flavoured green teas and roobois are tolerable as occasional devations but nothing beats a proper cup as above.
Wah! No, you can't put milk in earl grey!
Actually I deviate from tradition by not putting milk in any tea. But I do make it in a pot which I have previously warmed.
On the third mug right now.
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I used to drink nothing but plain old brown tea (Yorkshire Tea preferred) with a splash of milk and the bag left in, so it could stew as I supped it.
However, I've recently discovered liquorice tea and can't get enough of the stuff. It's like drinking hot, liquified Pontefract cakes - yum.
Drinking herbal tea has given me a taste for ordinary tea without milk. The trick is not to leave the bag in too long otherwise it tastes like creosote.
I like a large mug of Lady Grey, with a little milk.
I've got one in front of me right now
I like a large one too..
Oh sorry, different conversation
I love green tea, never knew it had magical powers though
Thought it was common knowledge
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A strong black tea - something like Assam - made with milk. I'd rather drink black coffee than have tea without milk.
I like most herbal teas but hate the taste and smell of green tea. Smells like cat's wee
with honey.
Yorkshire Tea (although I was brought up on Sainsbury's Red Label, which is also good), leave the bag in for couple of minutes, so reasonably strong, splash of milk.
If somebody else is making it, I'm more tolerant to it being too weak, rather than too milky.
Exceptions:
- I sometimes keep an emergency supply of Earl Grey in case I've run out of milk.
- Jasmine tea: drink as much as you like, in my favourite cheapo Chinese restaurant. Washes down barbecued pork on rice a treat.
I love green tea with lemon.
But sometimes nothing short of a large mug of black tea will do, no milk or sugar. I keep being told I am a freak but this thread tells me I am not the only one who doesn't take milk - hot milk just doesn't taste right!
Also like jasmine tea but it has to b just right, there's quite a lot sold in this country that tastes of nothing!
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Sounds like you've had too much caffeine there Nurse Ratched.
Maybe cut down on the coffee?
Strong English breakfast tea, with a little bit of skimmed milk, Bargain!
I'm interested, where in Yorkshire or England for that matter is tea grown?
ive tried to like green tea
English breakfast tea is just a specific blend couldnt give a flying fuck where it come from
In a pub car park in Bradford.
Have you checked it for buried Kings?
I think it tastes different depending on which way around you make it?.
I have the Tea Bag in with the Milk and then add the water and brew it up until it's a nice tan brown sort of colour. If it's made adding the Milk last it just seems to come out a bit thin?
Strong, full fat milk. Must be peanut coloured. No sugar. Brewed without milk!
I like variety. Red bush, peppermint, any type of red berry tea, proper green or jasmine tea made with leaf not a bag... not a fan of standard tea although I do drink it after swimming as someone else makes it and I'm too cold to care what it tastes like.
My favourite teas at the moment are fennel, and chrysanthamum which was given to me a a gift from a colleague based in China
Yes I do and it's a bone of contention between me and MY OH. I prefer it the first way - once it's the right colour it's the right strength - he makes it the seond way and only gets it right about 30% of the time.
The second way has too many variables - you have no idea how strong the tea is before you add the milk so half the time it comes out too strong or too milky. Plus you don't know how much of a gap to leave for the milk at the top.
Can you please come round to my house and tell him the first way is the way it should be done?