It is not Proper

[queex]

Within the ranks of the noble tea-drinkers, all it not the sweetness and harmony it should be. For while there are many with the wisdom to recognise the Cup of Brown Joy, they do not appear to honour each other's preferences properly

Comments

[mavnn]

We used to have some friends who deliberately added too much sugar to easily dissolve and then left it at the bottom of the cup because they liked the "oozing mass at the bottom."

As members of my parents house group at the church we attended at the time, this meant that they were generally drinking said tea at the beginning of a 2-3 hour evening.

By the end of the evening when my parents were trying to wash up, the remains of the "oozing mass" had mutated into a sheet of glass embedded in the base of the mug...

[lostdreamer666]

What is this 'sugar' stuff you talk of?

Tea should be sweetened with honey you heathen!

[queex]

And use perfectly good raw material for mead? What nonsense is this?

[lostdreamer666]

The ammount of honey nessesary for the correct sweetening of tea is trivial, and, I assure you good sir, nessesary.

Honey tastes vastly superiour to sugar, and should be used as a subsitute at almost every opportunity. Also, in light of your complaint as to the less educated's inability to prepare the civiliasation defining brew, it disolves more readily in the cuppa.

Free yourself from the false idol that is sugar, and accept the path to enlightenment my friend. Should you feel the need to sweeten your brew at all, use honey.

[notdan]

I'm sure you've asked me to put sugar in your tea before now!

[forest_rose]

Yes! Yesyesyes! Finally, someone speaks up for the downtrodden masses! Let this be a rallying cry for those who would promote Proper Tea Drinking!

(Also, I love that you have a 'put to death without delay' tag.)

Incidentally, have you noticed the intricate choreography necessitated in the Maurice Shock canteen by having two coffee/tea machines with stirrers on one side and sugar and teabags on the other? It is very entertaining to observe.

[queex]

I shall have to watch for that. Sounds keen.

[notdan]

Perhaps, if more people realised that adding sugar to tea ruins it utterly, this issue would cease to be a cause of distress?

[sobrique]

Tea should never be served with either sugar or milk. They both ruin the flavour, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic who must be burned at the stake.