Milk + Sugar = WTF!!!??!!

[sayonara_snot]

A post is made to mock_the_stupid in which the OP recounts an amusing incident that happened to her family. Her brother kept putting what he thought was sugar in his milk, and it kept tasting horrible. Nobody could figure out what the problem was, until the OP's father showed up in the kitchen and instantly noticed that the sugar bowl had salt in it instead of

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[windypoint]

Get it right. The ORDER counts.

Milk + sugar + tea = barbaric
Tea + sugar + milk = YUM!

Thankyou.

[windypoint]

Well I must admit to being a teabag squeezer, the old wrap the string round the spoon and use the label to squoosh the bag against the spoon trick.

I've been told this releases too much tannin and tea dust.

[windypoint]

Errrr, most (not all) teabags here come with a little string stapled to them... the other end of the string has a little rectangular paper label stapled to it. Ummm, I would find you an image but I'm trying to think up a search term for google images that doesn't involve the word "teabag"... because the results for that might be kind of not what I wanna see right now. Oh, sod it, I will brave the consequences... here ya go

www.teamuse.com/images2/articles2/041001_3.jpg

Haven't you heard the joke about how you know the waitress hates you when the string in your tea isn't attached to a teabag?

[windypoint]

Aaaargh, here's the full link
http://www.teamuse.com/images2/articles2/041001_3.jpg
sorry

[windypoint]

I've seen a few of those when I've accidentally bought obscure brands... weird things, brewing tea isn't the same unless you can jostle the string up and down to release a cloud of dark goodness into the cup.

When I was a kid there was a jingle for one of the major tea brands... probably Liptons or maybe Tetleys I think. This is from memory bcause I couldn't be bothered with more than a few searches trying to find it...

You jingle in a cup, you jangle in a pot,
these dingler dangler bags let you do the lot,
"But what about the tea?" "It's tasty as you will see,
Don't you agree, that's really splendid tea?"

[otana]

This thread is awesome because I am an English ex-pat and no one understands my obsessive tea habits. :(

[blondebeaker]

I totally understand. My Grampa is an ex-Brit and so is my Father in law.

My Grampa was fanatical about his tea......I didn't know about teabags until I was oh I think ten years old. Had to be loose tea leaves. If it isn't so damn costly I would keep using loose leaf but for now I silently say sorry to Grampa and hope he doesn't haunt my ass for eternity.

*is reading the thread while drinking Earl Grey.*

[otana]

Our tea cupboard is stuffed with all kinds of tea. Mainly bagged because I have no class, but most of my green teas are loose leaf. I still get my black tea sent over from England and I've coaxed a lot of my friends into drinking it with milk and sugar. Mwaha. >:D

[blondebeaker]

I use bags now but when I have the cash I go down town to this tea place and they have lots of nice black tea.....and imported tea (in bags) from England.

And I sometimes hit the asain market for something new.

[otana]

My Nan sends me 200 bag boxes of PG Tips every couple of months. <3

[lips_of_tragedy]

I've always been told that whether you put the milk in first depends on if you're posh or not. Posh folk with fine bone china put milk in first to help stop the heat from the tea cracking their cups; ordinary folks with earthenware mugs add milk lastbecause the most robust cups can stand the heat.

Could be some kind of Victorian British urban myth...

[ioewe]

You can put the milk into the china directly when you have the tea in a POT, already brewed.