Poll: How do you take your tea?
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Lots of milk and sugar. I generally don't like sweet things, but I always have had my porridge and tea with a shitload of sugar.
I live in the U.S. and everyone here drinks coffee. (AND I MEAN EVERYONE. IT'S CRAZY.) I like the smell, but the taste is like licking a gutter. D:
I live in the U.S. and everyone here drinks coffee. (AND I MEAN EVERYONE. IT'S CRAZY.) I like the smell, but the taste is like licking a gutter. D:
Milk and sugar. Fun fact, I'm not British but Dutch, so everyone looks at me weird when I put milk in my tea. But it's nice, very nice. An awesome beverage to wake up with, or when it's cold. Nothing beats wrapping your hands around a nice, big, hot mug of tea on a cold morning.
That's why I don't like it why would I want to put water into my milk and sugar. Also why would I want to milk in my sugar. I like my sugar plain.Straz said:
Milk sometimes (tea in the morning or afternoon=without milk, tea in the evening=with milk).
Sugar NEVER.
Tea with sugar is just disgusting.
Sugar NEVER.
Tea with sugar is just disgusting.
Tea is a subject which is meant to be taken and faced head on. That is to say, tea must be drunk with no additives other than the tea itself. Tea contains many complex flavors, and each must be individually tasted.
Take tea with milk as an example. Tasting it, one removes all airy and oaky flavors from the beverage, and this isn't even counting blends, green teas and herbal teas. Now, take tea with sugar or, alternatively, honey. Well that eliminates complex patterns of bitterness. For you see, the bitterness in tea hits you in light waves, if steeped properly. It is an accent which allows for the airy and oaky flavors to then come in and relieve the tongue. You see, to add these things is to destroy the integrity of the tea itself.
There is then the argument of Chai Tea, which arguably tastes the best when a dash of soy milk is added to it. Well in this case what you are doing is adding an additional accent to the tea, rather than overwhelming it with another flavor. Insodoing you are in fact aiding the tea's flavor rather than destroying it. On the other hand the complex palette that Chai Tea has when alone is somewhat forfeit in this battle. It's something that Tealitists have been discussing for the better part of the last century.
Tea is a wonderful beverage full of a complex palette of flavors. To add one's own is to stop calling tea. So says a Tealitist.
Take tea with milk as an example. Tasting it, one removes all airy and oaky flavors from the beverage, and this isn't even counting blends, green teas and herbal teas. Now, take tea with sugar or, alternatively, honey. Well that eliminates complex patterns of bitterness. For you see, the bitterness in tea hits you in light waves, if steeped properly. It is an accent which allows for the airy and oaky flavors to then come in and relieve the tongue. You see, to add these things is to destroy the integrity of the tea itself.
There is then the argument of Chai Tea, which arguably tastes the best when a dash of soy milk is added to it. Well in this case what you are doing is adding an additional accent to the tea, rather than overwhelming it with another flavor. Insodoing you are in fact aiding the tea's flavor rather than destroying it. On the other hand the complex palette that Chai Tea has when alone is somewhat forfeit in this battle. It's something that Tealitists have been discussing for the better part of the last century.
Tea is a wonderful beverage full of a complex palette of flavors. To add one's own is to stop calling tea. So says a Tealitist.
I laughed and choked on my jaffa cake. You sneaky ultracake, you.Ultracake said:
Anyway, sugar and lemon. Tea here is drank with a bit of lemon. The idea of putting milk in it is commonly met with a "Why the hell would you want to do that?" response.
