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TIL that people get ragged on for not having enough tea in their cup.
_Well, well, look at ol two sips over ere. Twice as many cups as the rest of us today. Looks like the tide’s all the way out on this one. _
“Are you feeling a bit pessimistic?”
“Pessimistic?!?”
"Your cup’s half empty :) "A fundamental law of the universe is Brits will take the piss out of anyone for any reason. It is a sign of affection, and also a sign of intense dislike.
When it’s a little less than this, my mother and grandmother would call it “curate’s tea” or “vicar’s tea” because of the white collar in the mug, and pass it back for us kids to sort it out.
Who comments on other’s liquid level in a mug?
even if no one actually says anything, you have to deal with the shame of knowing they can see your inadequately-filled mug.
Brits talk about everything rounds to the nearest 10 in metric and then use 1.5cm for asinine shit.
Would you prefer 15mm or 0.5906"
or 5/8’s of an inch
TIL Brits put a little tea in their milk
They also just drink “tea” and don’t conceptualize the different kinds thereof. English Breakfast vs Earl Gray vs an Oolong and all the aromatic teas… AFAIK they traditionally just drink English Breakfast black tea, which is why the Lipton yellow bags aren’t even labelled.
The more I learn about British tea culture the more confusing it gets. Drinking unlabeled black tea in a bag is disgusting bottom-of-the-barrel type stuff. No wonder they drown it in milk.
As someone with 2 cupboards full of different teas, herbs and infusions, I’m almost offended when guests reply “just regular tea?”, like there only is the one.
Not everyone likes a ton of milk though, people often prefer but a ‘splash’.On the other hand, I do also buy 600 x breakfast tea bags pack…
It’s the tannins in british tea that help it mix with the milk. All those black teas you get in europe and asia just turn milk into a swirly mess.
British tea is legitimately its own thing
The color of my mug after a (admittedly high-end) black tea leads me to believe it’s not lacking in tannins. I’ve not tried to put milk in it since I was a kid at my grandparents’ who always had some good teas as well.
My understanding is that the “default” British tea is English Breakfast tea. Which is not a bad tea at all, but it’s not “special”, it’s unflavored black tea. I don’t refute that the tea culture is unique over there but I don’t think it has much to do with the leaves themselves which famously don’t even grow in England lol
Of course, but the type that we import tends to be of the high tannin Assamica variety from China/Sri Lanka, whereas the european varieties tends to be lighter and more aromatic as you say, making it harder for the milk to bind
Since we don’t have a tea culture I don’t know that it’s possible to generalize European tea in any way. Feels like half the time when I ask for tea someone pulls out a box with a bunch of aromatic leaves but literally not a single tea leaf (not exaggerating, I’ve had to drink some herbal mix because I didn’t want to be impolite). If they do have some actual tea, it’s either litpon yellow (tasteless and inoffensive) or English Breakfast/Earl Gray (actual proper tea that I suppose you could mix milk in just fine).
Habitual tea drinkers such as myself do have the good stuff though, aromatic or not, and we don’t put milk in it. That behavior eludes me, if you don’t like the taste but want caffeine just drink coffee and milk, and if you do like the taste why dilute it with some hyper-caloric stuff? I posit that’s what makes British tea culture, y’all put milk in your black tea because you don’t like the strong taste but still you drink it for cultural reasons.
It tastes good though! It’s a hot morning broth almost.
When I was living abroad, I genuinely missed having a nice creamy tea to tide me over. Tea instead became this meditation thing I now had to “sip” whilst inhaling the steam. That’s an alien thing in of itself!
This whole conversation is making me feel just a little bit lighter about the fascism going down in my country.
Yeah, first they make it super strong by just leaving the bags in. Then they add milk because it’s too strong.
I love them anyway
Then they discuss how many centimeters from the rim it should be to avoid the real problem going on in their heads.
There’s 2 tea cultures in the UK. Upper class is straight, perhaps with a little lemon and honey, in quite delicate teas. Working class is strong tea with milk and sugar.
Milk was originally to stop factory tea from cracking cheap cups. It’s now just a cultural thing, normal teas taste weird without milk.
Also, tea in first is upper class, milk in first is lower class.
With tea in first, you can get the perfect amount of milk in by color, but only the upper class could afford high quality china that won’t crack from pouring in the boiling hot tea directly.TIL I’m upper class
Unless you can trace your ancestry back 5-10 generations, along with enough peerages and titles to matter, you are at best middle class. At least according to the old fashioned mindset.
As a fellow tea snob, I salute you. 👍
*pours milk and shoves soggy biscuits through your letterbox*
That’ll teach ya
You underestimate my power to spill
I never fill a mug without 3 cm of clearance
You leave enough room so that the marshmallows don’t cause it to overflow. 🤷♂️
Please do not introduce fun to our national drink. Thank you.
Hot Toddy is pretty fun
How about whipped cream?
Unfortunately, I’m afraid we’d have to categorise that as fun.
Also, you’re now banned from the British Isles, and all of Her Majesty’s overseas territories
Un-blue-es their passport
Ooh no. Proper traditional British passports are Burgundy, like they’ve always been in my lifetime.
I’ll be having none of that new fangled “special racist blue passport” nonsense.
Gonna be real, if someone is petty enough to comment on how much tea is in my mug I’m never talking to them again
What about people who don’t comment but tut disapprovingly?
Public hanging
You can easily get another cm in there and not be at significant risk of spilling it and I’m dyspraxic so more likely than the average person to just randomly fuck up carrying a cup of tea.
I’d go 5mm gap if you’re not leaving the room with it, 7mm if you’re nearby on the same floor, 10mm if you’re up or down stairs, or far away :)
I had never figured to leave more of a gap if going upstairs but it makes a lot of sense…
Hi fellow dyspraxic! How many things have you banged into today?
4
4 ain’t bad at all nice work!
wait is that what that means? like i just sorta called myself accident prone but basically I tend to bang into things more often then others.
Dyspraxia is a learning/developmental condition, broadly similar in cause to dyslexia but presenting different symptoms.
In dyslexia there’s a disconnect or error in the signals sent to and from the eyes so the brain struggles to process them. In dyspraxia there’s a disconnect or error in the signals sent to and from the rest of the body, which means you have difficulty with things like coordination, motor control, balance and also your ability to learn and retain information.
that just makes me wonder more. they mention several times a day though but like for me I bang into the sides of doors or portals or such more than most people I know over the course of a year. Curiously the bane of my school days was not being able to short term memorize at the level my peers could. Was even worse when I got further along and people dropped out of the major. Thing is its not really a totally bad thing as I also notice that when I memorize things I tend to retain it longer. I still know a shakespeare soliloquy and poem I had to memorize for an english class in high school. I pull them out as part tricks on occasion (years between). I also get balance things out of no where but again not daily. Its only noticable over large spans like a year or years so like my wife notices it. Mostly in a what the heck was that way. So yeah given its not daily I don’t think I have it but it makes me wonder if I have like some of the genes.
It’s a spectrum like everything else, you’ve definitely got some of the markers! It’s not a 100% thing either, like it’s not a cerebral injury or a palsy where there’s a specific damage or something.
Like for me I have terrible hand/eye coordination, I have to have my phone keyboard take up most of the screen to hit the right button reliably, I’ll also have what turns into a borderline speech impediment if I’m trying to do something fiddly at the same time. I’ll randomly drop things for no reason or I’ll just spontaneously misstep and end up on the floor every now and then.
wow. yeah this is amazing for me as these things line up. hand eye has always been a bit poorer than others and I do get where my speech can get goofy if im engaged in thought along with the dropping thing. Again though not that often. Almost just enough to have noticed over a lifetime. Its kinda reassuring to think there is a reason and im guess im lucky I did not get enough genes or whatever turned on to the point it fires more often. The speech thing is like more of a threshold thing though. The more I have to concentrate the harder it is to speak and the more likely I will say something goofy.
I will have it filled to the tipitop and spill some on my way to the computer thankyouverymuch
I fill it to the absolute brim and just walk slowly from the kitchen to my living room.
I remember being bullied about some weird random things growing up, but are people really out there talking smack about the not-quite-fullness of your cup of tea?
Feels like the pettiness is the bit
When my wife makes me a brew, she only fills it to 3/4. Now I just decline her offers and make them myself. What’s crazy is that she’ll fill her cup to the normal amount; and I’m not known for spilling my drinks.
Ah the old, “make it consistently bad to discourage them from asking” gambit
What’s crazy is that she’ll fill her cup to the normal amount; and I’m not known for spilling my drinks.
This is an outrage. You’re getting the dregs of the kettle, pal. She’s misjudging the amount of water to put in for 2 mugs and pours hers first. I’d bet money on it.
Oh 100%. But she also doesn’t see the problem with it being so low and thinks I’m fussy!
Madness. Absolute madness. Sorry for your troubles.
You clearly cannot be trusted with the power of a full mug of tea.
Which is wild as the sofa is riddled with evidence of her tea & coffee mishaps!
Classic projection. From one of you, at least.
Aww has the tide gone out? Or something?
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Reread the OP
Ah now it makes sense lol
That’s illegal.
My first thought was that that looks only like 1cm, but with the tape measure there I’m going to have to conclude that the mug is GIANT
Nice colour too.
