Milky Milky


Reasons to drink tea without milk:

(1) Europeans do it, and they're sophisticated.

(2) Americans do it, and they're tough.

(3) Without milk to muddy the flavour, you can actually taste the difference between different types of tea.

(4) It's actually quite nice.

(5) With a kettle, a cup, a stack of teabags and an optional bottle of lemon juice, I can have a nice cup of tea at four in the morning, without having to creep downstairs and wake up the dogs getting milk from the fridge.

The other options are to get a fridge in the bedroom, or develop a taste for yoghurt in tea.

6 comments:

  1. Odd timing, I just tried milk in tea a little while ago. A cheap knock off of Starbucks's Chai Tea Latte. Holy crap that's good stuff, but I can't imagine putting milk in any other kind of tea.

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  2. With or without milk, tea is a fantastic drink! I like it hot! I like it with ice!

    You can tell what part of the country you're in by ordering and drinking the tea. Iced tea is what you get if you order it in the South. Sweet iced tea is the standard in the South. If you want hot tea, specify it hot! Most Northern states serve it cold or hot unsweetened. Texas offers sweetened and unsweetened iced tea. If you get green tea, you're probably in the West Coast. If you get tea bagged, you're in a men's room or a gay bar.

    I don't understand how people can drink unsweetened tea--blah!!!

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  3. Tea without milk? Yick. But then I much prefer coffee - except at Tea Time ... with a pastry! :) Yummy.

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  4. It has to be Lapsang-Souchong or Earl Grey.

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  5. Eroswings:
    According to a famous essay by George Orwell, people who like sweet tea don't like tea at all - they like sugar. Tea, he says, should be bitter, in the same way was beer should.

    I grew up drinking tea with sugar, then tried it without and after a week of acclimatisation preferred it that way. I grew up drinking tea with milk and it's the same story.

    Still can't drink green tea though. It's like boiled grass.

    Camy:
    Hmm. I seem to recall Earl Grey is a black tea - also known as a red tea or crimson tea, just to be confusing. Not to be confused with brown teas (the "normal" kind) or green teas.

    And the thing about black teas is...you're supposed to have them without milk.

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  6. ...but so much for doing the things you're supposed to do.

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