ealingfox Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 What's your favourite blend/brand/type of tea? Any less obvious types you would recommend? Can't beat a regular PG Tips for me. I do like Earl Grey but it tastes a bit weird. Also what is everyone's tekkers for making a cup of tea? I can't be the only person who puts the hot water in first, then the teabag? I will never forget my first week in my first part-time job, at one of those budget shoe shops like Shoe Zone etc. I'm in the staff room having just whacked the kettle on when the assistant manager came in. He watched me make a mug of tea before strolling over looking smug, looked at me and said "You don't know how to make tea do you?". The stupid twat then proceeded to put a teabag in a mug, fill the mug with COLD water, added some milk at the top and then put the mug in the fvcking microwave. I have honestly never wanted to deck someone so much in my entire life.
ousefox Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Yorkshire Gold or Earl Grey for me. Drink more of the latter. I never do it in any order, just whatever seems convenient at the time.
ScouseFox Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 any type of normal tea that isn't fvcking gay herbal tea or green tea or lemon tea or bullshit. coffee is better tho tbf.
DennisNedry Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Yorkshire Gold. No sugar or sweetener. Put tea bag in the cup and pour the water in. Leave to stew for about 3 minutes then squeeze twice and stir. 2 teaspoons of full cream milk.
FoxInTheBirstallBox Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 what kind of HELMET makes tea in the microwave?! the microwave is a last resort when you come back after getting distracted and forgetting about it, even then its a last resort. What an absolute shaft. This is making me so mad i need to lay down and count to ten
StanSP Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Wookie beat me to the Doc Brown bit. Cracks me up . For me, Teabag Water Milk Teabag out 2 sugars Job done. Can't stand Earl Grey tea. PG Tips is the preference.
Unabomber Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 yorkshire tea is the best if weve ran outta coffee.
The Doctor Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Anyone who chooses a normal blend other than Yorkshire is clearly some sort of uneducated heathen.
ealingfox Posted 7 March 2015 Author Posted 7 March 2015 In another tea-related anecdote, whilst I was living in the Netherlands for uni I spent 6 months living with a French guy. Year younger than me, nice enough guy, seemed perfectly normal etc. One day I come out of my room to find him stood at the hob. There's a small saucepan, full of water, with a teabag in it on the hob. The aforementioned French guy is lighting the hob. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was making tea. I asked him why he doesn't just use the kettle. He asks me what that is. I'm thinking fair enough, his English isn't perfect he probably doesn't know that word in English. So I point at the kettle. He looks around at it and says "Oh yes, I've seen you using that before but I didn't know how it works". I'm thinking fvck me, it's a jug with a switch on the side, this is a side to you I didn't know existed. I asked him if he had one in his house back in France, he said no. I asked him if he'd ever seen one before, he said no! This wasn't some country bumpkin from a village in the Pyranees trapped in the 18th Century, this guy is from Paris! Still one of the most bizarre 2 minutes of my life.
Soar Fox Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Yorkshire tea. Teabag Water Leave teabag in for 2 minutes Milk 1 sugar.
Samilktray Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 I find tea is pretty dull but Yorkshire gold is alright if im in the mood.
Carl the Llama Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 I didn't even realise there was much difference between Tea brands until I had a cup made, unbeknownst to me, using some Teabags my sister had brought over from the UK. Never have I tasted a Tea so acrid and repulsive and had to pour mine down the sink and make a fresh one as she sat there happily supping away at her corpse juice. Yorkshire Gold has been banned in my house ever since. Despite all that I'm not a proper snob at all: PG Tips, Tetleys, it's all good, just whack it in a cup with 2 spoons of sugar, pour on the water and leave it sitting til the Tea's opaque, bin the bag, stare angrily at the milk in the fridge to prevent any attempt by it to pollute your beverage, enjoy your tea. I also like a good fancy tea like Lapsang Souchong from time to time as well.
ealingfox Posted 7 March 2015 Author Posted 7 March 2015 I didn't even realise there was much difference between Tea brands until I had a cup made, unbeknownst to me, using some Teabags my sister had brought over from the UK. Never have I tasted a Tea so acrid and repulsive and had to pour mine down the sink and make a fresh one as she sat there happily supping away at her corpse juice. Yorkshire Gold has been banned in my house ever since. Despite all that I'm not a proper snob at all: PG Tips, Tetleys, it's all good, just whack it in a cup with 2 spoons of sugar, pour on the water and leave it sitting til the Tea's opaque, bin the bag, stare angrily at the milk in the fridge to prevent any attempt by it to pollute your beverage, enjoy your tea. I also like a good fancy tea like Lapsang Souchong from time to time as well. I bought Euroshopper Breakfast Tea bags from Albert Heijn and they were absolutely vile. I know Euroshopper is shit generally but I was astonished at how bad it was. I assumed nobody else knows about tea like we do in the UK.
Finnegan Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Russian caravan loose leaf > all your bland shit. Russian caravan loose leaf > all your bland shit.
Brooksy Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 coffee is better tho tbf. Can't stand Earl Grey tea. PG Tips is the preference.
Carl the Llama Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 I bought Euroshopper Breakfast Tea bags from Albert Heijn and they were absolutely vile. I know Euroshopper is shit generally but I was astonished at how bad it was. I assumed nobody else knows about tea like we do in the UK. To be fair, Lipton yellow label is not a bad cup. Even so, I tend to use UK teabags when available (bar the inexplicably popular Yorkshire Gold). That Yorkshire Gold thing really bothers me. I've had people say "it's a strong blend so you probably don't like it because you don't like strong tea", but that's a load of bullshit because I stew my tea a lot longer than most and the only thing I do to weaken its taste is add a little sugar. I'm not having some half-minute steep, 2 pints of milk pussy tell me I don't like a tea because it's too strong. Yorkshire Gold tastes like shit end of.
Carl the Llama Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Actually no I'll go further: Yorkshire Gold tastes shit and you're all sheep who have been brainwashed into believing you like that slurp by their advertisement campaign all up in your televisions.
StanSP Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 Anyone like Iced Tea? Sounds like Belgian tea's as crap as their lager. wow harsh. blasphemous words towards Belgian lager.
MooseBreath Posted 7 March 2015 Posted 7 March 2015 I'll only drink tea whose leaves were hand picked by authentic local children on the hills of North West Bengal.
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