And I bet he didn't even use Yorkshire Tea...
Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?
El Reg towers was plunged into internal strife today, with the production desk struggling to keep the news production line humming as senior editors were forced to launch an investigation into the question that has split the editorial team down the middle: is it acceptable to add the milk to the tea pot? The rift opened up at …
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Sunday 31st July 2016 19:06 GMT raving angry loony
Is there a tea bush growing within 3,000 miles of Yorkshire?
Why would there need to be? Although they claim it was introduced in 1886, wasn't "Yorkshire Tea"'s current blend actually created during the rationing years by sweeping up crud and bagging it? Certainly tastes like it every time I've been forced to ingest some. Politeness can be challenging.
It seems that "Yorkshire Tea" (and several other British "blends") is to tea what tofurkey is to roasted fowl.
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Friday 29th July 2016 12:19 GMT Camilla Smythe
What he said.
Absolute sacrilege - tea doesn't brew properly once the milk is added.
The fat in the milk clogs the pores in the Teabag if you are using them and/or otherwise coats the leaves so the water cannot act properly upon them. Either you wait for ages or end up with piss weak Tea. Putting milk in brewing Tea is....
"Well. I did almost think that it was time to pay them a visit but they seem to have being doing some terribly stupid stuff recently what with the...."
"My Lord!! We have reports of someone placing milk in brewing tea!"
"ARGGGGGH. Drop the Quarantine Buoy and get us out of here. Maximum Speed."
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Friday 29th July 2016 12:25 GMT Dr Spork
...and how the hell does one pour the milk first, which everyone understands is of paramount importance, after some raging psychopath has poured it into the pot?
Oh the humanity!
That said, “it’s [still probably] better than the piss brew you get when people don’t dunk the tea bag properly.”
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Friday 29th July 2016 11:08 GMT ohmzar
Tea with milk in it is a abomination anyway, a complete act of sacrilege. If you are going to debase the almighty leaf suspension then who the hell cares when you defile it with bovine lactate.
You are going to ruin the tea, destroy it's subtle flavours and forever render it to be a shadow of it's former glory, the order and receptacle in which you desecrate it, be it mug, pot or even in the kettle matters not, you are still a monster.
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Monday 1st August 2016 11:46 GMT Phil W
Re: Earl Grey?
"Horrible, soapy muck."
If you've had Earl Grey that looked/tasted "soapy" I can't even begin to imagine what kind of shite it was. I presume by soapiness you mean that it was excessively oily?
If it came in a paper tea bag then it was utter shite for certain. Paper tea bags are only acceptable when you're making bog standard tea brewed to within moments of stewing which is so strong you can't taste the paper anyway.
Also some of the supposedly "good" tea brands are still crap when it comes to things like Earl Grey. Twinnings for example make bloody awful Earl Grey.
I can highly recommended Tea Pigs or Whittards.
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Friday 29th July 2016 12:06 GMT PatientOne
Considering the milk (full fat) binds the tannin (toxin) so you don't slowly poison yourself (tannin prevents the absorption of iron which can lead to or aggravate anaemia), I'd rather have the milk, thanks!
Unless it's Earl Grey, or Lady Grey, or Green tea, or Ruibos (naturally lacks tannin) or...
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Friday 29th July 2016 12:41 GMT tony72
Considering the milk (full fat) binds the tannin (toxin) so you don't slowly poison yourself (tannin prevents the absorption of iron which can lead to or aggravate anaemia), I'd rather have the milk, thanks!
But milk blocks antioxidant absorption, so you miss out on the most important nutrients in the tea if you take it with milk. I would suggest that that far outweighs the tannin effect, unless you are drinking the stuff 24/7 and don't have much iron in your diet. I take it with milk myself anyway, but better to go in with your eyes open.
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