Charismatic

That may be true but we just can’t be expected to tolerate orange juice squeezed the night before we are served it. Totally unacceptable, some standards must be kept even in the UAE.

Confucius

Absolutely...Tea boys and girls and maids an butlers should always be whipped into shape...

BTW, it's been a while, all good with you???

Charismatic

O/T post. Great thanks. Put the UAE plan on hold though for a little while though. You? Good to see most of you made it through so far .

Confucius

Good to hear from you...Well, just another year or somesuch you'll find yourself here, I'm sure...

We are surviving...Mop sales have gone down...People are talking about some space-age technology, some words like hoover and vacuum are being used a lot...I got to get me one of those...

Charismatic

Technological folly, will never catch on.

As for how I get tea, call me working class but...first I put a bag into a cup (PG tips finest of course), then immerse in hot water and stir it with the back of a knife for a while [actually what usually happens is I walk away and forget], remove tea bag and add a fraction of milk. Lush!*

*For best taste consume after playing football on the street in the bitter cold along with cheesy baked beans and a couple of slices of thickly buttered toast.

MacScot

...ben the scullery at home.

Millhouse

Come on, it's bag, milk, hot water!

Grace O Malley

oh dear, you are not the tea connoisseur I thought you was. You never put the milk in first doll

Millhouse

You are so wrong!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/ju...ighereducation

I started doing the milk first when I lived in a hard water area, I noticed it stopped the scum forming on the surface - no going back now!

Grace O Malley

I cant believe you googled how to make the perfect cuppa.........

Millhouse

I already knew. I was proving my point...!

Further googling shows that I'm a Miffa and you a Tiffa.

littlejimmy

If you make the tea in a pot, you should always put milk into the cup first.

Charismatic

I’m with G here for three main reasons:
1. I’m obstinate.
2. It minimises the amount of time you have to stand around to make a good brew by allowing you to do the mandatory “office milk sniff test” while being brewed.
3. It’s easier to regulate temperature with the small volume of milk added rather than guessing and ending up with either half a cup of tea at the right temperature or a whole cup so hot your children will be in retirement by the time they can drink it.

Edit to add: Though I'm willing to field opinions on microwaving a cup of water to heat it, for some reason I can't explain it does change the experience of consuming.

weescot

Blimey - a lot of different experiences.

The whole concept of a tea boy is a bit weird comparing it to the British workplace. However, it wasn't that long ago that you had tea ladies coming round the workplace back home with a trolley and hige pots of steaming hot beverages. When I was a student on a placement in a factory I remember she came round twice a day (perhaps I am showing my age a bit). Where I work, all tea boys, office boys, messengers and drivers are treated well and regardless of wether we like it or not, their presence makes a significant impact economically back home.

As for "how to make the perfect cup of tea" - what about the debate "should they put half a ton of sugar in green tea?" Or - how to make a decent bleedin cup of coffee that does't involve nescafe or rainbow milk!!!

Millhouse

When I left RBS in 2004 we still had a tea lady. She was fab. We actually called her the cake lady as every Wednesday she would bring round a trolley with a selection of homemade cakes that she had made. She would start baking on Tuesday morning and deliver the cakes (normally a selection of 3 or 4) in time for the tea on Wednesday.

Those were the days, the fascists finally took over and made her redundant in 2007 - an end of an era. We even had beer in the fridge that we were allowed to drink after 5pm.