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Is Britain falling out of love with tea? - Telegraph

We still love it, and will go to modest lengths to source the makings for a "real" cuppa, but how about other peeps here in the USA? Do you drink it less often? Or given it up completely? Are you now a coffee drinker (or perhaps herbal tea, green tea, chai, et al)?




P.S. I nicked the article from the France board, if anyone's interested....

Nutek

Ive always been a coffee drinker (though it is infinitely easier to get a decent one here than back home).

You still cant beat a nice cup of tea though. it's perfect when you are happy/sad/hot/cold/excited/bored/wide awake/sleepy/etc.

Also, if you post saying you don't like it, well, my Gran isn't going to be happy with you *at all*. And that's all I'm saying.

themajor

Having lived all over the world-(working) At 16.00hrs we always always stopped for a cuppa. We still do. I look on it as old fashioned BRITISHNESS and love it.

Mrs Danvers

Not a fan of caffeine but I do like mint tea and sleepy time tea.

Both my grandmas had teapots with knitted tea cosies. One didn't quite trust anyone who wouldn't drink tea.

BubbleChog

When I got to about 5 I horrified my family by announcing that I hated tea and wouldn't drink it anymore, possibly an early indication I would end up living on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
I did drink one cup as an adult when I first met my boyfriend at the times grandparents and they translated "coffee, black" to tea with milk and sugar I drank it to be polite then threw up in his car on the way home.

These days I drink Bolay (sp?) tea when we eat dim sum and drink fruit or herbal infusions in the depths of the Georgia winter when I need a hot drink

Lx

Lion in Winter

There is no problem or crisis so great that it cannot be improved by the immortal expression "I'll put the kettle on".

themajor

So very true.

SultanOfSwing

Rarely have truer words been spoken.

Tea (made strong, milk in last, no sugar within 50 miles of the cup) is, and will always be the vastly superior drink to that brown pish the maladjusted call the coffee they can't do without.

joto

I don't drink tea as it either makes me heave or throw up. I've not tried herbal teas or infusions as there is always a chance that it may have tea in it. I like coffee, strong, but none of the flavored stuff. Otherwise I drink water, rarely soda or fruit juice.

Nutmegger

I have never consumed so much as one sip of tea in my life. My family brewed up a zillion times a day and just the smell of it grossed me out completely. I don't drink coffee either -- no hot brown liquids, please!

username.exe

Tea is a disgusting and noxious substance. Coffee on the other hand...

I was destined to leave the UK.

markonline1

I work with a guy who was based at Fairford during the 80's with the USAF. His favorite story to tell me is about a time a break room was getting renovated. He looked in to see how it was going to see the room covered in thick dust from the renovation. Sat in the middle where 3 English builders in there protective suits, faces covered in dust drinking cups of tea. Every time he tells me this story, he collapses in laughter LOL.

kimilseung

I drink 50/50 coffee and tea. Tetley British Blend for me, more tea and no silly tags to have to cut off. Not a tea snob, just a tea nazi. There are some basic rules to follow, the first is.....not all infusions are tea. So stop calling non-tea, tea.

When you come to my house and I offer you tea, you dont say, Thanks, and then ask for a non-tea, which I did not offer.

It is sad that hardly anyone every makes me a cup of tea. The many tea pots I have get little use, there is a bit of green tea drinking in my house (not by me), I grudgingly accept that green tea is tea.

It is always tea that I drink in the mountains and walking. A flask of milky sweet tea. No sugar normally.

SultanOfSwing

Me too. I was very happy when I discovered that one, not too long after moving out here.

ChocolateBabz

Me too, cup of hot tea with milk and one sugar when I feel sick other than that coffee or if I was at my Nanas, there was no offer of 'tea or coffee' just tea.

Also iced tea is nasty nasty stuff