# A good cup of tea **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305 "2009-09-08T17:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/61 "2009-09-18T23:18:47Z")
Coffenated American here. Tea? You might ask. Well, I can can tell you about some … I think I have Twinings Breakfast on hand in the bag. I don’t own a pot but I’ve been considering it. Does that count? Enjoy your tea. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/62 "2009-09-18T23:28:55Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > See my point #2.The above illustrate why Americans shouldn’t be put in charge of anything as important as making tea. Nuts to you. I learned about tea from my grandma, and she was about as American as James Joyce. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/63 "2009-09-19T01:08:48Z")
A two page tea thread and I’m the _only_ one who likes lemon? Red tea, lemon and a scant teaspoon of sugar, please, and if I have to drink black tea, then Fortnum and Mason’s Darjeeling or Queen Anne. No. Milk. ---
**Author:** ![Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schrodinger_s_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/64 "2009-09-19T17:21:54Z")
My secret to good tea is a french press. Lapsang Souchong tea, boil water on the stove, pour, and you have smoky tea heaven. No sugar, no milk, just delicious tea. (At least with Lapsang- a good Assam is delectable with milk.) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/66 "2018-01-25T01:13:14Z")
My go to tea for the last decade has been Ty-phoo. Black, no sugar, steeped long enough to take the enamel off your teeth. I keep some Yorkshire Gold around as well. I like a nice cuppa in the afternoon. I can’t deal with coffee after lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/68 "2018-01-25T01:40:41Z")
Ooooooo, Tea Zombie! I actually gave up my strong black coffee several months back, and now wake up and make a cuppa Yorkshire Red or Gold (brewed black as an Irish navvy’s), with a teaspoon of milk. I look forward to that first sip more than I ever did to my cup of drip coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/69 "2018-01-25T03:50:26Z")
[Moderating] This thread was actually bumped not by **DrFidelius** , but by a spammer, who has since been dunked into hot water, fished out with a spoon, and had a string wound around it to squeeze out the excess liquid. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/70 "2018-01-26T00:12:50Z")
As a native of Harrogate, having grown up in sight of Taylor’s, I’ll probably be struck down for this…but us Brits don’t strike me as a nation of tea lovers. Prodigious consumers, yes; lovers, no. Brits drink a monumental amount of - at best - passable tea. Sure, there are loads of us who do actually like really good tea, same as there are those who like really good anything, but that’s not what the whole “Brits love tea” thing is about, is it? No. It’s about stats that say how many pints of it we consume per hour, it’s about parroting out the cliché that we love it without really considering if that’s really true, it’s about the quasi-religious tea zealotry we delight in knowing is integral to our culture. Now we KNOW it’s our thing, we bang on and on about how it’s our thing! If you’re brought up believing it, you don’t think about the validity of the myth! All that cobblers about milk first/water first: it doesn’t matter! …pause for my countrymen to tell me I’m wrong and that actually, they _can_ taste the difference… Most Brits drink tea, made in a mug, using a teabag, with milk, sometimes sugar. They like it, and that’s fine. Why would it not be fine? But claiming that doing that several times a day means you’re a tea _lover_? That doesn’t qualify you as a lover of tea, any more than drinking gallons of Nescafé makes you a renowned appreciater of coffee, or going to McDonald’s for every meal marks you out as a true burger aficionado. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305/71 "2018-01-26T01:37:32Z")
> [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](#): > > …I’ll probably be struck down for this…but us Brits don’t strike me as a nation of tea lovers. I wish I had read this (or realized it was an old thread) before late-night ordering a ton of PG Tips from Amazon. Thé Society, heh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-cup-of-tea/509305.md?page=3)