I’ll almost never drink coffee. Tea has to have sugar. Milk is optional; sometimes I feel like it, sometimes I don’t, and sometimes we don’t have any. If I take tea with milk, it’s a lot of milk…milk to the point of near-albinism. (Minus the pink eyes).
Lapsang Souchong with some broken glass shards , sulfuric acid, and a live high voltage cable dipped in it. None of this prissy milk and sugar stuff.
Well ok, but I do like a nice rich cup of lapsang when I’m in the mood. Usually though, just plain old Ceylon tea with nuthin’ in it.
Does anybody else use the method in which you mix the milk and water, add the loose tea, then bring it up to the boiling point? I learned to do this in Kenya, and quickly got addicted to the result. Later overjoyed to find many Indians prepare it the same way. Utterly barbaric, I know. 
Great with a chai masala tossed in–I now keep a couple different mixes around.
For a really nice Darjeeling or (mmm) Lapsang Souchong, though, I can’t bring myself to adulturate the cup.
Coffee, a bit of whole milk or light cream and little to no sugar.
A tiny amount of milk (in coffee a huge amount of milk) no sugar in either. I used to take sugar and when I was a teenager someone pointed out that tea and coffee are bitter so why drink them if you want something sweet. He pointed out that if you want a sweet fizzy drink you don’t get a beer and add sugar. At the time it made sense so I stopped using sugar and within days couldn’t understand how I’d ever sweetened the drinks. As a bonus it’s let me skip lots of calories over the years.
I can kind of understand that people have drinks with sugar (I used to be one), but if I ever have a drink of tea with even 1/2 a teaspoon of sugar in it, all I can taste is the sugar, bleech!
Not for me. I love Earl Grey tea, with just a light sprinkle of sugar, no milk, but I drink my coffee with lots of cream and sugar.
Milk and sugar guy here.
The original quote, I believe, is from the movie, “The Great Escape”, and is as follows:
“Tea without milk is so uncivilised.”
~ Flight Lt. Colin ‘The Forger’ Blythe
You can always rely on threads like this to bring out the tea snobs who, instead of just letting us know how they take their tea, claim to have the objective truth about how tea should be taken.
Sorry, but if the person drinking the tea thinks that it tastes better with milk and/or sugar, then the tea needs milk and/or sugar. Or perhaps you’d prefer them to say “Hey, i don’t like the taste of this at all, but at least i’m doing it right.”
Gun Powder Green Tea. Straight. Nothing added.
I’m a purist. 
Black coffee drinker here…full disclosure…
I drink unsweetened tea, both iced and hot. My Sweetie drinks only tea with milk and sugar, a habit she picked up in England.
You will find that the vast majority of British ( and Irish ) people put milk in their tea becaue that is the traditional way to drink tea round here. As to sugar I think more and more people are doing without it on the grounds of health and because people’s tastes have changed over the years. I gave up having suagr in my tea a few years ago but still have it in coffee.
Twining’s Earl Grey, dash of milk, one sugar… preferably raw sugar, but my roommates never use the stuff and I can’t use it fast enough to keep ants from getting in (and it tastes odd if you seal it).
Incidentally, I dump as much creamer and sugar as I can into my coffee without forming a solid… especially at Waffle House (does THAT make me uncivilized?)
I still couldn’t believe what I was doing when I came to the States and had iced tea for the first time… disgusting, but it grew on me like a fungus…
I drink both coffee and tea without anything added. Especially milk; bleh. Vile.
I did not even know you put milk in tea… but then again, I’m not always civilised either.
With sugar, or without? When I was a teen I drank iced tea in a large glass with two teaspoons of sugar. I’d make a gallon of sun tea and I struck upon the idea of adding sugar before I put it in the fridge. Sometimes it turned syrupy – not because there was loads of sugar in it, but for some other reason. That was disgusting. One day I was going diving and didn’t want the tea to “turn” with the sugar in it so I decided I’d leave it unsweetened and choke it down. After being in the ocean and on a hot day, I was surprised to find how refreshing the iced tea was without sugar. I’ve had my iced tea unsweetened ever since. I was unpleasantly surprised when I took a road trip through the South and found that they sweetened their iced tea (much more than I ever had!) as a matter of course. I had to be sure to order “unsweetened iced tea” to be sure I got something I could drink. (Interestingly, the first time I ordered an iced tea in Vancouver, B.C. it was pre-sweetened. But it doesn’t seem as prevalent there.)
But this is thread is supposed to be about hot tea, so ignore everything I’ve just typed.
I really want a nice cuppa hot tea with milk and sugar in it, but I’ve recently started the Atkins diet and I need to watch my carbohydrate intake. The creamer only has one gram of carbs, and I’ll allow myself one teaspoon of sugar in one cup of green chai tea though.
This is the way I usually make tea. I’ve just returned from the local Indian market with a bag of Flower brand loose mamri tea. I’m enjoying it in my clear REI mug. Unfortunately the Atkins diet doesn’t allow milk. (Who knew there were so many carbs in milk?) Nor does it allow sugar. So I’m enjoying it with liquid Coffee Mate (1g carb.) and a satchet of Splenda (sucralose). It’s very good, but it would be better with proper milk and proper sugar.
One part tequila(clear)
One part Rum(clear)
one part Vodka
3/4 part gin
1/2 part triple sec
three parts coke.
A little sugar sounds like an interesting experiment, but milk just sounds gross. 
“If I had known there was no Latin word for tea, I’d have never drank the vulgar stuff”
-Hilaire Belloc
wolfman: All that… and no tea!
Slithy: More for the rest of us!
Milk, no sugar.
Tried it with nothing once - very very bitter.