Correct me if I got anything wrong, TA!
That’s some nice hot leaf juice you’ve got there.
How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?
I prefer to get my morning zoomies from hot bean juice
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That is only a bit worse than what British people do with their tea. OK, theirs is reasonably fresh, but they let the teabag sit in the pot for ages and they commit the serious, undefendable crime of adding milk.
Milk only belongs in chai tea
What about boba? Although I guess that’s arguably tea in milk, rather than milk in tea.
Chai literally means tea. So chai tea is tea tea. It’s like pizza pie or ATM machine.
Yes and but that’s just how the distinction is made. Prime example: Shiba/Akita “Inu”. Inu is literally dog. Yet it refers to the purebred dog of Japan, not the american shitmix (no shade, theres just not much consistency with what they’re mixed with). Language evolves over time, even the dumb evolutions.
I don’t think they’re engaging in etymological reductionism.
Their argument is that instead of saying “milk only belongs in chai tea”, one could’ve just said “milk only belongs in chai”.
pizza pie
Those two things are not remotely the same
The Americans seem to have a very wide definition of the word Pie and none of them seem to be pies.
It’s the same with brits and the word pudding…
Chia … tea. Chia … tea.
Hungary?
Milk in Earl grey with honey is just amazing
You drown the flavour of the bergamote oil with the honey, and kill off most of the beneficient ingredients of the tea with the milk. What’s the point in using a tea bag in the first place?
Watch it. Builder’s tea is the literal backbone of the British economy.
Oh, wait.
How to make Southern (US) sweet tea: put about a quart of water in a saucepan, plus 4 cups of sugar and the number of Orange Pekoe teabags you would use to make a gallon (for me it’s about 8 normal or 4 family-sized). Bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Steep 2-3 minutes. Remove bags and stir to make sure sugar is dissolved. Fill a gallon container with ice. Pour the hot tea over ice and add cold water to fill up. Serve over more ice.
Gross…
I’m also from the South.
The recipe I grew up on (thanks to my Mom) is half as many tea bags and a quarter as much sugar and it’s delicious.
Hell, you’re using twice as much sugar as McDonald’s does in their sweet tea.
That’s excessive, amigo.
Also, be sure to use Lipton (which is orange pekoe but so are some other brands so specificity helps)… Anything else is subpar for sweet tea (iced Southern US style).
Ewww fake pyrex
We lost our smaller measuring cup in the move, so one of my first purchases when I got my first job was a pyrex measuring cup. I learned the hard way that the only thing pyrex about it is the logo
Heh, no worries, I just wanted to spread awareness about this issue in a cheeky way ! Though it does legitimately feels weird seeing these as a European because we only get the “real” ones here.
Fake pyrex? Thats a thing?
I could swear I bought a Pyrex measuring cup. It has the red lettering and measurements just like a Pyrex. It’s called Anchor Cooking!
And did it have the pyrex name on it too?? O.O
No it didnt. It had the red printing and I made an assumption. I hate shopping and just tend to grab items blindly.
You were bamboozled!
“True” Pyrex is made of borosilicate glass and is very resistant to changes in temperature, making it excellent for lab or kitchen use. You can tell when it’s “true” Pyrex if the lettering is in all caps. If it’s not, it’s just regular glass.
Damn it, now you are making me get up from my bed and head out to the kitchen.
TIL
Just FYI in case anyone thinks they are safe finding the old style logo at a yardsale or something…
Why did you forget to open the tea bag?
Also, make sure to ask “Fancy a cup of?” with extra emphasis on “of”. It is a classic British phrase
I think another proper word/phrase is “fancy a cuppa”
I thought that was Aussie lingo.
It could be, too!
You must be “having a laugh” as they say! I’m 1000% sure it’s “cup of”
I’m sure they’re both correct. Maybe it depends on where the speaker is from?
I had a friend in undergrad who was British and always phrased it like “cuppa”.
“I could reeeeally go for a cuppa” she would say like every other hour.
(You seem sincere, so at the risk of killing the joke, I want to point out that both of my comments are deadpan humor! The phrase is indeed “fancy a cuppa”, and I’m intentionally getting it wrong, like the tea preparation instructions in the OP.)
I feel like I need to hear a recording of this
It’s a bit wet without a biscuit served. I suggest a rich tea or custard cream. If you can’t get those in the US, any of your weird ass deviant cookies will do.
we get our tea from beans, we get our cookies from beans, and GODDAMIT some of us get our milk and sugar from beans too.
It’s the American way.
We put our biscuits in gravy, hee-yuk!
do you dunk it in after or place it in the mug and pour the water in?
Seeing as you know we call it dunking, not dipping, I suspect you’re actually British.
Animal crackers with spray cheese it is
Actually we can use the spray cheese to top the tea like it’s a Starbucks Frappuccino or something
My stomach actually heaved after reading that.
ass deviant cookies are best cookies
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Do Brits really never drink coffee? I have both
I’m British and I only drink coffee, but I don’t meet many other people who do. Gotta bear in mind that most people only drink either disgusting freeze-dried instant coffee, or posh boutique coffee from, at worst, Starbucks and, at best, a decent independent coffee place.
Uncouth wretches. I get mine from the gas station!
Watching Sorted Food (London based food channel on YouTube) it does seem that some Brits enjoy both or one over the other. The majority seem to drink just tea, the next group enjoys both but for different events, and the smallest group is coffee only.
For the middle group it’s people who have coffee in the morning and tea at noon/afternoon.
You know we should have just told you people we’d discovered America, and then closed all the ports once you’d gone.
Americans treating tea with disrespect to rustle British jimmies is a time honored tradition ever since the Boston Tea Party.
Out of milk and coffee? Never mind Sugar, we can watch the early movie.
“friend”
Well, the US once made the biggest cup of tea in history.
A whole harbor.
Americans make the worst tea. Cold and salty.
Cold and salty.
Sounds suitably British.
Now THAT was a wild party!
I doubt it, but now I wonder what the biggest amount of tea that ended up in the ocean is and how to search for it. I know whole ships were lost, but digging through manifests (assuming they exist) wouldn’t be fun. I also wonder how many in Asia there would have been, possibly before tea even gained popularity in the west.
I’d personally would appreciate all the effort even if it wasn’t right. I’d drink it to be polite, I don’t usually drink tea.
Microwaving water is the real crime here
Heating up food using microwaves does exactly that. It works because the waves are emitted within a certain frequency range that affects the water content within it, from which the heat spreads to the rest of the food over time.
Hey you know, sometimes you don’t have a kettle on hand and even if you do, it’s all crusty and gross looking. Plus, it takes forever to boil the water. Microwaves on the other hand: you just put the water in it, wait a little bit, bada bing badda boom, it’s done and ready to go. So like, if microwaving water is a crime, then lock me up
Sometimes you can superheat water in the microwave that explodes when taken out scalding you in the process. Fun science experiment.
