Tea... an important issue

I need to up my game with tea.

I'm on about 5 cups of tea a day. But my mug is a pint size.

fish and chips and tea- the food of gods, tannin cuttin thru the fat perfick...

That sounds not very appealing.

ftw

^ +1
I got a 150 box of PG tips for £1.50 so I'm drinking through that at the moment though.

^ +1
I got a 150 box of PG tips for £1.50 so I'm drinking through that at the moment though.

I also buy PG when its on offer, and just stew the bastard

i have switched to green tea with honey during the day but can't shake off the PG tips in the morning and our kids now drink it regularly.

Earl Grey is a con, worse grade tea leaves with perfume, i do like Assam only ever brewed in a tea pot and fine bone china cup and saucer, esp at 4 o/c with scones and shit, not everyday mind..

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Assam.
tea of the kings.
1 a day.

Good call.

Extra Forte, mashton.

PG loose, 9 heaped t-spoons in a 2 cup Beryl although recently I've had some red label, full cream milk, no sugar is how I start my day.

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It's all about a teapot and loose leaf tea for me now. No going back. I'm still guilty of adding a bit of sugar, but meh.

Lapsang Souchong, no milk, full pot to myself.

I also love one spoonful of Darjeeling with one of English Breakfast in a small pot - Luci's Mix.

I don't take milk. It's from cow's tits.

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Milk in with teabag strikes me as being the action of a barbarian.

Twenty years ago I lived in a Council homeless B+B hostel in Kennington and with breakfast we each had a stainless steel teapot with teabags, milk, sugar and almost boiling water in it, this depressed me beyond measure.

Just finished my first and only cup of the day. Earl Grey, black. 3 sugars, no milk. Left it a little too long to drink so missed its 'Window Of Optimisation', when it would have been at its most splendid. Had cooled down a bit too much by the time I got my chops around it. Will have to wait another 24 hours for another crack at it.

24 hours??? 24 minutes more like. Brew up, my friend, brew up!

Twenty years ago I lived in a Council homeless B+B hostel in Kennington and with breakfast we each had a stainless steel teapot with teabags, milk, sugar and almost boiling water in it, this depressed me beyond measure.

Harsh that, digger. I'm hoping you have a proper kettle, teapot and quality tea now.

Fuck having a home - who needs it when you've got a brew?

Just finished my first and only cup of the day. Earl Grey, black. 3 sugars, no milk. Left it a little too long to drink so missed its 'Window Of Optimisation', when it would have been at its most splendid. Had cooled down a bit too much by the time I got my chops around it. Will have to wait another 24 hours for another crack at it.

Window of Optimisation, nice phrase.

PG loose, 9 heaped t-spoons in a 2 cup Beryl although recently I've had some red label, full cream milk, no sugar is how I start my day.

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Harsh that, digger. I'm hoping you have a proper kettle, teapot and quality tea now.

Fuck having a home - who needs it when you've got a brew?

Beryl + PG FTW!

Good man, Digger.

Beryl, as in:

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That's her!
I need the cups, have the pot though, fuck it I need that service.

£25 for the lot!

http://www.thegreatmanchesterlist.co.uk/?page=listing_details&details_id=637&finder_ListTypeID=1&finder_SectionID=8&finder_RegionID=7&finder_CityID=40

Is the ad contempary? I've rung it, Beryl actually is my ex's dead grandfather's pot and I could return it.

It just came up on google - I'm guessing it's recent, otherwise it would have closed. Hope you get it!

31st January it was posted!

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I remember the best cup of tea I ever had.

It was while I was cycling across Canada somewhere in the prairies. We'd been through about eight days of headwind and rain, which had taken it's toll on our morale to say the least. This day hadn't started much better with heavy showers giving way to strong gusts blowing grit and dust off the road and the verges.

About mid afternoon, still a bit damp from the morning's rain, we pulled into a small farming/lake town and, in the mood for a break, pulled into a quaint little cafe/gift shop. Instead of the solicitous service and massive jugs of stewed coffee on a hotplates, we were greeted by a pleasantly soft spoken Lancastrian lady who was immediately pleased for the chance to sit with a couple of people from the home country. She ushered us into the washroom for a quick freshen up and told her husband to take over the shop because "I've got to brew up a cuppa for these 'uns here". By the time we emerged from the toilets she'd cleared some lingerers from the sofa's by the window and had set out a large plain blue teapot, a jug of milk, a pot of sugar, some large mugs and a plate of choccy hobnobs "what me sister sent over last month and I was saving for special". For about an hour we sat there, looking out over a beautiful lake at a clearing sky, chatting about everything, drinking tea and nibbling biscuits. You couldn't have made it any better with any special blends of tea or delicate china or anything else.

That's the best cup of tea, something nice and simple, when you most need it, served by a friendly face of someone who's pleased to see you and understands that tea is more than just a hot liquid in a drinking vessel.

wipes away a tear

Too true, nice tale