The English Habit

Do you do much of it ?
How do you like it ?
How many times a day do you think about having it ?
Does it wind you up or relax you ?
Have you a good method?
Tea drinking, I’m on about ?,
Do you brew in a mug with a teabag or as they say in Yorkshire , “ mash it “ ? Ugh , I detest strong tea !
Or are you a cup and saucer girl so you’ll use a teapot of course ?
Maybe there are still pint pot men about?
What’s your favourite brand or do you test different ones . I’m really interested in this one , what does make the bed cuppa?
Finally ,how many times a day do you think “ I need a brew” .
I’ve worked it out , six times . Four beakers in a morning , one in an afternoon , one about ten at night . ( I don’t go to bed until after midnight so it doesn’t keep me awake )
Perhaps if you waken up and can’t sleep and make a brew does it help send you off again ?Amazingly it does seem to work .
Questions ?
Well you have to think about something other than the virus day in day out?

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Zuleika, whew! Slow down there girl! If this is the reaction of having an English tea daily, I would recommend you might try a sip or two of Pepsi!

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I drink very little else Zuleika.....
On average, four cups per day with one teaspoonful of sugar, a splash of milk and always brewed in a teapot.....
The Brand..........Oh Yorkshire of course (Taylors of Harrogate).....
It's also my 'go too' problem solver or stress reliever, and standard greeting for visitors.....

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Teabag in a mug for me.

For health reasons I have to limit my daily fluid intake to between two and two point litres, so how many brews I have depends on what other fluids I have consumed.

Generally though it would be about seven mug-fulls of either English Breakfast, or Earl Grey, weak and milky, no sugar.
My Lovely Cousin can't stand the smell of the latter, so I have to drink it when she is in another part of the house.

Brekkers, mid-morn, lunchtime, mid afternoon, teatime, and two in the evening.

Store brand for ordinary tea, any decent well known brand for the Earl Grey.

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Zuleika, How lovely to see a thread from you.

You have omitted one very important thing about a cup of tea... you didn’t ask in which direction do you stir your spoon in the cup of tea... Clockwise or Anti-clockwise?

Anyway, l only drink tea, never coffee.
I use Tetley teabags, it took me years to come round to using teabags. Imagine, if the Queen called in one day and you offered her a cup of hot water and a teabag to dunk in it!!

I only use China mugs, a splash of milk and no sugar. I like the strength ‘just right’ not weak and not strong. I use a tong like thing to squeeze the tea bag.

Sometimes, l add the milk first and sometimes after. I keep the milk in a small jug, on the worktop so it doesn’t cool the tea too much.
I like the tea hot, never cold. I am not sure how many a day l have but not an excessive amount.
It doesn’t keep me awake either, like when l’ve had coffee in the past.

Gosh, you wouldn’t think you could write that much about a simple cup of tea.

I forgot to mention, l always used to just reboil the water in the kettle until Mups started or mentioned in a thread about reboiled water. I didn’t realise it was bad for you, so now I always use fresh boiled water.

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I am not a tea drinker, one mug cup a day at 6am that is so weak you can see the bottom of the mug

I am a coffee drinker ground Kenya coffee mild and acidic

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Mainly coffee for me (from beans). I love trying all the different brands and flavours but it can be an expensive habit. I reckon I have about four or five cups per day and perhaps a tea a couple of times per week.

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Foxy, Talking about Yorkshire Tea. My daughter and her boyfriend couldn’t get Yorkshire Tea malty Biscuit flavour in Brighton where they live.
I bought her three boxes of it. She made a cup of tea with one of the teabags once when she was here.... Yuk... just the smell, of it made me heave.

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Oh not much hot fluid passing your lips then OGF ,cups indeed ,never would have thought it of you a Yorkshireman.
When I was a girl growing up in Yorkshire everyone seemed to mash it in a teapot but I can’t remember ever drinking tea then. Probably because I don’t like strong tea!

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The one thing (the only thing) my Grandad did around the house was to make the tea. It was a precision operation, timing was the most important thing and the tea had to be left in the pot for the correct number of minutes. Pre-heated cups of course and milk went in afterwards.