I’d like to apologize to the entire country for allowing this to have happened. I’m sorry.

Update

Made a small Tesco run and got some Yorkshire Tea. On with the day.

  • darreninthenet
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    179 months ago

    Christ on a bike this is supposed to be Casual UK, not UK Horror Stories 😱

  • @dave
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    79 months ago

    We’ve got some. Pop round.

  • @fakeman_pretendname
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    69 months ago

    Don’t you have any backup tea at the back of the cupboard? The slightly weird tasting one that someone got you at Christmas? The Earl Gray you got for that person who came round once? The loose leaf ones you normally can’t be bothered using?

    • SbisasCostlyTurnoverOP
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      79 months ago

      We’ve got Earl Gray but no thank you sir. I leave that sort of debauchery to my partner.

    • @totallynotarobot@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      American tourist here, pardon the intrusion…

      What’s wrong with Earl Grey? Insufficiently English? Just curious since I do love me some bergamot, and want to make sure I have appropriate supplies for UK house guests later this year. Are you guys “1st flush Darjeeling or gtfo”?

      • @ScreamingFirehawk
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        89 months ago

        Earl Grey is fantastic, don’t pay any attention to this person with their poor taste

      • @JoBo
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        9 months ago

        UK house guests will most likely be expecting an English Breakfast Tea, if you insist on buying fancy ones with posh names. We don’t call it that, we just call it tea. There’s a couple of stray ‘lemon’ or ‘green’ in that list but most of them are bog standard blends of black teas called ‘tea’.

        Be aware that you will have to get lucky to make a proper cup of tea. Most of them supply slightly different blends to different areas of the country depending on how hard the water is.

        • @totallynotarobot@lemmy.world
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          59 months ago

          This is some high stakes shit.

          I have a well and filtration, so there’s some local minerality happening; thank goodness I have several months to experiment.

          • @fakeman_pretendname
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            9 months ago

            I both love and respect the time you’re putting in to try and make it perfect - but don’t panic and overthink it.

            If you include having a cup of tea at work, most of us are fine with “whatever hot water is available, from whatever limescale-ridden kettle is available, on top of whatever bog-standard teabags are in the shared kitchen, milk if it’s not past the expiry date, without milk if it is”.

            You can get perfect temperature water, pre-warmed cups, filtered water etc, but most of the flavour in a cup of tea comes from a) leaving the tea bag in long enough to make sure it’s strong enough, b) how hard the tea-drinker’s workday or journey was.

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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          39 months ago

          Be aware that you will have to get lucky to make a proper cup of tea. Most of them supply slightly different blends to different areas of the country depending on how hard the water is.

          I think that’s really only Yorkshire Tea - I listened to an obituary of Warren Ford (the man behind the brand) and everyone remarked on his exceptional tasting and mixing abilities. Making hard water tea was his idea. I’m not sure the average punter could tell the difference unless they have their brewing set-up absolutely top-notch. Even then I don’t think anyone would complain over something like that. But you never know.

      • SbisasCostlyTurnoverOP
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        59 months ago

        All joking aside it’s probably fine, but it wouldn’t hurt to have some regular old Yorkshire Tea on hand just in case.

        • @fakeman_pretendname
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          59 months ago

          Yorkshire’s probably best (this applies to many non-tea related scenarios too), but nobody’s going to turn their nose up at Tetley, PG Tips, Typhoo etc - any of the “normal” black tea ones would probably satisfy most Britons’ request for “A cup of tea”.

          Earl Grey’s more of a “1 in 20 people like it” sort of thing.

    • SbisasCostlyTurnoverOP
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      59 months ago

      You mean to tell me the whole ‘no taxation without representation’ was a smoke screen all along?

  • booty [he/him]
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    -59 months ago

    brits really drink tea out of bags and have the gall to act like the tea experts

    • SbisasCostlyTurnoverOP
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      79 months ago

      I don’t think anyone is suggesting we’re experts, just that as a nation we love a cup of tea.

      • SbisasCostlyTurnoverOP
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        29 months ago

        We trailed this a few years ago in the supermarket I worked at. The idea was you’d buy the jug and then just buy a new bag when you needed one. Save on plastic waste I assume, but it never caught on.

        • Ech
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          29 months ago

          I figure the reusability of jugs would make them less wasteful, but I have no notion of the metrics. The one thing about bags I just can’t get over is there is no reasonable way to reseal it again. They cut the corner and then just have an open liter of milk sitting around. Wild stuff.

          • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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            19 months ago

            You keep it in your refrigerator, it doesn’t smell.

            Source: used to get my milk from bags when I was still drinking it, am Canadian.

      • booty [he/him]
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        -19 months ago

        bagged milk is just the same as any other milk in a different container. bagged tea is the lowest quality tea out there

      • OurTragicUniverse
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        59 months ago

        You don’t need the string, just fish the bag out with a spoon or your fingers when it’s done brewing.

        • @HerbalGamer@lemm.ee
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          19 months ago

          That either creates more dirty silverware than necessary, or requires me to stick my fingers into hot tea! How barbaric a suggestion, really.

          • OurTragicUniverse
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            29 months ago

            Eh each to their own. The bags float and it’s easy to grab a corner sticking out without burning yourself or getting your fingers in your tea.

          • @VioletTeacup
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            19 months ago

            Eh, the string just disappears into the pot anyway when you pour the water over. Why not cut out the middle man?

              • @VioletTeacup
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                39 months ago

                You can try, but it’s like the string on peelable packs: it always breaks.

                And our empire was built on keeping calm and fishing bags out of teapots.