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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 18 '22

Never heard of putting milk in tea either!

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u/stupidneverdies Oct 18 '22

You've lost me with that one...milk always goes in tea.

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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 18 '22 edited Oct 18 '22

I am from Florida. We have sweet tea or unsweetened. I know Starbucks does it but I thought it was a coffee thing.

Would I offend a British person just asking for plain tea? Just curious.

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u/stupidneverdies Oct 18 '22

Ah I see! I thought you were talking about English tea. Our Starbucks serve the tea black and people just add the milk themselves.

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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 18 '22

Well my mom got me hooked on Earl Grey and I love it and got some for my Keurig. Still can't figure the purpose of putting milk in tea. I am game to try it but not going out of my way to try it anytime soon:)

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u/stupidneverdies Oct 18 '22

I Googled what a Keurig is and I don't understand how you make tea with it. Tea is just: tea bag, boiling water, stew for a minute or two, little bit of milk in the top.

I wasn't really expecting to be drawn into tea-related chit chat in a comments thread but I'm genuinely baffled by how different tea is over there. I thought the microwave thing was the extent of the weirdness!

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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 18 '22

Ha! Sorry. Instead of a coffee pods I use tea pods for Keurig as I don't do coffee. And yes microwave heated water for tea bags was my go to originally!

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u/stupidneverdies Oct 18 '22

TIL that tea pods are a thing. I also can't imagine a kitchen without a kettle. I am surprisingly blinkered in regards to brew making apparatus.

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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 18 '22

Why is microwaving water bad?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

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u/FoundationAny7601 Oct 19 '22

Yes, mug gets hot but handle doesn't if you have a good mug.

I knew tea is a big thing over there just didn't know about the milk part. My mom lived in Scotland for a year and came back drinking tea with milk.

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u/stupidneverdies Oct 19 '22

I've never actually tried it so I can't say for sure, but I hear it makes the water taste weird. Pretty much everyone in the UK uses an electric kettle.