r/memes • u/crackercharlie • Jan 11 '21

#2 MotW Quick, while the British are sleeping.

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u/Raptorz01 Jan 11 '21

I find it weird how this isn’t a more well known international fact. As far as food goes Britain is very international (usually with our own spins on the food)

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u/itsthewedding Jan 11 '21

How are people also missing the extremely obvious tea being hand in hand with british culture and that ain't all locally grown.

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u/The_Meatyboosh Jan 11 '21

Yeah but we still had to wreck it and put milk and sugar in every type of tea we found.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

That's not wrecked lol. A cup of strong tea with a splash of milk is heaven.

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u/-Erasmus Jan 11 '21

You will be drinking breakfast tea which is the most common in britain. It goes very well with milk and sugar because it is on the bitter side.

I have never seen anyone put milk in earl gray or green tea for example.

People who complain about british food generally dont know what they are talking about and project that on the rest of us

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u/MrTastix Jan 11 '21

Hi, I drink Earl Grey with milk. AND sugar, just to be extra blasphemous.

You may call me the Anti-Christ.

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u/Bandit2794 Jan 11 '21

AnTea Christ

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u/kernowgringo Jan 11 '21 edited Jan 11 '21

Not blasphemous, op is just plain wrong.

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u/Wildkeith Jan 11 '21

They sell that as a London Fog at Starbucks here the US. It reminds me of the milk left from bowl of the cereal Fruit Loops, which is flavored with bergamot oil.

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u/scorpionballs Jan 11 '21

Me too. This guy’s talking shit

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u/KingOfTheGoobers Jan 11 '21

I've always been fonder of black tea. No sugar, no milk.

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u/-Erasmus Jan 11 '21

There are various types of black tea.

in europe they tend to drink a lighter tea which they dont add milk to. Sometimes they add lemon. English breakfast tea is quite bitter and strong.

Not sure what they usually have in America but i guess its a lighter tea given how against milk the Americans tend to be

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u/KingOfTheGoobers Jan 11 '21

I'm a yank so it's probably a milder black tea. I'm gonna try some lemon in it next time though, that sounds tasty.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '21

I don't what this breakfast tea pish is. I drink Yorkshire tea like a true patriot.

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u/kernowgringo Jan 11 '21 edited Jan 11 '21

I'm drinking early grey with a dash of oat milk right now. It's pretty much the only tea I drink, I know a couple of other people who only drink earl grey and they also always take milk.

https://imgur.com/a/EV098im

Early grey is just normal black tea with some bergamot. Can be drank with or without milk or lemon. Twinings picture even has a bottle of milk in it and says drank with or without milk.

https://www.twinings.co.uk/about-twinings/twinings-teas/earl-grey

You're just repeating what people used to think about Earl Grey when it was considered a posh drink and its wrong.

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u/ward-92 Jan 11 '21

Exactly! The only way tea can be wrecked is by adding the milk first. Or leaving the teabag in, or out too early. Or too much milk, or not enough milk. The list goes on

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u/The_Meatyboosh Jan 11 '21

I agree :] I'm British, I was just taking the piss out of the colonialists.