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The taboo of taking sugar with your tea/coffee

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  • #32
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    You should see how some people react when you tell them that you do not drink tea or coffee.

    W.T.F!












    kill him


  • #33
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Tea with 1 sugar, sweetens it up just enough.

    Coffee, if its proper coffee, then no sugar because it tastes damn good.

    If its crappy instant stuff, then 2 sugars just to get the taste of shít out of it.


  • #34
    AngryLips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Caraville wrote: »
    I don't judge anyone for putting sugar in theirs even if I think they're ruining it though. I mean, I like salt and pepper on my food, others might think that's ruining it.

    What I do find though is that I sometimes forget to offer sugar to people if I'm making tea.


    I suspect that back in the 80s/90s it was suddenly considered bad for your health to have sugar with tea and coffee (around the same time as sugar-free options of this and that suddenly became available/popular) so people gave up on it, usually at lent. The thing with salt is that most people consume way above their RDA in the stuff every day because of it's so prevalent in many of the processed foods we buy, yet you'd never find yourself at a dinner table where pepper is available and salt isn't.

    I think neglecting to offer sugar, even if it's because of an absence of mind, kind of sums up how I'm made feel when asking for sugar.


  • #35
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    You wouldn't put sugar in your beer!


  • #36
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Personally I can't understand coffee connoisseurs anymore than I understand beer connoisseurs. I drink coffee if I need a little jolt of caffeine and I drink beer to feel merry not because I like the taste. The weaker and more watery the taste the better. ie. the beer I hate the least would be my favourite so to speak. So its a Bud for me Cheers!

    Don't get me started on Yogurt. Which bright spark with fcuked up tastebuds in the middle ages decided to sample the container of milk that had gone rancid with a massive breeding colony of bacteria and said to himself...Yummy!


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  • #37
    Mickeroo
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    Calibos wrote: »
    Personally I can't understand coffee connoisseurs anymore than I understand beer connoisseurs. I drink coffee if I need a little jolt of caffeine and I drink beer to feel merry not because I like the taste. The weaker and more watery the taste the better.

    Wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur but there's not much to understand, i prefer my beer to taste good, same with coffee and anything else i put in my mouth for that matter.


  • #38
    Columbia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    I've never been made to feel out of place for taking sugar, but people react with disgust when they see how much milk I put in my tea. The reason for it is that I like to drink it quickly (as in, within 40 seconds, and that includes a biscuit), and I am prone to second degree burns.


  • #39
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The thing about sugar is that if you can just break the habit for a week or two you'll never go back. Sweet tea is enough to make me gag - just the whiff of it makes me go "eugh"


  • #40
    careca11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭careca11


    strong tea, small drop of milk , 1 t-spoon of sugar ,and 2 chocolate biscuits (HEAVEN)


  • #41
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    jester77 wrote: »
    You wouldn't put sugar in your beer!

    I thought all kids were given sugary beer?:confused:



    or maybe it's only families entirely consisting of alcoholics like mine.


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  • #42
    cowzerp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Tea is my favourite drink in the world with sweeteners, no sugar for the waist ya know!!

    Anyway-without sugar my favourite drink becomes my least favourite drink and disgusts me-either way if someone judges me for using seetners/sugar then i'll just judge them as morons!

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #43
    jugger0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭jugger0


    I put creatine in my tea sometimes but never sugar, thats just gross.


  • #44
    pushki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭pushki


    ick!!! sugar with tea and coffee thats like taking blackcurrant with cider !!


  • #45
    CrinkElite
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 890 ✭✭✭CrinkElite


    double espresso with one spoon of sugar all day and all night. don't go to sleep till 6 in the morning


  • #46
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I've seen more people taking sugar with tea than people who don't. Although, I drink black tea with two sugars, which seems to be something that isn't done. But, like someone already said, a couple of my friends take the milkiest tea in the world with loads of sugar. It sickens me, to be honest.


  • #47
    Spunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    Even if you took your tea with 9 spoons of sugar it would still have less sugar than a can of coke


  • #48
    ItsNoAlias
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭ItsNoAlias


    Mate of mine doesnt drink tea, she drinks hot water with loads of milk & 2 sugars... it looks and sounds disgusting. I'm appaulled everytime I make her a cup. Its just so wrong.... Each to their own though.


  • #49
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    annascott wrote: »
    Perhaps I will be blasted and sent to the 'snobbery' pages for this

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73355762#post73355762
    annascott wrote: »
    I would definitely look less favourably on someone who put three or more spoonfulls of sugar in tea or coffee as it is socially unacceptable to ask for more than two.
    annascott wrote: »
    I also see it as a sign of weakness if a man has sugar in tea or coffee

    Makes me think:
    Jess16 wrote: »
    W.T.F!




    Ok I take 3 YES 3 glorious Sugars in my tea and no amount of snobbery would ever sway me from my path. Diabetes may however.


  • #50
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    annascott wrote: »
    Perhaps I will be blasted and sent to the 'snobbery' pages for this, but I would definitely look less favourably on someone who put three or more spoonfulls of sugar in tea or coffee as it is socially unacceptable to ask for more than two. It is a social faux pas rather like someone putting a knife in their mouth.

    I also see it as a sign of weakness if a man has sugar in tea or coffee (but that's just me, not a hard and fast rule like the above)

    I don't actually say anything though. Just sit and judge quietly...;)
    Bizarre.


  • #51
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    annascott wrote: »
    I also see it as a sign of weakness if a man has sugar in tea or coffee (but that's just me, not a hard and fast rule like the above)

    WTF? That makes no sense whatsoever. It's quite pathetic that you'd judge something like that as a weakness. :rolleyes:

    I used hate the taste of sugarless tea but I got used to it eventually. Still prefer it with sugar though. (2 spoons)

    I've never had coffee without sugar. I'd imagine it'd be too bitter.


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  • #52
    jimthemental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Is taboo an abbreviation of tablespoon?


  • #53
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    I dont have sugar in my tea because im sweet enough already :)


  • #54
    mconigol
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    Try drinking your tea without milk! :eek:

    God the shame!


  • #55
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    mconigol wrote: »
    Try drinking your tea without milk! :eek:

    God the shame!

    Do you know any Polish people?,they look at you like you have two heads if you put milk in you're tea!


  • #56
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Do you know any Polish people?,they look at you like you have two heads if you put milk in you're tea!
    Yeah, but they also put ketchup on pizza...

    (I like tea black, with no sugar)


  • #57
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I take 2 shugars and a dribbleen of milk in me tae.

    I also cut one inch thick slabs of butter off the block and put them on bread and slabber it in strawberry jam. I then dip it into the hot tea and lumps of butter, jam and bread fall into the tea making a delicious sweet gloopy soup. The butter floats on top of the tea and lines the throat to help the soupy mix slide effortlessly down the gizzard.



    I'm going to be sick.


  • #58
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Tea w/no sugar.

    Coffee w/2 sugars.

    What's the big deal? Is this another one of those threads for bashing people's preferences? Like there's a correct way to drink your tea, eat your steak, drink your alcohol...

    Well said, these shyte conformity threads are getting a bit too frequent around here.

    Anyway OP what taboo?.............since when did putting sugar in tea become a taboo? Now it might be a taboo to piss into a cup of tea, but putting sugar into it? I think not.


  • #59
    magma69
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    I suggest we have a Sugary Tea Pride march.


  • #60
    BluesBerry
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    I could never have sugar in my tea uugh but the children have been banned from sugary sweets and drinks last week due to them climbing the walls they are allowed one sugar in their tea and they love it I would rather them get that than the fake sugar and e numbers that is in everything
    So yeah I see no taboo in sugary tea
    it makes them very happy and less hyper


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  • #61
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    People who put sugar in their tea and coffee don't like tea and coffee and try to mask the taste with sugar. They're pussies in my eyes, essentially.


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