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How do you take yours?

  • 23-05-2015 05:50PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭


    Time for a cuppa, what's your order? With milk, no sugar, drop of honey? I'll stick the kettle on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    I like my coffee like I like my women.

    From the third world, relatively inexpensive and preferably ground down by someone else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I LOVE tea; I drink a lot of it and it amazes me how sh*tty some people are at making the humble brew.

    Only my other half is able to make a decent cuppa, apart from myself of course.
    I just take it with a splash of milk and it must be strong.

    People who have loads of milk in it are not tea afficionados! All you're tasting is the milk, ffs!
    Sorry for being angry, I just love tea so fcuking much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,964 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Not a big tea drinker at all TBH but when I do have a cup it's with 2 sugars and milk. More a Coffee man and have it the same way


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Semi skimmed, one sugar, marks and spencer yellow tea bags.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Strong, small bit of milk and no sugar, I'm sweet enough.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Usually don't care, I'm not fussy.

    There are days when I want a nice one though. Il use a Barrys Gold Blend tea bag, splash of milk to colour it just right. Then add 2 sugars, stiring 15 times clockwise and 8 anti-clockwise.

    Toast on the other hand, if you hand me toast that's not cut into a triangle, il cut you up real good and post you through a letter box. Toast is sacred.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I like my coffee like I like my women.

    From the third world, relatively inexpensive and preferably ground down by someone else.

    And boxed loose?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Tea. Aldi Gold Blend. Best ever.

    No sugar, more strong than weak, but not THAT strong. A little milk. Then as I get down the cup I top it up with boiled water.

    Tea must be HOT. Do not ever give me a lukewarm cup of tea. You have been warned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Mines cup of dirty coffee, three sugars, columbian is my preferred taste, but I'll usually take what's going anyway, just to be polite and not come off like I have my head up my own ass :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I just take milk but I drink my tea by the gallon, so lots of milk.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭SillyBeans


    Black, no sugar, teabag in. A cup of tar basically.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Black, one (small) sugar.
    That's if it's a tea bag affair. If I've got loose tea (preferably Ceylon) or green tea, neither milk nor sugar.
    And if I've got Earl Grey, I'll have a drop of honey in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Tea with 2 sugars and LOADS of milk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Black, no sugar, loose leaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭_Godot_


    Loads of milk and sugar. I've had people complain I ruin tea by doing it, but it's not them that's drinking it. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Lyons Tea (never Barry's). Very strong, with no sugar and just a drop of milk. Accompanied by some biscuits or cake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Strong with one sugar. No milk. Milk is for people who don't like tea.

    Oh, and Barry's Gold. The best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    I am a tea-aholic! I easily go through 15+ cups a day.... I go through 160 tea bags in just over a week!
    If it's in someone's house and they have Barry's/Lyons- I wouldn't touch it, I bring my own teabags because if it's Barry's or Lyons, I need about 3 tea bags in the mug just to be able to drink it!
    Ive been drinking tea since 1 year old, and am very fussy, drinking it for 20 years!!! And I won't touch the cup if it has slimline milk - it's ruins it!!!


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


    Not a big tea drinker, but I do like a fresh cup of nane limon tea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Don't drink much tea.

    Coffee - any kind that is brewed rather than instant. But instant if there is nothing else. Splash of milk, no sugar except on special occasions, then it is brown sugar.


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  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Usually don't care, I'm not fussy.

    There are days when I want a nice one though. Il use a Barrys Gold Blend tea bag, splash of milk to colour it just right. Then add 2 sugars, stiring 15 times clockwise and 8 anti-clockwise.

    Toast on the other hand, if you hand me toast that's not cut into a triangle, il cut you up real good and post you through a letter box. Toast is sacred.


    We have to get married.

    Barrys Gold Blend, preferably brewed in a teapot, minimal milk, one sugar. In the largest vessel that would be socially acceptable to be seen drinking from, please. Add toast lightly browned both sides and spread with room temp butter, and I'm basically in heaven.

    Tea and toast is a little gift from the food gods to humanity to help us get through out tough days, in combination it's right up there with the best of the mood enhancing drugs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    With cheese


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    biko wrote: »
    With cheese

    Do you dunk the cheese into the tea or bite off a chunk and wash it down with a mouthful of tea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    No, when I saw the title of the thread I decided that was going to be my response regardless of what thread was about.
    I think I may given a proper answer in one of the 50-11 previous threads on this very topic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Whatever tea floats yer boat, go for it.

    Surprised at the number of posters who take sugar. Don't ye all know that is the food of the divil now lol.

    But work away, each to their own.

    I likes my tea a lot though.

    It can be very addictive though. My lovely mother had a stroke some time back, and she was going mad in the hospital. She couldn't talk, so no one knew what was going on. Anyway, I happened to say to a nurse that she usually drank tea about ten times a day.

    Short and swift, they got her a cup of tea with thickener in it, because she couldn't swallow well. And within a half an hour she was calm and rested. Needless to say they kept it topped up! She is good again now, within reason thanks be.

    Just goes to show!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Fair enough,but we could be on to something here.

    Anyone willing to give it a go?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Barry's tea bag, a drop of milk and three tesco sweeteners


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Barry's tea bag, a drop of milk and three tesco sweeteners

    I remember giving up sugar for lent about a million years ago. In both tea and coffee and on cereal.

    So, someone asked me a while back "what are ya doing for Lent"

    My answer was "I should use sugar again"......! That would really do my head in now. Totally different taste. Strange.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Lyons Blend Gold Reserve. Only the best here. No squeezing the tea bag! >_<


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭b757


    Mines a coffee.

    Big shpoon of Nescafe Azera Americano, one sugar and milk. Never had a cup of tea in my life, haven't a clue what it tastes like and I don't plan to try it once I have coffee.

    :)


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