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How much tea, is too much?

  • 18-01-2016 01:26PM
    #1
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭


    Nigella Lawson says she drinks up to 12 mugs of tea per day & a big mug at that :eek: "On a day-to-day basis I just have my two mugs of tea and then I chain-drink tea throughout the day."
    You would'nt think it!
    Given that Irish people drink so much, how many mugs of tea do you have daily?




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  • #2
    armaghlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    I've cut out coffee in favour of green tea so one every morning. And the odd cup of black tea in the evening. I'm conscious of my teeth turning yellow!


  • #3
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Usually a cuppa when i get to work at 7:30, maybe another at 8, one at 10:30, one at 1pm, one at 3pm, maybe 1-2 cups after dinner at 19:30-20:00, so 5-7 cups a day.


  • #4
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Not a lot. I had 2 cups of tea over the xmas while in Ireland. Had my first one of the year just now at lunch, a nice orange/ginger tea.


  • #5
    eamonnq
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    5 maybe 6


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    1


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  • #7
    MilesMorales1
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    Well its half 12 and I just made my 5th cup of the day.


  • #8
    Corcaigh84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Corcaigh84


    You mean you don't use pots as your unit of measurement?! Pfffft amateur


  • #9
    mynameis905
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭mynameis905


    "Cocaine is a hell of a drug"

    - Nigella Lawson, January 2016


  • #10
    SmartinMartin
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    12 to 15 cuppas a day, easily. Couldn't start the day without it. Good strong stuff you could stand a spoon up in it. No sugar though.


  • #11
    Lights On
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    I don't drink tea or coffee. Horrible drinks!


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  • #12
    Bulbous Salutation
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    I drink about 8 mugs of tea per day. Tea is fantastic.


  • #13
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    Lights On wrote: »
    I don't drink tea or coffee. Horrible drinks!

    You must have drank loads to try the many kinds and brands.


  • #14
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    mynameis905 wrote: »
    "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" - Nigella Lawson, January 2016
    You progress from the white powder to the brown leaves


  • #15
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    I hate tea and coffee but the mother would drink about 35/40 mugs of tea a day. She has three teabags and 2, sometimes 3, spoons of sugar each time. *pukes a little* How the woman isn't diabetic I have no idea!!!


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    Many many cups of tea. There's no such thing in my world, as too much tea.


  • #17
    hamsterboy
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    About 6-7 pints of the stuff a day....measure in pints coz I drink it out of a Kaiser beer stein in the office........ tea rocks!!!!


  • #18
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Ciderswigger wrote: »
    I hate tea and coffee but the mother would drink about 35/40 mugs of tea a day. She has three teabags and 2, sometimes 3, spoons of sugar each time. *pukes a little* How the woman isn't diabetic I have no idea!!!

    Toilet breaks must be ridiculously frequent!!


  • #19
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I'd say about 7 a day.
    10 yrs ago, I was not a tea drinker at all, maybe once or twice a week but that changed when I lived with serious tea drinkers.


  • #20
    maudgonner
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    jester77 wrote: »
    Not a lot. I had 2 cups of tea over the xmas while in Ireland. Had my first one of the year just now at lunch, a nice orange/ginger tea.


    That's not tea, that's just smelly water :pac:


    (Barry's ftw, at least 7 or 8 cups a day)


  • #21
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    About 6. I love tea & it must be Lyons. It must be strong with no sugar also.


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  • #22
    kfallon
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    Be lucky to average a cup of tea a month tbh!
    It just makes me thirsty!


  • #23
    lemd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭lemd


    kfallon wrote: »
    Be lucky to average a cup of tea a month tbh!
    It just makes me thirsty!

    Thirsty? Are you sure you are doing it right?


  • #24
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    lemd wrote: »
    Thirsty? Are you sure you are doing it right?

    Coffee is the same, don't really drink a lot of either!


  • #25
    IvyTheTerrible
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    In normal circumstances I drink 5-6 mugs of tea a day.
    Now I'm pregnant I've cut it down to 3 mugs a day.


  • #26
    ja1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭ja1986


    About 2/3 coffees in the morning and 5 teas in the evening. And 2 sugars in each with is why I'm not losing weight on slimming world and why my teeth are yellow!


  • #27
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    How much tea is too much?
    When you start speaking with a Chinese accent you need to cut down a bit.


  • #28
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    I'd be around the same 12 mugs of tea a day


  • #29
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    I drink far too much tea...

    I've been off sick from work the last couple of months with an injury and my mug is generally sellotaped to my hand!

    Today its a Pac Man mug...

    Bewleys gold blend obviously, only the best for the Dawg....

    I'm on about my 7th since 10am... :/


  • #30
    mickstupp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Not many for me, depending on what I'm doing, somewhere between 8-12 cups a day. Not sure how you can have 'too much'. Seems a nonsensical idea.


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  • #31
    emeldc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭emeldc


    According to 'Barry's Tea', in order to make the perfect cuppa, you must first agitate the bag.


    So I gave her a foot in the hole and said 'two sugars with that, fat arse'. :D


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