How much tea, is too much?

ahnowbrowncow · 18-01-2016 02:01PM

I used to drink about 10 cups of tea a day but I had to cut down though because it nearly gave me aids.

kylith · 18-01-2016 02:01PM

I'd drink a fair amount. I always have my thermos mug with me in work, so that'd be about 6 mugs while in work, then between 1 and 4 in the evenings. So somewhere between 7 and 10 mugs a day.

mynameis905 · 18-01-2016 02:04PM

snubbleste wrote: »

You progress from the white powder to the brown leaves

And before you know it you'll find yourself pimping yourself out to the likes of Typhoo doing vapid commercials.

Red King · 18-01-2016 02:05PM

About 50 million

mynameis905 · 18-01-2016 02:08PM

kfallon wrote: »

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

I find coffee makes me very thirsty but tea is the opposite. Great thirst quencher. I bring bags of it on holidays with me and get very funny looks when I'm drinking a hot cup of tea in 35 degree weather.

sbsquarepants · 18-01-2016 02:21PM

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!!!

That's 120 teabags and roughly half a kilo of sugar everyday:eek::eek:

Figbiscuithead · 18-01-2016 02:24PM

About 3 cups a day and a cup of coffee, no sugar in either. I used to live in house shares and work in offices where tea was made in turns like some factory assembly line - I used to drink gallons and gallons of the stuff but since moving to a non-tea drinking country, I drink a lot less. I fooking love the stuff, though. I should really up my intake.

Whitewinged · 18-01-2016 02:26PM

I don't drink tea or coffee. I love the smell of coffee but I don't like how it tastes. I don't mind tea and I drink it if someone offers me a cup but I'd never make a cup at home.

It's good for water is guess. Since I gave up work, I sometimes forget to drink water whereas before I would drink loads at my desk. I have to make a conscious effort to drink enough water ever day.

Faith+1 · 18-01-2016 02:27PM

About 15.

osarusan · 18-01-2016 02:32PM

I'd say maybe a cup of tea a week for me, usually when I'm a guest somewhere or there is a tea-drinking guest in my home. Probably none otherwise.

2 or 3 cups of coffee a day though.

TerrorFirmer · 18-01-2016 02:35PM

mickstupp wrote: »

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.

If you're having sugar in every cup, that's obviously less than ideal.

Knew a guy who had 10 cups of coffee a day with 3 sugars in each cup, for example.

Personally I really like a cup of strong tea with two sugars, but I almost never drink it.

rainbow kirby · 18-01-2016 02:38PM

Would have generally have been 2 coffees and 3-4 cups of tea before, but during pregnancy I'm down to around 3 cups of normal tea and a herbal tea in the evening.

Ciderswigger · 18-01-2016 02:39PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

That's 120 teabags and roughly half a kilo of sugar everyday:eek::eek:

It's disgusting! You should see all the milk she goes through too. We'd be better off buying a cow!!!!

iDave · 18-01-2016 02:56PM

Usually loses its taste after the fifth. Generally have one or two a day. Used to drink it like a fish.
Impressed the thread hasn't been taken over by hipsters acting all high and mighty about it like the carvery threads.

DenMan · 18-01-2016 05:41PM

Like the good Captain I'm quite partial to a cup of Earl Grey. Which reminds me, time for my fourth of the day! Tea, Earl Grey, hot! :pac:

gazzer · 18-01-2016 05:46PM

I have 4 cups a tea. One at home when I get up and 3 more in work. Dont drink tea in the evening though.

tony 2 tone · 18-01-2016 07:16PM

Between 6-8 cups a day, maybe more on the weekend. Only drink it at home as the stuff in work is crap.

18-01-2016 07:28PM

I start the day with a small cup of coffee, drunk on the steps of my building. Then it's tea. Tea, tea, tea every 1.5-2 hours, great big cups of it, sometimes by the teapot, all the live long day.

I've had two cups of black tea with cardamom in the last hour, but usually I take it strong with a little milk and one sugar.

Kettles boiled.

kimokanto · 18-01-2016 07:41PM

tony 2 tone wrote:

Between 6-8 cups a day, maybe more on the weekend. Only drink it at home as the stuff in work is crap.

I sympathise re sh1tty work tea, I hate the way some places have crap masquerading as tea. Nasty. I always keep a backup supply in case local stuff is bad.
8-10 cups a day for me, strong, plenty of milk no sugar.

XplaygirlX · 19-01-2016 12:09AM

I dont drink tea. But I LOVE coffee. I could or would have up to 10,15 or 20 cups a day all with 2 sugars

Hollister11 · 19-01-2016 01:56AM

One with breakfeast, maybe 2 if i'm not in the humour. Usually one at my morning break, one at lunch, one when i come home, one after dinner, and one before bed.

So 6 usually, maybe 7 on somedays.

Medusa22 · 19-01-2016 02:48AM

I used to have the odd cup of tea once in a blue moon but in the last year or so I've begun to drink tea regularly. It has to be Barry's and I have semi-skimmed milk in it and three sweeteners, it's sweet and milky and that's how I love it. I usually have 1-2 cups a day, I love nothing more than to have a cup in the morning or if I'm feeling cold, there's something so comforting about it that I never really understood before I started drinking it regularly.

I don't drink coffee.

gormdubhgorm · 19-01-2016 03:09AM

I only drink tea if I have a cold or I am very cold (which is rare). As a result when I do drink a cup of tea I am wired.

So 12 cups a day must do something to your system at the very least your body is addicted to caffine? Hence the usual phrase "I'd love a cup of tea" ?

ceadaoin. · 19-01-2016 04:05AM

I have 2 cups of coffee in the morning then move onto tea. Probably 4-5 cups during the day, maybe an earl grey or green tea on top of that and a herbal tea in the evening.

I'm definitely addicted, I get a headache if I don't have any caffeine!

Ruu · 19-01-2016 04:09AM

4-5 cups of tea, just a comfort thing. I can quit when I want! There used to be a priest that comes to our school and he used to put 6 sugars in his tea! I just have a drop of milk. Don't drink coffee.

Gwynplaine · 19-01-2016 02:25PM

I have a big mug of tea in the evenings, strong, drop of milk, no sugar. If I'm hungover I could drink 6 - 7 mugs of tea, with a good spoon of sugar.
Anyone else put sugar in tea when hungover?
Big Sportsdirect mug which holds a pint of tea, deadly.
Don't drink coffee, but I do like the smell of it.

Beefy78 · 20-01-2016 02:44PM

I'd say I average around six a day, including weekends. I wouldn't want to do without it - its not an addiction it's just so fantastic that I'd sooner give up just about anything else. Even bacon or gin!

I keep meaning to try the loose tea thing. It looks a lot of effort though when a bag of Twinings will do fine.

Beefy78 · 20-01-2016 02:44PM

double post

TallGlass · 20-01-2016 02:45PM

I don't drink tea or coffee gave it up after my appendix burst and also gave up coke.

You do get some funny looks when you tell people you don't drink tea.

Bunny Colvin · 20-01-2016 02:57PM

I will easily put away 8+ cups of coffee up to about 7pm. After, that I switch to tea. I might have three mugs before bed. I find I can sleep with tea but coffee after 6pm would keep me awake. If I really want a coffee in the evening then the de-caff comes out but it's not the same without the caffeine.

How much tea, is too much?

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