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Do people no longer take sugar in their tea?

  • 08-03-2019 4:26pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭


    As title suggests.
    I work in a large organisation and I can't remember the last time I saw somebody putting sugar in their tea.
    I don't do it myself and was wondering if it is a thing of the past?
    Nobody in my family take it either, and if somebody wants sugar in our house, they get sugar that is hardly ever used!
    Was this just something previous generations did?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    No


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Heyes


    I do ! Mind you its only half a spoon - a spoon but it still goes in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Not since September 2014.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    2 please.


  • Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Tacklebox


    I have tea with my sugar...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,210 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    One spoon always, can't drink it without


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,716 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Two spoons. No more. No less.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I couldn't drink it without sugar tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    7 tea spoons spanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭paulpd


    Never took sugar in teas. Used to take one spoon in coffee. Don't take it in either nowdays. Visitors either go without or use some hardened sachets that might be in some press somewhere. Don't miss it at all.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Two spoons. No more. No less.

    And god help the absolute mother*cker who gets it wrong.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,716 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    And god help the absolute mother*cker who gets it wrong.

    Or who tries to use the sugar substitutes instead.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    My auld fella like to have some tea in his sugar, like jayzisin syrup it is


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The father puts a lemon slice in his.

    No milk , no sugar.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I haven’t used sugar in my tea for years I use sweeteners from Lild 1200 in a tube for €1.99


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Sugar in tae lad? Absolute blasphemy. Off to purgatory with ya. Barry's tea black is the only way to go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,716 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I haven’t used sugar in my tea for years I use sweeteners from Lild 1200 in a tube for €1.99

    8atS.gif

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭DS86DS


    Sugar in tae lad? Absolute blasphemy. Off to purgatory with ya. Barry's tea black is the only way to go.

    Too puritanical for my liking. Give me a cup of tea with milk and a bit of sugar any day of the week


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭gidget


    Two for tea and two for coffee as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Accidentally supped tea that had sugar in it and almost gagged. Tastes like poison


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Accidentally supped tea that had sugar in it and almost gagged. Tastes like poison

    Same goes for me when I had with sugar by accident years after I gave it up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Accidentally supped tea that had sugar in it and almost gagged. Tastes like poison

    Agree. I don't take any sugar in tea but Mr Crumble takes 2. He made us both a cup during the week in identical mugs and handed me the wrong one. One mouthful and I honestly almost vomited. How on earth people actually drink tea with sugar in it, I honestly don't know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Tea and coffee tastes pretty bland without it so yeah, 2 sugars for me please.

    Rarely drink any fizzy drinks though to keep the sugar count down .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Agree. I don't take any sugar in tea but Mr Crumble takes 2. He made us both a cup during the week in identical mugs and handed me the wrong one. One mouthful and I honestly almost vomited. How on earth people actually drink tea with sugar in it, I honestly don't know.

    Sounds like you need different mugs.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    No sugar. No milk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Tea so strong you could walk on it and a spoon of honey. Perfection in a mug.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Two sugars milk and the bag left in the mug


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    No sugar in tea with milk. If I am drinking my tea black then I might have a sweetener tablet in a cup of Earl Grey or a slice of lemon.


  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    I gave it up a few years ago when I wanted to shed some weight.

    The first sip out of a cup of tea or coffee was a bit rank but you really don't notice after that first sip.

    You feel much better for it after a few weeks, provided you are not devouring sugar in other foods.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vowel Movement


    I love sweet stuff but sugar in tea is absolutely disgusting


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    Growing up in my house nobody used sugar in their tea but we always kept a bowl of sugar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    This is Lent, so a good time for anyone to give it up if they want to. As posted before it only took me a short time to get used to it. Many years ago, when I used to give up things for Lent.

    Here is my most recent recipe for a nice mug of tea. Put a big mug of water in the microwave. Boiling it first in the kettle speeds up the process. Heat for 2 minutes. Carefully remove the mug and from a short distance throw in a teabag. The water will bubble up violently for a few seconds. Stir in the bag to the desired strength and add milk to taste.

    This is another recipe.

    https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/best-way-make-tea-microwave-according-science/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    One and a half to two.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Sugar in tae lad? Absolute blasphemy. Off to purgatory with ya. Barry's tea black is the only way to go.

    Yeah same as the wife.

    Once you go black she said you dont go back.

    She's lying though, she always puts milk in her tea!


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


    Never tasted it with sugar. We weren't allowed as children and it just seems a strange concept to me now. Black Barry's made with tea leaves for me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    I like my tea supersaturated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Infonovice


    Tacklebox wrote: »
    I have tea with my sugar...

    my friend too. FIVE sugars in one cup of tea:confused:

    surely after maybe two sugars, it's totally pointless? doubt it even dissolves


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    Never took sugar in tea, if you mixed tea that had sugar with a spoon and then mixed my tea I’d know. A like a good shot of milk though.

    On the other hand I always take sugar in my coffee and wouldn’t drink it without.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    A quarter of a teaspoon in tea and 4 teaspoons in coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,951 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Tea , no sugar no milk .

    Coffee no milk but sugar .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Very strong tea with a splash of milk and no sugar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Rubberlegs wrote: »
    Very strong tea with a splash of milk and no sugar.

    Do you leave the teabag in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,283 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Sugar in tea but I prefer sweetener in coffee. Hermesetas is only sweetener that isn't horrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Do you leave the teabag in

    Sometimes :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭StreetLight


    Gave up sugar in tea for Lent as a child. Never went back on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,653 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    havent put sugar in tae for donkeys years,but on a hangover morning i"ll always throw 1 in:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I gave up sugar in my tea when I was a teenager for Lent and never went back on it. I'd spit it out now if there was sugar put in my tea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭The pink killer


    Two yokes in me tea and a gurn for desert.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    I'm sweet borderline diabetic enough, thanks.

    I'd throw up if someone put sugar, or any more than a threat of milk in my tea or coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    You get enough sugar from nearly every other sugar packed food in supermarkets in our society, no need for extra teaspoons of it

    Ive a bad sweet tooth but for some reason I think sugar in tea tastes absolutely disgusting


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