Pet Peeves

[astfgyl]

Woke up on the couch in Astfgyl's gaff a good few years back rattled from the sauce.  "A cup of tea will straighten you out."
Sound go on anything please
"Milk and Sugar?"
No black sure

And he proceeds to give out to me for an hour straight for drinking black tea, no matter how far into any other conversation we had his face would turn like he was sucking lemons and he wouldn't fuck up about the black tea, every time i lifted the cup to my fuckin mouth he would wind up again.

Yknow I'd actually forgotten all about that shit until now. Seriously like, black fuckin tae with a hangover you absolute fuckin charlatan. I could understand leaving the sugar out fair enough but not both. That's like the full denims of tea drinking it's no wonder you keep saying how bad you feel all the time

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

While we're peeving on tea:

Sugar in tea.

[Eoin McLove]

Yup. You can't taste the tea at all with sugar dumped into it.

[astfgyl]

Bad vibes with the sugar for sure though the tip of a spoon does somewhat soften the blow of taking the black when times are hard.

[Caomhaoin]

A grown man putting sugar in to a perfectly good cup of tea is way out of order. Drop of milk, piping hot. Why ruin it and make it into a child's sugary treat?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tradesmen, in my experience, universally take sugar in their tea; I'd be wary of who you call it a child's sugary treat in front of 

It's not even that it's sweet that bothers me; it tastes rank, maybe the worst kind of "sweet" going. I don't take sugar in coffee either, but that's just preference, I'd drink sweetened coffee if the mistake was made. Not a chance I could drink a cup of (proper, i.e. with milk  ) tea if it had sugar added.

[Caomhaoin]

My mother and her mother used to load our tea with sugar when we were kids. The auld lad refused to put sugar in our tea. Eventually just weened of it at age 9 or 10. Like all converts, a crusading zeal against previous sins and sinners entered the heart

Nothing wrong with sweets. In fact, a cup of tea with a few biscuits is a few minutes of pure pleasure. But to paraphrase some excellent anti COVID vax graffiti I saw on a wall in Glasgow, when it comes to sugar in tea,'NAW TAE MANDAETED POISONING' (in fact I haven't paraphrased it at all)!

[astfgyl]

A grown man putting sugar in to a perfectly good cup of tea is way out of order. Drop of milk, piping hot. Why ruin it and make it into a child's sugary treat?

Every now and again I forget there's no milk and pour a cup so rather than fuck it down the sink in disgust if throw in a quarter spoon of sugar and get it into me. It's a form of environmental consciousness

[Giggles]

I'm generally all inclusive when it comes to tea.

Don't mind it black, as long as it's not too black.
Don't mind it white, as long as it's not too white.
I don't put sugar in mine, but if somebody served me one with a spoon or two in it, I can handle it.

A woman I know drinks hers with somewhere between 5-9 sugars, I can't remember the exact number... and that is where I draw the line. People can have their preferences and all, but that is just fucking disgusting.

[Circlepit]

So is it Lyons, Barry's, Bewleys, or one of the others?
My wife never drinks real tea only herbal pukka brand toilet juice. She still manages to give me guff between sips of that hippie witch brew that I'm wrong for drinking Lyon's.
Extra quality, extra flavour.. sure you can't beat that.

[Carnage]

Lyon's is awful, Barry's Gold Blend is the only proper tea.

[91/30]

So is it Lyons, Barry's, Bewleys, or one of the others?
My wife never drinks real tea only herbal pukka brand toilet juice. She still manages to give me guff between sips of that hippie witch brew that I'm wrong for drinking Lyon's.
Extra quality, extra flavour.. sure you can't beat that.

Wouldn't be mad on those herbal teas, exception been Chinese Pu-erh which goes well with food from that part of the world.
A pot of Lapsang Souchong is a great smoky flavoured tay as well.  It's like if you left a pot of Lyons over an old open turf fireplace for a week. It's the single malt of the tay world lads.

[Caomhaoin]

Islay Tae? I'll have to look into that.

Lyons? Corkonian's stereotypically refusing to drink anything else aside, Barry's Gold is yer only man.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Barry's or, when we can't get that, Yorkshire is indeed, as the box says, a 'proper brew'.

[astfgyl]

Usually whichever one is the black blend of whatever brand. I'd drink the value shit if there was nothing else though