Do you prefer milk in your tea ...

Yesterday The Great Escape was on. Couldn't watch it all (the late afternoon call of Tengelmann and Hopfisterei took precedence) but there was this classic line:

"Tea without milk - most uncivilised" from Donald Pleasance the passport forger.

Seeing as we have run out of PG Tips and I haven't set foot in Blighty for over two years, we've recently bought some tea called Ostfriesn Tee which is drunk in the NW of Germany. Thus I now realise that some parts of Germany do have civilised influences.

We shall manage to survive on these rations till the next Red Cross drop of proper tea.

Und?

PG Tips is sold in 1000 T-bag catering packs (along with smaller 250 bag packets and also Pataks Indian sauces!) in a takeaway around the corner from Ottobrunn Rathaus - pm me for further details!

was watching that yesterday too!
tea with milk always, unless it's herbal tea.
in fact off for me first brew of the day right now...

Go to a Chinese shop and buy some English tea. You can get PG Tipps in most Chinese shops, which is a little more expensive than England, but saves you the flight, but the English shops are a little bit of a rip off ...

Oh... and how can you drink black tea... no thank you !

Yuck! Don't understand why so many people enjoy drinking a beverage that tastes like dirt (IMHO). And to add milk to it?!?!? Gotta say that thought makes my skin crawl. But to each his own.

You mean coffee? I thought this thread was about tea!

@ tom17 - coffee tastes more like burnt ass. tea is more like dirt. both equally yucky IMO. but, drink up, i suppose they both must be an acquired taste. my taste buds aren't that refined just yet.

I love milk in my tea. And when I say milk, I mean FRESH milk. 1.5% fat is the best. I do not want Full Fat or UHT (UHT milk is the work of the devil and ranks up there with twiglets). And a note to all German café owners out there - The Coffee Cream shite is NOT milk. It is utterly disgusting undrinkable crap that should not even go in coffee. Yet whenever I try to explain that to you people you just give me that glazed look... How many times have I ordered a tea in a café, told the waiter that I want FRESH MILK abd he/she comes back with a little pot of the coffee cream crap? Jeeeeeezussssss

Anyway. what was the question again?

I have 1,5% milk or skimmed in tea but love black tea with lemon on airplanes for some strange reason. It is more refreshing or something.
The thought of Earl Grey with milk though makes me ill.
My choice of milk is not popular with a certain gentleman who brings his own full-fat variety over when he's there. He also drinks tea so strong that you could stand your spoon up in it (says that my Yorkshire Tea is pretty weak, he drinks Barry's). Tar-tastic.
He also complains about my coffee as he is a Moka-snob.

@Crawlie
Totally agree with you there.. I order coffee (latte) now in cafés cos I have had so many run ins with waiters not getting that i want milk not Kaffeesahne. They insist that the 'milk' is already on the table and when I say, no, I want milk pls, they bring me little sachets of ... yes, Kaffeesahne (10% yellowish coffee cream...) It has no place in tea whatsoever, and even in coffee, it turns it a weird diahorria (sp?) colour... mingin'

Rant over.

Tea, when made properly, however, is the answer to all problems and makes you feel tons better. Especially with a hobnob to dunk in.. (or Garibaldis)

Oh yeah. My dad is the same. The teabag has to stew in the tea for half an hour and anything more than 2 drops of milk ruins the flavour... Unbelievable stuff

Oh, there are situations where nothing beats a good cup of tea and a nice sit down, and that's a fact if ever there was one.
If you can't get back to blighty for your fix of PG Tips/Tetley/Yorkshire Tea, then go and pay a little bit over the odds (but not too much, considering) in one of the Indian or Persian shops that are scattered about the place.
There's one in Neuhausen, Jeremy, on the corner of Donnersberger and (I believe) Schluderstr. Just before you get to Splotts on the right-hand side of the road, heading from Rotkreuzplatz towards the Mercedes building. Worth every penny, a good cup of tea.
With milk goes without saying, surely*?

* unless it's herbal, obv

On Müllerstr (I think) near Frauenhoferstr Ubahn there is an oriental shop which sells Marmite and tea bags

The Asian shop at Rosenheimerplatz sells PG Tips...saw it there last week. One of the boxes (big one but don't know how many bags) was 14,60 I think.

Reminds me of a quick story I got from a RAF pilot I met skiing I think in 2001. He was pilot for one of those big spy plane jobbies that flies high over battle zones (big frisbee on the roof?) in Afghanistan.

Anyway he went to the back of the plane to listen into some transmissions from the troops. The Americans took some incoming fire and over the radio they are shouting, screaming and having a general panic up. Then he listens into the Brits in the middle of a firefight...voices sounded like a cricket commentary compared, even though they lost 2 men.

At the end of the firefight the RAF radio man says to the British commander to confirm his next plan of action and the reply was:

"I think we are gonna have a brew now".

Eastenders is based around having a nice cup of tea. Pauline Fowler would not exist if they scrapped the tea ritual

jeremy, the little Asian shop on Leonrodstr. near the top of Frundsbergstr. (so between Café Freiheit and Deutsche Bank) sells PG and Tetleys.

By this I assume you have actually tasted burnt ass in order to make the comparison.

Milk: disgusting, necessary for baking and a few sauces and marinades.
Milk in any drink: barf-o-rrific

The only thing that should be in my tea is tea. Likewise coffee, which is only correctly served when it matches my soul: black and bitter.

woof.

Thanks Katrina, I drive there once a week thru Karl Albrecht Hof to physiotherapy for my daughter. I know the one you mean. Will check it out.

Pretty street Frundsbergstrasse.

Thanks to you lot I have just spent my lunch break hunting down PG Tips and real milk
Ee, mister piano shifter, time for a brew.

Oi Dad, you know the piano's on my foot.

You um it son, I'll play it.

Tea, instructions for, 1 man portion.

Boil water.
Tea bag, 1, Barrys into metal mug, size 0.5 liter.
Brew over heat for 5 minutes, minimum.
Milk, full fat (preferred unpastuerised) and sugar to taste.
Drink.
Repeat as necessary.
Go forth and empirebuild.

Course as I've been on the continent for years I have picked up the degenerate habit of using honey instead of sugar.

my favourite movie and my favourite line
tea without milk IS uncivilised !!

The thought of earl grey makes me ill

Was walking down Klugsttrasse yesterday whistling the film tune. Then stopped myself!

Earl Grey? I think I drank that once years ago when single to attempt to impress some woman how sophisticated I was. Awful stuff. God the price we pay when we are finding a partner huh?

Jeremy: to really impress women you've got to drink the old Lapsong Suchong, lovely smoky tea, if they stay after that then sparks will fly.

Unfortunately they never do.

earl grey truly is vom

don't really agree with yeti's recipe for tea
* you need a decent round teapot, none of your fancy southern shapes
* you need freshly drawn water
* always warm the pot before you put the tea in
* and always use boiling water only for tea (these germans have no clue when it comes to tea, i despair at times)
* leave to mash for approx 4 mins, and bob's your uncle

and don't forget to put the milk into the cup before you pour the tea onto it
oh, and you need decent tea, as well, obviously

@Topsy

"When we was in the Sudan..."

Obviously a lady like yourself will have the more civilised version.

The water does have to freshly drawn and boiled as otherwise all the ovygen has been driven out of it.

I don't drink much black tea (though I do drink lots of tea). I have PG Tips at home for all the Brits and Brit-influenced who come to stay. They drink frightening amounts of it, I'm glad we don't have visitors all the time.

If the tea is really strong, I drink it with milk. If it's not so strong, I'm happy to drink it without milk. If I'm hiking and I'm cold, I drink it with milk (gives it a rounder taste) AND sugar.

What I find funny is how I had weaned myself off of milk before I left Canada, but would find myself with a cup of tea with milk already in it when I went to visit British friends here. They automatically assumed I took milk. Or, after having already poured both milk and tea, they would hesitate and ask if I took it with milk. I answered "I do today".

Comment of the month.

Ok, you guys are pissing all over my favorite

Earl grey with milk and orange blossom honey (very little) is my favorite, but what do I know, I'm a stupid coffee drinking american!

never did you write a truer word

as a kid I used to drink milk with tea (black tea), but now as an Adult I just drink my tea straight up! nothing added!

And I like Earl Grey also!

Gives me comfort that you Brits are dissing Earl Grey. Never could understand what I'd thought was the popularity of it. I'd also been led to believe milk in tea was for babies, but maybe that was my four older siblings just messin with me.

I like bourbon in my coffee. With a dozen or so Krispy Kremes on the side. Mmmm. Where is Upquark when you need him...

baileys in coffee is fab, as well - best way yet invented to stay up all night chatting with friends, IME

Neil Young and Led Zep before you've had any tea or coffee in the morning.
A running commentary of "Snatch".
Complaints about the "wrong" kind of coffee/milk/anything other than chocolate.
And now he thinks that ashtray tea will be entering my abode.
Oh no, Mister.
There is a line of death and ashtray tea is on the other side of it.*

*unless you're going to put that lamp up in the kitchen of course (glance/nod/wink)

@Topsy
I though an Irish Coffee was coffee with baileys and cream but when i ordered one recently, it was with whisky!! I was too embarrassed to send it back cos it was my fault I didn't know.. Bah! That was a nasty surprise.

@AnthonyinE
Great smiley - best one since 3 Lions's Tumbleweed one when someone made an unfunny joke...

What do you think is in Bailey's?

Is that not creamy sherry?

Sorry, I am outing myself as a complete spirit ignoramus...

I normally drink wine or beer

Er... does sherry come from Ireland?
The words "Bailey's IRISH Cream" should be a clue.

Not all beverages from Ireland are whisky, surely
Mind you, I am obviously a bit of a nincompoop when it comes to darker coloured spirits (brandy, sherry, whisky...)
I'm alright when they're clear, though.

me too, TH
i always tell myself that bailey's hasn't got whiskey in it, cos whiskey is an emetic in my book

i'm normally a G&T girl (or wine/beer), but coffee+baileys is v.nice, have to say

@Topsy
Will try my very own version of 'irish coffee' next time. Although, I'm sure that has a name of some sort...

The drink in question is usually known as a Baileys Latte
I actually have a specific glass for it at home

Irish Coffee should always be made with Irish Whisley other it is technically a Gaelic Coffee

Cheers Rus.

What is in a name? Would a *bailey's in coffee* by any other name taste as sweet?

Gaelic Coffee ? Arse !

If it's not made with Irish Whiskey then you have to call it Leprechaun Orgasm !

How far have we sunk when putting milk into tea turns to putting Bailey's into coffee
Better than putting neat whiskey into it though, spoils the whiskey.

Milk? In my Earl Grey? Are you raving mad?

You'll be suggesting sugar next!

I may be perverted, but not THAT perverted.

oo-errr, hark at Mr Teetotal

Total tea, that's the point

My colleagues will bear witness to the fact that I like my coffee. And your very own drinks cabinet to the fact that I, along with one or two others, am not averse to a spot or two of Bailey's, especially when I am not so total. But they should be mixed in the stomach, not the billy can.

As opposed to black tea and milk, which should be mixed in the mug.

just to be pedantic (hell it's 10:30pm why not), sherry is a wine or fortified wine and not a spirit, ie distilled. oh and half fat milk in my tea please and whisky in my coffee. ooh, is that the time? irish coffee then please (jamesons of course, shouldn't waste good single malt scotch).