As an Englander, the following has never really occurred to me till now...

Does the rest of the UK love a brew as much the English do? Or is it, generally speaking, an 'English thing'?

Also, does Eire have a penchant for the 'strange' infusion, too?

 

Mostly Coffee drinkers up here, some do drink Tea though but it seems to be mainly coffee AFAIK.

 

Tea is dying out in the whole of the UK. Coffee is now massively more popular.

I think the main problem is most mainstream tea is crap (Tetleys, Yorkshire etc.) and even if you do get good tea most people have not a clue how to infuse it properly!

 

I'm on my smartphone and can't see people's location. I assume, Dunk, you're from Scotland?

 

We drink lots of tea in Yorkshire

 

Steeping, FTW.

Yeah. The commonly commercial brews lack flavour. I keep chopping and changing but am never satisfied.

When you do have a great, really refreshing cuppa, it seems to happen by chance, more than anything else. I refer to it as the 'chaos theory' cuppa lol.

Of course, drinking it from proper bone china cups certainly helps the perceived flavour.

 

Yeah, I'm guessing that Yorkshire is the UK epicentre for tea drinking.

 

Tea makes me ill , Coffee makes me feel funny hehe so coffee it is..

 

Lot of people drink tea in North Wales. Many country tea drinkers here have ancient teapots with flowery patterns and worn enamel/glaze. The tea brewed in them tastes from heaven! A lot of peeps also collect nice tea pots here for their Welsh Dresser cabinet display.

I don't have a tea pot. I just use one tea bag per mug, I do.

 

Buy some Twinings Assam, get the bags if you can't be fagged with the loose leaves.

Stick bag in cup and boil water.... leave kettle after boiling for 30 seconds then add water to the bag. Leave for 6 minutes and then remove the bag, add milk to taste (not too much) and you will be drinking a much better cuppa than the mainstream brands!

 

Never really understood tea, a hassle to make and the end result is rank. Coffee all the way for me.

 

You can't really make a refreshing cup of coffee imo

 

Thanks F1. I will defo do that!

Life's too short not to ensure one is drinking great tea, every time, all the time. I love tea so much, the pursuit of a perfect - consistently repeatable! - cuppa is kind of a Holy Grail for me.

 

Coffee is inherently NOT refreshing, in the way tea is. I would never have a coffee as an alternative to satisfy a tea-like thirst.

 

Couldn't agree more

 

I saw a programme on telly that coffee isn't as bad for us as we think. It's just bad press that defamed it. What they said was that keep drinking coffee as much as you like until proven for sure that it's bad for you in excess. I have some friends on 20 mugs of coffee a day. They proudly say that their coffee consumption makes their heart rate go up to 0-60 in 4.5 seconds inside their body by the evening.

I like the smell of coffee, but I don't like drinking it.

 

Listen to me. When I was younger, I used to mock people when they said, as you get older, you gradually turn into your Dad (RIP).

But.....!

 

I'm lucky enough to work near a coffee and tea importer. I often stop by to buy loose tea. As F1 describes, Assam is one of my favourites, although many people ruin a good cup of tea by adding milk to it.

 

 

Haw haw.

Love those. They've got character.

 

Mien Gott, Nein!

 

To show the national character stereotypes they analysed the European Big Brother series

The Spanish and Italians argued a lot

The French talked about food all the time

The Germans did the assigned tasks incredibly efficiently

The swedes and Dutch had a lot of sex

And the English just asked each other "who wants another cuppa tea"

Great drink if you ask me - nothing quenches the thirst better

It took my incredibly posh wife over 20 years to appreciate a proper cup of "builders tea" (after years of "ipsang do long" crap) but she rarely drink anything else these days

 

Prefer coffee,but if I have tea it got to be strong,I seem to drink more tea in the summer than coffee...

 

Excuse me for poking in here , I am a Brit living too long in Germany.

The problem is the Germans don't have any Tea ( as we know it )
Its all "fruit" tea ( Ughh ) well I suppose It would be wouldn't it.

I am running out of Tetly so I will have to come over and drive slowly to get some.

 

Tea is mental at quenching a thirst.

I end up making them satisfying *sip*..."ooh yeah"...*sip*..."ooh yeah" 'pensioner-type' mumblings, when it really his the spot.

 

Hardly anyone knows how to drink either tea or coffee properly or much of the history behind either.

Some random facts:

Tea should always be served with cold milk, whilst coffee should always be served with cream or warm milk.

One should only be served with white sugar whilst the other should be served with brown sugar. You can Google which is which, if you really need to.

The coffee known as 'Americano' was invented by the Italians. American G.I.s who could not take a hit of espresso would often ask for it to be watered down, hence the Americano was born when the Italians started topping it up with hot water.

There's no such thing as herbal tea. If it doesn't have tea leaves in it, it's a tissane.

Tea and coffee are both good for you due to the anti-oxidants they contain. Red wine is even better for you as it contains twice as many anti-oxidants as coffee.

 

I am sure we could send some care packages your way if you really get low buddy

 

I heard about Coffee being good for you a while back, it's a good bloody job or I would be in a right **** state just now.

 

Bone china my ****

You can't beat proper loose tea, brewed nice and strong in a big urn, and drunk from a great big mug



If I remember correctly, Dunk's a prod

 

Excellent Idea ! ; I have just bought the Injectors from uk300scoob

But as I have not paid yet he can send me some TEA too.