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The Tea Thread

Floyd said:

'It’s an old person's drink.' Is Britain's love for tea cooling off?​


It’s that quintessential British tradition that we have been enjoying for hundreds of years.

The answer to every crisis, a bonding ritual when you welcome someone into your home and the first drink many people wake up to.
“Fancy a cuppa?” or even simply “Tea?” is music to your ears, right?

Well, maybe not for everyone.

"I suppose there's kind of an association with tea as an old person's drink," says Gillie Owen, aged 20.
The student from London says he and his friends prefer water or diet soda drinks.

Gillie thinks of tea as "an old person's drink"

Layba, meanwhile, doesn't drink tea at all.

"I have never liked tea," the 20-year-old says. "I just think it tastes really off, like, really weird.”
It's a stark contrast to her parents who, she says, “really love" tea.

So is it a generational thing? As a nation, are we falling out of love with tea?

Last week, one of Britain’s oldest tea firms, Typhoo Tea, collapsed after a drop in sales.


Shayma, 18, says she also prefers herbal tea, while most of her friends drink coffee. She says there are "so many drinks now” and she hasn’t even heard of Typhoo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpll9l535o​

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As a heavy tea drinker Mr F, i find young people’s attitude to tea very sad, and the collapse of Typhoo tragic.
 
Min Bannister said:
*finishes last mouthful of old persons drink*

What's that you say dearie?

I suppose the problem really is that there is such a huge amount of choice nowadays. You can try 20 different options and settle for the one you like best. And then once parents stop drinking tea, they stop giving it to their children and so they never develop a teast* for it. When I was young, :omr: coffee was a drink for adults.

Edit, typo but it is kind of appropriate so I am leaving it in.
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I'll never understand how I could drink so much instant coffee when a teenager.

I admit that I prefer tea much more now that I buy a better quality leaf, but even so, never thought I'd be only drinking tea and not coffee at all, even though I'd switched to a cafetiere and a more select bean for the last few years that I indulged.
 
Floyd said:
I'll never understand how I could drink so much instant coffee when a teenager.
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I am still quite happy to drink instant coffee, even though I also drink ground coffee! I end up with a little mountain of grinds in my compost bowl after a few days from one cup a day but hardly any tea leaves. You can reuse tea leaves but not coffee grinds.

Seems I'll drink pretty much anything..:thought:
 
Min Bannister said:
I am still quite happy to drink instant coffee, even though I also drink ground coffee! I end up with a little mountain of grinds in my compost bowl after a few days from one cup a day but hardly any tea leaves. You can reuse tea leaves but not coffee grinds.

Seems I'll drink pretty much anything..:thought:
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Aren't coffee grinds supposed to get rid of slugs or ants or something?
 
Floyd said:

'It’s an old person's drink.' Is Britain's love for tea cooling off?​


It’s that quintessential British tradition that we have been enjoying for hundreds of years.

The answer to every crisis, a bonding ritual when you welcome someone into your home and the first drink many people wake up to.
“Fancy a cuppa?” or even simply “Tea?” is music to your ears, right?

Well, maybe not for everyone.

"I suppose there's kind of an association with tea as an old person's drink," says Gillie Owen, aged 20.
The student from London says he and his friends prefer water or diet soda drinks.

Gillie thinks of tea as "an old person's drink"

Layba, meanwhile, doesn't drink tea at all.

"I have never liked tea," the 20-year-old says. "I just think it tastes really off, like, really weird.”
It's a stark contrast to her parents who, she says, “really love" tea.

So is it a generational thing? As a nation, are we falling out of love with tea?

Last week, one of Britain’s oldest tea firms, Typhoo Tea, collapsed after a drop in sales.


Shayma, 18, says she also prefers herbal tea, while most of her friends drink coffee. She says there are "so many drinks now” and she hasn’t even heard of Typhoo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpll9l535o​

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Yet more evidence I am still young. I do not drink tea, or coffee.
 
Mythopoeika said:
I hardly touch it. I just have it in the house in case I get a visitor (which doesn't happen that often).
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When one does come here, once every ten years or so, they are mightily disappointed;
No biscuits, coffee, milk, sugar, cake, heat...............
 
brownmane said:
You mix some into the soil. You don't need a lot. Or, if you have a garden, you can put them there.

Crushed eggshells can also benefit some plants which prefer sweeter soil.
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My Mum does that with the eggshells.
 
My problem with tea is with having it in a cafè. If I order a coffee or a pairochinos, the barista will at least put in some effort in. If I order tea they will just give me a cup of hot water and point at the tea bags, then charge me for it. So when going out I would not drink tea.
 
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