Just discovered I'm a Mif! (lighthearted thread)

To the horror of DD2 I am a mif. She likes her tea builders strength so likes to see it brew to a dark colour before adding the milk. |It has to be Yorkshire Tea too which I find far too strong for my delicate palate.

Urmstongran

We used to put milk in first when using a teapot (you can take the girl out of Old Trafford but you can’t take Old Trafford out of the girl) but now we’re even more common and make tea in our (admittedly china) mugs by pouring boiling water directly onto the tea bags. Mind you it does mean I pour milk in after the bag is removed. I can’t work out whether that’s posher or not. Probably not.

Same here and yes, definitely Non-U ?

Mif for tea when I was a child, but mil for coffee. Now mil for tea (leaf and bags) and no milk in coffee.

I thought we were going to discuss MiLFs!

Don't know what a MiLF is! (My thread was about Mifs.) But I don't live in UK so forgive my ignorance.

Am now going to turn my nose up at most of you and say I only use looseleaf tea and in a proper teapot (though I do drink out of a mug). I also use a teacosy!

My problem is that, as I live in Europe, I have to rely on British Corner Shop for supplies of Yorkshire Looseleaf Brew and have to wait for them to get it back in stock each time. Obviously, all the other Brits living in Europe prefer it too!

I don’t live in the uk, either. Must be worldwide.

nanna8

I don’t live in the uk, either. Must be worldwide.

Where are you?

giulia

Don't know what a MiLF is! (My thread was about Mifs.) But I don't live in UK so forgive my ignorance.

Am now going to turn my nose up at most of you and say I only use looseleaf tea and in a proper teapot (though I do drink out of a mug). I also use a teacosy!

My problem is that, as I live in Europe, I have to rely on British Corner Shop for supplies of Yorkshire Looseleaf Brew and have to wait for them to get it back in stock each time. Obviously, all the other Brits living in Europe prefer it too!

Giulia. Milf. Vuol dire madre che vorrei scopare. Mi dispiace…..?

Baggs

If tea comes out of a teapot (as it does first thing in the morning for me), I'm a mif too. If I make a mug of tea with a teabag, I'm not.

My dad, if he was serving tea (which would have been made in a pot cos my mum liked hers stewed and boot-polishy), would ask people if they were pre-lactivators or post-lactivators.

Pre-lacivator/post-lacivator!!! Sounds almost sexy!

Lucca

giulia

Don't know what a MiLF is! (My thread was about Mifs.) But I don't live in UK so forgive my ignorance.

Am now going to turn my nose up at most of you and say I only use looseleaf tea and in a proper teapot (though I do drink out of a mug). I also use a teacosy!

My problem is that, as I live in Europe, I have to rely on British Corner Shop for supplies of Yorkshire Looseleaf Brew and have to wait for them to get it back in stock each time. Obviously, all the other Brits living in Europe prefer it too!

Giulia. Milf. Vuol dire madre che vorrei scopare. Mi dispiace…..?

Oh! Goodness Gracious Me!!!

I always use leaf tea - either in a big pot or a small one when it is just me. DH uses a teabag when he is brewing just for himself but he does it correctly - bag removed when the tea is brewed to his satisfaction before adding milk and sugar

I drink my tea from a white china mug adding milk and sugar first.

We prefer leaf tea. I shall not say what soggy used teabags remind me of.

Mif is Non-U (not that it matters) but I just throw everything into a mug (small one) if it’s just for myself and prefer builders’ tea as I get older.
If serving tea to guests in Ye Olden Days, I would pour the tea, then milk if wanted. Someone once asked if I was Irish for serving this way! (Grandmother with distant Irish relatives).
I recently read Jilly Cooper’s book “Class” from the 70s and the intricacies of our class system are intriguing.

MILF is mother I’d like to Fxxk! Yuck.

Loose tea = milk first
Tea bag = milk after

My Scottish MIL thought it disgusting to put the milk in first, she trained me to be a Mil. After many many years of her ways I hate mif, it tastes different. Nothing to do with class, just taste. We always use leaf tea.

Please do not use that for letter word

It is very derogatory towards women

Four... autocorrect sucks

Whether it's our usual loose tea or teabags all tea is made in a teapot so always milk first. I've read that milk last scalds the milk which is why it will taste different Gin.

I went off tea during my last pregnancy and still can't bear the smell of it. That was 44 years ago now.

Hithere please do not use that Americanism “s***s”, it offends me.
(Only joking?)

Minimizing an offense while insulting the American English - justified as a joke

Classy

Hithere

Please do not use that for letter word

It is very derogatory towards women

Which four letter word ? Who is using it ?

Lucca

Hithere

Please do not use that for letter word

It is very derogatory towards women

Which four letter word ? Who is using it ?

Yuck?

Sucks?