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

Common as muck me, but I do take the teabag out of my half pint mug of builders’ brew before adding the milk.

At five o'clock - tea made in teapot, (china) mugs warmed with hot water, tea into mugs and then milk so I can adjust the amount depending on strength of tea.

During the day, teabag in mug, then water, leave it for a bit - jiggle it around if I'm in a hurry - then milk.

Totally agree Lucca The worst thing is when people put tea bag and milk in mug before adding water……

So mil on all occasions for me! But then I mostly drink coffee...

20 0dd yearsago my daughter brought a new boyfriend home ,he put 6 spoonsful of sugar in his mug then a teabag and milk before the boiling water.....he left the bag in until the tea had all been drunk.It turned my stomach.Thankfully he didn't last long

The worst thing is when people put tea bag and milk in mug before adding water……. How can the tea infuse if the hot water is diluted by milk already ? Yuck.
Milk in first if pouring from a teapot.
Otherwise tea bag then just boiled water then milk.

I think tea where the milk has been added as an afterthought tastes horrible - watery and insipid. It's about the only thing my parents (who, especially my father, always tried to emulate the upper classes) would not do as a concession to their aspirations.

I’m both, if I use the teapot it’s mif if as usual it’s just me I use tea bags so mil ?

I'm a MiF, too., except when other people give me a mug with tea already in. We've recently gone back to using loose tea most of the time, but usually use a teapot anyway.

As for renting clothes, I think it may have been poorer folk who did it at one time, though perhaps not always. On which subject I recommend "The Dress Lodger" by Sheri Holman as an interesting read. Sorry for digressing!

Guilia I like a big mug. I put the milk in first. Can’t be doing with tiny cups either. Everyone says my tea looks like knats pee lol whatever that is. ?

i am always fascinated about all the things that are meant to be class dinstinctions that I have never thought about.

the fascinating thing is that they are fairly evenly divided between habits that are considered 'posh' and ones that show how far down the social ladder I am.

I proudly declare that I am a mif. Always have been, always will be.

I discovered this week, listening to a radio programme about how renting clothes is becoming more and more popular, not just big events bot for interviews and the like. The presenter said that it used to be considered a very low socil status thing to do.

News to me. It is something I have considered doing a number of times in my life, although I have yet to do it, but never because I considered it a low class activity.

GrannyLaine

Nanna8 I think you need to read the OP again. Not the same thing at all.....?

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.

guilia I use tea bags and it has to sit, water only, for the strength, then I add milk, so mil here.
Not milf in either case nanna8 which has not even a tenuous link to tea making ?

I'm a MiF too, giulia. No hope really.

Always brought up to put milk in first, and when I was growing up living with my grandmother, we had a 'Drawing Room' not a 'Living Room' or 'Lounge' and our bread was delivered daily from Harrods!

Nanna8 I think you need to read the OP again. Not the same thing at all.....?

Do you mean milf? My grandchildren enlightened me as to the meaning of that. Not nice.