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

It's a class thing. I was brought up as a MIF but now put the milk in afterwards so I can see how much I need.

Mil all day long.

NainDylan

I even have milk in Earl grey, so I suppose I must be really common. I've discovered that really posh people call the living room/lounge etc 'the family room.'

I’ve always called it the front room. I’m not sure why, as our only back one is the kitchen.

Proper loose leaf tea (large leaves) and milk in first in proper china cups with saucers. Nothing else tastes the same. Tea bags give the tea a strange taste and putting the milk in last scalds the milk. Yuk!

I cannot abide a tea-bag in a cup/mug; I have to use a pot - and never milk in the mug first. I always refuse tea made by one of my sisters, as she puts the tea-bag in the mug with milk, and then puts the hot water in; I just say I'd prefer a coffee instead.

I am a MiF, I use tea bags mostly, but I am a MiF when I use a tea pot.Use mostly mugs but I do think tea tastes better in a china cup.I am not a snob I promise.

I use a teapot and teabags. Have a standard size for 3 and a bit cups and a small white china pot for a large one cup. Always MIF.

NainDylan

I even have milk in Earl grey, so I suppose I must be really common. I've discovered that really posh people call the living room/lounge etc 'the family room.'

I call the lounge "the laaaange"
Not posh here.

Definitely MIL

I even have milk in Earl grey, so I suppose I must be really common. I've discovered that really posh people call the living room/lounge etc 'the family room.'

Only in this country could all this be broken down into "class" related, surely?

If I'm having tea poured from a pot it's milk first but if I'm making tea with a tea bag it's milk last.

leeds22

Milk in last for me. Tea ball in mug, hot water, swirl it around, add milk, check colour, maybe another swirl. Lovely and DH has mastered it too - he only drinks coffee.

Tea balls are new to me, please explain what these are?

Well I'm definitely a MiF. And I will not change!

Milk in last for me. Tea ball in mug, hot water, swirl it around, add milk, check colour, maybe another swirl. Lovely and DH has mastered it too - he only drinks coffee.

I’m proud to be as common as muck: I put milk in first. And I rented my wedding dress!!

That must make me a NMAA (no milk at all) then.

I love the ritual of making a cup of tea. Loose leaf tea from a tea merchant, a small Chinese clay teapot, warm the pot and the leaves, just of the boil water, cover with my home knitted cosy and leave to brew for recommended time. Pour into fine porcelain mug using a tea strainer - perfect!

Now milk or not? Darjeeling without, Assam with?

The worst tea I have ever had was scalding brown liquid in a bucket from a service station. A very sore tongue and the muck down the drain!

Another Mif here, too. I prefer tea made in a pot and sometimes treat myself to loose leaf tea but do have the bag in a (china) mug regularly. Mil for coffee and Css (can’t stand sugar) in both.

Gwenisgreat1

I'm a YNM - Yeugh no milk!!

I'm a YNM as well, as are all the family all my neighbours as a child were too. It's a hangover from when men took cold tea down the mines. The mines were warm and soured the milk so it was always drunk black but with loads of sugar.

I'm a YNM - Yeugh no milk!!

It's Mil for me too but it's almost always teabag in a china mug and I compost the tea leaves (not the bags) which I couldn't do with Mif.
I know some teabags are now compostable but i've no idea how long that would take and had previous experience of putting compostable bags into my compost and finding bits of them for ages . Easier to just open the bags up and use the tealeaves.

grandMattie

Gracious, no! Definitely a MIL!
My family, especially my parents and grandparents, would turn in their graves if I was a MIF. Not just that - but one never stirs one’s drink, one gently mixes it with genteel sideways move,ents! ?

Yes I was taught this too grandMattie a gentle sideways movement, the spoon never ever touching the sides of the cup ?.

A teabag!? (with apologies to Lady Bracknell)

I have always been a TIF, as is (apparently) HM the Queen. Good enough for me ?.