In praise of tea...

Rington's tea. Best ever. Can't drink any other type.

All 4 of your sentences apply to me too henetha
Like AreWeThereYet I find getting up and making a cup of tea can send me off to sleep again.

A cup of tea is definitely a comforter for me. I love the cuppa and biscuits you get after a blood donation.

Another weak tea drinker here. Earl Grey (with an occasional Lapsang Souchong) , no milk or sugar. I can't bear the taste of tannin, it makes my mouth go dry. I must drink at least 6 mugsful a day, DH is a great one for making a hot drink at regular intervals.

Can't bear coffee. I tried hard to get to like it as a teenager but in the end I thought it wasn't worth the pain...

Builder’s Tea, or Earl Grey, or Assam. I also find a cuppa will send me back to sleep if I’m awake in the early morning.
Rooibos is OK and I drink that with my decaffeinated tea friends. Haven’t drunk instant coffee since pregnancy.

I wish I could like a cup of tea as it is such an English tradition and my parents drank it all the time as do lots of my friends but try as I might I can't stand the smell or the dry tannin taste .
Any tips would be appreciated as I can no longer taste coffee ( covid) so either drink hot or cold Vimto or peppermint teas non of which I enjoy.

I drink tea first thing in the morning and then mid afternoon. I drink it quite weak and with milk. I’m a dental hygienist and tea , black or strong with milk really stains teeth . Much more than coffee . Check out the cups or mugs . Even green tea stains . Some tea drinkers teeth look like smokers teeth !

Ooh, I’m pleased to have been joined by other weak-tea drinkers!

Me too. A friend once described my cuppa as “not so much weak as helpless”! 🤣. With a tiny drip of milk, heaven. I Drink pints daily. Good brown tea…
I can’t stand all those green/white/redbush teas; the smell doesn’t translate into flavour and green tea tastes of grass cuttings to me.

We have a cup of green tea with lemon every day for the past 40 years and it really starts the day well, freshe ns me up and clears my sinuses. After that it's coffee all morning but yes all afternoon. I'm time of crisis it's tea. Just regular tea but a good brand Twinings usually served week with little semi skimmed cows milk no sugar. I do love a biscuit with it though just a Rich Tea will do.

I drink a lot of tea, milk no sugar.

if you ask a person if they drink tea and they say yes but it turns out they drink green tea or fruit teas well, they are not tea in my opinion and shouldn't be called tea....... only my opinion, I don't want a fight!

I start the day with a strong cup of Ringtons tea (best by far) with just a dash of milk. I can’t stand instant coffee but make myself a large Americano in my Tassimo machine mid morning. I drink tea in the afternoon but I avoid both tea & coffee after 5 if I can as I find it keeps me awake. I’ve tried various fruit teas and also a bedtime brew to aid sleep but don’t really enjoy them. It’s proper tea for me, I love a good loose tea brewed in a pot but it’s a bit of a faff for one.

GagaJo

Why did you go off tea, do you know, GSM?

I did the opposite - now drink mors tea than coffee. Mine happened after I had weight loss surgery more than 20 years ago and found that coffee was hurting me when I drank it

Tea is the devil's brew as far as I'm concerned. How anyone can pass the disgusting stuff past their lips is beyond me. I used to drink black coffee but went off it on chemo and still can't get onto it after 6 years.

You paint a lovely picture of the comfort and pleasure tea gives you.

As a young child I was forced to drink tea in hospital and hated it.

The only time I have touched it since is when someone mistakenly gave me tea instead of coffee when I was on yard duty. Sorry, but yuk !

A cup of coffee now.......mmmmm

Tea when happy and tea when sad. It’s a cure all. Nothing fancy. “Dockyard worker” tea with milk (I’m originally from Portsmouth)!

I find coffee can be quite harsh on the stomach Froglady I suffer from bad acid reflux and my GP suggested I cut it out or down. I limit myself to one nice coffee mid morning now and it’s definitely helped.

A person I know enjoyed a holiday on the tea plantation in Sri Lanka where they produce Yorkshire Tea. Somehow, I was disappointed to hear that, a bit like finding out the truth about Santa Claus.....

I take my own tea bags with me wherever I travel, even, like GagaJo, to China. If I'm upset, worried, anxious then always go for a cup of tea. Can't understand these TV progs where people immediately reach for alcohol when upset.

Two large mugs of Yorkshire tea before starting the day! Made as my Pop used to call tea - Busmans Tea - strong as possible just tiny amount of milk! Then several more through the day! Problems always seem easier to deal with if I have a big mug of tea in my hand!

Mostly coffee for me with the occasional cup of tea... and then its Cornish Tea... Smugglers Brew. It doesn't have the bitter taste of many teas. But I also take Waitrose Decaf which is pretty good. Also any Pukka tea for a decf option.

I can't stand Rooibos, even the smell of it but I have some here for friends who love it!

I dislike Tea. I’ve tried Red Bush,Green and Earl Grey too.
I now drink Ginger which I quite enjoy.

I am a Tea drinker, but, when I am out of the house, I drink Coffee, because a bad cup if Coffee tastes better than a bad cup of Tea

I start the day with tea, and drink it through the afternoon and evening. I usually drink masala tea at home (black tea with added pepper, ginger, cinnamon....) and I have it builder's strength, with quite a lot of full fat milk (no sugar). I switch to coffee (freshly ground and filtered) after the first mug and then back to tea at lunchtime.

I am absolutely anti low-fat anything and everything, sttrangely then, in tea it has to be skimmed milk - I think semi and whole milk interfere with the flavour. I’ve some fruit tea, and a concoction of cocoa nibs, coconut and marshmallows. I do travel with tea, just in case.