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Marthajolly1 Mon 16-Apr-18 09:08:20

I don't often get cross but I find it infuriating in cafes/restaurants when served a mug of tea with the teabag left in it with no means of disposal.
Even a saucer or some little receptacle would do. It really gets my hecklers up. Sometimes I just have to ask the waitress/staff to remove it for me and I'm quite frosty with it too. blush

MawBroon Mon 16-Apr-18 09:10:54

Hear, hear! Do they expect you to leave it in the cup?
A nice china pot contains “real” tea, with matching sugar bowl and milk jug alas a distant memory.

Teetime Mon 16-Apr-18 09:33:59

I put it on the table as a protest and don't go back there.

As an aside I hate seeing a pule of used tea bags on the kitchen counter. I empty them into the bin as soon as they have cooled down. DH lets them pile up but I am saying nothing about his housekeeping skills as he is doing very well looking after me at the moment.

M0nica Mon 16-Apr-18 09:45:29

I will not tell you what tea bags remind me of. I use tea leaves at home and drink coffee when out.

Day6 Mon 16-Apr-18 09:48:59

We compost our tea bags at home and have a little glass bowl by the kettle for putting them in after brewing up. My pet hate is the horrible wooden stick stirrers cafes expect me to use now. I can understand them doing away with plastic spoons but those sticks seem to have a smell and a taste. I never get enough water either when I ask for tea so often get shrink that is either too strong for me or slightly stewed depending on how long it takes to find the milk/wooden stick counter for this DIY beverage. angry

Day6 Mon 16-Apr-18 09:50:27

A DRINK. Grrr.

Nanabilly Mon 16-Apr-18 10:15:54

Marthajolly1 ... I'm wondering why you feel the need to be quite frosty when asking waitress \staff to remove your teabag...is it the waitress fault that they have to follow some silly rule of the company they work for.
I wonder how many frosty people have a go at the staff for rules they have absolutely no control of , they just have to follow them to keep their job.
Does it make you feel better at being frosty to a member of staff?
Does it make you feel powerful?
Does it make you feel happy that you may upset someone for following rules that are out of their control?
If you have to behave like a petulant child then maybe you could try to do it nicely!

Maggiemaybe Mon 16-Apr-18 10:31:31

You're being more than a bit frosty yourself there, Nanabilly. hmm

Katek Mon 16-Apr-18 10:32:50

Uncalled for nannabilly, one might ask why you feel the need to make such a barbed response? Hold up an entire queue or keep other people waiting as you demand to speak to the manager?

Both of my daughters waitressed during uni years and I’m sorry, complaints from customers go with the territory.

Marthajolly1 Mon 16-Apr-18 10:33:59

Nanabilly ... no, no and no I don't feel any of those things towards the staff. It's not their rules. But surely it's common sense to provide a means of disposing of the said teabags. And I'm not rude to any staff just annoyed.

Panache Mon 16-Apr-18 10:58:18

Thankfully I too am a coffee drinker......both at home and when out..... so I do not have to dodge these tea bags issue although it is slightly a different story here at home ..........where my husband is the tea drinker.
We have a special little container for said spent tea bags which to be fair,he diligently uses...........however were I not to dispose of the collection in that container I think we may well have tea bags running out the door!!
This is an area he forgets about entirely although fair to say he usually likes to keep things clean and tidy in the kitchen!

Maggiemaybe Mon 16-Apr-18 11:17:29

Although I fully support the move to use less plastic, I see tough times ahead. I can't bear to touch unvarnished wood - it just sets my teeth on edge - so wooden spoons, lolly sticks and now those little stirrers are a no go zone for me. Just as well I don't take sugar!

ninathenana Mon 16-Apr-18 11:30:51

That's an unusual aversion Maggie smile

kittylester Mon 16-Apr-18 11:33:50

I use loose tea, in a pot, with a tea strainer at home even if it's just fir me.

DH uses a tea bag for himself occasionally but has been trained to put it straight in the bin after squeezing. Luckily, the kitchen floor is brownish!
What I really hate is a cup of tea made by pouring hot water on to a tea bag and then immediately topping it up with milk - what is that all about! Do some people not understand the science?

Salmo Mon 16-Apr-18 11:34:50

I also hate the touch of unvarnished wood - all right to my fingers, but horrid to lips. Wooden chip forks the same.
We used to compost teabags, but since reading that the skins do not decompose I put them in the bin. I think I should return to loose tea at home

Teetime Mon 16-Apr-18 11:50:52

ooo errr kitty I do that!!! Mind yiou DH says I cant make tea to save my life - how rude.

varian Mon 16-Apr-18 11:55:50

I'm in your camp kitty. I use loose tea in a teapot. Teabags are wasteful and it's such a lot of trouble to cut them open to get the leaves out!

Willow500 Mon 16-Apr-18 12:48:37

If you use loose tea where do you empty the teapot? I would think it stains the sink and the leaves go down the drain? I only drink black coffee and I used to find the grounds stained the sink so stopped using it. My husband drinks tea so we also have a little receptacle to put them on in the kitchen (which of course I have to empty) but if we're out he puts them on a serviette if there is no saucer.

farview Mon 16-Apr-18 12:51:43

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apparently tea bags contain plastic..so not very :green'

M0nica Mon 16-Apr-18 12:51:46

Pour the last of the tea down the drain and then up end the teapot over the compost crock on the drainer and shake so that the tea leaves join the veg trimmings and little bits of paper in the crock. The crock has a lid so that that. When full (roughly once every day or so it gets emptied on to the compost heap.

kittylester Mon 16-Apr-18 12:52:27

Down the sink as we have no compost facilities!

kittylester Mon 16-Apr-18 12:54:02

Not all teabags contain plastic. Teapigs don't for one but there are lots more now! Xx

Maggiemaybe Mon 16-Apr-18 13:11:20

It is a bit odd, Nina - my dad couldn't touch cotton wool, neither can DD1, so we're a weird family. Oh, Salmo, those chip forks, aaarrgh! shock The worst side-effect for me is that I can't eat a Magnum!

Sorry for the diversion from the OP!

aggie Mon 16-Apr-18 13:16:01

Tea Leaves here too , I use a strainer , very twee one with a drip container , and the tea leaves go in the compost gatherer upper under the sink , and thence to the compost bin

annodomini Mon 16-Apr-18 13:44:06

I use a teapot with a filter, empty the leaves into a bit of kitchen roll and put them in the compost bucket, then wash the filter under the tap.