General Chat

Tee hee Harry, it's been such a lovely day here that my teabags have dried off a real treat. The loose tea's done well on the garden table too! Should have enough to last us another week!

Cherrt, Are you implying the Queen doesn,t put red cardinal polish on the front doorstep of Buck house. Treason is still on the statute book. And any polish is lah de dah. Up my way you merely changed the colour of your donkey stone to be superior. Just going out to take the tea bags off the line. Happy days

Oh dear, I wasn't criticising the Queen, she's wonderful, marvellous and the best thing that's happened to us.

Harry, it's just not lah di dah enough! Any toff can tweek their little finger when they drink their tea out of bone china cups but it takes a real person to do it properly. The true meaning of lah di dahness is putting whitening on your front doorstep instead of red cardinal polish and giving the peeps proper linen napkins when they came to tea! Cherryx

Not me resurrecting these threads, honest. Thanks for the latest batch of replies. Should almost be another thread, this milk in first thing. I don,t; my good lady does. Obviously bone china seems to suit most - little finger in the air I would presume., as per the lady who was 80 yesterday. Is that lah de dah Cherry? (wonder if Philip uses a mug at brekky time?) Happy days

Hi Harry, My Grandmama, (Sussex), always had her tea from a bone china teapot and poured into the thinnest possible bone china teacup. After that she let herself down a bit! She poured a little into the bone china saucer and then sipped it as if she was at a Japanese tea ceremony. Trouble was that she only did it cos the tea was too blinking hot! There's another point here! Does one put the milk in first or after the tea's been poured? Apparently if you're steerage you put the milk in first but if you're port out and starboard home you put the milk in after you've poured the tea! I think you ought to start another one of your wonderful threads along the lines of 'lah di dah things people did in the olden days' Cherryx

I only use cups and saucers for posh people - I'm so common! Stella

Thanks for the very interesting replies . A lot of tea drinkers on here. i will drink it out of anything so long as strong, not much milk; and very sweet. Preferably from the tea plantations scattered, apparently, all over yorkshire. Happy days

Hi Harry Tea is definitely far better from thin china - just the same way as Baileys tastes soooooo much nicer from a very heavy lead crystal whisky tumbler - over copious amounts of ice!!....call me snobby..... LOL!! Lucy x

I like a white cup and although I do use teabags I always use a teapot to make the tea, and it does taste better like that! I like my tea hot with very little milk so prefer a tall thin mug. Just as well I married at 17 - I'd have made a great old maid, even got the cat!!

Sorry I think tea tastes better out of a mug. It has to be PG & made by me!!!!!

Yes, Harry - from my fine bone china mug (reading from the underneath - no liquid in it at present), produced exclusively by Berkshire China Ltd, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre shop or from my Snoopy mug that has printed on it the words ''Life is too short not to live it up a little!'' or from my Simpsons mug. :-) Joy

My husband maintains tea tastes best out of a china mug, and coffee in a thicker pottery one! Won't touch tea in what he calls a 'coffee mug'!!

always tastes better a dads house

I am persistent ( or a nuisance,)if nothing else. Can the afternoon shift answer the question ' Is it possible for tea or coffee to taste better out of a different cup' or are we really just kidding ouselves that it does? Happy days

I agree with Lemon,must be bone china,even in our touring caravan we have bone china mugs.

Grandma won't drink out of a mug no matter where she is..... has to be a bone china cup and saucer!! You'd never elieve they were as poor as church mice when she was growing up!! :O)

The only kind of cup I don't like to drink from, is glass. Has to be said, only I can make tea I actually like though lol

Off out now. thanks for those interesting replies. However, i still don,t know if it is possible for your drink to actually taste better out of a certain cup or mug. (other than in your mind) Happy days

YES and I always use loose tea to make mine in a teapot. Everyone who visits me .including my grandaughters friends, always say YES please to my offer of a cuppa , they say i make a good brew. Shirley