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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a cultural thing, astra. You grew up in Russia, didn't you? Russians drink their tea without milk; British people drink it with milk. It's what you're used to.
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There is a seed of truth in what you are saying but as
Sparrow said:
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sugar - a Russian habit that also destroys the flavour
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Neither I use sugar nor milk nor lemon.
In my family me and mo dad used to drink black tea, no milk, lots of sugar. My mom also added a piece of lemon to her cup...if we had one(lemon)
My brother became a big fun of a real tea when I was 17-18. He told me that what I drink cannot be called tea. It is a warm water with a bit of brown colour and sugar (you know that tea bags have only tea dust(leftovers) in them). I could not imagine drinking tea without sugar, so I didn't change my habit.
However, in my later twenties I realised that sugar is bad for me, so I resolved to give up on sugar and it took me 6 months to give up on it and another 6 month to start feeling the actual taste of what I was drinking. Only then I started to investigate this "tea" issue deeper and found out different types of tea, learned how to drink it etc.
My point is that regardless of your cultural origins you can learn the proper way to drink tea at any age
(something akin to drinking whisky, you can either drink it like vodka or tequila and get drunk quickly or...you can savour it
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