Casual UK @feddit.uk SbisasCostlyTurnover @feddit.uk 1 yr. ago

8am on a Sunday morning and we have no teabags.

I'd like to apologize to the entire country for allowing this to have happened. I'm sorry.

Update

Made a small Tesco run and got some Yorkshire Tea. On with the day.

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Christ on a bike this is supposed to be Casual UK, not UK Horror Stories 😱
- Well there's an idea for a community!
We’ve got some. Pop round.
Don't you have any backup tea at the back of the cupboard? The slightly weird tasting one that someone got you at Christmas? The Earl Gray you got for that person who came round once? The loose leaf ones you normally can't be bothered using?
- We've got Earl Gray but no thank you sir. I leave that sort of debauchery to my partner.
- American tourist here, pardon the intrusion...
  
  What's wrong with Earl Grey? Insufficiently English? Just curious since I do love me some bergamot, and want to make sure I have appropriate supplies for UK house guests later this year. Are you guys "1st flush Darjeeling or gtfo"?
  
  UK house guests will most likely be expecting an English Breakfast Tea, if you insist on buying fancy ones with posh names. We don't call it that, we just call it tea. There's a couple of stray 'lemon' or 'green' in that list but most of them are bog standard blends of black teas called 'tea'.
  
  Be aware that you will have to get lucky to make a proper cup of tea. Most of them supply slightly different blends to different areas of the country depending on how hard the water is.
  
  Earl Grey is fantastic, don't pay any attention to this person with their poor taste
  
  All joking aside it's probably fine, but it wouldn't hurt to have some regular old Yorkshire Tea on hand just in case.
As an American, we saw this coming. It's why we had that kerfuffle a while back.
- You mean to tell me the whole 'no taxation without representation' was a smoke screen all along?
  
  That's the story now. Why would anyone go to war over politics and taxes?
I see you are a loose leafer! Niiiiice!
RIP
brits really drink tea out of bags and have the gall to act like the tea experts
- We're quantity experts, not quality experts :)
- I don't think anyone is suggesting we're experts, just that as a nation we love a cup of tea.
  
  drink some real tea then
- At least it's not Canadian milk
  
  We trailed this a few years ago in the supermarket I worked at. The idea was you'd buy the jug and then just buy a new bag when you needed one. Save on plastic waste I assume, but it never caught on.
  
  Is it...powdered? Or somehow it's liquid in a bag? I'm so confused here.
  
  bagged milk is just the same as any other milk in a different container. bagged tea is the lowest quality tea out there
- The weird thing to me is that their teabags seemingly don't have a string attached.
  
  You don't need the string, just fish the bag out with a spoon or your fingers when it's done brewing.

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