Oct 28, 2026, 10:17 AMbritish person: i love tea. i drink tea every day. for my entire life i drink tea every single day
non-british person who's really into tea: oh cool, what type of tea??
british person: i don't know
- Oct 28, 2026, 10:17 AM
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Jeezy Peepscolon_three@icosahedron.websiteOct 28, 2026, 10:24 AM@jk "BARRYS"
Matthew Skeltonmatthewskelton@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 10:26 AM@colon_three @jk Yorkshire 💮
Or sometimes... Lancashire 😱
Oct 28, 2026, 10:57 AMBy the hot pots!
Nobody tells me nowt, because I'm from there... or the bits kicked out of there for being too smelly. And I never heard of that!
Chris Pittsthirstybear@agilodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 12:49 PM@matthewskelton @colon_three @jk Is that allowed? I thought they were a bit like matter and antimatter, and cannot exist simultaneously.
- Matthew Skeltonmatthewskelton@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 3:39 PM
@thirstybear @colon_three @jk I will try that experiment next time 😁🧪
- Chris Pittsthirstybear@agilodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 3:48 PM
Oct 28, 2026, 1:47 PM@colon_three @jk BARRYS FOCKIN' TEA INNIT
- Matthew Skeltonmatthewskelton@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 6:17 PM
@finn @colon_three @jk indeed 🤣
- Matthew Skeltonmatthewskelton@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 6:16 PM
@colon_three @jk technically, Barry's Tea is by folks in Ireland, but it does put up a damn good fight against Yorkshire Tea. 🥊🥊 And I don't like to drink anything else except Barry's while in Ireland 😁
Speaking as a British tea connaisseur... 🧐
Oct 28, 2026, 10:25 AM@jk "brown liquid"
SkunkcrimesTamber@taur.zoneOct 28, 2026, 10:59 AM- SkunkcrimesTamber@taur.zoneOct 28, 2026, 11:24 AM
@ret @jk Also, that has unearthed the memory of poor little oik Tamber, on the way back from Somewhere in the mid-2000s, hobbling into the little cafe in Manc Piccadilly train station and uttering "Tea, please" (The code-words for "I would like something brown and liquid in a cup, that ostensibly came from boiling some leaves") only to go full deer-in-the-headlights when it turned out there was a whole complex tree of options beyond that, and I was already anxious about delaying everyone anyway
AilbheAilbhe@mendeddrum.orgOct 28, 2026, 1:25 PM
Goth Jessicanormjess@tech.lgbtOct 28, 2026, 10:29 AM@jk duh, Tetleys, they best type of tea 🙄
when a possible romantic partner indicates they prefer another brand I know its not meant to be
Oct 28, 2026, 10:31 AM@jk builders' of course! 😅
Great & Terrible Purple SerpentLeviamicky@meow.socialOct 28, 2026, 10:33 AM@jk ive overheard this exact conversation before.
except it ended with dilmah
Simon Dobsonsimoninireland@mastodon.scotOct 28, 2026, 10:42 AM@jk @sandorspruit Tetley's, obviously, but I take your point 😀
Sandor Spruit 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦sandorspruit@mastodon.nlOct 28, 2026, 10:45 AM
Oct 28, 2026, 12:37 PM@sandorspruit @simoninireland @jk early grey after 5pm only, before? you're an animal.
Oct 28, 2026, 10:43 AM@jk yorkshire tea. obviously
(but yeah black tea)
Oct 28, 2026, 10:51 AM@jk i have a theory that this is actually the true indicator of [loving] [thing]. if you got a real clear favorite or only like a particular version of it, do you really love it, or just enjoy it when it is a certain way? particularly with tea, when it's all the same plant in the end.
if one only cares for a particular brand of a certain style, perhaps one is merely a [specific tea] enjoyer; a tourist in the world of leaf-based beverages
coldclimatecoldclimate@hachyderm.ioOct 28, 2026, 10:52 AM@jk there is only one type of tea.. many brands, but only one type.
Steggysteggy@sunny.gardenOct 28, 2026, 12:03 PM@coldclimate @jk this is the correct answer
Rev. Johnny Healeyrev_null@infosec.exchangeOct 28, 2026, 10:56 AM@jk PG Tips, obviously.
Oct 28, 2026, 11:01 AM@jk
This is Finnish people with coffeeThe product is consumed for the caffeine, the rest is secondary
Oct 28, 2026, 11:24 AMWell, english breakfast tea or english afternoon tea. Probably Yorkshire Tea, or Tetleys or Typhoo. Or Glengettie. That'll do. It's the same in eastern frisia. They drink eastern frisian tea.
Ditolditol@freiburg.socialOct 28, 2026, 11:44 AM@qwertzalotl
East Frisian Tea is Assam blend though.- Oct 28, 2026, 12:02 PM
Oct 28, 2026, 11:25 AM@jk i am not a british person but according to this toot i think i actually might be.
ShiroBlooShiroBloo@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 11:29 AM@jk Tbh, as a Polish person, British black tea is pretty good, although very strong.
Ehproqueehproque@neopaquita.esOct 28, 2026, 11:32 AM@jk a very British cup of tea, expectation Vs reality
- Steggysteggy@sunny.gardenOct 28, 2026, 12:04 PM
- Ehproqueehproque@neopaquita.esOct 28, 2026, 12:17 PM
Roderickrvkennedy@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 1:42 PM
Doug Binksdougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 28, 2026, 1:44 PM- Ehproqueehproque@neopaquita.esOct 28, 2026, 1:59 PM
@dougbinks @jk yeah I didn't know until I had lived here for like 8 years, so rude of me!
Oct 28, 2026, 3:31 PM
Space Hobospacehobo@teh.entar.netOct 28, 2026, 4:47 PM
☭ Father Hardstone :batman:harib_murshidi@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 11:33 AMActually, the exact opposite happened with me when a Grand Aunt visited us from the #UK and started mentioning Earl Grey and other different types of tea etc. and somebody in my family said that they have never heard of that "Earl" (cos he never made into the local newspapers here in #Pakistan) :KEKW:
The local #chai culture here is not that particular about blends compared to the Brits
smolwafflesmolwaffle@union.placeOct 28, 2026, 2:18 PM@harib_murshidi
It's mostly Kenyan tea drunk there, right?
@jk- ☭ Father Hardstone :batman:harib_murshidi@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 2:30 PM
See, most of us #Pakistanis prolly don't even know that bit ! I am not a regular #chai person but I see three kinds of varities in terms of tea-leaves grinding (coarse, mixed and dust). The coarse grind here is known as 'Danedar' and is probably the most popular grind/variety of #blacktea here, then you have the Mixed grind which is relatively cheaper and locally known as 'Mixture' then you have the extra-fine pulverised into "Dust". 🫖
OffbeatmammalOffbeatmammal@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 11:56 AM@jk tea is either "brown" or "green", and only the former has milk. Brown tea in a mug for working folks, and a little china cup for the Queen. Green tea tastes like meditation should feel like, and is about as refreshing.
Noodlemaznoodlemaz@mstdn.gamesOct 28, 2026, 10:33 PM@Offbeatmammal @jk that's why you put lemon in it, or have a blend with jasmine, orange or something. And don't brew at the same temperature.
Plus it's what you bother to get used to.
Anneliesakamran@indieweb.socialOct 28, 2026, 12:26 PM@jk imagine a huge room where all the leaves are sorted. Now imagine sweeping up that floor after the sorting. Those floor sweepings, plus milk and maybe a little sugar is what I drink every day ❤️
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOct 28, 2026, 12:27 PM@jk Wait, there's more than one kind?
(source: am British person)
Ken Butlernxskok@cupoftea.socialOct 28, 2026, 3:02 PM@losttourist @jk ditto, and almost ditto (there's also the kind of tea they serve you at east-Asian restaurants).
Oct 28, 2026, 3:04 PM@losttourist Had british guests at a cafe I worked, served loose-leaf tea in a cotton-sack like doodad. Response: "Oh there's the tea! But, proper tea's got little strings hanging out of it !" (Fairly sure it was a joke)
P.S. since this was Norway, it was ovviously Earl Grey tea. @jk
- Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOct 28, 2026, 3:13 PM
@hakona @jk Are you sure they were Brits? Tea bags are ubiquitous in the UK, but very rarely the ones with strings attached. You only get those on posh tea (e.g. served to tourists in cafes, or if you're the Queen).
Americans, on the other hand, can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea of tea bags that don't come with string tails.
- Oct 28, 2026, 3:47 PM
@losttourist They were, or they could have been pretending :) "Prope' teas go' li'o' strings hanging out of i' " (if you read the ' as a stop) @jk
- Noodlemaznoodlemaz@mstdn.gamesOct 28, 2026, 10:34 PM
@losttourist @hakona @jk or in a hotel. Even cheap ones.
Helenmiffyhelen@beige.partyOct 28, 2026, 12:29 PM@jk related: on holiday in Japan last year and fellow English people on our trip were annoyed they couldn't get English Breakfast Tea. The only teabags available were Assam or Ceylon. Those weird teas they'd never heard of. Who knows what they might taste like?! Not English Breakfast, that's for sure! :pumpkin_think:
Oct 28, 2026, 2:02 PM@miffyhelen @jk they should have mixed them, it would be close enough. 😂
- Helenmiffyhelen@beige.partyOct 28, 2026, 8:11 PM
etcetc@toot.walesOct 29, 2026, 10:47 AM@miffyhelen @LevelUp @jk there is some tea grown in the uk, but I didn’t think it was particularly special. Also, it is called “english tea” but was grown in cornwall, though maybe that’s just annoying to me.
- Oct 29, 2026, 4:57 PM
@etc @miffyhelen @jk Cornwall is in England but yeah, it should probably have been called Cornish tea. We have Yorkshire tea so why not Cornish tea? :)
Okaberokabe@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 12:34 PM@jk [Yorkshire accent] Cause you only see T' Tea Type if Tea T'int in Tin
Oct 28, 2026, 12:38 PM@jk as a British tea fan the standard British black tea floor sweepings is the one kind I really don't like!
Gimme an oolong ideally. Which oolong? Well I haven't tried one that wasn't good yet...
- Oct 28, 2026, 12:39 PM
@jk me being french: do you have some white tea please?
Oct 28, 2026, 12:54 PM@jk "Tesco"
AfterlifemusicAfterlifemusic@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 12:59 PM@jk green tea from china, I love it, Lung Ching and Mao Feng my favourites
