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Here's a daft question 18:57 - Apr 28 with 4733 views

Have you ever had a decent cup of tea from a cafe or other outlet?

What is it about our national drink that makes it so difficult to get it right? I cannot remember a single passable cup from a coffee shop, train station or wherever. They've all been terrible.

Is it a question of science, or is there something more sinister afoot? Penny for your thoughts, TWTD.

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Herbivore

Here's a daft question on 20:58 - Apr 28 by ITFC_Forever
It’s more the point that bloody coffee machines are everywhere, wasting everyone’s time while some knob wants a poncey flash drink. [Post edited 28 Apr 2020 22:37]

Spoken like someone who has never had the pleasure of a skinny oat milk mochaccino.

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jeera

Here's a daft question on 19:24 - Apr 28 by WeWereZombies
I think what the tea is served in (and how it is served) is almost as important as the ingredients. Even the best tea is going to suffer if it is in a paper cup.

Paper! These weren't paper.

They were polystyrene.

Tea won't stay hot in minus degrees if served in bone china or paper you know.

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footers

On further reflection, Billy Bunter's 24/7 cab stop thingy on Mile End Road used to do a mean takeaway tea. Perfect thing to wash down a Cowboy French or Outlaw Burger.

But it's long gone now. RIP.

Edit: wrong road. Plus picture.

[Post edited 28 Apr 2020 21:10]

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Dubtractor

Here's a daft question on 21:01 - Apr 28 by gordon
I quite like a poncey flash drink.

Me too. I'm the middle class metropolitan elite innit.

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NewcyBlue

Here's a daft question on 19:44 - Apr 28 by monytowbray
I can give you the definitive answer right now... When you buy tea from a business, it's missing the main ingredient... Love.

Just use milk like the rest of us.

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factual_blue

Here's a daft question on 21:10 - Apr 28 by NewcyBlue
Just use milk like the rest of us.

Presumably Callis uses vegan 'love milk'

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jas0999

Never buy tea when out. No point.

Here's a daft question on 21:58 - Apr 28 with 1750 views

BlueBadger

Here's a daft question on 21:03 - Apr 28 by Herbivore
Spoken like someone who has never had the pleasure of a skinny oat milk mochaccino.

All this talk of coffee has made me crack open one of these:
https://www.colchesterbrewery.com/beer/brazilian

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Guthrum

Yes. There used to be a great all-night greasy spoon truckers cafe in Cirencester which did an outstanding fry-up and mug of tea at odd hours of the morning when you were on your way somewhere. Long ago turned into something more gentrified (and only open during the day), sadly.

Also, some friends of mine run a tea tent/trailer (depending upon which they bring) at loads of festivals, particularly down in the South West. Do good tea (of many varieties), nice cakes (vegan available, if not sold out) and even a mean cup of chai.

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J2BLUE

Here's a daft question on 19:16 - Apr 28 by sparks
Boston Tea Party have served me a decent one or two. Other than that- no. But then most home teabags are pretty bad. More importantly- anythign herbal or fruit based is not a fecking tea. Enjoy them if you like but when I ask for a tea, I do not expect "apple and blackcurrant" to be proposed by the server as one of hte options.

You should have skipped the tea and ordered a pear cider instead

*runs away*

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Swansea_Blue

Hell yeah. Pete’s Eats in Llanberis after coming down off the hills. Or make that pretty much any cafe popular with mountain types. Dehydration and borderline hypothermia probably mask any shortcomings, but meh who cares?

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Lord_Lucan

Getting nasty weak and or milky cups of tea is one of the reasons I stopped having milk in it.

Pour in water and leave tea bag in until drunk, not much can go wrong with that - as long as the water is poured from a decent height.

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WeWereZombies

Here's a daft question on 19:52 - Apr 28 by Dubtractor
Oddly I have had some pretty good cups of tea at music festivals. But then a lot of the tea/coffee places at the festivals I attend are more like boutique coffee shops!

The Madras Cafe at WOMAD, which you will not be able to go to this year, do a proper chai out of a bit metal urn, no tea bag nonsense. I've got a bot peed off with the commercialism of the festival these last couple of years but I would (and will this year) miss those cups of chai.

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Guthrum

Here's a daft question on 22:55 - Apr 28 by Swansea_Blue
Hell yeah. Pete’s Eats in Llanberis after coming down off the hills. Or make that pretty much any cafe popular with mountain types. Dehydration and borderline hypothermia probably mask any shortcomings, but meh who cares?

One of the nicest individual cheesecakes I've ever eaten was bought from a shop in Llanberis.

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ElephantintheRoom

I've had plenty at tea shops all over rural esex and cambs whilst out cycling in those far-off days before the pretend lock down.

Also fish and chip shops in London with sit down facilities.... and Betty's tea rooms.... and once upon a time in Harry Ramsden's. And afternoon tea in country pubs and hotels.

A more pertinent point might be why you cant get a decent cup of coffee in those vile national chains that charge a fortune to dole out overpriced 'coffee' with confusing titles.

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Radlett_blue

Try getting a decent cup of tea outside this country, where the water is never hot enough & they don't leave the bag in the water for long enough.
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BanksterDebtSlave

Not in a cardboard cup, china ones yes....so it depends how much of a hurry you are in.

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You should try a tea-room next time, they specialise in just that.

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When I was in Berlin, I found that any DÃ¶nerstube worth its salt would offer a glass of strong Turkish tea to dine-in customers which, without exception, was the nectar of the Gods.

Honourable mention, too, to the Tadjikische Teestube:

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solemio

Here's a daft question on 20:10 - Apr 28 by Herbivore
Not sure what you get upto with your tea, mate, but remind me never to pop round to Chez Callis for a cuppa.

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solemio

Here's a daft question on 20:58 - Apr 28 by ITFC_Forever
It’s more the point that bloody coffee machines are everywhere, wasting everyone’s time while some knob wants a poncey flash drink. [Post edited 28 Apr 2020 22:37]

There are two possible reasons why I buy a cappuccino:
1. To prove to the world what a sophisticate I am.
2. I like the taste.

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GlasgowBlue

Here's a daft question on 19:41 - Apr 28 by ITFC_Forever

Sales of hot drinks should be banned.

Bloody pretentious twits ordering obscure coffee / milk combinations from a machine where the operative has to twist and turn more knobs and create more steam than a steam engine.

Just means that everyone else has to queue to buy an already made sandwich and can of pop.... so their 10 second transaction has to wait behind a five minute per cup faff some brown crap.

[Post edited 29 Apr 2020 9:52]

Philistine.

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footers

Here's a daft question on 09:43 - Apr 29 by solemio
I have faith that in time you will get to appreciate the difference between love and sexual gratification.

About £100 an hour?

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GlasgowBlue

If you are ever in Scotland footers, we serve Eteaket loose leaf tea in a lovely glass teapot at our coffee shops.

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Here's a daft question on 09:51 - Apr 29 by GlasgowBlue
If you are ever in Scotland footers, we serve Eteaket loose leaf tea in a lovely glass teapot at our coffee shops.

Don't think any of us will be going anywhere soon, but I have noted it down in my little black book for a later date. Let's hope the tea lives up to the billing :)

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