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A good cup of tea is a big part of British culture, it is no secret and also no stereotype. A cup of tea is a staple part of many British house holds, you often have a pot of sugar, a pot of teabags and a lot of milk in the fridge, much of it for cups and cups of tea. We just can’t get enough of it, or at least I know I can’t, I have many cups of tea a day, with breakfast and lunch and also inbetween and afterwards, so it has to be a good cup of tea… but sometimes it isn’t a good cup of tea… so let’s go through a top 5 of what a cup of unsatisfying tea is.
5. Too much sugar or not enough
Some people don’t want any sugar in their tea, others don’t want too much, so when you get handed a cup of tea with sugar in it or even too much sugar in it, the whole cup of tea can be ruined or at least be completely unsatisfying, you can’t taste the tea at all is the biggest problem to this, what is the point of drinking a cup of tea if it overwhelmingly tastes of sugar. I always view a cup of tea with too much sugar, as a bowl of cereal with sugar on, when you scoop up some of the sugar collected at the bottom of the bowl by accident and swallow it with the cereal… just too much and not at all something a cup of tea should have.
On the contrary other people can only drink tea if it is overloaded with sugar or by having to have it with the right amount, for me it is one sugar, or one sweetner, anything less, is unsatisfying and too plain, but I can bear it, for others though it is completely disgusting, but at least this version is fixable, un-like a cup of tea with too much sugar.
4. Too much milk or the wrong type of milk
A weak and milky cup of tea is a complete travesty and something else that is not fixable. Too much milk gives the tea a horrible sickly colour and a very weak taste and can also make the tea too cool or cold too quickly, I like to enjoy a strong cup of tea, so using skimmed milk is the way forward, anything stronger can make the tea taste off, as if the milk has gone off, although it is simply the tastes, the worst of the worst is condensed milk, it can get pretty vile.
Others prefer no milk at all and to just have black tea, this is not my preffered cup as it has no consistency and too strong of a tea taste (and also stains the cups more easily). But for people who never have milk, putting in some milk to a cup of tea completely ruins it.
3. Wrong tea
Everyone has their preferred tea, many like plain old English tea, some like their tea to be flavoured, others like completely different types of tea, such as green tea, others only like certain tea bag makes when it comes to plain English tea. So if you recieve a cup of tea that you were not expecting it can be pretty dissapointing, becuase to some calling a flavoured tea just “tea” can be normal to them but not normal to you.
2. The biscuit breaks off into your tea
Such a disaster this one, you are sitting down with a nice cup of tea, perhaps one of your most perfect blends, you have a small plate of digestive biscuits, or perhaps Rich Teas. After enjoying some of the tea you go to pick up a biscuit and dunk it… you do it for a bit too long and lift the biscuit out to find half of it is missing! Cup of tea is officially ruined! You can no longer fully drink your tea unless you want a clump of soggy, sludgy biscuit to work its way into your mouth, which is pretty disgusting and very unsatisfying end to a good cup of tea.
1. Limescale from the kettle!
I can not think of something more vile to completely ruin a cup of tea, but that of when limescale from your kettle manages to bypass the filter on your kettle and enter into what should have been a nice cup of tea… but when you come to the end you consume some of that limescale and it breaks apart into your mouth, tastes awful and gets gritted into your teeth. The absolute worst thing that could happen to your cup of tea in my opinion and so far for me nothing has topped this for most unsatisfying and disgusting end to what should have been the perfect cup!
So as you can see, tea is perhaps not as simple as you would have originally thought, many factors can come into ruining a cup and/or making it very unsatisfying. We just want to enjoy a good cup of tea without these inconviencies! But unfortunately that is life, sometimes we can’t have what we want and no matter how careful we are with making a cup of tea, or how much you may (or may not) trust someone else with your cup of tea, it can still go all so terribly wrong!
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