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Smoking_Hamster posted...

I don't think you are meant to have milk in Earl Grey.

Technically you're not "supposed" to put milk in any tea. The British just started doing it because they were drinking shit tea, and then they got so used to it that they kept doing it even after they finally had access to tea the way it was meant to be. And then they spread the habit everywhere because they had a compulsive need to colonize every scrap of ground they could find.

It's like being poor so you only buy day-old stale bread to save money, and then you get so used to it that you start preferring it to fresh bread. So even after you get a fantastic job and make enough money that you never need to worry about it ever again, you still just keep buying stale bread.

That's British tea.