to give the tree surgeons earl grey?

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Not the greatest trauma in the world, but we're having a couple of dead trees cut down, and I've just realised we're all out of normal tea bags, only have earl grey. DS is having a nap, I'm rather reluctant to get him up to go to the supermarket.

Do you think it would be bad form to give them earl grey tea for their next round of brews? (we've already done 2 cups of tea) We also have green tea, but I can't see that being any more popular...

(if it makes it any better, I could give them jaffa cakes to go with it)

YABVU.Earl Grey is vile.

We only ever have Earl Grey in our house so no YNBU!

It is, isn't it? We only have it in as my mum insists on it.

Right, it'll have to be coffee, hot chocolate or them waiting until DS has woken up so I can get to the shops....

why don't you ask them?
"earl grey, coffee or hot chocolate?"

of course, they might piss themselves at that pretentiousness

You might as well offer it to them.Perhaps they'll lack tastebuds and actually enjoy it.

Oh, can I have it? I love it and we're all out.

This is the most middle-class AIBU ever!

Add milk to it and I bet they'll just think your tea tastes a bit funny.

I'm pretty sure having a manual job doesn't preclude a person from enjoying pretentious drinks.
They probably will hate it though, but that's because it's horrible.

What's so middle class about Earl Grey tea? It's just tea,admittedly horrible tea,but still just tea.

Well, yes, it does sound pretentious - but whenever there are 'tradesmen' in our house they either deal with me who seems to morph into Margo Leadbetter at the sight of a white van, or DH, who's slight Kent accent becomes full on estuary, like he's auditioning for a part in EastEnders....

Renting was easier. (and I got to eat my own jaffa cakes)

I would not give my worse enemy earl grey tea....But you could offer it, or offer coffee instead??

The very nice man that decorates my house from time to time is a total coffee snob. Has a v posh machine at home, he was telling me, and gets his v posh coffee beans from a particular importer. So I felt more than a bit inferior offering him my instant Kenco!! Just give them the heads up on Earl Grey... it's not to everyone's taste.

Dh only drinks earl grey (when not drinking coffee). We have different stashes of tea. Red berry types for MIL, red bush for her dh, citrus types for my mum....around both my homebirths this got expanded to include "normal" tea for the MW .

Pretend you are out of tea and offer them a coffee.

earl gray IS normal tea in my house.

My mum had builders in for several weeks last summer, and my DSis did an experiment on them whereby she offered them a different blend of tea every day and then saw how many repeat cups they accepted.

(Yes, we're a slightly weird family.)

Anywho, turns out Assam won. Whoda thunk?

Also my dad comes from one of the roughest estates in the Midlands and he drinks Earl Grey, always has.

No they want pg tips with 3 sugars

Offer 'em a slug of whisky in it to keep them warm, and they won't care if it's Earl Grey or Tesco Value.

DS woke up so I went for "i'm just popping to the shops, the coffee machine is on, help yourself or i'll do a brew when Im back. bye"

I now have some normal tea.

Earl grey

8 days till pay day and we're all out. It's the best kind of tea.

My 3yr old is a sponge to the ponciness though and totally embarrassed me in a café yesterday. MIL v kindly took us out for lunch and dd told the waitress I only drank earl grey. They didn't have any. DD reassured the waitress that in an emergency I'd have lady grey or rooibos.

FGS.

Whisky + chainsaws = emergency room.

Sorry DS woke up, this thread was fun.

If you gave me Earl Grey tea without warning me or asking me first, I'd spit the revolting stuff in your face and then leave without ever returning.

The default position to take at all times is that people don't like it, IMHO.

Good point, tinker - I really didn't think that one through, did I?

Of course what we are neglecting here is that all tea is revolting and the only hot drink to have is hot chocolate.

Cafe direct San Cristobal made with full fat milk if you please.

Oh FFS - So I made them a brew, and it seems they drank said brew I'd stressed over and left straight away, leaving some other bloke to grind the stumps.

If anyone fancies a brew, I have both normal and earl grey, with green tea for the freaks.