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To not want to drink tea full of tea leaves?

17 replies

deaconblue · 27/10/2011 07:52

Dh made me a cup of tea this morning but accidentally split the bag. I went to chuck it and start again but dh got in a huff and said before tea bags were invented everybody drank tea like that. True but I wanted tea without leaves floating around. He's gone off to work in a huff now. So Aibu, should I have just drunk the tea?

OP posts:
Grumpla · 27/10/2011 07:56

YANBU. Before tea bags were invented people used tea strainers.

AbsolutelyBloodySpiffing · 27/10/2011 08:00

Leave him

Shutupanddrive · 27/10/2011 08:08

Next time you cook him a meal make really lumpy gravy and tell him to get on with it

Catsmamma · 27/10/2011 08:11

and tea leaves were different to the dust and floor sweepings they put into tea bags!

They would sink to the bottom.

YANBU!

Scholes34 · 27/10/2011 08:57

Cats is right. My dad always made tea in a pot with tea leaves and we didn't have a tea strainer. You waited for them to sink to the bottom of the cup and then drank within about half an inch of the bottom of the cup.

Trouble is, we now use tea bags and I still drink within half an inch of the bottom of the cup. And I do the same with coffee!

justhavintheone · 27/10/2011 09:01

same here scholes, just cannot drop the habit of leaving a wee half inch at the bottom of the cup where the tea leaves were even after all these years. however agree that the innards of a tea bag are quite different from tea leaves.

oldenoughtowearpurple · 27/10/2011 09:08

URGH tea leaves! Make him a cup when he comes home with a ripped tea bag. Mind you, he might drink it.

MackerelOfFact · 27/10/2011 09:13

Nothing worse than taking a massive slurp of a much-needed cuppa and getting a mouthful of sodding tealeaves.

I've never heard of using loose tea without a strainer though, you learn something new every day on MN!

EndoplasmicReticulum · 27/10/2011 09:20

YANBU. Loose leaf tea needs to be strained. I hate finding bits in the bottom of my cup, and think from now on you should add bits to any cup of tea you make him to teach him a lesson.

Soggy biscuit bits from failed dunkings are worse, though.

Scholes34 · 27/10/2011 09:32

Best for dunking - custard creams in black coffee.

Em3978 · 27/10/2011 11:19

MIL and FIL insist on making tea in the cup with tea leaves... ergh! They reckon its normal and look at anyone else like they're aliens if they insist on a strainer or Hmm teabags Shock.

SacreLao · 27/10/2011 19:08

YANU - My lovely nan before she passed away went a bit senile and would often rip open tea bags and make a cup of tea for guests Hmm it was pretty vile having to have a few sips whilst looking for a chance to dump it quickly.

SacreLao · 27/10/2011 19:09

Should say YANBU, the B button on my keyboard seems to be trying to sneak
a day off.

SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 27/10/2011 19:10

I use loose tea and bags - the loose is completely different. And you need a strainer. He is wroooooooooooooooooooong Grin.

squeakyfreakytoy · 27/10/2011 19:12

I hope you read his fortune from the leaves left in the bottom... Grin

"I foresee an accident.... heavy objects will hit you on the bonce very soon"....

AnonyMaw · 27/10/2011 19:14

I was going to say YABU, leaf tea is great, but if the leaves are from a split bag then YANBU, it's not the same at all.

I used to drink leaf tea made in the cup, my great aunt called it 'tinker's tea' [nostalgic, politically incorrect emoticon]. We could do tea leaf readings afterwards, but then the bigger tea leaves did sink quite reliably.

maras2 · 27/10/2011 19:23

How would fortune tellers do their stuff if we all used T bags ?

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