to not want to be made to feel bad for having sugar in my tea!

[candr]

Has anyone else noticed that you rarely get asked if you want sugar any more when having tea so am forced to ask for it and nine times out of ten someone comments that it is unhealthy, bad for my figure or 'are you still using sugar' etc. I like a sugar in my god damn tea. I eat healthily and am by no means overweight (bit of after pregnancy weight but it's only been 9 weeks) Stop making me feel bad for it, just offer and keep quiet please. AIBU?

My in-laws buy sugar specifically for me as I'm the only one in the family who takes sugar. DH has frequently said that I'd soon get used to it without sugar to which I reply, like a petulant teenager, that I've got absolutly no desire to get used to it without sugar as I like nice, sweet tea.

Tea without sugar - yuck!

I get this every time anyone makes me a drink (excluding lovely DH)
I also have three sugars in coffee or tea, both of which I take black. The amount of bloody comments, why dont you have milk in it you'll need less sugar then!!

BECAUSE I LIKE THREE SUGARS AND NO FUCKING MILK!!!

That felt great, thankyou :)

I drink tea without milk and that gets lots of comments

I'm actually a complete weirdo when it comes to tea and won't let anyone else make it for me anymore. Thin china cup, three sugars stirred in such a way, half a teaspoon of milk and the teabag squeezed until it breaks

I have 3 or 4 and they're all magnificent.

Well, at the school I work in, one delightful teacher announced in the staff room, that "only builders, common people and Northerners have sugar in hot drinks".

I deliberately went and put two heaped sugars in my coffee (even though I usually have sweeteners).

Silly, stuck up woman.

yaNbu.

Such nobbers will usually happily neck a vodka and coke or awful starbucks frapp confection which both probably have ten times more sugar in.

There are few pleasures in life more succinct than a perfectly made cuppa.

I must admit I don't usually ask and don't have sugar in my house (except caster/ demerera/ icing) I didn't think people really took sugar in their tea. It's bad for your teeth! Obv they're your teeth so do what you like. I'll make sure I remember to check from now on.

Btw I'm not rude, I just don't know anyone who has sugar. Surely that makes the tea taste not like tea, but like sugar?

I don't ask if people would like milk / sugar when I make tea for them. I just put the jug of milk and bowl of sugar on the tray with the cups and saucers.

I don't drink tea. I drink coffee (without sugar). I have no problem with what other people drink and what they put in it and have a cupboard full of different teas/coffees/sugar etc so I can look after my guests. HOWEVER, my dh of 23 years still asks me do I want a cup of tea (I have never in my entire life drank a cup of tea) and he still asks me if I want sugar in my coffee. 23 years!!!

I don't smoke, I don't drink alcohol, I eat well, I exercise, I don't drink coffee or pop. But, I do drink tea with milk and two, albiet probably about once a week, but, when I do fancy a cuppa no bugger better try to tell me how it should be made.
Dd btw has black tea with no sugar, each to their own. [sticks tongue out and waggles it emoticion]

My dad, my own dad feels the need to say 'TWO?' every single time he makes me a cup of tea. It wouldn't be so bad but he used to have three and it was him that got me into sugar in tea (aged 12) in the first place. I also hate the way when I order a coke in a bar they always say...'is that a diet?' I always have full fat coke-it's an occasional treat!

What gets my goat is when people proudly proffer the tea with 'two sugars' and upon tasting, you discover it's tea with 'two sweeteners'

No. No. No.

If you don't actually have any sugar say so- that's fine, I won't have a tea but thank you for the offer. No problem.

Don't promise me two sugars and deliver two sweeteners though- that's Not On. Did you think I wouldn't notice? Wouldn't mind? Punk!

You need to hang around with different people. No-one ever says that to me, although I do get the occasional story about how someone used to take a sugar in their tea but they gradually managed to wean themselves off it and now they can't imagine why they ever needed it, as if sugar were crack cocaine or similar and they'd successfully battled some demons. Actually now I think about it, it's mainly my idiot brother-in-law who says that, and I try to hang around with him as little as possible.

PS Serenitysutton, there's nothing wrong with my teeth thank you.

I will confess to being a bit when in hosp last night they gave a diabetic lady who blind, on dialysis and toes goes black from diabetes 4 sugars in her tea. But I am prepared to be correted and told it doesn't affect that. Just seemed to me like offering me a fag (in for asthma)

I don't take sugar,unless it comes in the biscuit form you dip intea

As there are only 20 calories in a teaspoon of sugar it makes no odds if you have it or not in your tea.

greeneyes - reminds me of when I was 11ish I thought sweetners would be like sugary sweets so pinched one of grans- bluuuuuuugh

yes, fuck sweeteners. Ugh. I'd rather just tea and milk than that foulness.

We've just had some building work done and walloped our way through a kilo of sugar a week!!!! Though they all treated the carpenter who wanted herbal tea (with one sugar) like this
FWIW I don't take sugar in my tea and had to have an emergency filling today [cross]...

I have one sugar in tea and 2 or even 3 in coffee depending how big the cup is. Dont drink coffee much but have 4 or 5 teas a day. No fillings and I'm over 40.
Wonder how many people who comment drink fizzy drinks? Coke has at least 9 sugars in a can and even if the drinks are sugar free fizzy drinks including fizzy water contain acid that is as bad for your teeth as sugar. Something to do with putting the fizz in I think.

Thank you thank you, nice to now it is not just me. I don't drink coffee or herbal tea but still have some to offer guests. I prefer to make my own tea too as I like it like gnats pee and people always make it too strong - mmm tea, might get a cup now to go with the cake I am eating