To wish that teapots in cafes actually poured the tea into the bloody cup?

[Sparklingbrook]

Costa Coffee was today's offender. Tea lake all over the table. This happens to me all the time, everywhere i go.

So you all get the ones that pour then?

No, it's not just you!

I have a theory that Cafes get their teapots supplied by The Crap Teapot company. They cunningly design teapots to drip and have flappy lids. They also produced my MIL's whistling cooker-top kettle which sprays boiling hot water all over you when you try to make coffe

Teapots in cafes are designed to dribble. If they were really good, people would nick them. It's also why cups have stupid tiny handles.

Phew Salmo. I am not alone then.

It was a lovely white one today, proper spout and everything. You expect the stainless steel ones to do it mostly though.

But there was a proper metal teaspoon not a 'stirrer' or miniature plastic one so they gained a few points back for that.

Is it time your MIL got a cordless electric?

God how I wish MIL would get an electric kettle!

She just won't - - no earthly idea why!

That f*ing kettle is an accident waiting to happen.

Does she have a working teapot though?

Tiggy that is a good theory-makes perfect sense.

She doesn't drink tea!

My computer didn't recognise "Cafes" as a word. And I thought I had bought a middle class one.

Does it recognise "Caff"? -

If so it must be working class!

I should go to a 'Caff'. I could have a big mug of tea without the need for an incontinent teapot.

Yes - there's your solution, right there! Big workman's tea!

Or drink coffee instead

Working class: A "Caff" would have the tea already brewed in a big urn.
Lower Middle: Dribbly teapots with easy wipe table cloths or melamine.
Middle Middle: Gingham table cloths, teapot still dribbly but served a a tray with serviettes.
Upper Middle +: I wouldn't know.

I was out with MIL soon after her birthday for which I had bought her THIS TEAPOT.

The cafe we were in had her perfect teapot

" That's the sort of teapot I wanted, dear "

And the owner heard and GAVE it to her. And did I get the original ?
No I chuffing didn't. < wanders off into distance, chuntering >

Upper Middle probably have embroidered linen tablecloths and cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off.
Their teapots will most likely be part of a silver tea service. And they will have tongs for the sugar cubes won't they?
I'm just guessing though

It appears I am frequenting the wrong sort of establishments.

Clearly you are Sparkling.

One must uphold standards after all, mustn't one?

I actually think 1.75 for a pot of tea is expensive.

I hate teapots like that - you have to go in with a lot of confidence and tip more than you think, then tip them back REALLY quickly spraying everyone nearby with boiling tea.

The caff by DP's does amazing tea - it's a proper formic table type caff, but if you get a takeaway tea they MAKE IT IN A TEAPOT (I think it's actually a metal milk pot to make frothy milk for coffee, but nobody gets a latte or a cappuccino there) and then pour it from the pot into the polystyrene cup. And the last 2 times I've been in I've been whistled at...

I went for a fancy afternoon tea in a hotel... They had a team sommalier whatever the feck that is... A bossy little many who tells you why they serve 300 different teas, but no Irish breakfast... anyhow, their teapots didn't leak. Just another case of punishing the poor by stealing some of their tea/bank charges etc. we should start a teapot revolution and the queen should say 'let them drink tea!'

grrrr, leaky teapots are a bug bear of mine. if it's not fit for purpose what's the point of making such an object.

Forgot to say I got a thimble of milk too. We only went to Costa because DS1 wanted a Mango and Passion Fruit Cooler for the bargain price of 3.25.

Whaaa??........ £3.25??

YANBU! And real milk not that disgusting long-life "Millac Maid" please - how much does it cost to just put a dash of proper milk in? Oh and while they're at it they could ban Twinings teabags too :o